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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Sovereign power"”.
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The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance Through the Rise of Disciplinary Power
… Michel Foucault calls disciplinary mechanisms of power. It sets out to explore two questions, first, what were the theoretical conditions that led to Christianity's rapid expansion? And second, what were the historical precursors to the mechanisms of disciplinary power? It then seeks to put these …
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Law and power relations in risk governance of oil and gas activities in the Russian north
… in risk governance - the social concept of power. It includes a study of a trunk pipeline called (appropriately) the Power of Siberia, in which law emerges as a demarcation of sovereign power. The next chapter explains particular challenges of risk governance of the oil and gas sector …
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Rhetoric of exception: signing statements, sovereignty, and the Bush presidency
… Presidency rapidly moved to expand the role and power of the Presidency to pursue the War on Terror. One technique that was used to expand the power of the president and construct the policies and politics necessary to pursue such a broad and undefined conflict was signing statements. Analysis …
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Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders
… this time, the Ashikaga managed to consolidate power not only over warriors, but also established authority in the eyes of religious institutions and civil aristocracy. Every Ashikaga leader of this period pursued his own political course but nevertheless managed to elevate the status of the …
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Marginal lives, peripheral practices: a study of border narratives along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border
The sovereign power of the state is in its most manifest form at its borders, embodied in the border guards, surveillance mechanisms and border regulations. But the negotiations between the border civilians and the state apparatuses are as integral to the understanding of the border milieu as are …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… the purification rituals which are the origin of sovereign Power and the parody that Satan's exilic body presents. The dissertation examines <em>Prometheus Unbound</em> against the grain of many traditional reading, focusing on the agonistic-audial subjectivity it produces for its exilic subject …
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Splendor of Ruins: Gang, State, and Crime in Honduras
… distinction between anomic violence and sovereign power across the country. Splendor of Ruins focuses on the transformation of gang aesthetics during this same period, as gang members began tattooing their bodies, particularly the face, with detailed arrangements of Satanic and chthonic …
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New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) : a hostage to conditionality?
… Conditionality is said by critics to usurp sovereign power, and thus interferes with governance in•• recipient countries, pre-empting self-determination, local initiative, and self-reliance. This discourse is thus located within the tradition of practical, politically engaged scholarship. …
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Entangled Borders: Performance on the edge of nations in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
… have been built around the world in the name of sovereignty and global security. Not only are border walls being built but the sovereign power these walls assume are expanding beyond their coordinates. As technological innovations rapidly develop, borders are hindering the movement of people …
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Same destination, different journey : a comparative study of public order policing in Britain and Spain
Public order policing is about power and control. The preservation and maintenance of order is a defining characteristic of the sovereign power. It is a highly political activity which is also emotive, controversial and reflects national culture and identity. Public order policing asks serious …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
This thesis examines the violence of normative power in contemporary biopolitics, and its expressions in the art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the …
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Choosing Sides: Military Behavior in Severely Polarized Democracies
… severely polarized democracies. When faced with sovereign power disputes that arise as a result of severe polarization, military organizations are most likely to develop new strategies of action from the dominant practices, norms, and ideas of military leaders. Severe polarization presents a …
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Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire
… day, I look at how racism has shifted from sovereign power to disciplinary power to biopower as a mode of population management, operating not only through race but through gender and class distinctions as well. I analyze the racialized narrative conventions of liberal modern Enlightenment …
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Manual Labour and Industrial Schooling for Indigenous Youth in Upper Canada, 1821-1863, and the Democratic Symbolic
… in symbolic representations of the locus of power away from an external, identifiable source toward the sovereign power of the individuals constituting a collectivity. I focus on how Crown administrators, missionaries and philanthropists articulated the desirability of manual labour and …
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Monetary Authorities: Market Knowledge and Imperial Government in the Colonial Philippines, 1892 - 1942
… rather than an authority grounded strictly in sovereign power. The dominance of knowledge-based authority, especially through the first half of the twentieth century, was brought about by two specific historical changes: the positioning of the modern state as steward of the development of …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
… Native women, negotiate colonization and assert sovereignty. Doing so offers a new way of reading Native literature that seeks to also decolonize our analytical approaches for similar use across academic disciplines and for practical applications within and outside of academia. I define …
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Natural law and religion in the thought of Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
… a remedy for the condition of war in independent sovereign states. Pufendorf's concept of a state derived from an assumed natural state of mankind, regulated by a law of nature, a law which obliges all men to be sociable, and agree upon the means of achieving sociability, namely contractual …
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Providing a Framework to Understanding Why the US Invaded Iraq in 2003
… obtain a more focused understanding of "why" a sovereign power engaged in a particular war. We are not yet at a point where we can write definitively about "why" the US invaded Iraq in 2003. However, it is possible to present an analytical case regarding the reasons used in the time leading up …
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Queer Checkpoints: Sexuality, Survival, and the Paradoxes of Sovereignty in Israel-Palestine
… of queer Palestinian bodies. As expressions of sovereign power and its assertion of total control over matters of life and death, these checkpoints are enforced in often violent ways that engender a kind of queer Palestinian ""suffering"" that differs radically from Western and Israeli …
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