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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Political anthropology"”.
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… presents an ethnographic case study into the political anthropology of contemporary religion. By exploring the ‘liquid’ faith of participants in the Religious Society of Friends (‘Quakers’), it carefully examines the social and political practices that constitute the ‘postmodern’ religious …
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Leadership and social cleavages : political processes among the Indians in Labasa, Fiji Islands
… community and seeks to shed some light on the political aspects of its adaptation to the social situation in Labasa. Adaptation is a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon involving diverse processes of growth and change. For the analysis of the implications and effects of the political elements …
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Leadership and social cleavages : political processes among the Indians in Labasa, Fiji Islands
… community and seeks to shed some light on the political aspects of its adaptation to the social situation in Labasa. Adaptation is a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon involving diverse processes of growth and change. For the analysis of the implications and effects of the political elements …
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Individual Disengagement of "Turkish Penitents" from Political Violence as Rite of Passage: Voices from the Cracks of Social Structure
… the notion of individual disengagement from political violence in Turkey by reconstructing the lives of 13 'formers' whom I call the Turkish Penitents. Its specific aim is to compare and contrast the experiences of those individuals who left various politically-motivated leftist/revolutionary …
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… Szakolczai's reflexive historical sociology and political anthropology to an interpretation of Irish history during the revolutionary period from 1916 to 1927, and more particularly to an appraisal of the central figure of Eamon deValera. The hypothesis suggests that a characteristic pattern of …
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The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks
… brings together science and technology studies, political anthropology, and Latin American studies, by studying the practices and political reasoning of neoliberal networks in Peru. It analyses the extension of such networks by studying the relationships and subjectivities cultivated under two …
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A constructivist and institutionalist political economy perspective on ideational, political and institutional changes in France
… approach to institutional change within political economy focuses primarily on economic policy ideas. Yet the reflexive potential of this approach could be further enhanced by paying greater attention to the ideas a community holds about itself - that is, to how national communities, as …
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Partitioned listening: sonic methodology and the archive after 1947
… relevant strands of (feminist) oral history, political anthropology, analytic philosophy, fictive and testimonial outputs and assessments of colonial and archival knowledge production, my methodological framework – titled “partitioned listening” – is centred on the development of a creative …
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Liminal heritage and political transition in Burma/Myanmar since 1824
… populism (Bugaric 2019) and a ‘brokenness of political reality’ that is both cause and effect (Wydra 2015a, p. 1) of the wicked problems that plague us, from the threat of nuclear warfare to the climate crisis. Infused with powers of annihilation, these crises suspend whole societies in …
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The individual and the state in China: being a graduate village official in rural southwest China
… me to observe at close range the workings of political power and official administration. After one year’s in-depth exploration, my materials include the following: state propaganda publications, observations of conversations among officials, interactions between subordinates and superiors, …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… I show how people used media as an ethical and political practice to purposefully shape and transform face-to-face human relationships. I argue that filmmaking and distributing was one set of practices through which people attempted to cultivate a collectivist disposition called compañerismo, …
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"We don't know what we're saying": Politics and subjects among the ultras of Centro Storico Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
… of ‘prefigurative’ politics, where the means of political action are supposed to offer a figuration of its ends. Through an examination of the material culture, organisational forms and language ideologies espoused and refigured by members of CSL, this dissertation thus provides a contribution to …
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The politics of drugs and conflict: the challenges of insurgency and state-building in Afghanistan
… fields such as International Relations, Political Economy, Political Anthropology and Development and State-Building. While focusing on the decades-long war in Afghanistan, the thesis attempts to provide an integrated and comprehensive framework for understanding the conflict in general. …
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The Brahmin Problem: Charity, Expenditure and the Genealogy of Sovereignty in Travancore
… in general, and the fields of historical and political anthropology in particular, this dissertation develops around a set of relationships centered on the concept of sovereignty. In addressing the question of what the expenditure on Brahmins and the colonial, missionary, and Nair critiques …
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The Political Entanglements of Recognition: Aboriginal Title, Crown Sovereignty, and Indigenous Self Determination
… questions may only be answered by uncovering the political rationalities and objectives that Canada has enacted and sought since the establishment of the colony under British colonialism. I argue that the project of settler-colonialism, as a form of governmentality, is an unfinished project that …
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Between respectability and disgrace: schismogenesis and the regeneration of inequality, stigma and social exclusion in Limerick
… a deep historical hermeneutic analysis of this political community.
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Critique and Neoliberalism's Critics: Art, Activism, and Uncertainty in Post-Recession Dublin
This dissertation sets forth a call for an anthropology of forms of critique and critical thinking as a generative site for political anthropological theory, and itself offers an initial answer to that call. It makes its case from the ground up, originating in an ethnographic account of a group of …
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Scaling down Judaism: The politics of tradition and change among liberal observant Jews in Israel
… Israel, tradition is a valuable social and political currency in struggles between Jewish groups over the nature of public Jewish life.
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Searching for Healing Amidst the Genocidal Logic: Fragmentary Exiled Bosnian (Im)Possibilities
… Dissertation is situated within the domains of political and psychological anthropology, guided by a decolonial perspective partially inspired by the psychiatric-political works of Frantz Fanon. I engage with Bosnians in their fifties and sixties living in Belgium and the Netherlands who were …