Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Socio-political environment"”.
-
A study of the relationship between community participation in educational governance and the socio-political environment of the school board
… to the community and other factors of the socio-political environment of the school board. A questionnaire was mailed to all public school board of education members in Maryland. A return rate of 83.7 percent was obtained. Data gathered was used to determine: 1) what community groups were …
-
From Blue Heelers to Rifle Wielders: Exploring change within police and the progression and meaning of police militarisation in Australia
… contribute to the militarisation of police, the socio-political environment dictates the necessity for militarisation, and contention remains over the meaning and definition of police militarisation. The extent of police militarisation in Australia, however, remains low.
-
Multiculturalism and planning : lessons from Vancouver
… politics of difference, and the corresponding socio-cultural processes from which it emerged (migration, post- colonialism, and the rise of civil society), are urban manifestations that bear important implications for the city and urban life. Planners today, in policy and practice, must learn …
-
'A band of Evangelists, native and "foreign"': the story of Japanese initiatives in indigenizing the Japan Evangelistic Band 1903-1940
… ministry partners in the light of the Japanese socio-political environment of the period researched. Six internal voices add different dimensions to the story to reveal reasons for indigenous leadership and the effects of the growth in Japanese nationalism on the members and ministry of the …
-
Socio-political and cultural identity in the visual arts in Namibia: A study of transitional and post-independent Namibian visual arts, focusing on John Muafangejo, Joseph Madisia and Ndasuunye Shikongeni
… analysis of the cultural identity and the socio-cultural statements of transitional and post-independent indigenous Namibian visual art. It aims to investigate how transitional and post-independent indigenous Namibian visual art is different from visual art developed during the colonial …
-
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter vs #ThisFlag: A comparative discourse analysis of two social media movements in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's socio-political environment is characterized by political instability, rampant corruption and a general constitutional decay, in which oppressed citizens are restricted in their efforts to make their dissatisfaction heard (Sabao & Chikara, 2020). Under Robert Gabriel Mugabe's rule, …
-
The effects of the economic structural adjustment programs on agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa: a case study of Zimbabwe 1990-2000
… poor implementation of policies as well as the socio-political environment in the country.
-
Examining the Factors that Contribute to the Survival and Resilience of the Al-Shabaab Terrorist Organization
… and Al-Shabaab’s ability to adapt to Somalia’s socio-political environment. These factors help Al-Shabaab foster direct and indirect relationships that allow the organization to survive. Through an analysis of Al-Shabaab’s organizational structure and strategies, this study sheds light on the …
-
Monumental Building Complexes in Orientalizing and Archaic Central Italy
… fifth century BC is discussed in relation to socio-political changes that enabled the installation of ruling bodies based on representation in central Italy. While the architectural form of the earlier monumental building complexes was not entirely rejected---open courts surrounded by wings of …
-
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES: MEDICAL DIATRIBES IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA
… and non-linear progression of medicine and the socio-political environment of Tudor and Stuart England led to the (re-)emergence of fruitful stereotypes: barbarous barbers, practising apothecaries, prescribing surgeons and, of course, quacks and mountebanks. After the foundation of the Royal …
-
Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
… geographies, that acknowledges the unique socio-political environment and temporalities in which activisms emerge. Matching this with a transnational feminist research design, I respond to the multiplicity and fluidity of feminist knowledges. In-depth interviews and participant observation …
-
A communications profile of a large sugar factory in Northern Natal
… could be viewed against the rapid changes in the socio-political environment. The continual socio-political/ economic and technological changes result in a continual change in expectations and aspirations at certain levels of the work force. The lack of open sharing of the respective perceptions …
-
Diachronic effects of bio-cultural factors on stature and body proportions in British archaeological populations. The impact of living conditions, socio-economic, nutritional and health status on growth, development, maximum attained stature and physical shape in archaeological skeletal population samples.
… subject to Bergmann's (1847) and Allen's (1877) environmental rules which summarize physical adaptations to the natural environment. However, humans are in addition cultural animals and other bio-cultural factors such as social, economic and political status, general health, and nutrition, have a …
-
“I wyl poure out the wordes of sorrowe”: politics in the Protestant and Catholic settings of Psalms 51 and 79 during the English Reformation
… the Tudor era in England reflected the period’s political instability. This instability had its roots in, among other things, the religious movement known as the Reformation. Protestant and Catholic factions relied upon biblical texts, sermons, tracts and other circulating works to spread their …
-
The Map and The Territory: Russian Social Media Networks and Society
… the historically, culturally, socially and politically situated relationship between individuals and online communication technologies. I propose a framework for comparative international analysis that leverages three interconnected elements – history, network structure and media ecology. On …
-
The Role of Energy in an Energy Constrained Economy
… energy-income or inter-fuel substitution affects environmental outcomes. The second paper investigates how an energy constrained economy responds to energy shocks by taking Bangladesh as an example. To explore the long run relationship, Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds testing approach is …
-
Talking with Their Mouths Half Full: food insecurity in the Hamilton community
While the sociology of food has attended to what symbolisms of presence can tell us about society, the same attention has not been attributed to symbolisms of absence. Within the context of affluent post-industrial societies, food insecurity means that people are “at times, uncertain of having, or …
-
Forestry in a changing landscape: building professionalism in the British forestry sector
… The paper explores the internal and external socio-political environment of the forestry profession in Britain. It asks how contemporary society understands forestry, how this influences the profession and how, in turn, this understanding changes as forestry practice develops. From the …
-
Re-Kindling Community Education in Neoliberal times
… globalised neoliberal epoch interpreting this socio-political environment as built on a return to laissez-faire economics and a hegemonic imbuement of inequality as the norm. The research draws from literature to demonstrate how neoliberalism has greatly exacerbated income inequality …
-
Towards effective strategy implementation in the public sector : an appraisal of the Zimbabwe agenda for sustainable socio-economic transformation
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences Specialising in Public Management at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.