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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Political Subjects"”.
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After the Postdramatic? Elfriede Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla and the Possibility of Political Subjects
… Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla, and the Possibility of Political Subjects My dissertation is concerned with the aesthetics of political theatre in post Millennium theatre texts by the Austrian authors Kathrin Röggla and Elfriede Jelinek. Both authors conceive theatre as political medium („politisches …
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"But... the luminous tree!" The Uses of the Imagination in Resistant Cultural Production
This thesis responds to a political impasse that has developed in the United Kingdom as a result of neoliberal austerity measures. This impasse is broadly experienced by political subjects via an affective stasis, the feeling that no meaningful intervention can be made to transform material …
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Facebook as a contemporary public sphere: political consciousness and agency
… of globally networked, active, empowered political subjects. This thesis examines Facebook as a contemporary version of the Habermasian public sphere while tracing the development of political consciousness in a particular person at a particular moment through engagement with Facebook. By …
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Contrasting identities / competing rhetorics : Anglophones' challenge to Québec's national project
… anglophones were constituted as national and political subjects by Quebec's national project and the manners in which these constitutions inform anglophone politics today. First, the policy papers tabled by the Parti Québécois and the Liberal Party of Quebec in advance of the 1980 referendum …
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Ask & tell, just don't perform: military discourses of (in)security and sexual identity.
… toward achieving full and equal status as political subjects. Such has been the case for the mainstream lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement. For much of the past century, military discourses have aided in rhetorically constructing homosexual identities as pathological, …
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A Theoretical Mapping of Waterboarding Blogs 2007
The goal of this research is to map processes of political idealization and how images are used and understood within the waterboarding blogs included in the case study. Chapter One is designed to provide basic information about the waterboarding issue and elements of this research more generally. …
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Citizen Outsiders: How the Struggles of Romanian Roma in London Challenge the Conception of Citizenship
… us to think of citizenship as processes by which political subjectivity, understood as the right to make claims to rights, can be recognised and enacted. As these perspectives allow us to think critically about citizenship beyond membership and the nation state, in this thesis I focus first on the …
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Rethinking critical theory between Rancière and the Frankfurt School
… and neglected way of thinking about three political practices: a politics of memory, struggles for recognition and emancipatory education. I argue it can offer either a supplement or an alternative to recent Frankfurt School theorisations of these practices, particularly in relation to …
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The political socialisation of schoolgirls in England, 1870-1914
… a key site for working and middle-class girls’ political socialisation in late Victorian and Edwardian England. It challenges conventional interpretations of the gendering of politics in the period by showcasing schoolgirls’ active participation in parliamentary, electoral, suffrage, and …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of partisan loyalties characterising classes at certain periods and places, are addressed …
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Syrian Refugee Storytelling and the ‘Survivor-Witness-Messenger’: Knowledge and Violence in Displacement Narratives
… citations produce the narrators as international political subjects. The first half of the thesis focuses on how the narrators discursively produce certain spaces as having a racializing and gendering effect of dehumanisation upon displaced subjects as well as on the contested and complex …
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Politics, infrastructure and non-human subjects: The Inka occupation of the Amaybamba cloud forests
… is the question of how these entities were made subjects of the Inka polity. The broader theoretical framework that underpins my thesis is what I refer to as `political ontology', from which I argue for taking a `step-back' from more traditional (post-Enlightenment) accounts of politics which …
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Denigrata Cervorum: interpretive performance autoethnography and female black metal performance
… serves as the operative term within a political process that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of language which is said either to reveal or distort what is assumed to be true about the …
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
… study of youth activism in a space of geopolitical conflict. It examines ways in which young activists in Indian-administered Kashmir, caught in chronic conditions of state violence and traversed by transnational discourses of identity, experience precarity while desperately seeking to …
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Revitalising the representation of Iranian women: A critical and creative exploration of gendered identity in the contemporary art of Iran.
… women have been at the centre of many socio-political changes and challenges during the long history of their country. During those changes, the actualisation of their roles has nevertheless been constrained by religiously-based traditions: both ancient and recently-developed. The …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… such as Mary Rowlandson into enlightened political subjects. When scholars have written about Revolutionary prisoner-of-war narratives at all, they have quietly subsumed military captivity within this larger discussion of dignity and selfhood. Yet prisoner-of-war narratives written by …