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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Political Approach"”.
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The message of the prophet Haggai : a socio-political approach
… of Haggai I have attempted to reconstruct the political and religious settings operative at that time in order to gain a deeper understanding of the oracles of Haggai. The dissertation commences with the destruction of the First Temple and the fall of Judah. The elite in Jerusalem are exiled by …
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"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.": Exploring the view of practitioners from a local authority educational psychology service, of a socio-political approach within UK educational psychology.
… educational psychologists’ (EPs) views of socio-political or critical community psychology (CCP) focuses on single-issue aspects of oppression such as sexuality or racism. Some research examined EPs’ views of psychology from a broader ideological perspective, examining individualism, neo-liberal …
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Two approaches to human rights
… rights is dominated by two seemingly opposed approaches. This dissertation is concerned with the choice between them. The traditional approach to human rights is characterized by the belief that human rights are moral rights that all human beings possess simply in virtue of their humanity. The …
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Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts: applying Jungian depth psychological concepts to mass visions of the Virgin Mary.
… of the literature points to a prevailing socio-political approach to examining visions of the Virgin Mary while a psychoanalytical approach is generally lacking. The former approach suggests that Marian apparitions can be interpreted as a backlash against modernity, secularization, and political …
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Teachers and peers attitudes towards the integration of pupils with Down's Syndrome.
… towards the process of integration. A socio-political approach to attitudes is used as a theoretical framework for exploring and understanding the meanings and the complexities involved in the formation of attitudes. The study considers the case of one primary school in particular, Yorkshire …
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Shia Political Islam in Iran. A political and economic approach
… understanding of the nature and function of Shia Political Islam. Despite internal and external concerns, Shia Political Islam has emerged and continued to have control over power in Iran for more than four decades. The post-revolutionary Islamic government has been able to keep its power through …
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Community Development in Dublin. Political Subjectivity and State Cooption.
… community struggles raised implicit and explicit political questions which differed substantially from those previously raised by the ‘official’ republican and socialist left. These questions concerned the lives of miscounted people, their place in the city and the resources available to them. …
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Development policy making in Tanzania 1962-1982 : a critique of sociological interpretations
… national 'dependence', but rather the product of political-institutional factors which encourage beliefs that development problems are fundamentally 'political' and that external constraints are the principal causes of policy failures.The new explanation combines an analysis of Tanzania's …
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The role of social media in the spread of health misinformation in South Africa: the Netwerk24 Facebook page, Afrikaner identity, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
… been confounded by a global rise in populism, a political approach closely tied to social identity theory and the ways in which individuals derive a sense of self from their membership to different social groupings. This thesis explores how Afrikaners used the Netwerk24 Facebook Page to …
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Self Against Others: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Harold Pinter's Work
… can, in the main, be defined as a body of psycho-political works. My essential contention is that Pinter’s defining interest in power relations, coupled with his dedication to exploring how psychological ‘realities’ shape these said relations, implies that he is a playwright, who generally wrote …
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Belonging in the Segregated City: Gender, community and urban citizenship in Mumbai, India
… in recent years from a diverse range of political groups. The resurgence of Hindu majoritarian politics in contemporary India has been accompanied by a growing acceptability of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric, and increasing Muslim segregation; simultaneously, new forms of …
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A Psycho-Political Study of Women’s Responses to Women Political Leaders in the United Kingdom.
… in the UK in response to women in positions of political leadership. Women remain underrepresented in political leadership and their representation requires a critical and in-depth understanding of the existing barriers. Present literature shows gender stereotypes and norms are long standing and …
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A case study of distance education and development in Jamaica : a study of three distance education organisations and their contribution to development
… development. It is therefore concerned with the political and economic structures in Jamaica and how these affect the function of distance education in development strategies. A qualitative approach, using the case study method is adopted, for this study, which enables the work of the …
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Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation in Post-Colonial Indonesian Film Adaptations
… by the military regime and the corruption of ‘apolitical’ realms by its political enemies. This thesis aims to show that the depoliticisation and politicisation in the novel and the adaptations are much more subtle and complex than imagined. Incorporating Flinders and Wood’s theory of …
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The Norwegian state's relationship to the international oil companies over North Sea oil, 1965-75
… understood with reference to the historical and political peculiarities of the Norwegian state, in particular the weakness of the national Norwegian capitalist class. Norwegian oil policies also operated within a set of ultimate policy constraints. This meant that the Norwegian policies tried to …
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Choices, challenges and the power of integration: regionalism and confederation in the East African community - a hypothesis generating study
… to uncover the failings of an "economics-first" approach. As a result it includes many of the prevalent debates within regional theory, including the issues of Eurocentrism and the false dichotomy between politics and economics within integration. In addition, it includes ideas around …
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Beauty of Form and Concept: The Aesthetics of Late Euripidean Tragedy
… also of the current predominance of the socio-political approach to Euripides’ work (and indeed to Greek tragedy in general). It opens new vistas onto the artistry of these plays, allowing us to appreciate them on their own terms, revitalising our understanding of them, and broadening our …
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Practical incremental application of process improvement, optimisation and manufacturing theories in small to medium enterprises (SMEs)
Due to rapidly changing and highly competitive nature of today’s market place, manufacturing companies now recognise that survival and profitability are functions of continuous improvement. High quality and reliable products must be produced and delivered at lower cost than the competition. This …
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The material politics of houses at Çatalhöyük, 7000–6300 BCE
… units—as places of stability within larger political dynamics. Houses are rendered as conservative objects, not places of profound change. This thesis adopts a material political approach to houses, considering the way they were assembled through time as a working-out of social alternatives. …
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Children's advertising literacy : empowering children to cope with advertising. A multiperspective inquiry into children's abilities to critically process contemporary advertising
… far-reaching consequences for the societal and political approach of this topic – for instance, adherence to protection or restriction versus empowerment – the present dissertation scrutinizes their validity using a variety of academic perspectives and methods. More specifically, it is examined …