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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Political ethics"”.
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The needs of miners: political ethics, mercury abatement, and intervention in artisanal gold mining communities
This dissertation examines the role of donor-funded international projects to reduce mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM). ASM is the second largest source of anthropogenic global mercury pollution, accounting for roughly 1000tonnes of atmospheric emissions and …
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Tracing the Normative Framework of South Africa s response to Early Childhood Development and Long-Term Care During the COVID-19 pandemic
… our lives. This research employs a critical political ethics of care approach to evaluate the South African government's response to mandated social care provision during the pandemic. Through a systematic analysis of the state's actions in managing and coordinating Early Childhood …
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Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory
… and methodological resources would it take for political theory to be able to more deeply analyze the emotional and affective dimensions of political life? In this dissertation, I articulate interdisciplinary work on affect and emotion into political theory in order to realize four linked …
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Globalizing utilitarianism : distributive justice beyond the state
… to global distributive justice: that part of political ethics that is concerned with the distribution of benefits and burdens across the members of distinct societies. Surprisingly little has been written by utilitarians, or by welfare consequentialists in general, on this topic. Many …
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How the Ethical Positions of Voters and Politicians Matter in a Democracy
… when a citizen disagrees with their broader political community’s views on ethical matters (hereafter, ethical distance), do they become less supportive of democracy? Second, when a politician disagrees with their broader political community’s views on ethical matters, are they likely to be …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
… coincided with his thinking on values and political ethics. Chapter Four centers around Hannah Arendt, the Committee on Social Thought, and the role of intellectual responsibility during Vietnam. Chapter Five looks at Herbert Marcuse’s critique of social science alongside the New Left’s …
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Feminine fictions: An embodied autobiography : navigating feminine embodied ontologies with/in aesthetic autobiography
“In Speculum I wrote that to re-establish a political ethics a dual dialectic is necessary, one for the male subject and another for the female subject (pp223-4). Today I would say that a triple dialectic is necessary: one for the male subject, one for the female subject and one for their …
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Preaching Marxism? The Politics and Ethics of Leftist Muslim Activists in Java
… from the 1990s onwards. Since the 1990s, political Islam, has grown to increasing influence, while at the same time, debates around Islamic ethics have largely emphasised piety and private morality. NU is commonly regarded as a ‘moderate’ Islamic force, emphasising pluralism and tolerance. …
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Exploring the Implementation of Care in Teaching in a First-year Engineering Course
… Education classroom. The study draws on Tronto's political ethics of care framework, originally developed in the context of feminist theory and methodology, and operationalizes it in the teaching and learning setting by situating the context of the study in a first-year general engineering …
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Ibn Khaldun and the Modern Social Sciences: A Comparative Theoretical Inquiry into Society, the State, and Revolution
… into the mainstream of historiographic, political, and sociological learning. Why Ibn Khaldun? What makes his work stand out among the classics of pre-modern and early-modern political and social theory? Why are his ideas still relevant to the study of politics and societies today? My …
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The ethical dilemmas of whistle-blowing and corruption in the South African public sector.
This thesis focussed on three key concepts: ethics, corruption and whistleblowing. These concepts are examined within the context of the South African public sector. The meanings of the concepts corruption, ethics, values, morality and human rights, as well as their influence on the public official …