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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Politics and Governance"”.
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Displacement, politics and governance : access to low-income housing in a Beirut suburb
… phases of internal displacement during and after its civil war (1975-1990). This study analyzes access to low-income housing for a Lebanese Shiites group which has already experienced two phases of internal displacement: from South Lebanon to Beirut during the civil war, and from Beirut …
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Oral literature and the communication of change and innovations in Kenya
… major object of pursing this study was to understand how oral literature has been used in the communication of change and innovations in Kenya. The study focuses attention on Central Province of Kenya. In the work, oral literature has been studied as a literary media delineating the genre's …
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Fluid dynamics : politics and social struggle in São Paulo's water crisis (2014-2015)
… region of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city and main economic center, and precipitated a water supply crisis. As water availability became increasingly strained during 2014, myriad collective action efforts by civil society actors sprung up in the city. My thesis explores this social …
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Networks, News and Communication: Political Elites and Community Relations in Elizabethan Devon, 1588-1603
… in matters pertaining to national defence and security. A complex web of personal associations and informal alliances underpinned politics and governance in Tudor England; but whereas a great deal is now understood about relations between both the political elite and the organs of …
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
… growth’ of research in Europe (Goodman 2004), and the term covers a wide range of activities, from food banks, community gardens, and farmers’ markets, to community supported or organic agriculture. However, there is an impasse in differing positions over whether AFNs represent an exclusionary …
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Radical Online Video : YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices
… modes of video activism for a radical politics of the Left. It offers an analytical contribution to media and communication that promotes an understanding of radical online video as modes of political engagement in contemporary online environments. By focusing on YouTube as one of the …
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Cultures of Emotion: Families, Friends, and the Making of the United States
<p>“Cultures of Emotion: Families, Friends, and the Making of the United States” explores the centrality of families to the new republic’s economy and governing institutions in the post-Revolutionary period. In so doing, my work brings the insights of scholarship on the early modern period to the …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
The global food system, and the production and promotion of less healthy, heavily processed foods pose significant public health challenges. Decades of economic policies that have enabled the concentration of food production and retail among a small number of large, multinational corporations, and …