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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Political repression"”.
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Political Participation and Political Repression: Women in Saudi Arabia
… women were for the first time in history granted political space through electoral suffrage. To evaluate whether the new political opening for Saudi Arabian women has improved women's rights and equality in the Kingdom, I sought to conduct interviews to acquire their views and attitudes. In the …
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Savage reds: US settler colonialism, anarchist scares, and anticommunism, 1840s-1920s
… is a study of the development of US domestic political repression, labor control, counterinsurgency, and anticommunism. ""The only good Indian is a dead Indian"" went General Sheridan's genocidal axiom. By the 1880s, US politicians, industrialists, and their media organs were using the words …
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Closing the gateways of democracy : cities and the militarization of protest policing
… paper documents a broad, increasing pattern of political repression directed against peaceful protest in US cities, signifying that important avenues for democratic participation may indeed be closing.
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Peer-to-Peer Group Communication for City-Scale Mesh Networks
… is increasingly threatened by natural disasters, political repression, cyberattacks, and human error. CityMesh provides an answer to this problem, constructing a decentralized mesh network out of wireless access points. To test our unicast routing protocol, we built a discrete-event network …
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The Legacy of Civil War Repression on Galician Separatism
… relationship between Nationalist (or Francoist) repression in Galicia during the Spanish Civil War and modern support for Galician independence from Spain. ndent paragraph. This aims to contribute to a burgeoning research into legacies of political repression. By using a qualitative methods …
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Rave to redoblada: the role of modernization and tourism in the traditional music and dance of Ibiza
… music and dance due to the Spanish Civil War, political repression, and modernization. The development of tourism led to the rejuvenation of some genres of traditional music and dance, but also fundamentally changed them. Having undergone a process of folklorization during its transformation …
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Living Migration Through Digital Connectivity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Migrant Belonging
… and tensions, particularly in contexts marked by political repression, increased surveillance awareness, and unequal mobility. This study contributes to migration and digital media scholarship by exploring digitally mediated belonging as experienced across contexts and constraints. By focusing on …
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Comradery, Class, and Consciousness: A Case Study in Comradery
… was able to retain members during a period of political repression, whereas a union without this social bond lost considerable membership, which indicates a strong class consciousness in the union with this social bond. Developing this theory holds direct implications for the ongoing struggle …
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
… conditions and post-September 11, 2001 US political repressive conditions toward environmental and animal advocates. Chapter Two introduces the three methodologies that employed for this research project: autoethnography, case study, and critical pedagogy. Chapter Three argues that …
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«Prehistoric Ligeti». L’opera corale a cappella 1941-1956
… 1941 and 1956, investigating how the complex geopolitical and cultural contexts of mid-twentieth-century Hungary shaped his stylistic evolution and musical language. It pays particular attention to his education and early compositional experiences, as well as to how these formative years …
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Politics in the Courtroom: International Diplomacy, the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Rivonia Trial, South Africa, 1963-64
… The trial took place at a time of intense political repression in South Africa, which led to the anti-apartheid struggle moving abroad. This thesis offers a novel understanding of the global importance of this trial by advancing two strands of analysis. Firstly, the …
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Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982
… by women artists under conditions of (national) political repression and (international) foreign influence.</p>
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Iconographies of pain in Mahmoud Sabri's work
… the most attuned to human suffering. Subjects of political martyrdom, social injustice, and the plight of the dispossessed permeate his work throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The period of Iraq's rapid modernization and chaotic political transition from a monarchical regime to a republic in 1958, …
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Living in fear : the experiences of parents of political activists in "coloured" Cape Flats townships, 1985-1988 : a social-psychological study
… and analyses the experiences of parents of political activists in "coloured" Cape Flats townships against the background of the socio-political upheaval in South Africa during the 1985/86 rebellion and thereafter. An ethnographic research method was used due to its suitability in terms of …
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Securing Whose Peace? The Effects of Peace-Agreement Provisions on Physical Integrity Rights After Civil War
… by aggregating them according to common political, military, and territorial dimensions obscures and misleads scholars; the disaggregation of peace-agreement provisions reveals how measures often act in opposition. Second, a number of commonly present provisions--including integration of …
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Practices of Assembling in (Post-)Dictatorial Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1973-2019)
… (1974-1980) dictatorships, systematic state repression violently restricted possibilities for communal exchange, access to public space, and collective dissent. The human rights abuses waged by the regimes included the kidnapping, torture, and execution of presumed "subversives" without a …
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The making of an African working class: Port Elizabeth 1925-1963
… point-of-production struggles with community and political struggles was the outcome of the position of african workers in industry combined with strong political organisation in the 'sphere of reproduction'. Changes in the structural position of african workers combined with political repression …
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Negotiating truth, freedom and self : the prison narratives of some South African women
… by a hostile penal system. In a context of political repression the notion of the truth becomes complicated, because while it is important to be believed, it is also important, as with Ruth First, not to betray her comrades and values. The writer must therefore negotiate with the (imagined) …
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Failure to deliver: transitional masculinities in late and post Francoist films (1963-1984)
… Europe. The transformation was not only a political affair, but a revolution that, socially speaking, would not leave a stone unturned. Among the many social changes that were contemporary to this political upheaval, gender roles suffered a transformation that was equal---if not …