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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Unequal power relations."”.
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Power and environmental conflict : a case study of the Mae Moh power plant in Thailand
… of the Mae Moh coal-fired electricity generating power station and how did this response demonstrate the unequal power relations of the key players in the dispute?’ This case study monitors the environmental dispute, with the research focusing on documenting the conflict between government, EGAT …
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Language as a means of social control and resistance: discourse analysis in a prison setting
… for studying language in its relation to power and ideology. I have attempted to show through this case study that the discursive practices investigated are ideological in that they produce and reproduce unequal power relations in the way they represent and classify offenders. Following …
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Exploring the journey to maternal death: gender and human rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape province, South Africa
… that arise from belonging to one sex or from unequal power relations between sexes and how these impact on women accessing maternity care. The Human Rights approach was used to identify and analyse health system related factors that led women to delay seeking care and also failing to attend …
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Hidden power: gender relations in export-oriented tasks and access to resources for Uganda's horticulture sector
The aim of the study is to investigate gender relations in the production and export marketing of horticulture produce in Uganda. The study uses gender as an analytical tool in critiquing the Neoliberal reforms that advocate trade liberalization. This is done through examining the construction and …
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Colonialism’s Impact upon the Health of Métis Elderly: History, Oppression, Identity and Consequences
… through the theoretical lens of racialized power relations. I consider the identity regulation imposed upon Aboriginal peoples and extrapolate the impact of colonialism on the health of a sample of elderly Métis. Health, care and access to services are vital social indicators in any society. …
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The Strategies to Mitigate Gender-Based Violence Amongst Married Women in the Rural Village of Thulamela Local Municipality, Limpopo Province
… context-sensitive interventions to protect and empower women in these communities. The study was exploratory and qualitative. Purposive and snowball sampling were used to sample 15 participants. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the …
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An Unruly Mélange in a Postcolonial State: The Cultural Politics of Short-Term Global Health Engagements in Dominican Republic Bateyes
… social dynamics, economies of exchange, and relations of power taking place through STGHE. Bateyes are the impoverished residential sites located on Dominican sugar plantations and are known for having some of the worst living and working conditions in the world. This research asks how and …
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Climate, change and insecurity: Views from a Gisu hillside
… rainfall is socially differentiated, with gender relations an important influence. The impacts of destructive rainfall contribute to a complex cycle of human insecurity, which needs to be viewed as an integrated whole. Hunger and poverty are at the core; but tensions, contestations and conflicts …
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Immigration, Anti-Terrorism and Islam: Capitalist State Control of Muslim Populations in Contemporary Britain
… New Labour's role in constructing a synonymous relationship between this threat and Muslim populations, both immigrants and established communities in the UK. The analysis of the legislation is preceded by a historical analysis of UK immigration and anti-terrorism policy from 1945-2001. The …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
… of resistance can help us to understand how the powerless mediate power relations, and they can actually give hope to the powerless. This study looked at the issues of power and resistance through critical and feminist perspective. A central concept of feminist theory is that women, and thus …
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Help that Hinders? Exploring the ways donors shape local community participation in environmental NGO projects.
… as particularly relevant. In fact, donors hold power over NGOs, who must stick to specific conditions to secure their support. My aim is to understand what conditions and what type of donors facilitate or hinder community participation —a basic condition for achieving environmental justice— in …
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A readiness assessment survey of the adoption of transformational leadership for South African academic libraries in the Gauteng Province
… and its focus on the tensions that arise due to unequal power relations. The study is primarily a quantitative study with some qualitative elements as a follow-up to the issues raised in the questionnaire. Quantitative data were analysed with the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS v25) …
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… characteristic of STMs, (re)create and justify unequal power relations between Americans and Dominicans. STMs expose American volunteers to striking socioeconomic and racial inequalities, which could powerfully (re)shape their worldviews by raising their awareness, for example, of the …
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Feminist Foreign Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Engagement in Zambia
… of global health have highlighted the unequal power relations and patterns of coloniality inherent in aid relationships. In Canada, research has shown how, domestic, economic, and foreign policy interests influence global health policy. However, there has been less research examining …
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ETHNOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa)
ETHNOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa) This dissertation is an interdisciplinary folkloristic search for resistance poetics in tradition-oriented folklore of the Salale Oromo in central Ethiopia using both …
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The Hybrid Spirit Animating Chinese Pentecostals in Malaysia
… how hybridity fails to address issues of unequal power relations. This has led to an uncritical use of hybridity that reproduces the very idea of static identity which its proponents claim to transcend.</p> <p>Through qualitative study of Chinese members of a Pentecostal church in …
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Opening the floodgate: the first major exhibition of American art in China's reform era
… of the official normalization of the diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979, The Exhibition is considered a major event showing China’s decisive attempt to open up and to integrate with the rest of the world in the post-Cultural Revolution period. As the climax of cultural …
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Self-Reliance and Land-Grant Universities: An Exploration of the Impacts of USAID Policy on Agroecological Possibilities
… praxis. Analytically, CDA foregrounds discursive power by investigating how texts, interpretation, and action operate as a system to maintain or contest unequal power relations. I employed focus groups with land-grant international development scholar-practitioners as a form of critical praxis. My …
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Urban planning practice under neo-customary land tenure
… outcomes in land delivery due to the presence of unequal power relations, opportunistic behaviours, under-resourced government agencies, and re-interpreted traditions. The thesis thus cautions against the uncritical and unreserved generalisation of the outcomes of hybrid land tenure systems and …
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In search of well-being in the workplace: Exploring the emancipatory potential of participatory action research
The co-optation of employee empowerment discourses by organisations seeking to maximise performance have been argued to contribute to the intensification of control rather than enhancing real employee participation in employment decisions. I challenge the inevitability of such co-option and set out …
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