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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Political subjectivity"”.
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Community Development in Dublin. Political Subjectivity and State Cooption.
… community struggles raised implicit and explicit political questions which differed substantially from those previously raised by the ‘official’ republican and socialist left. These questions concerned the lives of miscounted people, their place in the city and the resources available to them. …
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
… study of youth activism in a space of geopolitical conflict. It examines ways in which young activists in Indian-administered Kashmir, caught in chronic conditions of state violence and traversed by transnational discourses of identity, experience precarity while desperately seeking to …
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Technological Construction as Identity Formation: the High Speed Rail, Hybrid Culture and Engineering/Political Subjectivity in Taiwan
… construction in Taiwan tell one techno-political story. Since the 1960s and 1970s, Taiwanese engineers were forced by international politics to cannibalize technological projects, but later they began to localize and hybridize different foreign engineering skills and knowledge. This …
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The ideal of the modern subject? Exploring the limits of the 2004 Irish citizenship referendum debate
This thesis explores the limitations of how political subjectivity is conceptualized in existing analysis of the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum. By approaching this analysis through the work of R.B.J. Walker and his notion of the constitutive subject of sovereign politics, what is highlighted is …
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The Post-Neoliberal Citizen: Immigrant Identity as the New Service Learning Center
… granted the idea of citizenship; that is, the political subjectivity of participants in these programs has been articulated from the perspective of American citizenship. I begin the dissertation by tracing the early conversations about citizenship within service-learning scholarship, and I then …
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Learning to Live Together: Hannah Arendt on the Political Conditions of Ethical Life
"I examine four dimensions of Arendt's political ethic: her critique of the political shortcomings of conscience; her attempt to derive a political ethic from the conditions of political action rather than from the potentially anti-political preoccupations of morality; her inquiry into the nature …
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Genealogies of feminism : leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic revival in contemporary Morocco
… and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism emerged out of their immersion in and subsequent …
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Cynical Futurities: A Critical Methodological Intervention Toward a Cynical Geography
… the Cynic as an exceptionally powerful political subjectivity. Heeding the words of Sylvia Wynter, "…the Jester's role in the pursuit of human knowledge alternates with the Priest's role—transforming heresies into new orthodoxies, the contingent into modes of the Absolute." I recover the …
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Facebook as a contemporary public sphere: political consciousness and agency
… of globally networked, active, empowered political subjects. This thesis examines Facebook as a contemporary version of the Habermasian public sphere while tracing the development of political consciousness in a particular person at a particular moment through engagement with Facebook. By …
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After the Postdramatic? Elfriede Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla and the Possibility of Political Subjects
… Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla, and the Possibility of Political Subjects My dissertation is concerned with the aesthetics of political theatre in post Millennium theatre texts by the Austrian authors Kathrin Röggla and Elfriede Jelinek. Both authors conceive theatre as political medium („politisches …
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Violence, Sovereignty, and the Making of Criminal Law in Colonial India, 1857-1914
… of nineteenth-century Indian legal and political history. Firstly, that histories of colonial law have been reluctant to provide a political analysis of the relationship between crime, sovereignty and identity in the everyday. Secondly, the much-noted shift in political discourse from …
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Constructing conscience: freedom and self-governance in colonial New England
… as referencing a non-empirical and apolitical reality of autonomous “selfhood,” this paper will argue that the constitutional protection of the autonomous individual is constitutive of a particular type of political subjectivity, one that allows for those in power to manage dissent by …
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Citizen Outsiders: How the Struggles of Romanian Roma in London Challenge the Conception of Citizenship
… us to think of citizenship as processes by which political subjectivity, understood as the right to make claims to rights, can be recognised and enacted. As these perspectives allow us to think critically about citizenship beyond membership and the nation state, in this thesis I focus first on the …
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Encounter-Oriented Subjectivity in Levinas and Barth: Conditioned Freedom in Resistance to Ethnonationalism
<p>This dissertation examines philosophical and political subjectivity, or how an individual knows the world and relates to society, through a comparative analysis of the phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas and the Christian theologian Karl Barth. Levinas and Barth share a deep structure of …
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Migrant Itinerancy: The Hemispheric Politics of Contemporary Undocumented Migration
… undocumented migration problematizes forms of political subjectivity premised upon notions of identity and belonging. Rather than merely reflecting on the effects of the exclusionary logics of immigration discourse in the region, Migrant Itinerancy asks how the tensions and contradictions at …
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‘My’ self on camera: first person DV documentary filmmaking in twentyfirst century China
… thinking and helps to form a new kind of political subjectivity, to reconstruct political value and reactivate the political space in China. These films and the filmmaking practice not only reflect some aspects of the changing concept of individual self in contemporary China, but can be …
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Islamophobia and the Politics of the Human in Contemporary German Mediascapes
… Muslims’ supposed aberration from liberal political subjectivity. My fourth chapter tackles the Netflix conspiracy thriller Dogs of Berlin, which stages the policing of a fictional Berlin no-go area ruled by a Lebanese crime clan. Here, reconnaissance overlaps with conspiracy theories of …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
… construct and negotiate identity, belonging and political subjectivity through sonic and digital practices. Situated within scholarly debates on diaspora, transnationalism and cultural citizenship, the study contends that rap operates as a pivotal medium through which exiled creators articulate …
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Networked activists and the movement for democracy in Hong Kong
… contention in the history of Hong Kong, where political activism for democracy surged when a conservative reform to Hong Kong's electoral system was announced by the mainland Chinese government in late August 2014. Whereas Hong Kong lacks the tradition of radical protests, the Umbrella Movement …
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The Right to Access: credit, concrete hope and a new politics of worth in Brazilian community banks
… community-based finance reshapes everyday life, political subjectivity, and social relations in Brazil's urban peripheries, through a study of the Bem Community Bank in the community of São Benedito (Vitória, Espírito Santo). Drawing on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork and 33 in-depth …
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