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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Post-revolutionary"”.
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The Roots of Feminist Invocations in Post-Revolutionary Iran
… intended. The expansion of women's education in post-revolutionary Iran identified as an unintended consequence of the revolution has been empowering women against the IRI's misogynistic ideology. A feminist movement based on the evolution of female consciousness and an unprecedented solidarity …
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Sartre’s reshaping of political philosophy for post-revolutionary times
… philosophical questioning on the French-Algerian postcolonial situation, this thesis focuses on Sartre’s philosophy as an attempt to answer the theoretical conflicts inherited from the French Revolution. I conceptualise the post-revolutionary era as a conflict between ethics and aesthetics that …
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
"Through an analysis of four different cultural institutions, the articulation between ""the people"" and national culture is foregrounded as a governmental claim, a pursuit of popular allegiance and affiliation that while rhetorical has nevertheless solidified into ""truth."" The murals on …
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… of adapting non-Iranian literary texts in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, focusing on the shifting representations of female characters. Drawing on a tripartite critical approach encompassing feminist theory (Beauvoir, Butler), cultural discourse (Hall, Foucault) and adaptation studies …
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Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt: the influence of the humanist discourse
… meetings between Christians and Muslims in post-revolutionary Egypt using grounded theory methodology. The theoretical framework combines Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory from political science with the intergroup theory from social psychology. This framework helps reveal details of the …
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Leveraging bargaining power under patriarchy: the economic development of post-revolutionary Cuban women
… Cuban education system, instituted to support Revolutionary ideologies, is presented along with statistical comparisons that demonstrate dramatic development achievements which widened employment opportunities for women. It underscores intentional decisions on the part of Revolutionary …
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“A Revolution within a revolution:” the quest for women's liberation in post revolutionary Cuba
… mobilized itself in Cuba. But only with the revolutionary regime founded by Fidel Castro in 1959 could women like Celia Sánchez, Vilma Espín, and Haydee Santamaría not only continue to advocate women’s suffrage but also pursue equality with Cuban men in the public and private sphere. This …
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Writing race in Haiti's constitutions : synecdoche and negritude in post-revolutionary Haiti.
All political universals rely on a synecdoche in which a part of the population is taken to represent the whole. Modernity is characterized by a white supremacist synecdoche that selects the white portion of a population to stand in for the whole population. Haiti's early constitutions invert this …
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Post Revolutionary Times? Activism and Acquiescence in the Generations of Black Clergy Following King
Even with this burden, leaders with higher educational attainment, lived experiences in dangerous, deteriorating, and impoverished neighborhoods, and who had been trained to be advocates for the poor or disadvantaged developed a consciousness, or sociological imagination, which enabled them to …
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Text and Context: Rethinking John Dos Passos, Post-Revolutionary Soviet Filmmakers, and the Modern Novel
Critics have written about American modernist John Dos Passos and the ways he adapted and adopted modernist philosophies and techniques, including those of Soviet filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, in fashioning his own narrative methods. In discussing U.S.A., most critics point to the …
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American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City
… ceramic tablewares and teawares from the post-Revolutionary War period in New York City, seeking to uncover the identities that were formed by the middle- and upper-class merchants, businessmen, and their families who may have used the wares. The theoretical framework is the concept of …
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"True Patriots for the Salvation of the Fatherland": Sinarquistas and the Struggle for Post-Revolutionary Mexico
The efforts of Mexico's revolutionary leaders to rein in clerical power produced many violent confrontations between secular liberals and partisans for the Roman Catholic Church. Formed in 1937, the Unión Nacional Sinarquista built up a following of conservative Catholics in part by means of a mass …
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Manumission in Isle de France during the revolutionary and post revolutionary years from 1789 to 1810
… between the French Revolution of 1789 and the post-revolutionary years up to British rule in 1810. In his study of 'The Free Population of Colour in Mauritius', Richard Allen emphasizes the fact that "a comprehensive study of manumission in the colony remains to be undertaken, but we do have …
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Ornament after the orders : Percier, Fontaine and the rise of the architectural interior in post-revolutionary France
… architectural thought. Against the widespread revolutionary destruction of monuments, ornament, rather than the orders, ensured architecture's survival. Percier and Fontaine's vision of the interior signaled a movement away from an architecture of monumentality towards one of mobility, a shift …
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Semiotic and Discursive Displays of Tamazight Identity on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Revitalization Efforts in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
<p>This dissertation examines the online discourses and semiotic resources employed by the Tunisian Amazigh community in their language and identity revitalization efforts on Facebook in wake of the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. Drawing on insights from discourse-centered online ethnography …
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Campaign professionalism and the ‘birth’ of democracy. Analyzing the 2012 first multi-candidate presidential election in post-revolutionary Egypt.
This thesis studies the first Egyptian presidential election campaigns after the 25th January 2011 revolution. It aims to answer two questions: to what extent this election was professionalised and to what extent the levels of professionalism impacted the democratisation process of Egypt. To answer …
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Calendars and the Cosmic Race: Popular Art and the Negotiation of National Identity, Idigeneity, and Gender in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
… popular art form of calendar chromos during the post-revolutionary period in Mexico. During this time various political figures sought to fill the power vacuum left by the ousting of Porfirio Díaz. As a result, many of these political figures co-opted the revolution, transforming it in la …
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