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Showing 1 to 20 of 3802 for “"Nation"”.
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“Reckoning the nation: 19th century statistics, probability theory and nation-building.”
… the ‘black box’ of statistics through an examination of an early phase of social statistical history: the national statistics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. My research question asks: how were statistical techniques - including list-making, social category standardization and …
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Gute Nation oder Europa?
… Mobilisierung und Emotionalisierung in den nationalen Integrationsdebatten kann weder durch ökonomische noch durch politische Umstände hinreichend erklärt werden, zumal die Eliten beider Länder mehrheitlich die Integration unterstützen. Die Hauptmobilisierungsressource von Euroskeptikern …
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Mexico -- space/nation/class -- U.S.
With the much-commented upon shifts in the global economy and the problematizing of traditional social, economic, cultural, and political relationships, the role of architecture as a "public" practice has fallen under scrutiny. The "privatization of public space", resulting from the overt merging …
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On quantifying global nation brands
People's perception of various nations, nation brands, are quantified via world news quizzes, in which study participants match geographically vague news stories to the nations they think they occurred in, thereby potentially revealing how they positively or negatively perceive said nations. The …
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Foreign Knowledge or art nation, earthquake nation : architecture, seismology, carpentry, the West, and Japan, 1876-1923
… bow to import European resistance into a fragile nation, to one of how to make a uniquely fragile imported infrastructure resist the power of Japanese nature. I critically re-tell this Japanese story as a corrective to European and American images of Meiji .Japan as a 'pupil country' and the West …
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Artist/Citizen: Choreographing the Nation Brand
… in the production and promotion of the nation and in possibilities of citizenship at multiple scales. Dance, as an art-form practised in the formation of individual and collective bodies, is proposed as a valuable resource for imagining, embodying and reflecting on alternative …
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The 1981 Kosovar uprising: nation and facework
The following work is an examination of the 1981 Uprising in Kosovo, a watershed moment in the history of Yugoslavia. The story of this event will be detailed in the following pages through a narrative history of the uprising and the incidents that surrounded it. Along with the historical …
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Ethnic identity in a 'Homogeneous' Nation State
… and not aligned with key political factors of national identity, interpersonal trust, political participation, voting and government legitimacy. There are no important politically relevant cleavages structures in Botswana. This study concludes by proposing that, it may be this lack of …
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A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Sugar Tax Policy in Public Health: France (Developed Nation) and Chile (Developing Nation)
… the varied policy designs in France, a developed nation and Chile, a developing nation on the impact of the tax on their consumption, obesity prevalence, social determinants of health and the barriers and enablers to effective tax implementation. Method: A systematic literature review was …
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Imagining National Cuisine: Food, Media, and the Nation
… television as a cultural text, through which the nation is narrated and envisioned, this dissertation examines the evolution of Korean food television and its articulation of Koreanness in contemporary globalization. Theoretically, I suggests understanding the nation as a discourse or a regime of …
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COSTA RICA: A PEACEFUL NATION READY TO FIGHT
… purpose of this thesis is to assess how a small nation like Costa Rica, which is committed to peace and lacks a military, is able to safeguard national security and territorial sovereignty while responding to a series of hostile external disputes with neighboring Nicaragua. It examines how Costa …
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