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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Political Society"”.
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Competing Populisms: Public Interest Litigation and Political Society in Post-Emergency India
… politics that Partha Chatterjee has called 'political society'. I argue that PIL in its initial phase emerged as its judicial counterpart, and was even characterized as 'judicial populism'. However, PIL in its 21st century avatar has emerged as a bulwark against the operations of political …
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Tracing the Establishment of Political Society: Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Greek Literature
… connection between memory and the formation of political society in ancient Greek literature. It is grounded in the notion that memory is a political process: its narratives are shaped by the social and political groups to which we belong. In turn, what and how we remember plays a role in …
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Fugitivity and Carceral Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Mediterranean, c. 1876-1916
… Ottoman humanitarianism as a legal, moral, and political enterprise. It is a critical inquiry into the rhetoric of humanity: how it shapes law and the jurisdiction thereof. Building on the settlement of immigrants – *Muhajirs* – in the Ottoman Mediterranean between c. 1876 and 1916, I …
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The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico, 1938-1958
… I especially aim to shed light on the political and managerial role of architects during a crucial period of pseudo state-corporatism, dominant party political "institutionalization," and ideologically fraught nationalist socio-economic development occurring between the late 1930s to …
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The Evolution Of One Male Advocate: An Autoethnography Of Rape On Campus
… various social issues facing woman in today's political society. The need to identify ways to increase feminine sense of agency and to encourage the proper socialization of men into manhood serve as the primary factors toward the advancement of rape prevention, rape intervention, and …
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Fútbol, Politics, and Corruption
… is used as a tool to promote corruption within political and economic institutions in Latin America and Europe. By drawing on international political and economic policies and analyzing work that theorizes how neoliberalism is not only an outside force that highly influences the state, but also …
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Uma breve discussão sobre Celso Furtado: entre o pensamento e a ação
… of his life , from his birth , through his whole political life academic , and public office , and its importance to the Brazilian economy and especially the economy of the northeast. It can be stated that Celso Furtado stood Brazil in the world context, analyzing its political society and …
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Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom
… has to do with both republican conceptions of political society and liberal conceptions of market society. In this setting, creole elites took to the money form to define skill, industry, and enterprise through a medium that could facilitate the expropriation of subaltern traditions of …
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Civil-Military relations and democratization in Guatemala
… in Guatemala is one of particular importance as political and military leaders as well as members of civil society attempt to redefine the role of the military after 36 years of civil war. Applying Felipe Aguero's theory of civilian supremacy, this thesis argues that since 1982, the Guatemalan …
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Socrates as citizen?: the implications of Socratic eros for contemporary models of citizenship
… about the relation of the philosopher (or political scientist) to the city (that is, to political life) without taking for granted that they share a common aim or purpose. Instead, I prepare the discussion with an examination of the treatment of Socrates by the comic poet Aristophanes in …
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Decolonizing American Democracy and the Problem of Gerrymandering: Implications of Border Designs from a Communication Ethics Perspective
… attempts to understand the powerful force of political borders from a historical and communicative perspective. Of particular importance to this research is the role that political borders play in shaping individuals’ relationship to structures and practices of democracy. Following insights of …
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Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania. Moving Towards Consolidation 50 years after independence?
… to implement extensive reforms without armed political conflicts. Hence, Tanzania is an interesting case for Peace and Development research. This thesis analyses the political development in Tanzania since the introduction of the multiparty system in 1992, with a focus on the challenges for …
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
… explores Xenophon’s view of Athenian political society and governance during the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Xenophon has often been portrayed in scholarship as an uncritical conduit of traditional conservative, aristocratic thought: hostile to democracy and the Athenian demos and in favor …
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The materialist interpretation of John Millar's philosophical history: towards a critical appraisal
… critical appraisal. These include Millar's political economy, his conception of civil society, and his political theory. It is argued that Millar had a conception of generalised commodity production and exchange; that this conception was derived from the assumption that subjects are …
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Enlightened innovation and the ancient constitution : the intellectual justifications of the Brabant Revolution (1787-1790)
… history of the Brabant Revolution in its political and intellectual context. The argument presented here stands in contrast with standard 'whiggish' interpretations of the revolutionary movement in the Austrian Netherlands or the narrowing of its analysis to the continuing debate over the …
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Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conscience
… of ‘freedom of conscience’ in contemporary political society, and argues that freedom of conscience is a critical foundational component of any free political regime. Yet, conscience is often invoked as the final authority or justification for any choice, regardless whether the action or …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
… although primarily concerned with social and political justice, and not with virtue ethics, gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his system of justice as fairness. Some philosophers, mostly of the Aristotelian-Aquinian …
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
… though Chatterjee’s reconceptualisation of civil society, political society, and population. It draws attention to the ‘pedagogic reflex’ of the elite and the crucial role of corporate philanthropy in the constitution of the ‘population’ as part of development. Departing from Chatterjee’s …
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A critical and comparative analysis of organisational forms of selected Marxist parties, in theory and in practice, with special reference to the last half century
… in the 1970s and 1980s were looking for new political formations. This work is an effort to study the synthesis of the traditional vanguard socialist party and spontaneous working class movements with other social groups. The multi-tendency socialist organisation that formed in many countries …
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Adam Smith and the Consequences of Inequality
… but also to the flourishing interest in his political thought. The thesis makes three main arguments. First, that Smith was more attentive to the causes, development and effects of inequality than is recognised. Second, that Smith should be understood as a theorist of political stability and …
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