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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Resistance movements"”.
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Traps, Tensions and Transmissions: The Unionisation of Resistance Movements against External Destabilising Forces; Design, Development and Deployment of Holographic System for Active Surveillance and Targeted Manipulation
… our results show a link between the movements of myosin that lead to a surge in actin concentration and cause an increase in the effective membrane tension. These results provide direct evidence for the role of physical interactions by plasma membrane in interpreting the environment …
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A Computational Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes
<p>The dilemma that civil resistance movements encounter is the inherent tension between structure and agency. Movements frequently face challenges that they have no control over, such as the type of government they oppose and the risks of mobilization. Nevertheless, the fate of civil resistance …
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Under the Radar: The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
… resurgence of hypernationalism across the globe, resistance movements and counterhegemonic ideologies are becoming increasingly visible and more common elements of broader socio-political discourses. While high-profile protests have ignited public interest in resistance movements—turning …
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The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice
… thesis locates design creativity within Black resistance movements and complicates the narrative of who is credited with transforming and repurposing the built environment. As critics of the status quo, Black activists did more than just fight and dismantle. They designed and created …
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Landmark : towards and alternative testing range, Vieques, Puerto Rico
… between local reclamation struggles and global resistance movements. By focusing on the area of greatest destruction, the inner range, as a metaphoric as well as physical ground from which to begin and engage in dialogue, Landmark, considers the possibility of sharing wounds across space and …
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Curiosity: philosophy and the politics of difference
… but also its tactical importance for prison resistance movements and abolitionist efforts. While curiosity has the capacity to underscore already reigning structures of political privilege, it can also destabilize ideologies.</p>
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The Making of Blindness in Ontario: Incarceration and Class Formation, 1872–1926
… working-class inmates, organized popular resistance movements that challenged institutional authority. Educational authorities responded by overseeing the repression of working-class culture. By funneling graduates into either working-class occupations or “gentlemanly” and “learned” …
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The Iranian Threat: Iran's Confrontation With The United States And Pursuit Of Middle Eastern Hegemony
… including diplomacy, support for internal resistance movements, and military options. The recommendation of this thesis is that a military option is not only necessary, but inevitable, whether initiated by the United States, Israel, or Iran.
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Rethinking misrecognition and struggles for recognition: critical theory beyond Honneth
… and his theoretical reliance on political resistance movements neglects other paths responses to injustice can take. To address these problems, I argue that there are two types of struggles for recognition, affirmational (related to practical identity) and rectificatory (related to efforts …
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Water management in Latin America: political resistance strategies and types of community. Comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia
… investigates the causal relation between resistance to water management strategies and types of community in Latin America, and establishes whether communitarianism, communicative community or post-modern community are merely ideal-types or if they coexist in real-life communities. Most …
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Understanding the outcomes and aftermaths of nonviolent resistance
… immediate and long-term success of nonviolent resistance movements. It consists of three discrete papers. The first introduces three "organizational technologies of resistance:" a loose confederal, or "umbrella" administrative structure; a robust "operational core," or cadre of mid-level …
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The Four Roses Project
… battlefield and what is my chosen weapon of resistance?; and 3. What alternative futures and possibilities may be generated by the post-apartheid South African woman through the excavation and exploration of this previously unrevealed knowledge? Though primarily explored through dance-based …
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Ontologies and knowledges of autonomous resistances in Barcelona: An ethnographic analysis of Can Batlló
… whether and, to which extent, autonomous resistances knowledges constructed on the ground challenge the academic interpretations of those movements. For this reason, the first part of this dissertation focuses on unravelling how traditional ontologies have been built and underpin …
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The introduction of Bantu education and the question of resistance, co-operation, non-collaboration or defiance?: the struggle for African schooling with special reference to Cape Town, 1945-1960
… control over African communities: African resistance modified this control and shaped the implementation of Bantu Education. Through the centralization of the administration and the financing of African schooling the state was able to accommodate an increasing demand for schooling at a …
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Muslim separatism: the moros in Southern Philippines and the Malays in Southern Thailand
… the recent emergence of armed separatist movements in the two areas? Chapters 2 and 3 describe the historical, economic and social background of the Moro and the Malay communities. They discuss how these two distinct ethnic communities evolved and examine the socio-economic conditions of …
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Muslim separatism: the moros in Southern Philippines and the Malays in Southern Thailand
… the recent emergence of armed separatist movements in the two areas? Chapters 2 and 3 describe the historical, economic and social background of the Moro and the Malay communities. They discuss how these two distinct ethnic communities evolved and examine the socio-economic conditions of …
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Somali Resistance against Ethiopian State Nationalism: A Discursive Inquiry
… discursive construction of Somali nationalist resistance against Ethiopian state nationalism employing an interpretive and critical methodology. Combining qualitative data with historical archival sources, this thesis challenges the canon in Ethiopian studies which: 1) emphasises the normative …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
… in the Community-based organisations and Social Movements which it targets, and contribute to putting women's strategic gender interests on the agenda of these movements, while simultaneously seeking to theorize the meaning of 'political' gender work in relation to its dominant perspective of …
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Selling Mexico: Race, Gender, and American Influence in Cancún, 1970-2000
… development as well as a method to quell leftist resistance movements which were surging in the Mexican countryside during the 1960s and 1970s. It also contextualizes mass tourism during the Jet Age. In addition, Selling Mexico analyzes the intersecting relationship between capitalism, race, …
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