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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Possessive Individualism"”.
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"Mine" or "Ours": Property and Moral Reasoning
… to property ownership norms, humanism, and possessive individualism. Following the psychological research of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, participants were also asked to express moral judgments on two hypothetical moral dilemmas, and their responses were coded according to …
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White Terror, Canada's Indian Residential Schools, and the Colonial Present: from Law Towards a Pedagogy of Recognition
… The old European political rationality of “possessive individualism,” the historical rationale for not only capitalist accumulation but modern liberal law, government, and sovereignty, is especially useful for tracing interconnections (symbolic and material) among sites within a colonial …
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building
… social relations modeled on market exchange and possessive individualism. Revealing the ideological and institutional foundations of today’s construction industry, the dissertation shows how nineteenth-century thinking about contract, freedom, value, and risk shaped the architectural building …
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Rede of Reeds: Land and Labour in Rural Norfolk
… sense intersects with a prevailing culture of possessive individualism, creating a fragmented society in the Park, wracked by controversies over management. Chapter 5 examines bureaucracy in Broadland - frequently cast as the very antithesis of common sense. In the conclusion, we return to the …
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No Common Ground: Competing Worldviews at Mato Tipila
… rights theory is deeply rooted in categories of possessive individualism and other related concepts that are alien to Lakota understandings of relationship and obligations at Mato Tipila. Using cognitive theory, I investigate the radical alterity that underscores ongoing tensions at this …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
… rare and radical critiques of the possessive individualism that has historically underwritten both U.S. Indian policy and conceptions of American national identity. They experiment with and argue for models of cross-cultural and intracultural community; and they generate stunningly …
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Fiscal Sovereignty: Reconfigurations of Value and Citizenship in Post-Financial Crisis Argentina
… state sovereignty, civic obligation, and liberal individualism. I propose that insight into the volatility of Argentine public finance requires attention to the analytical frameworks deployed by elites, including technical experts and professionals more broadly, to understand and prevent …