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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"capacity for action"”.
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A community perspective : conflicting environmental interests and barriers to effective collaborative management in Clayoquot Sound
… and awareness of the environment and the finite capacity of the world‘s resources has seen increased regional tensions and conflicts over natural resource development and land use planning. This study uses two separate approaches to investigation, incorporating case study method and grounded …
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Qualifying social work education and the collective identity of social work in England
… England, carried out against the backdrop of reforms following the work of the Social Work Task Force. The review takes a reflexive approach to the task of demonstrating the doctoral qualities and credentials of the portfolio, that is, the papers and commentary together, drawing on ideas from …
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Gender, Agency and the Veil: Analysing the Role of Representations in Identity Construction by Muslim Women
… analyses of veiling that reduce Muslim women’s capacity for action to a frame of subordination versus resistance. Reflecting in particular on Mahmood’s (2005) reframing of ideas of agency through an account of Muslim women’s practices of piety, the study conceptualises agency through processes …
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ORIENTATION: Sensemaking and Wayfinding in Complex Distributed Online Information Enivronments
… researches how individuals make sense of information and find their way in complex online environments. Global information communication networks are today accessible to almost everyone. One consequence of this network is greater ease of interaction with friends and colleagues from around …
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Transnational Party Alliances : Analysing the Hard-Won Alliance Between Conservatives and Christian Democrats in the European Parliament
… What factors promote, respectively impede, the formation and evolution of a transnational party alliance such as this? A differentiation is made between three categories of process mechanisms by the causal roles they play, namely opportunities, motives and constraints. Factors are addressed …
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The implications of power relations at the national and international level on the design and implementation of social cash transfers in Southern Africa
… government decided to leave the responsibility for them to transnational actors. This thesis therefore argues that a hierarchy exists between the different sources of power possessed by stakeholders. All stakeholders involved gain promotive power which expands their collective capacity for …
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På AI-teknikens axlar : Om kunskapssociologin och stark artificiell intelligens
… without human interference. There is a need for sociologists to realize the difference between two approaches to constructing AI systems: Symbolic AI (or Classic AI) and Distributed AI – DAI. Sociological literature shows a largely critical attitude towards Symbolic AI, an attitude that is …
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A soft man in hard times: Lionel Abrahams: writing the state of emergency
… of emergency, however, is not approached as the formal legal periods in South African history under apartheid. Instead, following the insights of the Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben, it treats the legal state of emergency as the singular apparatus of the governing metaphysical paradigm that …
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How do Mothers Perceive their Ability to Influence their Daughters’ Education? A qualitative study of mothers’ capabilities in three rural communities of Punjab, Pakistan
… freedom to acquire educational opportunities for their daughters, and agency as their capacity towards achieving these goals. These theoretical concepts are operationalised by evaluating mothers’ aspirations regarding their ambitions for their daughters’ education, and actions to demonstrate …
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… Russian philosophy of language, and reveals his capacity to revitalise conversations in Western metaphysics and philosophy of language. The work of Bulgakov has been the object of increasing attention in Christian theology, fuelled by the recent translation of Bulgakov’s major theological works …
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Cluster planning and cluster strategy in regional economic development organizations
… It has also been driven by federal support for a private sector voice in regional organizations in economic development and related fields like workforce development. As a result, regional economic development policy is shaped by organizations that differ considerably from the regional …
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Das Widerspenstige bändigen
… verstanden wird. Damit einhergehende Anforderungen an die Lehrkraft stehen notwendigerweise in Widerspruch zueinander; dies gilt besonders für eine Gesellschaft mit großer kultureller und sozialer Heterogenität. Bei der Suche nach Zusammenhängen zwischen Persönlichkeit, pädagogischem …