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Toward a Theory of Ideology in Political Life
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Living Color: Aesthetic Surfaces and Political Life in Brazil
… aesthetic questions at the center of social and political life in contemporary Brazil. And, rather than dismissing aesthetics as only epiphenomenal to social inequality, this dissertation shows how colorful surfaces serve as motors of political struggle.</p>
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Islamic factors in the socio-political life of post-Soviet Russia.
… that took place in the religious and cultural life of Muslims over recent decades and ways in which the content of Islamic education can be changed were also analyzed in this study. The study further examined the relations between religion and state in Russia and how Islam, through novel …
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The political life of a chair: the Chaise Sandows in interwar France
“The Political Life of a Chair: The Chaise Sandows in Interwar France” investigates the history of a chair made of steel and rubber to reveal a nuanced relationship between the steel industry and the decorative arts in interwar France. The Chaise Sandows, designed in 1929 by the French decorator …
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Visual Voyages of Palestine Refugees: The Social and Political Life of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s Photo Archive
… archive that claims neutrality within the political reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It examines the role and manifestation of this UN archive – established by a 1949 United Nations mandate for facilitating humanitarian activities – in the context of one of the longest lasting …
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Personal Values and Partisanship in America
… values play in several aspects of American political life.</p>
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A Politics of Inwardness: Rousseau and Kierkegaard in Dialogue
This thesis draws out some political implications of Kierkegaard’s concepts of faith, identity, and ethics. It does so by positioning Kierkegaard alongside Rousseau, whose work evinces a conflict over whether a good person can also be a good citizen. Via Rousseau, Kierkegaard’s religious individual …
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A case study of aspects of the political life of Advocate Benjamin Magson Kies (1917 - 1979) and of "The Torch" newspaper with which he was closely connected, showing how the criminal justice system in South Africa was employed in an attempt to silence political and ideological opposition to the apartheid regime
… in which the miliEH,IX of their everyday life are organised." (2) . This paper is in some respects both biographical and historical. B M Kies was a leading figure in the Anti-CAD (Coloured Affairs Department) Movement, The Teachers' League of South Africa and the Non-European Unity …
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Socrates as citizen?: the implications of Socratic eros for contemporary models of citizenship
… about the relation of the philosopher (or political scientist) to the city (that is, to political life) without taking for granted that they share a common aim or purpose. Instead, I prepare the discussion with an examination of the treatment of Socrates by the comic poet Aristophanes in …
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Palestinian Revolution and World Imperialism in the "American Century," 1945-1972
… these are the US programs with which Palestinian political life was concerned, as reflected in newspapers and internal political documents. This method allows for the illumination of two symbiotic historic processes at once: on one side, the layered expansion of US military and trade projects in …
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The Communist Party in Moscow 1925-1932
… Second is the role of the grassroots activist in political life. Thirdly, the failure of the oppositions is studied in detail. Finally, popular influence over the Party is examined with a view to discussing how far the revolution had been 'betrayed' in this period. It is found that the Moscow …
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Who am I to judge? : rhetoric, passion, and rule of law in Aristotle's political thought.
… a response to what seems to be the greatest political crisis of our time: a politics divorced from reasoned speech (logos) and its most significant political function, judgment. Aristotle's Rhetoric, I propose, provides not only a framework that allows us to see and articulate this …
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Igbo caste practices: persistence and public attitudes in the media
… in the media, this thesis argues that Igbo socio-political life has continued to sustain this practice even as it pretends to reject it. The general attitude to discrimination against the caste groups has been that it is barbaric. Yet, the freeborn still find it difficult to embrace them. Reasons …
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Palmerston and the politics of foreign policy, 1846-1855
… but hitherto rather neglected, period of his political career immediately preceding his accession to the premiership in 1855, in a broader context than has previously been attempted. By combining a high political, that is governmental, approach to the question with what might be termed a low …
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Herbert Matthews and The New York Times on the Making of Castro's Revolution, 1952-1959.
… between the press and foreign policy in American political life has been and still is the subject of much debate. The degree of influence which the press exerts on the State Department has been perceived as ranging from non-existent to powerful enough to topple governments. For example, in 1949, …
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The political philosophy of Xenophon’s Memorabilia
… problems across dialogues set in different socio–political contexts. A problem is not solved in a single dialogue; the arguments, imageries and vocabulary explored in one dialogue are re–opened, complicated and refined in diverse dramatic settings. Taking Socrates’ trial and execution as the point …
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Between Fantasy & Reality: Ludonarrative Dissonance and Black Affect in the Present
… the fundamental ways around which black social life is structured in the early 21st Century? I assert that video games—most of which are Japanese in origin—are the most popular aesthetic objects in the world and consider how they shape desire and the creation of social space for black digital …
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