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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"center periphery"”.
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Center, periphery, and frontier – Tang Qi’s 1946 Chinese sonnets
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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FARMING OUT THE NEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE COVERAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS USING THE CENTER - PERIPHERY MODEL
… out to make a profit at any cost. The classic center-periphery model of Johan Galtung (1971) illustrates how economic and political centers benefit by restricting information flow out of, and among industrial and geographic peripheries. The center-periphery model has been used in recent …
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Caging the Rainbow: The Effects of Center-Periphery Conflict on a Major Adult Education Program in India (Planning, Charisma, Bureaucracy)
In October, 1978, the Government of India launched the National Adult Education Programme (NAEP) for 100 million illiterate adults ages 15 to 35. The program was intended, in five years, to provide 10-month courses in literacy as well as in the development of occupational skills and social …
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Delocalization: The Highway Apparatus
… negotiated translations that undo previous center-periphery divides. A delocalizing locality is seen as the new unit engaged in the processes of globalization where evolution is understood as a resistive emergence in the self.
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It’s nothing personal? - A linguistic account of the personalization of American political communication
… that deixis can be interpreted relying on the CENTER-PERIPHERY image schema (Marmaridou, 2000). The CENTER-PERIPHERY image schema is a cognitive phenomenon which conceptualizes our bodily experience of being in the center of own perception on the one hand, and, on the other hand demonstrates …
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Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality
… and the new networked society complicates the center-periphery model of cultural traffic. In choosing to informally engage with English poetry as bookmarks for their own lives and remaking the rules of engagement, the Wondering Minstrels is an act of cultural translation, another way of telling …
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Cultures of Technoscience: A Study of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Research in the United States and India
… through simple conceptual dichotomies of center/periphery, dominant/dominated, or globalism/localism. The development of MRI, since its birth in the early 1970s, has been located within a transnational network. This network has been constituted by a fairly flexible flow of scientists, …
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The political and security implications of regionalism in Russia : the rise of regional Tsars?
… contradictions in the legal framework guiding center-periphery relations. However, further reforms targeting Russia's antiquated federal structure and enforcement mechanisms are recommended.
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Imperial/Non-Imperial Encounters in the Gulf during the Late Pre-Islamic Period: The Glazed Pottery from Southeastern Arabia and Tepe Yahya, Iran
… local agency and simplify encounters to a center-periphery model. This study seeks to invert this model and return agency to local groups through an analysis of the trade in glazed pottery. The consumption of glazed pottery at Mleiha, Ed-Dur, and Dibba on the one hand, and Tepe Yahya on the …
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We are not the periphery: barbarian economies and Northern Europe in the exchange patterns of Western Eurasia, 1800 BC - AD 900
… of exchange flows rather than in terms of center - periphery relationships. The major regions participating in the western Eurasian exchange circuit were the North (Scandinavia - Baltic), Latin Christendom, European Russia, Byzantium, and the Islamic world of the Middle East and North …
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A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
… such as evolutionary state-formation or a center/periphery model.</p> <p>This dissertation examines the ceramic correlates for human behaviors attested at a number of functionally specific sites in the United Arab Emirates. These include Iron Age campsites at Muweilah, a shell-midden field …
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"Desmantelamiento e integracion de las dicotomias en ""Cien anos de soledad"""
… and political dychotomies), structural, or both (center-periphery relationships). My conclusions suggest that throughout the novel, binary oppositions are presented as useless and/or destructive: like the Buendia twins, opposites merge and become confused with one another. The protagonists of this …
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The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency
… undermines the dominant center/periphery paradigm in global art history.</p> <p>My analysis of these South Korean case studies demonstrates how these artists expanded the global discourse on the avant-garde by resurrecting it after its alleged death in the West. This …
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Three Instances of Western Colonial Governments and Christian Missions in Cameroon Education: 1884-1961
… conceptual framework of the study is the center/periphery dynamic that is used in colonial and comparative education. This concept is used to analyze the colonial policies and practices that the Western European powers (center), as colonizers, and Christian missions used in formulating and …
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Cinematic Accounts of a Neoliberal Hong Kong: Post-1997 Urban Cinema and the Human Cost of Neoliberalization
… Hui) problematizes social polarization and the center/periphery disparity that dehumanizes individuals by defining them solely as surplus labor. Election and Election 2 (2005, 2006, dir. Johnnie To) examine the relationship between the PRC's authoritarian neoliberalism and Hong Kong Triad …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… Rather than reinforcing the imbalance of a “center-periphery” relationship between Russian naturalists and their European counterparts, this chapter focuses on the subtle and dynamic ways in which Russian students and collectors met, engaged with and benefited from the European botanical …