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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Power and discourse"”.
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Oil, Power, and Discourse: How Chevron Evaded its Dues to the Indigenous Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
… were to shed lights on the backside of oil and to question the great power of big corporations. I researched why Chevron refused to acknowledge its legal obligation to remedy the complex problems it has caused in the Ecuadorian Rainforest. The catastrophes the indigenous communities have …
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Open Endings and Questionable Liberation in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, Cat 's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale
… Alias Grace (1996), Cat's Eye (1989), and The Handmaid's Tale (1986). As part of the discussion, the project considers Michel Foucault's theories on how power and discourse shape the individual and Sigmund Freud's work on how repetition aids an individual in obtaining power, and argues …
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Understanding discursive hegemony in Turkish politics : discursive strategies as instruments of hegemonic projects
… literature about Turkey concentrates on the power struggles between political actors on the policy level, the use of language as a strategic tool to establish a discursive hegemony as an indispensable part of wider political hegemony is neglected. Especially since the AKP has come to power as …
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CA Transparency in Supply Chains Act: Can It Stop Worker Abuses Among Suppliers in the Developing World?
… business in the state of California. The law demands that companies within its scope provide public disclosures on what they have done to eliminate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains. The purpose of the disclosure is to educate consumers in hopes of motivating them to make …
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Gay male performances in American confessional documentary and reality television.
… presented in American confessional documentary and reality television, and relates this to the construction of homosexual identity. It specifically focuses on the representation of social actors involved in performance, as well as contextualising the contribution of producers. Although it does …
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Knowledge for development? : reflections from consultants and advisors in Bolivia
Knowledge has been a central part of development discourses in the last 40 years. Development organisations have been concerned with its production and dissemination across developing countries with the purpose of eradicating poverty. This thesis focuses on the processes of knowledge production and …
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The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century
… the social forces that act upon rhetors and women's bodies, conforming both to established gender norms even as they attempt to violate those standards. This project studies Sanger's birth control rhetoric to understand how her arguments for women's right to contraception conformed …
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Social Welfare: Care Planning And The Politics Of Trust
This thesis describes a study of power and power relations, which is developed through an exploration of the literature and professional discourse in an abductive research strategy The focus is provided by services for people with learning disabilities within one English County and the …
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Examining Tension in the Provision of Palliative Care: Social Workers’ Experiences
… including the emotional labour of the work and organizational factors. While many of these challenges are common among most providers, social workers face unique difficulties. Social workers employed in palliative care settings are exposed to existential dilemmas, psychological quandaries, …
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Street-level bureaucracy and occupational therapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. A genealogical critique.
… human science that is also part of administering and supporting bureaucracy, occupational therapy functions in multi-layered networks of power that support many different social structures. Occupational therapists’ work often involves operationalising health, education and social services at the …
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The Vocational Imperative: Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictions and the Discourse of Denial
… immersion in hegemony, combined with the demands of a disciplinary society, results in the internalisation of hegemonic values. This sophisticated understanding of the individual subject's relationship with his or her social environment puts Ishiguro in tune with ideas presented by various …
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Gifted education and social justice: a qualitative case study of teachers and students’ experiences of gifted and talented interventions in an Austrian primary school
… the intersection of gifted education and social justice within Austrian gifted education. It examines how the concept of giftedness is constructed, implemented, and experienced in one public Austrian primary school. Situated within a broader critique of how meritocracy shapes …
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Disempowering through definition: a dialogic ethics for understanding consumer vulnerability through Nike's 'Mike and Spike' advertising and African American consumer history
Through socio-historical and market analysis and through the lens of ethical theory, this research argues that past thinking about vulnerable audiences is insufficiently grounded in evidence, unsubtle in its understanding of markets, and unselfconscious about its own paternalism. As a result, such …
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A Comparative Study of Rural Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin
In this thesis I examine and explore whether and if Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) inspired water reforms respond to- and address the diverse realities of women and men in informal (and formal) rural economies of Sekororo, South Africa and Ward 17 in Gwanda, Zimbabwe which are both in …