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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Uprising"”.
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The 1981 Kosovar uprising: nation and facework
The following work is an examination of the 1981 Uprising in Kosovo, a watershed moment in the history of Yugoslavia. The story of this event will be detailed in the following pages through a narrative history of the uprising and the incidents that surrounded it. Along with the historical …
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Riot or rebellion: media framing and the 1967 Detroit uprising
… from the 30 days following the 1967 Detroit uprising and comparing that coverage with the 40th anniversary coverage of the same event. By analyzing the uprising through a 40-year lens, this dissertation embarks on an area that has not been addressed in framing research: the long-term …
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The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Polish politics of history
… the background and history of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, opened in 2004 in the Polish capital, and its role in the historical policy pursued by the founders of Poland’s Law and Justice party. It argues that while the museum would morph into a major cultural landmark, embraced by a broad …
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The Long and Bloody Spring: The Uniqueness of the Syrian Uprising
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A People’s Uprising: The Grenada Revolution and its Origins Among the Public
In the midst of the Cold War, the small island country of Grenada, located in the Eastern Caribbean, underwent a revolution that launched the nation into the middle of the global conflict. On March 13, 1979, the country’s small yet prominent leftist political party, the New Jewel Movement, …
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From Underground to Elite: Egyptian Bloggers before and after the 2011 Uprising
… and especially after the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2011. But no work has been done to study how bringing those once-underground bloggers into the public and media spotlight affected the nature of the blogosphere and the bloggers themselves. Star bloggers were not only covered by the …
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Cleansing Czechland : the Prague Uprising and the end of a multiethnic Bohemia
… with a comprehensive overview of the Prague Uprising. Who were the main characters of the drama in Prague? What level of control did the various political and social organizations have on the rebellion? Where was the heaviest fighting and what was the damage? Underlying all of my work will be …
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Al-Jazeera's role in the Syrian uprising: A study of Al-Jazeera's coverage of the Syrian uprising, its impact on Syrian audience perception, and the factors motivating content selection.
… channel's coverage at the outset of the Syrian uprising, covering March and April 2011. It reviews the channel's practices and their impact on Arabic public opinion, and examines the allegations that Al-Jazeera played a role in shaping the Arab Spring. The study fills a gap in the literature …
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CAN SOCIAL PROTESTS CHANGE LOCAL SENTENCING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE 2015 BALTIMORE UPRISING
Research examining the effects of violent protests has long produced mixed results and more recent studies are no more definitive. Very little work explicitly considers their potential impact on the criminal justice system, and particularly on the courts, the institution that primarily distributes …
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The Making of Martyrs. Uprising, Cultural Sacralization and Death in Downtown Cairo after 2011
… and contested narratives of the 2011 Egyptian uprising by exploring the visual and material cultural representations of selected events in the form of unofficial memorials (predominantly graffiti), official monuments, and anniversary commemorations. These narratives were produced and reproduced …
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The Anti-Plantation Uprising: Indigenous Kinship, Territories, and Communal Politics in Guatemala, 1966-1982
<p>Indigenous Maya in Guatemala lived through one of Latin America’s most intense conflicts during the second part of the twentieth century. This research focuses on Maya politics, kinship relations, and interethnic experiences in multifarious mobilization through social democratic parties, rural …
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A review of antibiotic use and policy development before and during the Palestinian uprising "Intifada" in the Ramallah district.
The aims of the study were to describe and analyse current antibiotic use in the public and private sectors in the Ramallah District of Palestine before and during the Intifada and to investigate the feasibility of implementing guidelines to promote the safe and effective use of antibiotics. The …
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The 10th anniversary of the uprising: Post the De Doorns strikes how has organising changed for farmworkers in the Western Cape
… of the legislation in place, they sparked the uprising in 2012. In De Doorns in 2012-2013 farmworkers organised themselves for the first time in South African history. The farmworkers demanded an increase to their daily wage of R69 to R150, an end to labour brokers and an end to farm evictions, …
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Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900)
… led to the model was my case study on the Boxer Uprising in China, c. 1900. While many written histories of the Boxer Uprising exist, I collected a large portion of its extensive visual record for the first time. Sources from around the world, in a variety of media, were assembled into a digital …
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The role of Islam in the Uzbek politics
This thesis will investigate the 2005 uprising in Andijan as a case study to question whether it was a radical Islamist revolt against a secular regime, as labeled by the government some scholars argued, or a reaction to years of oppression and economic strife. The state blamed the protestors as …
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