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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Political agency"”.
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RURAL POLITICAL AGENCY AND LOCAL POLITICS IN GLOBALIZED MARKET
… of interest – two main features that build rural political agency. It emphasizes on rural participation in Rural Producer Organizations (RPOs), popular community-based farmer organizations, which have proliferated over the last decade. Two research questions guide this project: (1) What are the …
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Foucault, Kant, Deleuze, and the problem of political agency
<p>Political agency concerns the transformation of the conditions of social organization through collective action. In order to treat the set of necessary conditions for such agency, I develop a detailed reconstruction of Michel Foucault's political philosophy, placed in relation to the work of …
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Gender, national identity and political agency in eighteenth-century Scotland
… and performance of gender, national identity and political agency in Scotland during the Union debates of 1706-07 and the mid-to-late eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. These two periods are offered in contrast to each other in order to demonstrate the means by which changing discourses of …
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Flexible Habits of Race and Gender: Political Agency and Identity Transformation in Schools
… Through flexible habits, students can achieve agency in the ways in which they are identified by themselves and others and can effect political change in the systems of oppression that rely upon discretely defined identity groups. Finally, this project returns to actual classroom scenarios to …
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The rise of cities and the problem of political agency in the global age
… the idea of the ‘rise of cities’ as global political actors has gained prominence in international policy circles. The narrative takes credence from growing scepticism regarding the ability of sovereign states to tackle contemporary global issues, from climate change to migration. This …
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A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?
… model of subjectivity that incorporates both the political and ethical dimensions of agency in potentially non-patriarchal and non-state-centric formations. I suggest a communal understanding of religious law as an alternative to conceptualizing religious law (syariah) in terms of a personal …
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A Political Theory of Accessibility and Care for Animals
… where and how animals most commonly experience political agency as an accessibility issue within their relationships and interactions with humans. Yet animal care is not usually viewed as animal politics, resulting in a failure to critically evaluate the nature of the politics that we do when …
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Monetary statecraft and the making of modern macroeconomic governance in Britain, 1947-1997
This thesis explores the political origins of a regime of macroeconomic control in the UK. Using archival evidence and other primary sources, it argues that by the end of the twentieth century an idiosyncratic structure of macroeconomic governance had emerged centred around the Bank of England’s …
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Princess On The Margins: Toward A New Portrait Of Madame Élisabeth De France
… martyr” and instead focuses on the princess’s political agency and place with the political culture of the French Revolution.</p>
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Essays in political accountability
… by three independent essays on the limits of political accountability. In the first essay I analyze an extremely stylized model of political agency with two dimensional outcomes. I show that the non-contractible nature of rewards to the agent (the politician) is especially taxing when the …
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Funny in a Man's World: Women Comedians' Use of Political Satire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
… rhetorical citizenship, and rhetorical and political agency. This study explores the way women’s issues in society exposed to various audiences through Sykes’ and Strong’s satirical addresses. Communication scholars have not previously considered both of these addresses; this analysis …
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Ludics for a Ludic Society. The Art and Politics of Play
… technology and theory. Its aim is to introduce political reflections on agency through the study of playful technological artefacts, which were largely ignored in the recent discussions on game and play. Following the critical analysis of historic discourses and actual studies of play under …
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Rhetorical Constitution of Public Character and Conservative Ideology in the 1996 Republican Presidential Primary Campaign
"Contemporary American political culture is often characterized as uncivil, marked by communicative practices that are manipulative, distorting and combative. Such practices by politicians, who exist as role models for how citizens should conduct themselves in public life, may contribute to public …
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Referendum on the Revolution: The Pennsylvania Constitutional Debate, 1776-1784
… for governmental structure and popular political agency. Competing notions regarding these issues, while expressed within a general framework of consensus concerning the source of political authority [the people], revealed fundamentally different visions of governmental order. Partisans …
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A resistência à ocupação também é colorida: o pinkwashing israelense como tentativa de estigmatização da população palestina.
… settlement and also overlooking the capacity of political agency and self-representation of peoples and nations from the East, specially Arabs/Muslims.
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… to achieve basic rights and pursue legitimate political agency has fluctuated in step with changes in the country's political climate. The invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces in 2003 set in motion a reconstruction of the Iraqi nation and its government, and in turn a sequence of …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… to achieve basic rights and pursue legitimate political agency has fluctuated in step with changes in the country's political climate. The invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces in 2003 set in motion a reconstruction of the Iraqi nation and its government, and in turn a sequence of …
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Visionary Nonconformity: Miltonic Resonances and the Poetics of Religious Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century
… as practiced by these women poets, supplements political agency and elides barriers between the public and the private spheres. The visionary poetics studied in this dissertation generated a hermeneutic of engagement that allowed otherwise disenfranchised women to politicize a private religious …
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Teaching Politics: A Study of High School Government Courses and the 2008 Presidential Election
… data sources, I discovered that the inclusion of political events and methods for teaching politics is far from universal and can vary based on the environment in which students receive their political instruction. In particular, I found that pressure for teachers to adhere to the formal …
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<i>Desde el fuego que en mí arde</i>: Performance, literatura y cine afro-latinoamericano producidos por mujeres afrodescendientes en Perú, Cuba y Brasil (1960–2000)
… when inserting ‘race’ as a category of socio-political analysis and cultural production. How did their films, performances, and texts challenge national narratives and imaginaries after 1960? Although in the sixties, women improved their civil rights in different countries, the ‘mujer negra’ …
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