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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Resistance movement"”.
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Critical moments in the German resistance movement: A dramatistic analysis
Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, Speech and Drama, 1975.
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Virginia's Pupil Placement Board and the Massive Resistance Movement, 1956-1966
… most enduring vestige of the state's "massive resistance" movement in the 1950s. Following the example of other Southern states, the state's General Assembly passed the Pupil Placement Act in 1956 as part of a package of legislation designed to counteract the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. …
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The war within: The soldiers’ resistance movement during the Vietnam era
<p>The Soldiers’ Resistance Movement (SRM) during the Vietnam Era is arguably the most important social movement in the history of the American military. Responding to a highly unpopular war, the soldiers of Vietnam began to question their role in what many considered to be a conflict built on …
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Civil Disobedience as a Radical Flank in the Mountain Valley Pipeline Resistance Movement
Communities of resistance are increasingly turning to radical tactics, including acts of civil disobedience, to fight back against encroaching fossil fuel infrastructure. The fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is no exception. The MVP is a 303-mile long proposed fracked gas pipeline …
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The Political Communications of Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009: A Critical Discourse Analysis
In 2009 Iran witnessed the Green Movement, a popular uprising that challenged the status quo of the socio-political structures of the Islamic Republic. In this research, I attempt to develop an understanding of the conditions that contributed to the demise of the movement. This study takes a …
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Interactions of War: Exhibiting World War II and the Holocaust
… exhibit using interactives about women in the resistance movement during Nazi occupation.</p>
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THE LEGITIMATION OF COOPERATION: A RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF THE DANISH GOVERNMENT'S JUSTIFICATION OF COOPERATION, MARCH - AUGUST 1943
… Danish government was unable to quell a domestic resistance movement. The government's statements addressed both the German representatives and the Danish population who were intractably at odds. To uncover how the government attempted to simultaneously appease multiple power differentiated …
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Language, Ideology and Power in Uganda
Since coming to power in 1986, the National Resistance Movement of President Yoweri Museveni has attempted to distance itself from perceptions of historic ethnocratic corruption by invoking regional, Pan-Africanist conceptions of linguistic respectability and political legitimacy. These include the …
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Without a sword or a shield: the fighting army behind Brown
… losing those stories, the history of the Black resistance movement also loses much of its human pathos. Looking at Black resistance through the stories of the individuals who participated at the ground-level in the protracted legal battle for educational equality, Brown v. Board of Education …
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Plastic / Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise
… 1920s but who later formed a powerful anti-Nazi resistance movement on the Channel Island of Jersey in the 1940s with her collaborator Suzanne Malherbe, dubbing themselves “the Nameless Soldiers." They fought the Nazis with what they called Surrealist "weapons of chance," mounting a devastating …
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The Parisian Stage during the Occupation, 1940-1944: A Theatre of Resistance?
… the performance or reception of a ‘theatre of resistance’ was possible amid the abundant and popular literary theatre seen during the Occupation of France (1940-1944). Playwrights and critics have made bold claims for five plays that allegedly conveyed hostility towards the occupier or somehow …
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Development in the shadows : how the World Bank and the Frente Clandestina almost built a new government in Timor-Leste
… World Bank and the National Council of Timorese Resistance. While largely panned as a failure by NGOs, donor organizations and the government of Timor-Leste itself, this project brought the traditional local leadership closer to having a true role in governance than similar efforts by any other …
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A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)
… Congress (ANC) and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Its goals were to advance war resistance both within South Africa and overseas, research the militarisation of Southern Africa, influence the ANC's opinion on war resistance, bring Western European peace groups and soldiers' unions into …
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German high school history textbooks: how well do they deal with the rise and fall of the Third Reich?
… when dealing with racial policies, the anti-Nazi resistance movement, and any question of responsibility. Certainly, improvements can be made in these specific areas.
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The Choice of Terrorism in Conflict and the Outcomes of Mixed Methods of Dissent
… the choice of terrorism in mass dissident movements and the outcomes of civil resistance campaigns that coexist with the use of terrorist tactics by radicals. Towards this end, it focuses on dissident organizations and conflict dynamics and therefore contributes to the existing literature …
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Towards an enabling NGO regulatory framework in Uganda: comparative experiences from Eastern and Southern Africa
… democratic reforms introduced by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government since 1986. Among these reforms was the promulgation of the Uganda Constitution, 1995, with an extensive bill of rights. The increase in NGO activities brought two important challenges: the challenge of their …
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The rise and origins of Greek resistance during World War 2
… period (summer 1941-winter 1942) of the Greek resistance movement. The aim of the thesis is twofold; to examine and challenge the current historical accounts of the period, and to provide a social - grass roots history of the early resistance period. Since the length of the thesis does not …
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Egyptian Civil Society (Transnational vs. Local): The Distinction Between Theory and Practice
… organizations, and youth members of the resistance movement known throughout this research as “activists.”</p> <p> Development agencies and foreign governments fund civil society in order to promote democratization and empower actors outside of the state. However there is a lack of …
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Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film
… of an independent, progressive documentary film movement that tentatively originated in the late nineteen fifties and established itself in the late seventies and eighties as a major force in the resistance movement. Concentrating on organisations such as the International Defense and Aid Fund to …
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Nations Within a State and the Emerging Hydrocarbons Industry in Uganda
… puzzle. It finds that the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s imposition of an exclusive political settlement in Uganda, coupled with the Bunyoro kingdom’s limited holding power, accounts for the kingdom’s failure to derive financial benefits from the oil sector. The relative …
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