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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Political consciousness"”.
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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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The Evolution of Racial and Political Consciousness in Three Black Writers of Eighteenth-Century England
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Workers' Attitudes and Bourgeois Hegemony: Investigations of the Political Consciousness of Canadian Workers in the 1980s
… important influence on a wide range of workers' political attitudes are class background, manual nor nonmanual work, age, education, and residency in Quebec. (3) Many members of the Hamilton local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) did not continue to struggle in the weeks after the …
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Harvesting Consciousness: The Impact of Seasonal Labour on the Transnational Political Identity of Guatemalan Migrants to Canada
… This dissertation illuminates the transnational political realities of Guatemalans by examining the impact that circular migration has on the subaltern migrant body. Fieldwork was conducted in two sites, the first St. Rémi in Québec, the second Santiago Sacatepéquez in Guatemala. Research …
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Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration
… in check. This study examines how a character's political consciousness often emerges in chorus with aesthetic bodily movement and analyzes the symbolic force and political significance of Caribbean dance--both celebratory (as in Carnival) and defensive (as in warrior dances). Furthermore, this …
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Opening Our Eyes: How Activist Women in Ecuador Learn Critical Political and Self-Aware Consciousness
… two questions: "How are different aspects of consciousness learned and relearned by members of women's organizations in Ecuador?" and "How do women's critical political and self-aware consciousnesses impact their organizations and their ability to build relationships based on solidarity?" …
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Can the Ummah speak? reexamining genealogies of Black Muslim Women within the Black freedom movement through the examples of Betty Shabazz and Clara Muhammad
… of Islam, which offer a unique spiritual and political consciousness. Using the story of Hajaar and motherhood as a framework, the paper shifts understandings of motherhood from an Islamic perspective to show the importance of Muhammad and Shabazz's legacy as members of their communities.</p>
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William J. Kerby, John A. Ryan, and the Awakening of the Twentieth-Century American Catholic Social Conscience, 1899-1919 (Progressivism)
… American Catholic Church. Whether demanding political concern on the part of Catholics, urging reform of the Church's charities, or bringing attention to the issue of socialism, their efforts to effect change were untiring. They helped create in the American Church a twentieth-century …
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Learning through experience : an analysis of student leaders' reflections on the 1985-6 revolt in Western Cape schools
… in the 1985-6 Western Cape struggles upon the political consciousness of former student leaders. A representative, random sample of the 1985 Student Representative Council members of a certain high school in Cape Town was taken and respondents were then interviewed individually during the last …
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'n Klein lewe
… amongst other things, the development of her political consciousness from her early years as the daughter of a farmer in the Kalahari. Being a so-called 'little history' the story relates her exposure to other races during a time of strict division, important incidents such as a visit by the …
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The Cold War, the New World Order, and the War on Terror : U.S. presidents' use of Orwell's big brother myth
… a dystopian myth exists in the United States' political consciousness that warns citizens about the fear totalitarianism. Born out of George Orwell's novel 1984, the Big Brother myth is articulated by presenting a totalitarian foe, creating an us vs. them scenario, and depicting a dystopian …
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Chicana politics: Maria Cardenas and La Raza Unida Party, 1935-1993
… and concerns gave rise to powerful working-class political conscious that reinforced her desire to mobilize the Chicana/o community in San Angelo, Texas. Through this argument, I bring nuance to the field of Chicana women’s history. In the past, Chicana scholars argued that the only way possible …
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The Conceptualization of Gender and Race in Rap Music: Its Impact on the Political Engagement of Black Women
… relationship between rap music and the political engagement of Black women, using theories of Black feminist thought: Intersectionality and hip-hop feminism. Rather than seeking a definitive or binary conclusion, the research examines the complexity of how rap influences cultural …
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Conflict in the Unions: The Communist Party of Australia, politics and the trade union movement, 1945-1960
This thesis examines the political activity of the Communist party of Australia (CPA) in the trade union movement between 1945 and 1960. It represents the first systematic scholarly analysis of this activity. The historiography of the CPA has generally focused on the industrial activity of CPA …
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Aboriginal Embassy, 1972
… the thesis as a climax to changes in Aboriginal political consciousness and government policy over the decade which preceded its nine months of protest activity. The adoption of creative, non-violent methods of protest by the Embassy is detailed in contrast with other options considered during …
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Aboriginal Embassy, 1972
… the thesis as a climax to changes in Aboriginal political consciousness and government policy over the decade which preceded its nine months of protest activity. The adoption of creative, non-violent methods of protest by the Embassy is detailed in contrast with other options considered during …
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The Asianadian, 1978-1985: Hybridity and Resistance in Theory and Practice
This dissertation examines the cultural and political production of the magazine The Asianadian (1978-1985). The Asianadian was the first and only anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic social justice magazine in Canada. Using theoretical insights of Critical Race Theory, Indigenous Studies, …
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The Politics of Self-provisioning in North-central West Virginia
… elicit or engender a particular political consciousness? Based on six months of fieldwork conducted during the spring and summer of 2010, this research employs qualitative methodologies, including surveys, semistructured interviews, and ethnography, to examine the political, …
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Wife battering policies, programs and definitions: A social constructionist analysis.
… a social problem had it not been for the raised political consciousness of feminism and other social movements. The early efforts of the battered women's movement to gain recognition soon entered a stage characterized by co-optation, professionalism, and bureaucracy. Government and nongovernment …
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Silent No More: The Voice of a Farm Worker Press, 1964–1975
… minded people who attempted to shape the political consciousness of the times, in their efforts to transform the imposed conditions that defined the location of farmworkers of the period. Hence, this critical examination of <em>El Malcriado</em> reveals the means by which cultural …
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