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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"Political Action"”.
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ICT as political action
… to exercise our agency through communicative action (Habermas 1975). This is accomplished through realising the potentials of ICT as a form of communicative action within actual and virtual communities of practice, which becomes a significant feature of the originality of my contribution to …
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Women's political action : an integration of three perspectives
… double deprivation would be strongly related to political action. In addition, it was hypothesized that perceptions of the availability of resources and double deprivation would co-occur. Finally, it was suggested that past social psychological measures of feminist consciousness (Gurin & …
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Education and political action : a case study of a project
… autonomy but are also committed to a particular political vision. The interest of this case-study lies in the consideration of how such educational values may interact with a call to support and act upon a set of beliefs. This tension between open-ended educational work and directed action is a …
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Emancipating the Many: A practice led investigation into emergent paradigms of immediate political action
… to act, and to act is the predominant trait of political praxis. It is through our acts and deeds that we disclose ourselves in public in the presence of others (Arendt, 1998 [1958]). And it is through acting that we start anew and leave our mark in a situation the moment we intervene in the …
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Heritagisation, political action and social justice : Palestine’s Dheisheh refugee camp as a world heritage site
… the process itself and its deeper cultural-political implications, not least for the Palestinians. The research focuses on a single case study that is, Dheisheh refugee camp, which is a Palestinian refugee camp in peripheries of Bethlehem in Palestine. It was established as a temporary …
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Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood
… pious training regimen, scouting programs, political expression, and social welfare projects. I argue that the Muslim Brotherhood was mobilized through al-Banna's revival of traditional Islamic practices concerning the body, reconfigured for the goal not of otherworldly transcendence, but of …
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Solidarity and power in German : language as political action : a contribution to the socio-cultural history of the German language
… the development of the German language and the political history of Germany, principally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining the role of language in the establishment and exercise of political power and in the creation of national and group solidarity in Germany, the study …
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Call it a Revolution: Paradox, Politics and Security in the Urban Frontier An intergenerational narrative on the young female comrade’s resistance, political action and civil death in South Africa and Turkey
… politics. That is, the paradox of creating new political beginnings out of and upon a ‘politics out of history’ (Brown, 2001). To address these themes, I focus on securitisation, a technology and biopolitics of the state aimed at predicting and controlling its population, as a driving theme to …
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Federal-Sector Labor Relations and the Political Activities of Three Federal-Employee Unions
The importance of political action to public-employee unions has long been recognized by industrial-relations researchers. However, few researchers have attempted to examine public-employee union political action. The gap in the literature has been particularly significant at the Federal level. The …
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Rhetorical challenges: Critical studies in strategy, tactics, judgment and argument
… to promote rhetorical criticism as a means of political activism; the individual exercises in rhetorical criticism serve the overarching theme that the selection of a course of political action can never be made with confidence, nor is there any rational mechanism by which we can adjudicate …
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J18: movements towards an ethico-aesthetic paradigm
This thesis offers a materialist account of political action from the perspective of the aesthetic, focusing on a global day of action, protest and carnival staged to coincide with the G8 Summit on June 18th 1999. An event known as J18. Part One begins with a review of contemporary literature …
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Learning to Live Together: Hannah Arendt on the Political Conditions of Ethical Life
"I examine four dimensions of Arendt's political ethic: her critique of the political shortcomings of conscience; her attempt to derive a political ethic from the conditions of political action rather than from the potentially anti-political preoccupations of morality; her inquiry into the nature …
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
… that shape the conditions of possibility of political action and mobilization in environmental struggles. The dissertation argues that to understand the conditions of possibility of political action and mobilization in environmental struggles we must study the interplay between political …
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Creating absence to acknowledge presence : relational subjectivity and postmodernism in Carol Shields’s 'The Stone Diaries'
… asking, firstly, whether or not feminist political action is possible within a postmodernist theoretical climate that scrutinizes the construction of universalizing group identities, and, secondly, how political action might be undertaken in such a theoretical climate. I contend that Carol …
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Partizaninis karas, kaip politinis fenomenas /
… of this master's thesis “Guerrilla Warfare as a Political Phenomenon” is to delve in and supplement precisely this text by Carl Schmitt to understand what partisan war is through the concept of his political action, while including the context of international law and modern times. This paper …
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Transnational Activism for Migrant Workers: Examining the Struggles for Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
… in Hong Kong? How did the activists sustain the political action? What were the outcomes of the activism and what would account for these? The research utilized the frameworks used to explain the classic social movement agenda explicating the mobilizing structures, opportunities in the political …
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LELIO BASSO E LA QUESTIONE RELIGIOSA: IL CONCORDATO DEL 1929 E IL SUO SUPERAMENTO.
… in the thought of Lelio Basso in general and his political action about the abrogation or the modification of the 1929’s concordat in particular.
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Idealism and Actualization. Saint-Just in Theory, Practice, and Exigency
… was a revolutionary, a statesman, and a political philosopher, yet it is largely only as a revolutionary that he is remembered. As a political person who occupied these three different but overlapping roles, Saint-Just is ideal as the subject and center of a study of actualization, the …
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Politikos autonomija kaip moralinis projektas. H. Arendt, M. Oakeshotto ir C. Schmitto koncepcijų analizė /
… from the analysis of fundamental structures of political experience and conditions of political action, it acknowledges and respects the autonomy of politics as a unique form of human activity. Second, it uncovers an internal link between morality and politics, different from an external …
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