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An Analysis of Major American Riots: Issues in Riots and Riot Control
… decision makers. In this study, seven major riots from throughout the United States are discussed including the Hay Market Riot of 1886, the Watts Riot of 1965, and Los Angeles Riots of 1992. Each riot case is studied in five different and independent stages: the setting and pre-disturbance …
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The 1984 riots : Lawrence, Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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The Effects of Riots on State Public Policy
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Agitations, Riots and the Transitional State in Calcutta, 1945-50
The thesis examines the agitations and riots that broke out in Calcutta in the aftermath of the Second World War. Through a close analysis of local outbreaks of urban violence, it hopes to contribute to the understanding of decolonization in the subcontinent. It interrogates existing chronological …
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White business after the riots in Roxbury; reactions, problems, recommendations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1968. M.C.P.
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The electoral incentives for ethnic violence : Hindu-Muslim riots in India
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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Colonialism in contention: the 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots in Qing China
The 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots were two violent conflicts that occurred between a local commercial guild and the French authority in the French concession in Shanghai. Arguably, these two incidents were the greatest popular disturbances in the history of foreign concessions in Shanghai. …
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The social construction of the family: family values and the Los Angeles riots
… and gendered identities. Using the Los Angeles riots and Dan Quayle's response, I will review the political discourse employed by Bush-Quayle administration on traditional family values to discuss how family is constructed by the dominant political culture group in U.S. Following an examination …
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After the Demolition: Constructing the Communal Riots of 1992--1993 in the Indian Media
"The demolition can be seen as a moment of weakening, but not rupture, of the liberal-secular consensus in the nation. The continuing strength of the hegemony built around secularism has forced even those on the Hindu right to position themselves as the ""true"" secularists in order to retain …
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"Riots and Sociability : a case study of human interaction networks in Qatif Saudi Arabia"
… Control Method to estimate the causal effect of riots on different characteristics of human interaction within Qatif, Saudi Arabia, after an exogenous shock triggered a surge in public demonstrations. The analysis reveals a strong, statistically significant drop in total call volume, relative to …
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Toward a Performative Elision of the Intelligible Public: Pussy Riot, Riot Grrrl, and Race Riots
Using Judith Butler’s theory of performative subversion, this thesis investigates moments where subaltern political engagement happens outside of decorous political channels. With a heavy focus on Dick Hebdige’s bricolage, the work argues that commodification works against such moments. …
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Twelve Days of Hell: A Study of Violence, Historical Memory, and Media Coverage of the York, Pennsylvania Race Riots, 1968-2003
Race riots have struck America’s cities large and small for more than a century, and the media have retold these brutal events for American audiences. The 1960s, in particular, endured years of violent rioting due to social and economic inequalities between whites and blacks, and many of these …
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Institutional relationships and organizational change : lessons from a prominent African NGO in Dakar, Senegal
The November, 2007, street vendor riots in Dakar, Senegal, were one of the country's most powerful expressions of political and economic disintegration in recent times. Almost equally striking was the absence from these events of Enda Tiers Monde, Senegal's oldest, largest, and most influential …
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The lost revolution : capitalism, democracy and black citizenship in early twentieth-century America's biggest race conflicts
… tumult following the end of World War I, three riots that were notable for their scale and significance to both American race relations and black political activism occurred in the United States: the Chicago Riot of 1919, the Elaine Riot of 1919 and the Tulsa Riot of 1921. All three riots …
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