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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"class struggle"”.
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Illegitimate settlements in West Beirut : a manipulation of tenure policies and class struggle over land
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Class Struggle in the Climate Crisis: Strategic Considerations for Life-Making In and Against a Settler-Colony
… to understand the climate crisis in terms of class struggle, using social reproduction theory and an intersectional perspective. This makes the climate struggle a struggle for life-making, and not for emissions reduction. I look at a cohort of thirteen prominent climate action organizations …
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The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in a Tokyo Host Club
… host club scene, where mostly young, working-class men ""sell"" romance, love, and sometimes sex to indulge their female clients' fantasy, often for exorbitant sums of money. I explore this commercialization of feelings, emotions, and romantic relationships---what I call 'affect economy'---in …
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‘It’s Not a Protest, It’s a Process’: A Critical Analysis of State Power, Class Struggle, and the Occupy Movement
… concerning, in particular the matter of class struggle. The research contained within, offers a series of elucidations regarding key theoretical and conceptual concerns, pertaining to matters of state power, in the context of the war of position in the advanced capitalist state and the …
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The Americanization of the Virgin Islands, 1917-1946: Politics and Class Struggle During the First Thirty Years of American Rule
… Officials to take sides in local political struggles. These struggles pitted a mostly white upper class of merchants and planters against a black middle and working class alliance that had just recently won some important victories. After 1917, both sides appealed to the American …
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Apartheid and resistance in the political economy of gentrification: The dialectics of black working-class struggles in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970-2015
… between 1970 and 2015 through the lends of class struggle amongst African Americans. This dissertation argues that gentrification in U.S. cities must be understood as a dialectic of racial class struggle defined primarily through black working class collective resistance to urban …
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Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
… combination of elaborate infrastructures of class struggle and social-movement unionism, historical traditions of indigenous and working-class radicalism, combined oppositional consciousness, and fierce but insufficient state repression, explain the depth, breadth, and radical character of …
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A historical study on the "eight revolutionary model operas" in China's Great Cultural Revolution
… Chinese people as well as a political tool in struggle between the Maoists and Luists. When Mao realized that his ideals were being eclipsed, he concluded that a massive revolution was inevitable and allowed his wife, Jiang Qing, to direct the "movement of popularizing model operas." The …
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Conflict and communication in the Third World : A study of class and ethnic bases of conflict, and relationship between these and the mass media in Pakistan and Nigeria
… It stresses ethnic conflict; conflict within classes, particularly within the bourgeosie; and the role of the 'professional' component in this middle-class struggle. It looks at these in respect of Pakistan and Nigeria, both of which have suffered major civil wars. Conflict is an inseparable …
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Contradiction, conflict and convergence of class and nation in black South African politics, 1925-1985
… a special position in the history of the black struggle. Yet the history of national liberation in South Africa cannot be complete without socialist intervention, even though, historically, the national struggle and the class struggle are separate and sometimes antagonistic modes of political …
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State and Capital Accumulation: Mining Industry in Indonesia
… mode of production (Marx, 1981), as social/class relations, is utilized to provide a conceptual framework of such peculiar relations. While this framework consists of many different but interrelated parts, my focus is the integration of class struggle into this theory of rent and to …
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Class Based Contestations in Neoliberal France
… on terms of strategy, some holding fast to the class based contention of the previous decades, some jettisoning the language of class for one of identity and democratic inclusion. This project documents these changes and takes up the theoretical debates surrounding them, primarily the debates …
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High life below stairs: Servants and masters in eighteenth century fiction
… moments in the text where characters experience class struggle.
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The Evolution of Gentility in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial Virginia
… of the English and southern American landed classes with regard to three genteel leadership qualities--education, vocation, and personal characteristics. A simultaneous comparison provides a clearer view of how each adapted, or failed to adapt, to the social and economic change of the period. …
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The development of the Asian trading class in Chipata Zambia
… examines the evolution of the Asian trading class in Chipata between 1900 and 1964. It provides a historical explanation of why Asians came to occupy a predominant position in the retail and wholesale trade of Chipata during the colonial period. It also examines the role played by Asians in …
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Returning to the rand revolt: centering settler colonialism and racial capitalism in labour history
… in 1922, as a lens into the white working class in the early 20th Century, Witwatersrand, South Africa. This strike is significant because the events surrounding its conclusion led to the co-optation of the white working class which in turn contributed to the consolidation of white minority …
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Feedback Exhaust: Money and the Novel at the End of the Contemporary
… contestations understood as a manifestation of class struggle. Financial and monetary accounting functions are found to be used by contemporary novels to reconstitute the form’s traditional modes of expression in accordance with the historical changes in global economic structures. At the same …
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The politics of public records at Rome in the late republic and early empire
… of control over records is illustrated in the Struggle of the Orders and remained a dominant issue. That knowledge is power was a reality implicitly recognised in the aristocratic constitution of the Republic, geared as it was to maintain popular political ignorance generally and so to …
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