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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Political mobilisation"”.
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The internet, political mobilisation and civic engagement in Zimbabwe from 2015 to 2020: investigating the role of Twitter
… study sought to determine how Twitter affected political mobilisation and civic engagement in Zimbabwe from 2015 to 2020. Zimbabwe's competitive authoritarian regime has over the years restricted access to mainstream media platforms, leaving members of the opposition and most civic organisations …
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"If We Are Nothing Without Them, Then They Are Also Nothing Without Us": Cross-Class Political Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan
… class is a major factor in social, spatial, and political fragmentation. The thesis challenges existing approaches to urban politics, which largely theorise political practices as class distinct. The thesis seeks to interrogate these framings through developing the concept of ‘overlapping …
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Immigration, ethnicity and national identity : Maghrebis' socio-political mobilisation and discourse in the inter-war period and during the 1970s in France
… Indeed, French popular, and to a large extent political and media, discourses have presented postcolonial migrants (especially Maghrebis) and their children as constituting a population which is more difficult to integrate than previous, mainly European, migrants. At the core of this widely …
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Money and Nationalist Politics in Nineteenth Century Ireland: From O'Connell to Parnell
… give due cognisance to the functional aspects of political mobilisation, recognising that it is very much the resources available to promulgate the message, as well as the message itself that can have a bearing on success. One only has to look to contemporary America - the pioneer of democracy in …
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Dialogical Selves: Exploring “Sameness and Difference” in “Queer” Identification
… in theory, lived experiences, and political mobilisation. Dominant discourses tend to overlook intersectional complexities therein, focus on labels over interactions, and reiterate a framing of the LGBTQIA+ as inherently vulnerable. The gaps point to a need for a more open and …
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Social Deprivation, Political Alienation and Community Empowerment. The geography of voter turnout in Ireland,1997-2002, and its Association with Social Deprivation.
The Irish political system has become increasingly characterised by declining turnout rates in the past few decades, with this accompanied by very low turnouts in a number of areas and for certain elections types. This thesis addresses this context through analysing turnout variations in recent …
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Intersectionality and feminist service provision: Power and difference in gender-based violence services
… the application of intersectional analytical and political insights across multiple levels of feminist anti-violence and anti-trafficking work, namely (1) the definition and analysis of violence, (2) the design of services, (3) the caring relationship between staff and service users, and (4) …
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Labour Unions, Political and the Development of the Swazi Labour Movement 1939-2014.
… as a consequence of a number of socio-economic, political and legal factors. The capital penetration that occurred in Swaziland during and after World War II led to the conflict between labour and capital. The expansion of the Swazi economy, particularly the expansion of the workforce due to the …
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Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
… also utilise as the mind-bombs to influence the political discourse. This project focused on the employment of memes in the deliberation of the Crimean crisis in the Russian Twitter in 2014. Pro-government and anti-government activists have used this format of texts to promote their agenda and …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
This dissertation explores peasant political action in response to state-driven land expropriation in the Acholi-Madi border region of northern Uganda. Based on a two-year period of archival inquiry, interviews, activist research and participant observation, the dissertation examines the case of …
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Framing online communications of civil and uncivil groups in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… coding scheme, adapted from previous studies of political part websites, is used to determine whether these groups have realised the potential of the Internet as a tool for political mobilisation. The dissertation considers whether there are any qualitative differences between the online framing …
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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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THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG), NIGERIA. LOCAL IDENTITIES AND GLOBAL PROCESSES IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM
… doctrines in line with local social, economic, political and cultural situation, part of its appeal to a broad spectrum of people, groups and organisations is its marketing strategies as well as its relationship with global economic players such as Coca-Cola company, Procter and Gamble, a wide …
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“No promised land”: history, historiography and the origins of the Gypsies
… conceptions of European Roma identity and political mobilisation, as they are now articulated. In this context, the importance of Islam in the origins and history of the Gypsies is stressed in the text. This theoretical framework underlies the interweaving narratives that make up the latter …
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Contest and co-option : the struggle for schooling in the African independent churches of the Cape Colony
… fortunes, and changes in the nature of black political mobilisation. However, the advent of independent church schools did not merely reflect an ideological preoccupation with colonial dominance. They were initiated to meet a range of educational needs articulated by numbers of urban and rural …
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From plural society to Bangsa Malaysia : ethnicity and nationalism in the politics of nation-building in Malaysia
… is firstly, to examine the underlying socio-political parameters that shaped and influenced the politics of nation-building in the country, and secondly, to explore the viability of the project of Bangsa Malaysia in the context of the daunting challenges involved in the process of …
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The great shout of the wolves’ mouth: Indigeneity, social change and historical narrative in the Ecuadorian Andes
… commerce, as a practice and lived experience of political mobilisation, shaped certain forms of historical and ethnic consciousness. This allows the consideration of historical consciousness not only as an abstract process, but as a multi-layered, embodied experience, with a strong relation to …
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Development Control in Transitional Urban China from an Institutional Perspective: Shanghai in the “Era of Redevelopment” as Case Study
… projects were implemented through campaign-style political mobilisation of the state-owned enterprises’ financial resources and the local cadre’s attention. As a distinct policy implementation mechanism in China’s decentralised authoritarian bureaucracy, political campaigns temporarily changed the …
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