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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"conditions of possibility"”.
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Re-considering the limits and conditions of possibility of Foucault's understanding of the subject
… uses Foucault’s archaeological text The Order of Things (2002) to explicate two propositions. First, Foucault questioned the limits and conditions of possibilities for knowledge about our existence. Second, Foucault presupposed a subject whose capacity to know is constitutive of these limits …
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
… industries in Guatemala with the purpose of better understanding how environmental struggles emerge and take shape. The study uses environmental governance as a framework to analyze the processes, institutions, actors and discourses that shape the conditions of possibility of political …
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Symbiosis
… in reality. Facts are given to us but their conditions of possibility transcend them.
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Value for Money Evaluation of Three Operational NHS Private Finance Initiative Contracts
This thesis draws on the analysis of data from interviews, observations, documents and archival records to examine the conditions of possibility for PFI procurements by three English National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and the extent to which these projects are affordable and delivering Value for …
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Subjects of Care: Ethics, Education, Extremism
… a popular logic that takes the cultivation of “better thinking” as the path toward more caring and ethical political engagement. I study this logic by looking to globally pervasive educational and psychological approaches to counter-extremism, which target Muslims especially as knowing in …
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Nothing changes : dangerous childhoods and the 'unprotecting' of children in Western Australia
… the social, cultural and historical acceptance of dominant claims to truth which position children as variously vulnerable, dependent and passive social actors-in-waiting: constructions which produce limitations in the conditions of possibility for their 'protection'. My aim has been to consider …
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Disentangling the 'enigmatic mass' of home education discourse : a Foucault influenced analysis
… these norms, regular school attendance was one of the most widely suspended or altered. This disruption created an opportunity to reconsider taken-for-granted knowledge about education, the home environment, and the role that school plays in English culture. A sample of policy and parental …
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Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy
… to examine one Kantian problematic that has been often overlooked, especially in recent years. It explores Kant's reactions to so-called occult phenomena and related teachings. Kant's initial and the single most important interlocutor in this respect was Emanuel Swedenborg. Kant refers to his …
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Recommending Political Warfare--The Role of Eisenhower's Presidential Committee on International Information Activities in the United States' Approach to the Cold War
… assessing the current U.S. Cold War effort and offering recommendations for an 'unified and dynamic' way forward. This work investigates the case of Eisenhower's Presidential Committee on International Information Activities and its role in the United States' approach to the Cold War. …
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An Archeology of Cryptography: Rewriting Plaintext, Encryption, and Ciphertext
This dissertation is an archeological study of cryptography. It questions the validity of thinking about cryptography in familiar, instrumentalist terms, and instead reveals the ways that cryptography can been understood as writing, media, and computation. In this dissertation, I offer a critique …
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Facebook as a contemporary public sphere: political consciousness and agency
… thesis argues that Facebook can create the conditions of possibility for a dynamic, deliberative space for human engagement which can potentially lead to the formation of globally networked, active, empowered political subjects. This thesis examines Facebook as a contemporary version of the …
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… moments for desedimenting “the Human” as a genre of being in which the logics of recognition, legibility, exposure and transparency circumscribe a carceral worlding. Attending to the structural antagonisms underlying this figure and its afterlife—one predicated on racial capitalism, slavery and …
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Virgin Territory: Theology, Purity, and the Rise of the Global Sex Trade
… who exactly is on the market? </p><p>What kinds of bodies are calibrated for traffic and consumption, and how exactly do they get there? When it comes to “sex” trafficking—which comprises a minority percentage of human trafficking, yet dominates the moral imagination as an “especially heinous” …
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The In/Authentic Subject: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Selfhood
… a personal narrative that describes the loss of self and its rediscovery subsequent to that loss. In critically examining the work of both Soren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger on the concept of authenticity, I have attempted to come to terms with my experience of the loss of selfhood as well …
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Spaces of New Labour Youth policy
This thesis examines the issue of policy change by focussing on time and space as the conditions of possibility for change. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, it interrogates existing theories of policy change with special attention paid to how these theories construct time and space. This …
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A Legal History of Narrowing Ambitions: The Rise of Human Rights in Inter-American Regional Law and Organisation
This thesis examines the rise of human rights in inter-American regional law and organisation. It contends that, first, despite their present centrality, inter-American human rights were originally not a priority of American states. Rather, the codification and institutionalisation of …
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Conditionalizing Conduct: Political Economy and the Limits to Governance in European Union Enlargement
… membership conditionality operates as a modality of political-economic governance directed at securing the conditions of possibility for a harmoniously functioning political economy of Europe. I argue that conditionality can best be understood not as a series of requirements for EU membership, a …
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A discourse analysis of recovery stories
… thus challenging traditional psychiatric ideas of chronicity, the recovery approach has become a central guiding vision within mental health services. This thesis comprises two parts. The first part applies a genealogical method to conduct a genealogical analysis of the recovery approach through …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
My dissertation maps a poetics of the Americas through the work of Black and Indigenous poets. I draw on a wide array of interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to examine lineages of poetic practice in the Americas through their interrelated literary, historical, material, spiritual, and …
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Pasolini's Cinema of the Outside and the Problem of the Renewal of Marxism: Ontology, Semiology, Semiotics and Pedagogy
My thesis explores Pasolini’s work with a twofold purpose, historical and philosophical. It extracts for the first time a consistent political philosophy from his multifaceted activity as an intellectual, literary critic, poet, journalist, and cinema director, spelling out the specific relevance of …
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