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The Power of Empowerment:Recognising Power Relations within 'Development' for Communities in Zambia
Empowerment has emerged as a key focus of development policy and practices in the contemporary era, where simultaneously a need for 'development' is ascribed due to historically determined power relations imposed through discourse and intervention. This research enquires into the contradiction …
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Voltage and Power Relations in the Space Charge Limited Parallel Plane Diode
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:02:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002729.pdf: 1907590 bytes, checksum: 046379a158f0d9fd641ed423d9bbea22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1951
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Decentralized bargaining in the bituminous coal industry ? : emerging shifts in power relations
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Workers against Institutions: Power Relations and Political economy in the Irish Mushroom Industry
… At a general level this study deals with the relationship between labour and capital in the Irish mushroom industry in the context of global capitalism and the Irish national institutional framework. This is reflected at a theoretical level in the opposition between the political economies of …
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
… different actors struggle to (re)consolidate power and authority in the hands of competing groups. The complex ways in which corporate-elite-government-military networks shape political actions in environmental conflicts intersects with the strategies of grassroots movements, who themselves …
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The role of tourism in local power relations A case study of Pisac, Peru
… change and has the potential to reshape local power dynamics by creating new employment and educational opportunities for traditionally marginalised population groups. Concurrently, the introduction of tourism may also foreground the conditions for the emergence of new business elites and the …
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Power relations in advocacy approaches in family group conferencing with children and young people
… and their families. The study found that empowerment, collaboration, and participation, all major precepts and objectives for FGC and advocacy approaches, were at times disrupted and diffused. This undermined rather than enhanced the experiences and the outcomes for service users with many …
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Refugee Stories in Britain: Narratives of Personal Experiences in a Network of Power Relations
… which is considered a significant means of empowerment. Refugee narratives are mostly represented by others, mainly as part of a political strategy to control their entry into Britain, and their lives whilst their claim for asylum is being considered. A range of narratives about refugees …
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Power relations among stakeholders in the implementation of national ICT policy: case of Malawi
… since participation itself may be beset with power relations due to differences in beliefs, norms and values of the stakeholders themselves. The study analyses how power relations among stakeholders affect implementation of the national ICT policy. Using the case of Malawi, this study focuses …
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Politics of reparations: unravelling the power relations in the Herero/Nama genocide reparations claims
… this acknowledgement has transferred limited power to the Namibian actors who continue to be undermined as 'equal’ counterparts to the German government. The German government continue to negotiate on their terms of redress, and have claimed state immunity towards the lawsuit. Therefore, there …
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Law and power relations in risk governance of oil and gas activities in the Russian north
… in risk governance - the social concept of power. It includes a study of a trunk pipeline called (appropriately) the Power of Siberia, in which law emerges as a demarcation of sovereign power. The next chapter explains particular challenges of risk governance of the oil and gas sector …
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Image selling: how depictions of power relations, plasticity, and abjection in high-fashion advertisements construct terrifying social narratives
… order to construct social narratives related to power struggles, plasticity, and abjection. In creating these types of images, high-fashion advertisers send explicit messages to their viewers regarding the ways they should engage with the depicted social narratives, ranging from objectification …
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Power Relations In the Search For Affordable Housing In Mississippi After Hurricane Katrina: Perspectives of Front-Line Recovery Workers
… processes through which race, class, and gender power relationships were reproduced in housing recovery after Hurricane Katrina in communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. An intersectional framework guided the conceptualization of race, class and gender as interdependent and overlapping …
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Assessing power relations between school managers and teachers as a basis for conflict in selected secondary schools of Rufunsa district.
The purpose of this study was to assess power relations between school managers and teachers as a basis for conflict in three (3) selected secondary schools of Rufunsa district in Lusaka Province of Zambia. This research study was guided by Michael Foucault’s Power relations theory. The sample size …
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Assessing power relations between school managers and teachers as a basis for conflict in selected secondary schools of Rufunsa district.
The purpose of this study was to assess power relations between school managers and teachers as a basis for conflict in three (3) selected secondary schools of Rufunsa district in Lusaka Province of Zambia. This research study was guided by Michael Foucault’s Power relations theory. The sample size …
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Narrating Jackson State: An Examination Of Power Relations And Mississippi Newspaper Coverage Of The 1970 Shootings At Jackson State College
The following thesis examines media coverage of a 1970 campus shooting at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, during which two black students were killed and several others were injured. Over forty years after the shootings, the incident remains largely absent from the dominant …
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Externalised Detention in Libya and Morocco: Neo-colonial Power Relations with Italy and Spain and the Production of Exploitation Economies
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αποτελεί μια κριτική εξέταση των στρατηγικών εξωτερίκευσης της μεταναστευτικής πολιτικής της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης προς τις χώρες της Βόρειας Αφρικής, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην ανάθεση ελέγχου της μετανάστευσης από την Ιταλία και την Ισπανία στη Λιβύη και το Μαρόκο. …
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