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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Political Prisoners"”.
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History, organization and belief among Cuban "plantado" political prisoners, 1959-1993
Anti-Castro activists began organizing guerrilla groups in the early 1960's to oppose the revolutionary government of Cuba. The perception that the new regime posed a threat to religion and pre-existing cultural values were among the motives for this activity. This thesis presents three case …
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An existential phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of freedom in former political prisoners of the Romanian Communist Gulag
… of literature on the experience of former political prisoners of the Romanian Communist Gulag and their experience of freedom/oppression. Most research on individuals subjected to physical or/and psychological torture for political reasons has focused on the traumatic experiences of this …
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Representing the past in the present with the future in mind : a close reading of the ‘Cell Stories’ exhibition at the Robben Island Museum
… each cell there is a photograph of one of the ex-political prisoners, a locker which holds an object, a label explaining the object to a certain extent, an extract of an interview with the former political prisoners, and occasionally an intercom through which you can listen to the prisoner himself …
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Voices, Bodies, and Power in the Documentary Interview
… help elevate the voices of female former political prisoners of the defunct Romanian communist regime through a film? Primarily using film theory and oral history, this study explores the necessary aural and visual conditions that a documentary interview needs to fulfil in order to …
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“Freed Vietnamese have her to thank:” Khuc Minh Tho, the FVPPA, and the use of grassroots diplomacy in the release, immigration, and resettlement of Vietnamese re-education camp prisoners, 1977-2011
… and operations of, the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association (FVPPA) at the conclusion of the Second Indochina War. In addition to highlighting the activities of the FVPPA, this research also provides insight into how a small association used Grassroots Diplomacy to assist in …
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Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid
… accounts of imprisonment, most of them by political prisoners under apartheid. Its principal focus is on the ways in which the prison as physical and ideological space intersects with a conscious literary construction of identity. The argument is that in these accounts, the prison features …
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"Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower": Republican and Irish Republican Army Prison Writing, 1973-1999
… of confinement upon the literary production of political incarceration in the North of Ireland. Though the writings of political prisoners like Gerry Adams, Roseleen Walsh, and Bobby Sands are separated only by a matter of a few years, the marked difference in their works is testament to the …
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"Unrepentant Fenian bastards": the social construction of an Irish Republican prison community
This thesis examines the history of republican prisoners in the north of Ireland from 1972-1997, tracing developments in their politics and forms of social organisation during that period. This entailed focusing on those aspects of imprisonment in terms of culture, education, political struggle and …
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"The ""right to be helped"": welfare policies and notions of rights at the margins of Soviet society, 1917-1950"
… blind and deaf adults, single mothers, and political prisoners, I examine the multiple and changing ideas that underlie the defense of this right. I reveal that both the Soviet state authorities and these marginalized social groups tended to reject charity as a form of unwanted …
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A history of the Mission Press in Zambia,1970-2011
… Press with regards to the origin , social and political contribution in Zambia. It demonstrates that initiative began in 1951, by Catholic Franciscan missionaries in Kitwe. However, due to various challenges, Mission Press was only established in 1970 in Kansenshi border with Chifubu Township …
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A history of the Mission Press in Zambia,1970-2011
… Press with regards to the origin , social and political contribution in Zambia. It demonstrates that initiative began in 1951, by Catholic Franciscan missionaries in Kitwe. However, due to various challenges, Mission Press was only established in 1970 in Kansenshi border with Chifubu Township …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… abuse stories of late-twentieth century prisoners. Drawing from the field of African American literary theory, political prisoners' writings, as well as prisoners' low-circulating zines, journals, and pamphlets, I argue that the production and distribution of abuse narratives by African …
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Iranian Women Unveiled (2020): a documentary film about six Iranian women activists produced in relation to a feminist analysis of the representation of Iranian women in cinema
… living in exile, engaged in a number of areas of political and social activism. These areas encompass the fight for women’s rights and equality, for secularism, free thought and expression, for civil liberties, the abolition of the death penalty and stoning, redress for families of executed …
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Urban apartheid and African responses : aspects of life in Mamelodi township, 1953-1990
… response to urban apartheid was limited to political struggles. It argues that forms of struggles went beyond social, economic and political ones, to challenge all the facets of urban apartheid. From 1953, Mamelodi residents realised the effects of apartheid laws on their lives. The thesis …
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Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1811–43: Richard Carlile and Infidel Materialism
… the position of science in the thought and political agitation of the freethought campaigner and radical publisher Richard Carlile (1790–1843). Carlile was one of the most high-profile political prisoners in nineteenth-century Britain, serving over a decade in prison across the 1820s and 30s …
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Conflict resolution in post-conflict DRC, Rwanda and Sierra Leone : towards a synergy of the rights-based and interest-based approaches to conflict resolution
… the access to rebel occupied zones and even to political prisoners is difficult. Finally, the study has also depicted how traditional African methods and concepts like Gacaca and Ubuntu can be enhanced within the broad usage of the two paradigms and not as competitive paradigms. Gacaca is a …
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Contesting the past in the present: a critique of transitional justice scheme in Taiwan
… States during the Cold War era, persecuted its political opponents, imprisoning tens of thousands of people and executing some 1200. In the wake of democratisation since the 1980s, Taiwan has instituted a scheme of transitional justice to acknowledge and atone for the past political oppression …
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Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Death Fast in Turkey
… seven-year-long mass hunger strike undertaken by prisoners affiliated with outlawed Marxist-Leninist organizations in Turkey to protest their transfer from traditional ward-type facilities to new cellular institutions modeled after maximum security prisons, and it scrutinizes as well as …
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