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Showing 1 to 20 of 871 for “"Sovereignty"”.
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Algorithmic Sovereignty
… awareness of algorithms and related aspects of sovereignty through a series of projects documented as participatory action research. One of the projects described, Devuan, leads to the realisation of a new, worldwide renown operating system. Another project, "sup", consists of a minimalist …
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Three Essays on Monetary Sovereignty
… the current economic understanding of Monetary Sovereignty through the role of the state’s currency in an economy. It recognizes that, internationally, Monetary Sovereignty is not an equal status among states who issue their own currencies, because cross-border activities yield different …
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Food Sovereignty: A Critical Case
… rights organizations have galvanized around food sovereignty, a radical-rights based alternative to the business as usual approach of food security. Broadly defined, food sovereignty is the peoples’ right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It has also been described as ‘repossessing …
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Gendered magic and Arthurian sovereignty
… in the establishment and maintenance of sovereignty in medieval romance. My dissertation, “Gendered Magic and Arthurian Sovereignty,” argues that the supernatural figures within the Arthurian tradition interact with the sovereign in a way which is determined by and mediated through issues …
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Washoe Redux: Territory, Sovereignty, and Anthropologists
Adding to the small body of historical and ethnohistorical scholarship on the Washoe Indians, including the works of James Downs, Jo Ann Nevers, and Mathew Makley, this thesis traces the route followed by the Washoe Indians of the eastern slope of the Sierra and Great Basin toward a reorganization …
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Targeted Sanctions and Sovereignty in Zimbabwe
… Framework (PMF), and the Normative Popular Sovereignty (NPS) framework, this thesis advances three key arguments. From a political sociological perspective, I contend that the imposition of targeted sanctions is rooted in a misinterpretation of political dynamics. This misconception arises …
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Soggy sovereignty on the Irish border
… At same moment that the idea of national sovereignty is intensifying, so too is the need for open borders. BREXIT revives the Irish border, which had all but disappeared, threatening the recovery of the region's towns, which suffered decades of militarized violence, customs checks and the …
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Sovereignty and intervention in financial crises
Sovereignty today is conditional, compromised and contractual in ways that require a reassessment of the doctrine of sovereignty in an era of globalization and global capital markets. Taking as a case study Indonesia during its financial crisis in 1997-1998, this thesis explores the sovereign …
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Power, legitimacy and sovereignty in Hadramawt, Yemen
This dissertation investigates the social dynamics of political and social life in the Yemeni province of Hadramawt, focusing specifically on Wadi Hadramawt. This location is known for the strong presence of the sada social class which comprises the religious elite and which, through the use of …
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PLANTING RESISTANCE: A history of seed sovereignty
Seed sovereignty has emerged as a powerful grassroots social movement that seeks to overturn the dominance of industrial agriculture in the twenty-first century. By centring the collective knowledge of small farmers and indigenous groups who safeguard crop diversity, seed sovereignty activists …
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The Property and Sovereignty Problems of International Repatriation
… Rafanelli 1990). By focusing on property and sovereignty as categories that define how repatriation works, this thesis illustrates why current frameworks struggle to accommodate relational understandings of heritage or recognize Indigenous sovereignties that do not align with the State. For …
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Vulnerable Sovereignty: A cybernetic essay in political sciences
This thesis, entitled Vulnerable Sovereignty: A cybernetic essay in political science, attempts to investigate an area usually related to the sphere of military or national defence. Nevertheless sovereignty as conceived in this study enables the analysis to be set in a broader context using the …
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Wrangell Island: From political conflict to Russian sovereignty
… and Herald Islands. Political disputes about sovereignty over the islands will be examined from the early 20th century until the present. The attempts at early settlement by Canadian, United States and Russian parties are described. Regarding current plans for the National Reserve, a brief …
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