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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Politics of Recognition"”.
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Fashioning transformation? Implications for the politics of recognition among Cape Town youth
… inspiration from the classic arcade video games of the eighties and nineties, and the experiences of playing them as a child on the Cape Flats. The brand references Cape Flats 'corner shop culture' and 'Kaapse' (Cape Afrikaans dialect) slang. The thesis looks at the literature around the politics …
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Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery
<p>‘Ayahuasca’ is a plant mixture with a variety of recipes and localized names native to South America. Often, the woody ayahuasca vine (<em>Banisteriopsis caapi</em>) is combined with <em>chacruna</em> leaf (<em>Psychotria viridis</em>) in a tea, inducing psychedelic effects among its users. …
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"Citizens minus?" : urban Aboriginal self-determination and co-production in the City of Calgary
… and cities. This thesis explores how a lack of consensus over the meaning of urban Aboriginal self-determination influences co-production’s utility, and addresses how the related concepts of citizenship and the politics of recognition have led to co-production’s limited success. Twenty-eight …
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Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic
Reparations are often theorized in the vein of juridical accountability: victims of historical injustices call states to account for their suffering; states, in a gesture that marks a restoration of the rule of law, acknowledge and repair these wrongs via financial compensation. But as reparations …
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Through A Glass Darkly: The Mirror Trope and Female Subjectivity in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
Throughout their respective bodies of work, both Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor invoke recurring images of the mirror and the mirror-gazing act. Because of the preponderance of these images and because of how they inform our deeper understanding of character, theme, and genre, I argue that these …
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The historical construction of the Native American other and U.S. self: a conceptually schizophrenic perspective
… have led to a conceptually schizophrenic image of the Native American Other, as constructed within dominant U.S. discourses. The Thesis argues that this conceptual schizophrenia, a term borrowed from J. Marshall Beier, has been highly productive in justifying and maintaining U.S. hegemony over …
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Doing the work : the Black Lives Matter Movement in Austin, Texas
… The following study, the first ethnography of the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM), situates this longstanding debate within the context of our present moment. While political theorists form a consensus that the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) holds the potential to perfect or radicalize …
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Thinking about Justice from “the Outside” of Nationality: Re-Thinking the Legal and National Dimensions of Citizenship
… examines the legal and national dimensions of citizenship, focusing on the nature of social justice, multiculturalism and state formation in light of an increasing "migrant" population in the United States. For many individuals, Hispanic people and undocumented immigrants are outside of …
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Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?
… elaborates on the current practice and monopoly of the National Treatment Center for Transsexualism, which covers gender affirmative treatment through universal health care in Norway. This thesis examines this topic in the context of a broader debate regarding trans* people’s rights in Norway. …
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Practices of Assembling in (Post-)Dictatorial Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1973-2019)
… included the kidnapping, torture, and execution of presumed "subversives" without a trial. After the transition to democracy in these countries, citizens agitated against amnesty laws that protected military officials and prevented families from obtaining information regarding the whereabouts of …
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Reclaiming Tribal Identity in the Land of the Spirit Waters: The Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation
Abstract“Reclaiming Tribal Identity in the Land of the Spirit Waters: The Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation” brings together American Indian, Chicana/o/x, and U.S./Mexico borderlands history, demonstrating how the ambiguities of Chicana/o/x and American Indian categories paradoxically both made it …
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Identity, Resilience and Social Justice: Peace-making in a Neoliberal Global Order
… the last decade ‘inclusivity’ – or the selection of a broad range of armed and non-armed social actors to participate in peace processes – has emerged as the fundamental principle of peace process design. As external international peace mediation theoretically no longer seeks to dictate liberal …
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Fiscal Sovereignty: Reconfigurations of Value and Citizenship in Post-Financial Crisis Argentina
… Argentine state's efforts to stabilize notions of value and reconstitute citizens as taxpayers and users of national currency after the financial crisis of 2001. Working with material from sixteen months of ethnographic research with federal and provincial tax authorities, neo-liberal and …
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Constructing Women Who Do Not Reproduce in Global Neoliberalism: Critical Approach to the Abolition of Legal Ban on Abortion and the Struggle in South Korea
<p>This study historically examines the abolition of the legal ban on abortion and the struggle in South Korea, focusing on the <em>construction</em> of the status of “women who do not reproduce”, and accordingly aims to critically analyze how neoliberal reproductive crisis in South Korea has been …