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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Political activists"”.
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Amateurs and professionals: a study of political activists at the 1976 Republican National Convention
… correlations between socio-economic variables, political socialization experiences, and the incentives which motivated the delegates were to be studied. The first hypothesis was tested by crosstabulating the Amateur- Professional Index with the traditional socio-economic characteristics. …
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Making sense of political activism : life narratives of political activists from the South African liberation movement
… personal and social construction of meaning that political activists who have been involved in the South African liberation movement attribute to their lives. It examines the lives of a group of activists who were situated at the heart of the anti- apartheid movement for more than four decades. …
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Living in fear : the experiences of parents of political activists in "coloured" Cape Flats townships, 1985-1988 : a social-psychological study
… and analyses the experiences of parents of political activists in "coloured" Cape Flats townships against the background of the socio-political upheaval in South Africa during the 1985/86 rebellion and thereafter. An ethnographic research method was used due to its suitability in terms of …
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Working-class housing in Plymouth 1870-1914
… the context within which housing reformers and political activists campaigned. Associated notions of moral improvement, which informed much of the discursive narrative of housing reform, are also considered. Also discussed are Victorian philosophies of self-help and woman’s separate sphere in …
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Cheat River
… in the early '90s where he falls in with political activists and a household of misfits. He disappears, and Allison comes to the city to look for him. By retracing her brother's life, she realizes not only what he meant to her but what it will take to survive on her own.
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The Central Bankers: Administrative Legitimacy and the Federal Reserve System
… how have elected officials, scholars, and political activists attempted to (de)legitimate the Fed and its officials' actions? While answering my research questions, I tell a story about which strategies the institution's supporters have used to legitimate the Fed and which strategies the …
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Businessmen and authoritarianism in Egypt
… on interviews with Egyptian businessmen and political activists, this thesis examines the different institutional mechanisms used by the regime to co-opt businessmen and based on predation of public and private resources. Extending the literature on clientelism, I create a typology of …
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The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker
… sustained protests by students, staff, and political activists. In this context, the use of English as a language of teaching is tightly regulated through qualitative restrictions (i.e., requiring justification, such as the presence of international students or lecturers, or the disciplinary …
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My Faith in the Constitution is Whole: Barbara Jordan Signifies on Scriptures
… 19th century African American women orators and political activists, Maria W. Stewart and Anna Julia Cooper, who serve as functional equivalents or precursors to Barbara Jordan. In this study, I found that Barbara Jordan makes American scripture, i.e. the Constitution, function in her speeches as …
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The politics of exclusion : a case study of the Factreton area
… Factreton have a tendency to be unresponsive to political issues and political organisation. This unresponsiveness to politics is due to coloured workers tendency to perceive, and deal with, political and non- political realities as separate and unconnected. Coloured worker's social consciousness …
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Politics and ideology in a Protestant working class community in Belfast
… how the PWC have reacted to the contemporary political and social situation in Northern Ireland. The thesis draws on interviews with residents, political activists and paramilitary members. In particular it identifies the politics and ideology of those active in the Democratic Unionist Party …
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Unprecedented access? Women instrumentalists in punk bands 1976-1984: an exploration
… on women in rock and pop, writings on the socio-political context, and writings on punk. One of the main foci of the study has been to identify the reasons for the fading away of the presence of women instrumentalists in the early 1980s. I wanted to discover why this phenomenon had such a short …
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An exploration of accredited learning for the domestic violence sector in Ireland.
… this context may constrain learning about the political aspects of domestic violence work as they impact on social change work and internal power relationships. The primary conclusion of this study is that a model of situated learning in a community of practice can include formal recognition …
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Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
… lawyers, both as legal professionals and political activists, during the 2019 Hirak movement. It pays particular attention to their strategic use of social media. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, the study combines qualitative semi-structured interviews and content analysis with …
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Glasgow's Red Clydeside and the politics of poetry
… and remains powerfully relevant for left-wing political activists in the present, the poetry of the period has yet to be considered critically by researchers in either the fields of history or literary studies. This thesis collects and examines poetry from a range of sources, including …
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Surveillance, Subjectivity and Resistance at the Frontiers of Europe: A Materialist Analysis of the Greece-Turkey Borders
… in urban contexts) that produce specific biopolitical effects on migrants. 3. Subjective aspects of the border: The dissertation analyzes how migrants develop diverse subjectivities when confronted by the border’s material violence, including stranger subjectivity, abject subjectivity, …
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Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Mass Media: Television and the Struggle Over Meaning in Wales
… the social production of meaning. The activists' confrontation with television as a cultural form, with the cultural industries, and with the British state led to overt struggles over the definition of culture and the nation. The debate changed not only Welsh television but also Welsh …
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Five things (and a series of comments on liberal space, the demise of the square, and alternatives for its substitution)
… desires, a dwelling for market activities and political discussion. A space, in sum, pregnant with the possibilities to recognize (practically if not consciously), the link between formal politics -that of the crown, the congress and the ballot, and the more pervasive register of the political …
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The individual, auto/biography and history in South Africa
This thesis is a contribution to the field of public history, which the author and others at the University of the Western Cape's History Department have over the last decade pioneered in defining and mapping out in South Africa. Rassool's theories about the relationship between history and …
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The portrayal of women in power and politics in Chinua Achebe's a man of the people and anthills of the savannah
… strong, fearless, rebellious, intelligent, political activists, conservative, respectful, having successful careers, persistent, not conceited, selfless, intimidating, business women running clothing empires, school heads of prestigious private schools, members of statutory boards, and …
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