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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Power and politics"”.
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The Spanish Press, 1470-1965: Print, Power and Politics
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
Since 1980, Uganda has experienced a 600% growth in urban population accompanied by the rapid implementation of neoliberal policy directives. Bound with and driving this dramatic urban growth, Uganda’s second hand clothing industry is a dynamic, power-laden, and hotly debated trade. In 2015, Uganda …
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Navigating Power and Politics: Women of Color Senior Leaders in Academe
The purpose of this study was to understand how women of color who are at the senior level of academe continue to advance while navigating and maneuvering through power and politics encountered in the organizational system. Although we know that there are few women of color at the senior level of …
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Organizational Power and Politics: More Than Meets the Eye in Program Planning
Organizational power and politics influence corporate training in ways not often discussed. This study explores the effects of organizational power and politics on program planning and how planning, with its inherent power and politics (see Cervero & Wilson, 1994a), influences the daily practices …
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The portrayal of women in power and politics in Chinua Achebe's a man of the people and anthills of the savannah
This thesis analysed A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe from a Stiwanism perspective. The study sought to explore Achebe’s ‘feminist ideological turn’ by analysing how women in power and politics are depicted in the two selected novels. The study also …
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Nkanelo wa matimba na tipolitiki swa mathyelo ya mavito hi ku kongomisa eka tinovhele ta Xitsonga (The analysis of power and politics of naming with special reference to Xitsonga novels)
… leti kucetelaka ku hlawuriwa ka mavito na switandzhaku leswi mavito ya swimunhuhatwa leswi swi nga na wona eka mitirho leyi swi yi tirhaka. Ndzavisiso lowu i ndzavisiso wa mavito ya vanhu ya swimunhuhatwa eka tinovhele leti hlawuriweke ta ntlhanu ta Xitsonga. Mavito eka matsalwa i vuyimeri na …
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Speaking in Two Tongues: an Ethnographic Investigation of the Literacy Practices of English as a Foreign Language and Cambodian Young Adult Learners’ Identity
… of young Cambodians shaped their individual and social perception as well as performance of identity. It examines the English language as an increasingly dominant cultural and linguistic presence in Cambodia and endeavours to fill the epistemic gap in what Gee (2008, p. 1) has identified as …
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Power, data and knowledge in development sector impact evaluation activities: critically engaging with the impact iceberg
… has also become a rich domain for studying how power, data and knowledge are related. In data/knowledge intensive development, our ideas about impacts may appear empirical and objective, based on data and expertise, and often digitally immaterial. However, these ideas involve power and politics …
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How beneficial is work-related activity for one’s mental health? A thematic analysis of experiences of conditionality in receiving employment and support allowance among disabled people placed in the work-related activity group.
… with an introduction to the history of welfare and reforms in the U.K., related to political, societal and ideological structures. It highlights the link between work and mental health. This is considered through a psychological lens, by discussing the debate between Waddell and Aylward’s …
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Otse mbaka, this is who we are : cultural loss, change and recuperation in Ovamboland
… the processes which result in cultural change, and look at both historical and contemporary agents of change in order to determine who and what impacts cultural dynamism, and what implications this has for a newly independent country within a globalised world. These issues are presented through …
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Girls' Education as a Means or End of Development? A Case Study of Gender and Education Policy Knowledge and Action in the Gambia
… Of significance is the global circulation and co-existence of two competing rationales for the importance of girls’ education: economic efficiency and social justice. The cost of ignoring how and why Southern governments and their development partners choose to promote girls’ education is …
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Geographical Indications and Development in the Third World: Towards a Strategic Approach of Intellectual Property Rights in Jamaica - The Case of Blue Mountain Coffee
The dissertation is a critical analysis of, and engagement with agricultural and food based geographical indications, the politics of development and international relations, and the prospects of forming reformist linkages between geographical indications and development in Jamaica and the …
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Torture, text and the reformulation of spiritual identity in old English religious verse
… includes a brief discussion of various understandings of what torture is, and a statement of the definition of torture adopted for the purposes of this study. Torture, as it is examined in this study, is not so much an act of violence as it is a violent process; that is, torture is a means, not …
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A theory of information systems strategy : antecedents and performance impacts through the development of dynamic capabilities.
… delineates the perspective it takes toward IS and the general attitudes that reflect intentions regarding IS. While research attention has been copiously given to the arena relating to the strategic value of IS, much of it focuses on strategic IS planning, strategic alignment, and IS for …
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Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne's 'Essais'
… in how communication functions through intention and inference. Throughout his Essais, Montaigne suggests that communication, whether verbal or extralinguistic, is fundamentally an interaction between minds. To account for this portrayal of human interchange, the thesis draws on relevance theory, …
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Politics and conflict in development: land, law and progress in Jharkhand, India
… was finally realised with the formation of Jharkhand in 2000. The birth of Jharkhand brought with it hope that moving forward the Adivasis would have more control over their destiny. However, within three months of Jharkhand being formed the newly formed government of Jharkhand announced the …
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An exploratory study on the preparedness of further education teachers to cope with, manage and implement educational change during a college merger
… two further education colleges in South East England. The merger was conceived three years before implementation with the intention of developing a model that eliminated competition and promoted collaboration between the two colleges. Previous studies on changes in the further education sector …
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Presidential Security: Bodies, Bubbles, & Bunkers
… that has taken on several different meanings and rationalities in the American context due to shifting power relations, new practices of presidential security, and the constant re-formulation of the friend/enemy distinction. The United States Service has had to continually think and re-think …
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