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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Political protest"”.
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
This thesis addresses the subject of political dissent during the Khrushchev era. It examines the kinds of protest behaviours that individuals and groups engaged in and the way that the Soviet authorities responded to them. The findings show that dissenting activity was more frequent and more …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… examines the histories of Indigenous protest, commonly known as “Red Power,” in the 1960s and 1970s in the town of Kenora, Ontario. Among the themes discussed are the associations of Indian and Métis activists with Third World national liberation movements, Black Power groups in North …
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Urban Basis of Political Protest in Syria: Explaining: Divergent Patterns of Mobilisation and Demobilisation
… explaining the interaction between geography and political action. Within this framework, mobilisation is co-produced by the organisational capacity of challengers and the repressive power of the state, both of which are facilitated or constrained by the structural characteristics of the site. The …
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Does the labour relations act unjustifiably limit the constitutional right of employees to freedom of assembly? Examining the constitutionality of the prohibition on purely political protest action and gatherings by off-duty employees over disputes of mutual interest
… to employees who wish to embark on socioeconomic protest action over a purely political issue. Second, the LRA’s prohibition on off-duty employees utilising the Regulation of Gatherings Act 205 of 1993 (‘RGA’) to demonstrate against their employer over a dispute of mutual interest. While no court …
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Feeding unrest : food prices, food security and protest participation in Africa and South Africa
… prices and food insecurity contribute to socio-political unrest of all types, rather than focusing on events labeled food riots in the popular media. The dissertation addresses this question at the macro and the micro levels. It begins with a macro-level analysis of changing consumer food price …
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Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England
… acts in general might be read as a means of political protest against the political and economic destabilization of comrights. By reading cursing and prophecy as epistemological weaponry, the thesis establishes a theory of early modern terror that corresponds to the effects of these tactics …
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Toward a Democratic Science? Environmental Justice Activists, Multiple Epidemiologies, and Toxic Waste Controversies
… about the role of science and expertise in political protest and the importance of democratic participation in the making of environmental policy.
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Between representation and practice: contesting public space in New Orleans' Jackson Square
… scales. Further, departing from a generally political-protest focus that much geographic literature centers on, my study explores the multifaceted areas of the political, cultural, and economic in public space. Thus, I show that the need for public space expands beyond protest voices into …
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Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948
<p>John H. McCray was a political activist who served as editor of South Carolina's leading black newspaper from 1941 to 1954. After years of dormancy, the civil rights movement sprang to life in the state in the 1940s. A historian writing in the late 1950s called it 'one of the South's most …
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Constructing Evil: U.S. Media Discourse and the Iranian State Murder of Neda Agha-Soltan
… murder was recorded by cellphone camera during a political protest and subsequently posted to social media networks showing a graphic fist-hand account of the savagery of a state crime. Media discourse presented the idea that Neda's murder was committed by the Iranian government unafraid to …
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The Image of Spain in the Theater of Antonio Gala (1963-1985)
… of Antonio Gala began in a mood of social and political protest. However disguised the characters and events depicted on the stage, during the first phase of the dramatist's theatrical productions the intent of the dramatist was nurtured by his opposition to the repressive government of …
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The Carmen-Suite: Maya Plisetskaya Challenging Soviet Culture and Policy
… resistance within a framework of a repressive political system. In my archival study I examine the unique role of Maya Plisetskaya as a Soviet cultural actor. I argue that her role in the production, premiere and legacy of Carmen- Suite may serve as a proxy for insight into the undercurrents of …
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Speech and silence: freedom of speech and processes of censorship in early imperial Rome
… and peer pressure among the elite, and popular political protest. Most of the evidence presented is literary, reflecting the interests and concerns of the elite authors and their intended audience, though where relevant reference is made to inscriptions, graffiti and dipinti. The thesis …
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The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict
… the choices of violent and nonviolent tactics in political conflict. It consists of three papers that focus on different aspects pertaining to the initiation and development of internal political conflict considering violence and nonviolence as potential mobilization outcomes. The overarching …
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COGIC ethic of self-surrender: an interpretation of the tradition of protest inherent to Black Pentecostal practices
… Pentecostal religious life has no identifiable political dimension, have consequently overlooked the political nature of the ritual practices animating the worship event. Centering the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) as a case study, this dissertation argues that the ritual practices of COGIC …
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
… religious interpretations not through overt political protest, but by cultivating ethical comportment through training the body, ear, and voice. Throughout the dissertation, my approach is informed by sensory, experimental, and critical ethnographic methodologies as I examine my positionality …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
… class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, inspection and local management and was inextricably linked with Poor Law strategies to depauperise and to administer strict relief policies. Poor Law organisation and administration …
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Young and the urban in Addis Ababa: towards a popular history of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, c. 1950s-1974
… Ababa. The largest participants in the social protests of 1974 were predominantly young Addis Ababans with a range of class and social formations. They were the authors of the Ethiopian revolution. In addition to documenting the social protests of 1974, however, this study is also interested in …
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Suelen callar : the institutional perceptions and treatments of the sexuality and sexual abuse of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities in Guatemala
… a picture of how the contemporary social and political climate involving violence, nearly complete impunity for crimes, culturally engrained patriarchal norms and neoliberal policies affect this group of people who are often depoliticized through patronizing portrayals in media and the public …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
… dissertation analyzes the role of space-claiming protests by primarily left grassroots social movements in Bolivia's current political transformation. <em>Space claiming</em> includes mass protests that physically control or symbolically claim urban space through occupations of plazas and roads, …
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