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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Political project"”.
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European Union: Toward a Rescue of the Political Project
… economic powers in our globalized world, its political legitimacy is questionnable. What exactly are the criticisms made toward the European Union? This thesis explores the structural flaws of the Union as well as its inconsistencies in the way politics is handled. This thesis also shows that …
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Stillborn: The Libidinal Economy of Gadgetized Mediation in the Era of Socialization for Consumption; An Explanatory Political Project
This project captures an attempt to politicize one aspect of Western middle class youth’s everyday experience growing up and living in postindustrial consumer society—the replacement of experiential, material, and libidinal gratification with that of ideological satisfaction. The dissertation takes …
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Modernity and politics of the self : an investigation of the political project underlying the work of Michel Foucault
… positing that his work is both coherent and political in nature, the dissertation investigates Foucault's books, lectures, interviews and articles throughout his three main periods. I have named these his Knowledge, Power, and Ethics periods to delineate different theoretical focuses in each …
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Tendência das monografias do curso de Biblioteconomia da Universidade Federal da Paraíba: um estudo cienciométrico
… perspective of the curriculum areas of pedagogic-political project of information science course, it disciplines and the theoretic models of sciencie information studied by the author Carlos Alberto Ávila Araújo (UFMG). The general objective of this research was to characterize tendencies of …
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Reading foreign policy archives: how regime-made disasters, pointillism, and citizen-perpetrators underpin U.S. Empire-building
<p>This political project analyzes documents within the foreign policy archives of the Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump administrations to tell a story of how U.S. imperial relations are constructed to reproduce differential rule, exploitation, and the distribution of subject positions. Through a …
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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's <i>The Squatter and the Don</i>
… this thesis attends to how Ruiz de Burton’s political project does not unsettle or disrupt structures of settler colonialism; but is ultimately concerned with maintaining the class interests that the Californio Alamar family are bereft of. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I offer a …
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Spatial manifestations in pluralist cultures : the case of the Isleta de San Juan
… in society, which implicates architecture in the political project. I look specifically at the Isleta de San Juan, Puerto Rico as the subject for this investigation. Primary to my discussion are the manifestations of cultural identity in space. I call particular attention to Puerto Rico's need to …
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The Amazon in antiquity and on television : deployments of a figure within gender (re)negotiations
… promises, if any, does it hold for a feminist political project of gender transformation and subversion? These questions guide my examination of the performance of the Amazon in the works of ancient Greek writers, artists, geographers and historians, and the American television show Xena: …
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Adaptive preferences and children's options
… respect for persons, d) conduciveness to the political project of reducing marginalization, and d) recognition of and attention to the differential needs of children and adults. To achieve the first aim, I outline what I call an ""indirect substantive"" account of autonomy. This account uses …
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Adaptive preferences and children's options
… respect for persons, d) conduciveness to the political project of reducing marginalization, and d) recognition of and attention to the differential needs of children and adults. To achieve the first aim, I outline what I call an ""indirect substantive"" account of autonomy. This account uses …
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"The Love of America is on Move:" Victimization, Cold War Consensus, and the Hungarian Revolution, 1956-1957
… have looked at Cold War Consensus as a conscious political project created by a number of individuals and institutions. This thesis emphasizes the role of the popular and religious press as agents in the solidification of the Cold War Consensus. Most notable was the popular and religious press' …
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Ensino de química e documentos oficiais: etnografia da realidade em uma escola paraibana.
… were undertaken, dealing with Pedagogical Political Project, evaluation methods and experimental activities, and also a detailed evaluation of the chemistry textbook utilized in the school. Finally, the whole achieved material was confronted with the official documents mentioned before, …
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Church Historians and Maronite Communal Consciousness: Agency and Creativity in Writing the History of Mount Lebanon
… oppositional tasks relevant to each era and each political project. Those include an exclusivist and exclusionary political history with the nineteenth century rise of sectarian politics, as well as a nationalist narrative in the twentieth century that attempted to preserve Maronite privilege and …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… the creation and perpetuation of the current geopolitical order underwritten by globalizing capitalism. Recent IMF LIC reforms that champion more participation, flexibility, and a nod toward Keynesian practices thus are seen as one component of a broader political project pushed by global elites …
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… are part of a coherent and organic literary and political project written from the margins of political power, intended to renew the Castilian courtly world. I have called this project Juan Manuel’s seigneurial clerisy. The topics of his books describe the different fields of knowledge associated …
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Nationalism, Democracy, and State Building Among the Young Ireland Diasporic Generation, 1842-72
… them being imprisoned and exiled. It follows the political careers of the Young Ireland exiles after 1848, and argues that their divergent trajectories were all, in different ways, applications of ideas that had developed in the course of their Irish political project. Once dispersed to the four …
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A more modern Turkey?: the political use of modernity in Turkish domestic politics
In 1923, Kemal Atatürk began his modernization project that was to bring Turkey to the ranks of “civilized nations.” In doing so, he utilized modernity as a political tool, a method that would be adapted by other domestic actors in a similar fashion. This thesis argues that as a result of this …
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California Elected City Council Women of Color: Building a Collaborative Vision With Inclusive Voice
… women of color—made the decision to run for political office for the first time at both the national and local levels. It is imperative that these women’s campaigns and victories are studied as a means to resist essentialism and honor the unique perspectives and histories of the voices of …
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The Vernaculars of Our Networks: From The Cloud to a Plurality of Grassroots Digital Infrastructures
… systems, creating a "vernacular cloud," with political, epistemic, and ontological implications? The social practice of what I call 'net/work' involves the facilitation of local digital territories that create a grassroots politics of "organic internets." In Chapter One, recent attempts to …
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Remaking Argentina: Labor, Law, and Citizenship during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional
… to analyze workers’ responses to the regime’s political project in distinct worksites across Argentina (urban center, suburban township, and rural interior). This combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches provides a unique complement to the existing literature on labor and citizenship …
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