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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"co-optation"”.
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Co-optation of B Cell Developmental States in Malignancy and Autoimmunity
… states in malignancy and autoimmunity, and uncover underlying signaling perturbations linked to their dysfunctional transcriptional regulation. We consider how these aberrant developmental states are driven by mutational perturbations to dysregulated cell-intrinsic signaling in BCR-ABL1 B cell …
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Effective Altruism on Animal Activism — A Site of Ableism and Neoliberal Co-optation of Neurodivergence
… social issues (MacAskill, 2016), including, according to effective altruists, animal welfare (Singer, 2015). Criticisms of EA have also emerged, particularly from progressive activists, academics, and journalists, who frequently express skepticism or dismiss EA entirely as guiding praxis for …
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Five Malcolms, one archive : Columbia University's Malcolm X Project and a history of narrative co-optation
… the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Despite an almost incomprehensible amount of cross-disciplinary scholarship designed to analyze the monumental impact of the slain leader, recent work by Dr. Manning Marable suggests that it is actually only now, in the twenty-first century, …
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Convoluted conjugality: Hymnographic repression, transference and co-optation in the Byzantine sanctoral's commemoration of married saints
… It is an exercise in liturgical theology, as conceived of by Alexander Schmemann. The first part of the paper introduces the topic, its contemporary relevance and the methodology that will be employed in the study. The second surveys the thought of representative Eastern Orthodox and …
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Co-operation, Co-optation, Competition? Understanding how Britain and Germany interact with the EU’s Common Foreign Security Policy, and why they employ the strategies they do.
The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is a highly significant arena for the production of foreign and security policy for all member states and has been the focus of extensive academic examination since its establishment. An important body of literature in this regard has been that …
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
The dynamics of authoritarian power consolidation is receiving more attention today than it has ever been before as a result of rising authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. However, there exists an undertheorized and variations on autocrat’s decision calculus for prioritizing repression over …
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The Political Economy of St. Catharines' Illicit Taxi Trade
… has led to increasingly precarious working conditions around the world. Post-industrial work is characterized by poor working conditions, low wages, a lack of social protection and political representation and little job security. Unregulated forms of work that are defined as “irregular” or …
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The social base of divide-and-rule : left-Islamist opposition alliances in North Africa’s Arab Spring
Under what conditions do opposition political parties cooperate across ideological cleavages? Why do such opposition alliances collapse or endure over time? I address these questions by comparing alliances between leftist and Islamist opposition parties in Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania. In …
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Institutionalization, repression and political instability in authoritarian regimes
… can be challenged by insiders of their ruling coalition and/or by the citizens of the country they govern, what control strategies can they use in order to minimize the potential for conflict and violence? The current literature on authoritarian politics focuses on the use of co-optation and …
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Domesticating the ghost : constellations of Mexico, 1968
… as an essayistic method of investigation to accompany and supplement my thirty-minute short film AT THE TOP OF GRASSHOPPER'S HILL, this thesis traces minor encounters or discrepant engagements¹ between myself and and images of the 1968 state-sponsored student massacre in Mexico City. I adopt …
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Becoming a Beloved Community: A Restorative Reckoning for a Radical Conversion to Transform Discourse in Higher Education
… the misappropriation of Restorative Justice Discourse (RJD) within three predominantly white institutions (PWIs), analyzing 59 institutional documents through Critical Discourse Analysis, Relational Critical Discourse Analysis, and Rhetorical Criticism (Fairclough, 1995; Vaandering, 2021; van …
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Love Letter : A study of South Asian Women, and their relationships with Māori and other racialised Women in Aotearoa
This project records the experiences of South Asian women in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and what those experiences reveal about the possibilities and limits of solidarity with Māori and other racialised women under conditions of settler colonialism and white supremacy. This work is a response to my own …
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Towards a "people centered" approach to participatory planning: analysis of the grass root level conflict over waste facility siting
This paper analyzes the role of both cooperative and oppositional modes of citizen participation in public decision making related to waste facility siting. Politicians, bureaucrats, and waste industry representatives embrace participatory planning as an equitable and efficient solution to the …
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Political organisation, leadership and communication in authoritarian settings: Digital activism in Belarus and Russia
Citizens of authoritarian regimes face multiple constraints when they express critical political views using digital media. The regime may monitor their activities, censor their speech or persecute them. Despite these challenges, politically-active citizens organise outside of traditional …
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Wife battering policies, programs and definitions: A social constructionist analysis.
… in Canada from 1970 to 1990. The primary component of the thesis is an examination of the development of various conceptual frameworks. The issue of wife battering would not have evolved as a social problem had it not been for the raised political consciousness of feminism and other social …
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Security sector reform in post-conflict environments: An analysis of coherence and sequencing in Mozambique. Examining Peacebuilding Challenges of Defence, Police and Justice Reforms in a Neo-Liberal Era
… that lead to a fragmented implementation of post-conflict justice and security reforms and their negative impact on institutional capacity to provide justice and security for citizens. It strenghtens the existing critique of SSR by employing liberal peacebuilding critique to examine the …
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A Critical Analysis of Participation and Empowerment in Community Development: An Ethnographic Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico
Participatory approaches to international and community development have gained significant popularity, and are commonly held to be intrinsically empowering processes. In the context of development, both participation and empowerment were borne of radical claims and democratizing goals, but over …
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
The macroscopic picture of China today is highly contradictory: on the one hand there is an explicit scenario of modernisation initiated by the government and developing in unexpected depth and rapidity, and on the other hand an implicit but unrecognised scenario of democratisation nurtured by …
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Using Social Media to build a Counter-Power Movement: Multiple Sclerosis and CCSVI, a Case Study
… which advocated for clinical research into a discovery rejected by key elements of the medical establishment. This thesis aims to examine how social media interactions empowered patients, what motivated them to become a movement, and the elements which propelled the movement to create alternative …
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Canadian urban ministry : the nature and challenges of success
… North America, especially Canada. The chapters consider the research questions of what characterises success and its challenges in urban ministry and how do urban ministry situations engage the enduring tensions of charity and/or justice. The chapters include three detailed case studies in three …
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