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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Political theorist"”.
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God's politics: Three political experiments found in Genesis and Exodus
My thesis is an examination of three political experiments of governance located in the first two books of the Old Testament of the Bible. The first two political experiments, which I call Artificial Politics and Personal Politics, must be considered failures because God, the ruler, fails to create …
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Human goodness and natural goodness
… While Taylor is better known as a social and political theorist, I am more interested in his studies of language and human agency, especially as these connect with the more traditional concerns of philosophical ethics and practical philosophy. A key point of tension between the two accounts …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… Bookchin was an American revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… Bookchin was an American revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New …
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Moving-voicing-remembering resonating embodied memory through performance as research
… sociologist Hartmut Rosa and Indian American political theorist Anita Chari, I use resonance as a theoretical framework that aids in exploring relationality within a performance praxis. Borrowing from the social sciences, literature, somatic studies and performance studies, I unfold an …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
… the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures of 20th century High Modernism and the scant attention that the intersection between architecture and politics has received from political theorists as a problem. In order to address these …
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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?
… controversial German constitutional lawyer and political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) has long accepted what can be called a "standard narrative" as regards his intellectual development. This narrative treats Schmitt as, on the whole, a "Catholic" intellectual and "political theologian" …
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Developing a publics-oriented participatory design approach to reinvigorate public involvement of marginalized groups in the public policy domain
… mobilises the notion of publics, developed by political theorist John Dewey, to propose that participatory design approaches and methods may contribute to the formation of publics by helping groups articulate complex societal issues. However existing research operates mostly at the community …
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The Politics of John Selden, 1584-1654
… as an antiquary was such, ‘[t]hat his work as a political theorist was indifferent and unoriginal should not detract in the least from his reputation.’ Studies have therefore often neglected the theoretical aspects of Selden’s politics – instead focusing on his role in active politics, or on his …
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Finite Earth Visionaries: Economics, Time and Environmental Crisis in the United States, c.1945-1980
… the emergence of a discourse of ecological political economy in America during the postwar decades. It explores the work of three economists, Kenneth Boulding, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Herman Daly, and one political theorist, William Ophuls, as they attempted to come to terms with the …
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Inside Reflexive Management Learning in the Workplace: An Ethnographic Study
… Doing this highlights the need for more political reflexivity in RML theorising: defined as the adequate recognition of the complex role of context in RML and the accompanying need to direct this learning approach towards practice-based concerns which matter to the managers involved, …
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The political evolution of Vera Ivanovna Zasulich: populist, Marxist, socialist
… literature has not adequately addressed the political career which Zasulich made for herself amongst socialist giants like Georgy Plekhanov and Vladimir Lenin, and has not attempted to do so since 1984.This thesis addresses the issue of Zasulich's political development in the 1880s, 1890s and …
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Progressive conservatism in Brazil: Oliveira Viana, Roberto Simonsen and the social legislation of the Vargas regime, 1930-1945
… the Vargas regime between 1930 and 1945. The two theorists are characterised as progressive conservatives, since they aimed to preserve the existing hierarchical structure of society by adopting new, progressive methods. Both men advocated increasing the role of the state: Viana was particularly …
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Populist Just Transitions
… internationalism. This dissertation looks to the political theorist Antonio Gramsci's thoughts regarding the "national popular," which Gramsci's readers often associate with left-wing populism. The national popular entails intellectuals from different fields (such as the academy, journalism, and …
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Precarious Bodies in Motion: Choreopolitics, Affect, and Flamenco Dissent in Spain
This dissertation explores the political potential of dance and dance performances in public protests whereby dancing bodies are capable of performing politics through actions and movements within the boundaries established by existing power structures. Building upon the insights of political …
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Edmund Burke's German readers at the end of Enlightenment, 1790-1815
… Revolution, the British parliamentarian and political theorist Edmund Burke received a vibrant reception in German-speaking Europe. Anxious to uncover the ideological roots of the anarchy that enveloped France – and worried that their own society might be vulnerable to a similar fate – a …
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Debating Difference: Haitian Transnationalism in Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic
… the formation of a people, I use the work of political theorist Ernesto Laclau, in particular, his arguments in On Populist Reason (2007) on group identity and demand. Gilroy's concept of the "black Atlantic" has many similarities to Laclau’s notion of the "empty signifier" as a way for people …
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William E. Hearn and classical political economy
… is related to Hearn's work as a jurist and as a political theorist. The Plutology is also discussed in relation to prior and to subsequent work of others in economics. In Chapter I, Hearn is introduced as a classical political economist in the “Smithian,” as opposed to the "Ricardian," tradition. …
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
… Such critical statements are inevitably political and their construction is offered in a most provocative and startling way given the choice of maternal infanticide to make the claims.</p> <p>Angelina Weld Grimke's "The Closing Door" (1919), Georgia Douglas Johnson's Safe (c.1929), …
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