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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Political subject"”.
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Imagining Jazzocracy: Notes Toward a new Democratic Subject
… indigenous art form of the United States—jazz. Political engagement in America must learn from the jazz aesthetic which realizes the communal projects of individuals in concert. After a brief survey of the biological, historical, and cultural formations that construct our political environment …
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Paradigms of Style: A Study of Zulfikar Ghose's Novels
… the writer's negotiation with style and socio-politically provocative subject matter. I study Ghose's novels in a "good old fashioned way" in which I analyze his work by exploring his achievement as an artist, both in terms of style and socio-political subject matter. The focus is, precisely, …
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Patriarchal theory reconsidered: torture and gender based violence in Turkey
… most importantly, structures that define the subject. Patriarchal theory mostly perceives men as the abusers and women as the abused. However, the nuances and particularities of these oppressive structures have not been explored in detail. In this research, the reader is introduced to the …
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
<p>The project explores the ethical, social, and political subject of incarceration. I investigate Angela Davis’s multifaceted critique of the prison industrial complex – focusing primarily on the tenets of racism, classism, and capitalism – and take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing her …
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Comparative Analysis of <i>Al-Ard</i> by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory
… <em>fallah- </em>or peasant- <em> </em>as a political subject, as well as the most authentic representation of national identity. Prior to that, the <em>fallah </em>was negatively depicted, constantly portrayed in a derogatory manner. <em>Al-Ard</em>, a 1954 novel<em> </em>by Egyptian author …
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Evocative and evidentiary : interpreting the city through non-fiction filmmaking
… The adaptation of evocative techniques to the political subject matter of regional planning introduces an extended historical and formal analysis of The City that demonstrates how it draws from the diverse elements discussed in the previous chapters and applies them to the planning agenda of …
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A curatorial study of migration in arts
… to study how artworks interact with social and political concepts that focus on truth, political perspective, and societal action. These concepts rely on Hannah Arendt’s theory and are used extensively by other contemporary philosophers, sociologists and art theorists. These debates are …
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Bodies at their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence Through Women’s Hunger Strikes
… operate in a liminal space between the active political subject and the passive object of violence that underpin many theories of political violence. Through a feminist and anti-racist analysis of two women’s hunger strikes in the United Kingdom – the hunger strikes conducted by members of the …
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After The End Of The World: Poetics, Time, And Black Experimental Writing
… Kamau Brathwaite. By thinking form as a locus of political and conceptual contestation and transformation, I seek methods for conceiving politics in literature apart from its references or the identities of authors and characters. Writing in different genres, and with different political …
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A memória da voz e a voz da memória: o jornal Voz da Unidade (1980-1991)
… the process of image construction of the oldest political party in Brazil – the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (the Brazilian Communist Party) – through its discourse construction, especially the analysis of the weekly newspaper VOZ DA UNIDADE, which was its official voice between the years 1980 …
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Escribir sobre la ruina. Operaciones políticas de la poesía mexicana contemporánea 1985-2015
… in the country through economic, social and political policies that, in the view of those in power, would propel the Mexican economy into the twenty-first century. The promise of economic success and of modernization came with severe consequences: in these thirty years, neoliberalism has …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
… emergence of a British tradition formally and politically distinct from its Continental counterparts.</p> <p></p> <p>This dissertation argues, however, that a modernist logic of paradox, contradiction, and irony governs the dynamics of British theatrical modernism's turn to Shakespeare: the …
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Your gaze hits the side of my face
… private sphere. I did not seek to make any wider political point and my writing could easily have been reduced to what Aleks Sierz refers to as “me and my mates plays”. He typifies these as “small plays about small subjects put on in small places” (2006) by young writers who are still learning …
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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas
… margins fundamentally reconceptualizes how political subject formation trickles into social life. The introduction of self-identifying Gaddi Dalits, largely sedentary laborers and former landless tenants, into the transhumant tribe disrupts the colonial literature on Gaddis. It further …
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La gestión directiva y su liderazgo en la formación del sujeto político para mejorar la convivencia escolar en la comunidad educativa del Colegio Acacia II (IED)
La gestión directiva y el liderazgo institucional son fundamentales para que la institución educativa responda a las necesidades de su comunidad (profesorado, estudiantes, miembros de los organismos de gobierno, directores, equipos de gestión y padres de familia. Esto, a través de su Proyecto …
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Between Before and After: Architecture in a Time of Crisis
… architecture in facilitating events during the political crisis. As such, this thesis investigates how architecture becomes political from an examination of the Greek economic crisis; what the thesis articulates as architecture faced with the event. The crisis’s shared territory of politics and …
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"We don't know what we're saying": Politics and subjects among the ultras of Centro Storico Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
… of ‘prefigurative’ politics, where the means of political action are supposed to offer a figuration of its ends. Through an examination of the material culture, organisational forms and language ideologies espoused and refigured by members of CSL, this dissertation thus provides a contribution to …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
… I ground my analysis in a long-standing ethical-political tradition, dating from the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), which sees societal political progress as predicated on prior individual self-transformation. My overarching argument is that in contemporary China, discourses and practices …
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Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Death Fast in Turkey
… as well as radicalizes the ontological and political structure of hunger striking to construe otherwise the contestatory relationship between the individual right to death and political sovereignty by insisting on the irreducible excess of death over the totalizing closure of the …
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Critique and Neoliberalism's Critics: Art, Activism, and Uncertainty in Post-Recession Dublin
… and critical thinking as a generative site for political anthropological theory, and itself offers an initial answer to that call. It makes its case from the ground up, originating in an ethnographic account of a group of contemporary critics in Dublin and how they understand and navigate the …