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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Political practices"”.
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Female Elites, Women's Formal Associations, and Political Practices in Urban Mali (West Africa)
… that memories of the past have informed people's political practices during the struggle for independence from France. The work continues with discussing a number of institutional transformations that women's formal organizations have gone through from the colonial era to the present. While it …
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Globalization and Geoblocking: Sustaining Nationally Bound Economic and Political Practices of Media Distribution and Access on the Internet
… that geoblocking media content is an economic, political, and social reaction against the perceived danger of digital permeability of national borders through the internet. This dissertation examines how traditional, older models of media distribution and exhibition based on national borders, …
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Negotiation and deliberation in Mexico's democratization process : six cases of legal reform
This dissertation identifies political practices that increase negotiation effectiveness and democratic legitimacy simultaneously, as key enabling factors for democratization from within a hybrid regime. This finding runs against the Habermasian idea that success-oriented negotiations run counter …
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Gendered political spaces in international relations : the case of NGO use of information & communication technologies (ICTs)
… framework for analysis apposite to research into political activity that is not state-centred. This analytical frarnework is based initially upon the work of Henri Lefebvre, and identifies three categories of analysis: spatial practice, representations of space and space of representation. In this …
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MALLEABLE TERRITORIES: THE POLITICS AND EFFECTS OF MINING GOVERNANCE IN POST-SOVIET GEORGIA
… a year of contentious struggle among competing political factions, yet in the end the mining work moved forward and continues expanding today. RMG’s destruction of Sakdrisi was just one event within Georgia’s broader political transition, de-centralizing resource governance toward corporate …
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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
"The displacement of radical forms of women's political practices necessitates not the ""recovery"" of certain histories, but the very ""creation"" of histories which reconsider the meaning of ""eventfulness"" and change. By examining the anomalous rhetorical practices and their infectious …
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Constitución y guerra: Una revisión del sistema de derechos fundamentales de Colombia durante el siglo XX
… both periods of violence as the institutions and political practices intertwined with the war. Factors that, despite being "modern" unconstitutional, are part of their real legal culture.
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IL FEMMINISMO PER IL SALARIO AL LAVORO DOMESTICO IN ITALIA: GENEALOGIE, PRATICHE E PROSPETTIVE INTERNAZIONALI
… research examines the origins, development, and practices of the Italian Wages for Housework movement, which emerged in the early 1970s and soon acquired a transnational dimension. It investigates how activists within Lotta Femminista and, later, the Network of Committees and Groups for Wages for …
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Urbanism and Social Transformation in Peter the Great's Russia
… structure, religious culture, and social and political practices have been well documented. His reign also produced a dramatic shift in the country’s architectural culture towards more Western idioms. Existing scholarship has too often permitted the architectural and urban aspects of Peter’s …
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Agency in the Barrio: Exploring the Intersection of Participation, Politics and Urban Development in Guatemala City
… research on the topics of citizen participation, political practices of vote buying and approaches to community development in low-income urban areas, in the collection of neighborhoods known as Ciudad Peronia on the edge of Guatemala City. Together, the four articles in this thesis explore …
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The Word was made flesh: The male body in sports evangelism
… evangelical athletes have championed particular political positions from the 1980s to the present. I conclude by discussing the limits of these performances of masculinity, highlighting how masculinist fantasies of power and Christian identity in sports evangelism support conservative Christian …
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O papel das ONGs nas questões públicas: um estudo de caso do CEDHOR na área de direitos humanos
… expansion of democracy and the countervailing political practices, assisting the public administration in order to minimize the social problems in the country. In this paper we present a case study that aimed to introduce an investigation that could highlight the organizational and …
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On Hypothetical Contracts
… that the normative component of democratic practices must be grounded in nonpolitical reasons. With John Rawls’s rights-based approach, social contract theory has strongly resurfaced by focusing on consent as the basic condition for the formation of a just state. The emphasis on agreement …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
… the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures of 20th century High Modernism and the scant attention that the intersection between architecture and politics has received from political theorists as a problem. In order to address these …
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Empire by Law: Ottoman Sovereignty and the British Occupation of Egypt, 1882-1923
… Ottoman institutions and shaped administrative practices. My research examines the significance and consequences of maintaining Ottoman sovereignty in Egypt during the British occupation in an effort to explain the formation of a distinctive model of sovereignty, both for late empires and for …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… both external and internal freedom. Though some political theorists dismiss Herodotus as a xenophobic peddler of racial stereotypes—e.g., that the Persian monarchy was nothing but a decadent tyranny—I contend that the History reflects the reality of Persian freedom as attested to by ancient …
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We are the state! Grassroots participation in Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution
… dissertation focuses on the role of grassroots political participation in processes of state formation and in establishing democracy in Venezuela. It examines the race, class, and gender experiences of ordinary citizenry through their participation in politics, including the meanings they attach …
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Making change: The role of rhetoric in the politicization of consumption
… is based on the company's philanthropic and political practices, such as donating 1% of its long distance revenue to "progressive" nonprofit organizations, and alerting customers to current political, environmental, and social issues in its monthly mailings and through email. Working Assets' …
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New social movements and social networking sites' uses: Mexicans' mobilization for peace in Mexico
The recent political protests around the globe since the uprising in the Arab World, the Indignados movement in Spain, and the Occupy Movement in United States, were broadcast to the world through both the global mainstream and alternative media using many images and reports produced by people on …
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Social differentiation and local government in Pella, a rural coloured area in Great Bushmanland
… of constitutional structures with one of political practices and activities, a diachronic approach has been adopted in order to demonstrate continuities of form between missionary and bureaucratic systems of local government and the manner in which structures of social differentiation and …
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