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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Politic"”.
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Bodies Politic: Civil Law & Forensic Medicine In Colonial Era Bangkok
… dead and injured were an overlooked grounds of political contestation in the era of high imperialism. When Siamese (Thai) subjects were injured or killed under accidental or unnatural circumstances, their bodies became concrete demonstrations of both the disadvantaged status of Siamese subjects …
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'Training' the Body Politic: Essays on the School Reform Orthodoxy
<p>These essays represent my attempt to grapple with fundamental questions about what I see as the upside-down nature of educational reforms in American society. Why is there a never-ending crisis in America’s public schools? What does it mean when the educational specter from different periods of …
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The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
"This dissertation examines the relationship between medicine, literature and film during and after Argentina's ""Dirty War"" (1976--1983). It presents an analysis of novels by Marta Traba, Ana Maria Shua, Marta Lynch, and Tununa Mercado, and others, and films by Eliseo Subiela, Luis Puenzo, and …
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Cosmic Justice in al-Fārābī's Virtuous City: Healing the Medieval Body Politic.
… that, far from being incidental to al-Farabi’s political theory, the structural correspondence between the corporeal, cosmic and civil realms, constitutes one of its central tenets. The first chapter demonstrates that, according to al-FarabT, the universe displays a clear hierarchical …
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The vision politic : the multiscreen film presentations of Charles and Ray Eames
In this dissertation I consider the broader discursive context that led the designers Charles and Ray Eames away from producing goods for conspicuous consumption and into information design. During an intensive five-year period starting just after the launch of Sputnik, the Eameses employed …
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The 'Body Politic': Russian Funerals and the Politics of Representation, 1841-1921
… yet I assert that the fear of social and political instability that inspired the reactionary tsar's actions had no substantial basis in fact until the 1860s. It was then, during the era of the Great Reforms, that the funeral first became a particularly resonant form of political …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… provided musical metaphors to conjure social and political ideals. Why did music arouse such a widespread interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this question using a large body of sources, including print, patents, paintings and engravings, and …
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From Corporal to Corporate: Defining the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century
… project illustrates a transition of the body politic metaphor from the second century AD. to present day. From this historical perspective it can be shown that a new body politic exists within Western, capitalist systems with the corporation serving as the head of the body and its buyers, the …
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Communication and the Body Politic: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia’s Latino Community
… questions guided these observations: How was political communication produced, disseminated, and decoded through interpersonal, mass, and digital communication by the Democratic candidate, her Latino communication staff, and Northeast Philadelphia Latino residents during the 2016 presidential …
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Do feet have mouths? Slander, metaphor, and the body politic in early modern England
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102806 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Life of the People, Body of the People: Re-reading the Imagery of the Body Politic
… interpretations, the language of the body politic is regarded as an essentially marginal turn of phrase which, if it does have any theoretical importance, simply refers to the civil order formed by agents who agree to exit from the state of nature by transferring their right of self-defense …
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The Body Politic: Imperial Masculinity, the Great War, and the Struggle for the Indian Self, 1914--1918
… educated elites to one rooted in Gandhian mass politics."
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
… namely: The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) and Bodies Politic (2008). Throughout the study the relationship between history as a discipline and historical fiction is investigated. The distinctions and boundaries between the above-mentioned genres are explored using, in part, Paul Ricoeur’s ideas about …
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… in the gay liberation magazine, The Body Politic (1971-1987). The thesis first develops the theory of queer cultural memory as a type of collective memory specific to queer communities. This memory takes a redemptive form and is informed by “figures of memory” including texts and …
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Jaunimo partinių preferencijų logika: ar egzistuoja politinės skirtys? /
Youth Party Preference Logic: the Existence of Political Cleavages? Past decades, Communist and anti-communist cleavage was a dominant factor to explain the preferences of Lithuanian voters. In 2012, however, post-election poll revealed interesting results. A new determinant proved itself to be …
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What does it mean to be a Black girl? An exploration of Black girls’ meaning-making of self, community and society in Melt Magazine
… explore Black girls’ subjectivities and identity politics. In this study, I identify aspects of society, culture and community that Black girls draw upon by specifically looking at what girls choose to write about and why. I consider implicit and explicit ways in which they responded to their …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… discourse of Letra muerta (1984) links political extremism with the contagion of human bodies and the body politic. Silence and isolation ""cure"" the protagonist's unruly behavior; likewise, the dominant discursive practice of Spain's political transition from dictatorship to democracy …
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Expansão urbana e estruturação de bairros do Rio de Janeiro: o caso de Botafogo
… through its economic, demographic, social, politic and institutional agents.
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The impacts of international non governmental organisation networks on housing policies : a study of Kenya
… in firmly establishing themselves in the body politic of poor Africa countries.
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