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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"Political violence"”.
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Political violence in the American South: 1882-1890
… during the second half of the 19 th century. The political disenfranchisement of blacks took place in distinct stages following Reconstruction. In the 1880s, Jim Crowe had not yet been enacted but Reconstruction was over. Blacks were technically allowed to vote, but turnout was around five percent …
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Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21
… looked at the attitude of priests to the use of political violence during the War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. Drawing from archival and printed sources, the thesis has constructed a picture of the clergy's response. Priests denounced the I.R.A. campaign in public comments, often …
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Representations of Political Violence in Contemporary Middle Eastern Fiction
Today many Middle Eastern states are experiencing political violence, either in the form of foreign occupation, civil war, revolution or coup d’état. This regional violence is not dissociated from international politics. In fact many foreign states are directly involved through influencing, …
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Political Marginalisation and Political Violence in the Niger Delta
… of civilians to participate in, and justify political violence in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. The dominant literature in this area tends to highlight political, economic and identity marginalisation as the causal factors behind political violence. However, there remains a lack of clarity in …
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Secreting History: the spectral and spectacular performance of political violence
… or oppose a sensationalised and spectacular violence to a stealthy and lethal reality. By focusing on figures who bridge these sites of exchange (people who have been involved, not only in actual operations, but also the staging of their cinematic representations), I have been able to proceed …
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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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Political violence, fear, and democracy: how violence shapes democracy in Mozambique
… How does living in a violent context influence political participation, political behavior, and attitudes about democracy? Since the end of the Cold War, intrastate violence has increased across developing democracies. This growing violence has occurred in parallel with the proliferation of …
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Political Violence in South Africa: A Case Study of "Necklacing" in Colesberg
… psychological dimensions and implications of political violence in general by means of a specific violent incident that took place in Colesberg, South Africa in 1985. Ms. Nokwakha Dilato was murdered by a group of people who poured gasoline over her body, placed a car tire, filled with …
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Political Violence and Unemployment: Socio-Economic Strain as a Potential Source of Terrorism
Why do some people commit acts of violence which are politically or ideologically motivated? Furthermore, why does the United States see such great variation in the number of terrorist incidents from year to year? To help answer these questions, Robert Agnew's (2010) General Strain Theory of …
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Propaganda, publicity and political violence : the presentation of terrorism in Britain, 1944-60
… publicity, and to mediate the perception of politically motivated violence held by various domestic and international audiences, British governments have used a wide variety of propaganda and news-management techniques. The thesis thus assesses the role of government propaganda in …
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A case study of death and bereavement arising from political violence in Nepal
… is about death and bereavement arising from political violence in Nepal. Throughout the thesis, an attempt is made to analyse death and bereavement in the context of a post-conflict situation with an emphasis on the people‘s engagement with death and their coping mechanisms for grief and …
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Reconstructing trauma and recovery: life narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid
… was to examine the narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid and their complex ways of reconstructing trauma and recovery, almost twenty years after the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. The traumatic events experienced by victims occurred during 1960 - 1993. This …
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Youth involvement in political violence during the 2015 and 2016 elections in Munali constituency.
This research investigated youth involvement in political violence during the 2015 and 2016 elections in Munali constituency. The objectives of the study were to; (1) to establish the factors that prompt youth‟s involvement in political violence; (2) to examine the nature of violence perpetrated by …
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Youth involvement in political violence during the 2015 and 2016 elections in Munali constituency.
This research investigated youth involvement in political violence during the 2015 and 2016 elections in Munali constituency. The objectives of the study were to; (1) to establish the factors that prompt youth‟s involvement in political violence; (2) to examine the nature of violence perpetrated by …
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN AFRICA: POLITICAL VIOLENCE TARGETING WOMEN, POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS
My dissertation examines women’s political representation in Africa. While there have been great strides in women’s representation in certain African countries, especially in those countries with a robust gender quota law, women’s inclusion in politics and government has been uneven across the …
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A psychological analysis of political violence : a narrative case study of an apartheid policeman
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-112).
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Political violence and inter-ethnic conflict: an analysis with reference to Chechnya and Northern Ireland
… the emergence and continuation of inter-ethnic violence and division. A willingness for one ethnic group to engage in political violence against another requires the acceptance of ideological constructs that stress difference - political movements that position other ethnic groups as `the …
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Political violence as a form of communication: understanding marginalised voices in South Africa through content analysis
Violence elicits profound emotional responses and serves as a potent medium of communication in societies grappling with systemic inequities and historical grievances. In South Africa, political violence has persisted as a troubling legacy, complicating the nation's democratic transition. While …
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Gendered archetypes and political violence: A critical approach to character representations in The Hunger Games film series
… examined representations of women who engaged in political power and political violence, along with representations of the military, in The Hunger Games film series. I used a postmodern framework and analyzed the text from a feminist perspective. Furthermore, I contributed to the existing …
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Three Essays on Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction with Applications to Political Violence and International Security
… studies. Most existing text analysis tools in political science classify or cluster documents, discarding the order of words. In contrast, the techniques I introduce take word order into account in order to extract pieces of information within documents. Each paper introduces new text analysis …
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