Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 1087 for “"capitalism"”.
-
Temporal Capitalism: How Time Shapes Democracy Under Capitalism
This thesis uses a Marxist analysis of capitalism to better understand the relationship between capitalism and democracy by specifically looking at the way in which capitalism distributes control over time. With centralization of time under the control of capitalist employers the outcome of liberal …
-
The theory of state monopoly capitalism
… and development of the theory of state monopoly capitalism and its significance for the politics of contemporary Western European Communist Parties. The theory is shown to have its origin in Lenin's interpretation of Marx's Das Kapital, and his assessment that capitalism has entered an ultimate …
-
Work and Freedom in Contemporary Capitalism
Despite the centrality of employment to contemporary political and economic discourse - a position reinforced by the recent economic crisis - political theory has failed to engage with the organization of work or with the norms guiding it. This dissertation offers a deeper understanding of the …
-
Possibilities for architectural production under capitalism
… work on architectural theory and capitalism by Manfredo Tafuri and Fredric Jameson. I then review the historical use, and the contemporary meanings, of the term "vernacular" in architectural discourse. This is done to rehabilitate the term, which has become so laden with historical …
-
Reparations, racial exploitation, and racial capitalism
We live in a starkly racialized economy: an economy whose history includes the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved plantation labor, and Jim Crow. The economic relations and social practices that have emerged from that history constitute, as Charles Mills puts it, "a system that is run by whites for …
-
Capitalism in moral perspective - an Islamic alternative
… of the current dominating global system, Capitalism, based on short-term human vision and planning, and a preliminary critical moral assessment thereof, is given in chapter three. The fourth chapter briefly presents the Islamic economic system as a possible alternative, more reliable, …
-
Privatized statism and ethnic capitalism in Malaysia
… tracks market structural changes; the ethnic capitalism so wrought has proven robust despite expectations of an enervating cronyist dissipation of rents. Mainstream developmentalist perspectives fail to anticipate the creation of an ethnic bourgeoisie, the intentional withering of a contending …
-
Three essays on Platform Capitalism and its alternative
… delves into the intricate landscape of platform capitalism and its multifaceted relationship with labor dynamics, bringing forth a nuanced understanding of the evolving economic terrain. The first essay sets the stage by redefining platform capitalism's character. Contrary to prevailing views …
-
Liberal Capitalism and the Online Interaction of Minors
Under liberal capitalism’s hyper-connected online life, the period between childhood and adolescence is far from constituting the psychosocial moratorium crucial to the development of young people’s identity envisaged by Erikson (1995). Due to the unique affordances of online digital technologies, …
-
Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
<p>In this essay, I will define cultural institutionalization and articulate the ways in which the phenomenon modulates subversive countercultural movements and integrates them into Western, capitalist cultural structures. I will then illustrate my theory of cultural institutionalization by …
-
Migrant Capitalism: Emigration, Remittances, and Urbanization in Punjab
… question in the social sciences: how does capitalism relate to international emigration, and conversely, how does emigration shape the form capitalist development takes in a given polity? To answer this question, this dissertation employs extensive archival and field-based research, as well …
-
Rural entrepreneurship for sustainable rural development with conscious capitalism
… for a successful rural enterprise with conscious capitalism for developing the sustainable products. ABSTRACT The study aims to explore rural entrepreneurship with conscious capitalism to help the rural communities for sustainable development by providing the community the employment within their …
-
Gothic economies: Global capitalism and the boundaries of identity
… study of literary representations of technology, capitalism and the modern metropolis---representations based in the anxieties and desires that accompany middle-class self-fashioning. The Gothic, in its original guise, depicts the corruption and ruination of the estate, often by economic and …
-
Epochs of Ecology: The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
<p>The transition from feudalism to capitalism has undoubtedly been one of the most fruitful and complicated debates amongst economic historians in the 20th and 21st centuries. With the advent of global ecological collapse, there is a necessity to examine and theorize the movement from feudalism to …
-
The Specter of Representation: Computational Images and Algorithmic Capitalism
<p>The processes of computation and automation that produce digitized objects have displaced the concept of an image once conceived through optical devices such as a photographic plate or a camera mirror that were invented to accommodate the human eye. Computational images exist as information …
-
The End of Capitalism, Again? An institutional-evolutionary view
… followed, a major debate on the future of global capitalism emerged. Within this debate a number of studies have argued that the crisis is a symptom of a deeper structural decline. This 'capitalism is ending' argument is derived from analysis focussed exclusively on the developmental …
-
Agency capitalism : the logic of managed competition in Japan
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
-
Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… principles of modernity and the forces of capitalism, this struggle is co-opted by the logic of capital in a continuous interlacing of the processes of aestheticization and commodification. The social and spatial consequences of capitalism together with the process of aestheticization of …
-
The philatelic imagination of pan-African independence under platform capitalism
… enabling technologies of contemporary platform capitalism.
-
White wilderness: race, capitalism, and alternative knowledges of natural space
… American settler colonialism and racial capitalism. Section One traces a history of wilderness discourse to demonstrate that wilderness discourse establishes whites as citizens, as civilized, as courageous conquerors, as rightful owners to land, as protectors of space, and as …
Page 1 of 55