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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Political movements"”.
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Political movements : three case studies of protest
Experience and observation reveal that people are conditioned by usage, custom, convention and law - the social regulators of a person's behaviour. People do what is familiar, what is usual, and what is routine. They have certain ideas as to what is proper: they may act according to convention out …
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Political movements : three case studies of protest
Experience and observation reveal that people are conditioned by usage, custom, convention and law - the social regulators of a person's behaviour. People do what is familiar, what is usual, and what is routine. They have certain ideas as to what is proper: they may act according to convention out …
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Arab political movements in Israel: different ideologies and disparate rhetoric
… at different levels: national, social, political, financial, educational, as well as the very challenge of existence. The Palestinian community in Israel underwent various stages of development and witnessed major events under the new Israeli rule, bringing about fundamental changes in …
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The Discursive Construction of Terrorism: The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and other Kurdish political movements in Turkish official discourse, and the approach of the Turkish authorities regarding the Kurdish question
… Syrian Kurdish PYD and YPG, and other Kurdish movements and individuals. The findings of this research reveal that the Turkish official narrative of terrorism functions to achieve two main goals. The first goal is to delegitimize the PKK and the other Kurdish movements. The second goal is to …
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Rhetorical fractures : designing for social movement growth using ancient and contemporary tools
… considering mass persuasion and social and political movements remain disparate fields. In this thesis, four distinct academic verticals of thought are considered, concerning how to make sense of networks of ideas, people, and organizations. These genres include ancient rhetoric, enterprise …
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An analysis of Twitter’s role between 2012 and 2018 in contributing to the new way Black Millennials of African Ancestry produce 21st Century PanAfrican Knowledge and Social Activity
… Africa to communicate, learn, build social and political movements, and curate joint identities. As a result of this group’s active use of social media over the last decade, Black millennials of African ancestry — referred to collectively in this thesis as ‘Africans’ — have become primary …
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Enduring or escaping legacies? : Politics, inherited institutions, and rebellion in the struggle over water futures in Chile
Following a wave of insurgent political action in 2011, the hegemony that governs life in Chile appears to be increasingly threatened. One area of politicized struggle has coalesced around water law. On one side of the struggle, water utilities, agro-export firms and entrenched political actors …
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Political violence and inter-ethnic conflict: an analysis with reference to Chechnya and Northern Ireland
… A willingness for one ethnic group to engage in political violence against another requires the acceptance of ideological constructs that stress difference - political movements that position other ethnic groups as `the enemy'. This thesis attempts to analyse the emergence, establishment and …
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Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry
… uncovering how work, workers, and working-class political movements of the first half of the twentieth century forged the literary and political sensibilities of two of modernism's most influential poets, T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg. For Eliot, the study argues that his encounter with the …
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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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Honor Killings Among Westward-Immigrating Muslim Communities - An Applied Anthropological Approach
… killings to contribute to the current social and political movements to combat honor killings and honor related violence.
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Honor Killings Among Westward-Immigrating Muslim Communities - An Applied Anthropological Approach
… killings to contribute to the current social and political movements to combat honor killings and honor related violence.
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A Critique of Karl Marx on Religion: Historical Instances of the Church and Revolution
… activity. His radical engagement with grassroots political movements distinguishes him from other historically acclaimed philosophers. Both a fastidious student of Hegel and an outspoken, prolific journalist, Marx’s thought was uniquely placed at the center of social movements.1</p> <p>It is …
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The Hybrid Apostle: A Religious and Cultural Biography of Father Isaac Hecker's Early Life and the Origin of American Catholicism, 1837-1858
… Catholicism" through his experience in various political, religious, and political movements he participated in between 1837-1858. As the son of German immigrants, he grew up in New York City as a member of the working-class. He later participated in reform politics, which led him later to join …
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The dual paths of a political movement: convergence and divergence in contemporary conservative public address
… for the future of conservatism in particular and political movements in general are asserted in the conclusion.
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
… platforms (particularly Facebook & Twitter) by political actors, contemporary media, and ordinary people to disseminate false or misleading information. Furthermore, it examines how social media have aided in the mobilization of previously unpopular extremist social/political movements in the …
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J18: movements towards an ethico-aesthetic paradigm
This thesis offers a materialist account of political action from the perspective of the aesthetic, focusing on a global day of action, protest and carnival staged to coincide with the G8 Summit on June 18th 1999. An event known as J18. Part One begins with a review of contemporary literature …
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Revolutionships: Experiences of Queer Women of Color Maintaining Romantic Relationships while Engaging in Contemporary Movements for Liberation
… to the increasingly hostile contemporary political context of the United States of America are at immediate risk for threats to survival. Nevertheless, some maintain romantic relationships that fall outside of the hegemonic frameworks of romance. While simultaneously resisting a settler …
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Development of the western orchestra in China
… orchestra developed in broad socio-economical, political-cultural, and historical contexts with an emphasis on elaborating certain conditions responsible for the specific features of this development. The following major aspects of the development of the orchestra in China are discussed:1)The …
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Characterizing the Adolescent Male Reader: A Narrative Inquiry into the Reading Lives of 12th Grade Boys Enrolled in IB Language A: Literature
… potential impact of the social, cultural, and political movements and shifts that began in 2017. Most earlier research into adolescent male readers was conducted from a deficit perspective. This study explores the reading lives of boys who are positioned at the end of their K-12 public …
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