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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Moral Politics"”.
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Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
… this dissertation uses the concept of “moral politics.” By examining archival, visual, and oral-historical sources that shed light on West German, Nigerian-Biafran, and Ethiopian pasts from oblique angles, this dissertation pushes the study of twentieth-century global history beyond …
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The Greedy Eaters: A moral politics of continuity and consumption in urbanising central Kenya
… Kikuyu in central Kenya have argued about the morality of wealth and the delinquency of poverty. A kinship-based labour ethic was at the heart of these moralising debates. Men and women could gain public standing from accumulating the land and tenants that sustained families over generations. …
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Inhabiting the world : architecture, urbanism, and the global moral-politics of Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin
… community were far removed from instrumental politics, and flowed instead from a moral-philosophical thesis that evaluative meaning existed in our relations with others. Finally, this dissertation examines how Mahony's and Griffin's written and built work was shaped by the dialectic …
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Culture from the slums: punk rock, authenticity and alternative culture in East and West Germany
This comparative dissertation explores the new moral politics of authenticity emerging in the Western world in the post-1960s era. Examining the development of the popular music genre punk since the 1970s, this study helps to explain why Germany after decades of dictatorship became democratic and …
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Moral Majorities: The Rhetoric of “Real” American Values in Contemporary Conservatism
… are perceived to hold a particular set of moral values and beliefs. I ultimately suggest that their rhetorical strategies primed the American public for anti-democratic rhetoric and led to the election of Donald Trump.
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …