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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Political Autonomy"”.
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There is no Authority but Yourself: Political Autonomy, Collective Art Practice, Crass and Anarcho-Punk Visual Conventions in the work of Gee Vaucher
… and street art, and further investigates how political and creative autonomy has been integral to Vaucher’s practice. This is facilitated through an exploration of anarchistic, countercultural and subcultural constructions of meaning within specific historic, socio-economic contexts. This …
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How political decentralization in the outermost regions of the European Union lead to their economic success in the securing of structural funds
… to be among the EU’s lowest. As subnational political units, on the other hand, the Outermost Regions have political representation in both their member states as well as EU levels of governments. However, because the Outermost Regions have varying levels of political autonomy, their …
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… to our understanding of the nature of political control exerted by the Mississippian Cahokia polity over small rural villages in the southern American Bottom. Currently two models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the …
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Artists Under Reform: An Analysis of Professional Chinese Guohua Painters' Relation to the State in the Post-Mao Era
… and the party-state in several crucial social-political contexts, and by analysing the experiences, opinions, observations and critiques of four professional guohua painters. The time span of this study extends from 1949 to the late 1990s, while acknowledging the year of 1978, when China …
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“Caughnawaga Indians were taking part in one of the most dramatic episodes of history…”: Manufacturing Mohawk Nationalism on the Nile Expedition of 1884 – 1885
… for a distinct Mohawk identity, culture and political autonomy. The perspective of two Mohawks, Louis Jackson and James Deer, demonstrate their Indigenous Mohawk identity and through the representation of their experiences in written first-hand accounts. The two would also use the Nile …
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The reaction of W.E.B. DuBois to European colonialism, 1900-1950
… that tolerated the economic exploitation and political domination of the colonial people did so because it was a racist culture. Both colonial systems were deplorable despite the apparently more humane attitudes of the French. DuBois believed that a three-step program of economic emancipation, …
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Teatro galego e construción nacional: os Cadernos da Escola Dramática Galega (1978-1994)
… Franco’s death and the coming of democracy and political autonomy. By studying the 105 Cadernos published by the Escola Dramática Galega between 1978 and 1994, which cover a wide range of literary activities, the conflicts and tensions between different models and repertoires as well as the …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
… theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private dichotomy, this project argues that women writers are often appropriated and fictionalized in this way because of a patriarchal cultural understanding that women are associated with the …
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Politikos autonomija kaip moralinis projektas. H. Arendt, M. Oakeshotto ir C. Schmitto koncepcijų analizė /
… morality. It is argued that conceptions of the autonomy of politics formulated by Hannah Arendt, Michael Oakeshott and Carl Schmitt offer a new – ontological – way of interpreting this relationship. The ontological approach is philosophically superior to the theoretical or rationalist approach …
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Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920
… of state sponsored schools in Ireland, partial political autonomy, and relaxed religious freedoms. This model of control in Ireland was a subtle attempt at dissolving Irish culture and amalgamating the Irish people into the British Empire. The Irish took this system and employed it for their own …
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Three essays on local government performance and political institutions in Colombia
… successfully granted administrative and fiscal autonomy to subnational governments, political autonomy, especially competitive elections of mayors and councils, remains a major challenge, particularly in democracies of developing countries. How do political conditions affect the economic …
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Pagbukadkad ng bulaklak = Blooming of the flower : an ethnographic study of a friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men from Metro Manila in the Philippines
… (a concept connected with notions of political autonomy rather than group association), and it is because of the inherent differences between these social paradigms that I conclude that local Filipino forms of homoeroticism and gender variance are conceived in cultural conditions …
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African nationalism in Tanganyika
… he's brought the country to the threshold of the political autonomy within a decade of organized African nationalism. July 7, 1954, was a historical day for it was then when the Tanganyika African National Union (T.A.N.U.) was born in Der es Zalasa, the country’s capital, with Julius K. Nyerere as …
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Embracing difference and the deferral of self-government: a critical analysis of the framing and practice of contemporary peace building
… of emphasising difference have thus denied the political autonomy of post-war societies and have continuously questioned the political and human equality of these populations in a hierarchically divided world.
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To undo the conquest: nationalism, socialism and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1936
… Ireland through the Colonial Office. This hybrid political structure produced two nationalist traditions: a constitutional tradition that attempted to use parliamentary politics to achieve an autonomous Irish state and a revolutionary tradition that aspired to an independent Irish nation through …
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Impact of Decentralization Reforms on Public Service Delivery at the Local Self-Government /
… local authorities in Lithuania have capacity in political autonomy, organizational autonomy, financial transfer system, and internally generated revenue, the same cannot be said of Nigeria where local authorities do not have real autonomy. They often wait for higher tiers of government for …
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Intermediaries of the state : bureaucratic transaction costs of claiming welfare in Mexico
… street-level bureaucrats or social workers to political bosses, brokers or caciques However, in institutionally weak contexts, intermediaries will often demand political loyalty in return for their assistance, a practice better known as clientelism If chentelist intermediaries mediate citizens' …
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Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec
… 1948), is today one of the best known socio-political writings of Quebec. It is considered to have been the beginning of Quebec's cultural modernity and an early sign of its political modernity. In the early 1940's the manifesto's author Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) had already been praised …
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF SÁMI WOMEN IN REINDEER HERDING COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN NORWAY AND THE 1970-1980s WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION MOVEMENT
… found their accustomed social, economic, and political autonomy eroded. Post World War II, the emerging welfare state of Norway began a policy of “rationalization” in an attempt to equalize and raise living standards for their citizens. The result was an increase of social and national …
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF SÁMI WOMEN IN REINDEER HERDING COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN NORWAY AND THE 1970-1980s WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION MOVEMENT
… found their accustomed social, economic, and political autonomy eroded. Post World War II, the emerging welfare state of Norway began a policy of “rationalization” in an attempt to equalize and raise living standards for their citizens. The result was an increase of social and national …
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