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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"Public life"”.
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Open space : theater and public life on the Central Artery
… new technologies, conventional understandings of public space and inherited spatial forms no longer apply. Yet, for all the pessimism about whether these spaces will continue to exist, people still flock to places where they can be together. At the heart of this urge lies a crucial understanding …
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Neighborhood design and public life : lessons from Beijing's hutong and superblocks
… a tight-knit social fabric and a vibrant public realm. Over the past thirty years, large-scale redevelopment of hutong neighborhoods has occurred, and new neighborhoods in Beijing and in much of China have primarily come in the form of high-rise buildings arranged in superblocks. This …
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Upon a dangerous design: the public life of Edward Sexby, 1647-1657
… by providing a clearer picture both of Sexby's public life and his relationship with Oliver Cromwell. It considers Sexby roles as a representative for the rank and file of the New Model Army, speaker in the Putney Debates, state servant for the English Republic or `Commonwealth' (1649-1653), and …
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Transcending Private Friendships to Public Hearts: Implications of Interracial Friendships for Public Life
… both challenges and opportunities to the public sphere. These challenges are frequently answered with calls for diversity and inclusion. However, this project suggests that interracial friendship overcomes the inherent limitations of diversity and inclusion and is therefore a more …
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Analysing transition narratives : Christian leaders in public life in post-apartheid South Africa
The dynamic discourse between religion and public life is illustrated in South Africa in both the pre- and post-apartheid eras. Specifically, this relationship is manifested in the lives of a number of individuals who straddled both facets of society. This thesis centres on a social analysis of the …
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Work at home, home at work : building a bridge between private and public life
… that would improve the quality of community life in the neighborhood.
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Making the private public: (life) writing, shame and the abjection of homosexual sex in Wales
… examining the intersections of homosexual shame, public sexual spaces and sexual trauma in contemporary Welsh literature, this study analyses queer narratives in Jones’s literary works that centre around public spaces. Serving as a critical reflection upon homosexual expressions and explorations …
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The quest for Ikhaya : the use of the African concept of home in public life
… masses in South Africa is essential for a sound public life and the emancipation of the black people.
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The spirit of networks: new media and the changing role of religion in American public life
… increase in media commercialization and the proliferation of conservative evangelical broadcasters—developments which paved the way for the emergence of the Religious Right. Today, technological and generational shifts have the potential to alter the course of American religious politics. …
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Pathways to public life for professional women in Afghanistan: Negotiating shifting patriarchal political regimes and gender regimes
… in that country and claimed their agency and public life during different political regimes. Resisting the Western representation of Afghan women as passive victims, it uses the life story method, based on interviews with a wide range of women in public life during the period of US-sponsored …
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Pathways to public life for professional women in Afghanistan: Negotiating shifting patriarchal political regimes and gender regimes
… in that country and claimed their agency and public life during different political regimes. Resisting the Western representation of Afghan women as passive victims, it uses the life story method, based on interviews with a wide range of women in public life during the period of US-sponsored …
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The Public Life of Abortion and the Making of South Africa's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act
… Act, 1996. It focusses on how abortion as a public interest issue at the time of SA's transition from apartheid to democracy shaped the arguments, actors and arenas involved in the development of CTOP. This has the broader goal of denaturalising these institutions and evaluating the role of …
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Local Implications of International Human Rights Treaties: The Impact of a CEDAW Right to Public Life in the Republic of Maldives
… women’s rights to equality in both private and public spheres of life, and introduced it as a global norm. It stipulated not only that women should not be discriminated against, but also that women should be equal recipients in the allocation and enjoyment of human rights. To this end, it …
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Methodism and public life in Zimbabwe : an analysis of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe's impact on politics from 1891-1980
This study is a historical analytical investigation and theological interpretation of Wesleyan Methodists' political teaching and practice in Zimbabwe from 1891 to 1980. In an attempt to come up with an informed interpretation of the political teaching and activities, the study traced Wesleyan …
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'Thinking it Savors of the Miraculous': The Manitoba Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Growth of Deaf Public Life in Manitoba, 1884-1909
… theoretical model of the growth of the public sphere, that while the school was built in response to an educational crisis for deaf school-age children in an emerging region of Canada, it also increasingly served to publicise and advocate for the concerns and politics of deaf people in …
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The form and use of public space in a changing urban context
… that adequately serve the function of supporting public life are rare. Sociologists and psychologists have consistently observed the alienating effects of modernity, and of modern attitudes to life, on community and society. It is believed that as a result of these attitudes of extreme …
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From oppression to democracy : an argument for reparations for African Americans from a discourse ethics perspective
… in the political, social and economic life and 2) are necessary to bring about a society which fosters equal participation in the political, social and economic systems. My idea of democratic participation in the political, social and economic life comes from the discourse ethics of …
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