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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"conjuncture"”.
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Crisis at the crossroads: the conjuncture of internal and external impediments to development in Sudan
The conventional theoretical and analytical debate surrounding contemporary African underdevelopment attempts to classify or label the impediments to development primarily within an internal-external dichotomy. This thesis questions the internal-external approach in that it may limit the …
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The United Nations in Cambodia and El Salvador: Promoter of peace or accessory to revolution?
… potential is highest when there is a conjuncture of the following elements: crisis of state resources, elite alienation and division, mass mobilization potential and an effective revolutionary movement. In countries with rigid and underdeveloped political and economic institutions, …
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Migration, Colonialism, Globalization: Histories of the Free -Subject and the Sovereign Nation-State
… secure the continuing resilience of the colonial conjuncture between discourses of race, gender, and nationality. Current discussions of migration, diaspora, and national identity often concentrate on the malleability and hybridity of the cultural dimensions of identity. In contrast, my research …
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Foucault, Marx and the question of politics: The materialist problematics of power
… initiated by Marx at the modern theoretical conjuncture. For this purpose, it tries to bring to new light Foucault's understanding of Marx (the apparent absence of Marx in Foucault's work which is frequently taken by Foucauldian commentators as indicating his break with Marx) within the …
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Intellectual property and architecture : how architecture influences intellectual property lock-in
… property lock-in. This work postulates the conjuncture of architecture and intellectual property is one such mechanism of action and erects a research methodology to investigate this link. This dissertation began with a review of literature, which revealed more research is needed into basic …
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Estados Unidos e América Latina: as condicionalidades da Guerra Fria e o impacto da administração Eisenhower
… of foreign policy to observe how the systemic conjuncture and the Eisenhower Administration’s foreign policy influenced Latin America and, specifically, Brazil. The Cold War certainly limited the action possibilities of Ike government, but it was the deaf dialogue adopted that intensified the …
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Há diferenças na gestão da política econômica pós Plano Real?: uma análise por estimação do modelo IS-LM
… to do the comparative analysis of the Brazilian conjuncture between the years 1995 and 2014, based on the macroeconomics model IS-LM, using two methods of econometric estimation, the Method of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and the Method of Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS). To achieve the objective, …
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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault
… enables me to identify, in the present political conjuncture, the anti-seditious structures that regulate and inhibit not just factionalism, but group formation as such.</p>
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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
… the advanced capitalist state and the neoliberal conjuncture. Presented within this specific depiction of the convoluted process that is class struggle, there is also a consideration of potential strategies for alliance. These strategies for alliance are by way of seeking to realise the making of …
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Historical process and the constitution of subjects : I.D. du Plessis and the reinvention of the "Malay"
… one shows, Du Plessis initiated the project at a conjuncture when the existence of ethnic units was presumed and the efforts to "preserve" them were profoundly political. A background to his ideological location is also discussed. From his particular location he journeyed amongst the "malays" and …
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The assessment of undergraduate final year projects : a study of academic professional judgment
… constitute social practice- social structure, conjuncture. event and text. These constitutive elements operationalize into a series of analytical stages which expose different aspects of social practice. My approach is consistent with Fairclough's method of critical discourse analysis, although …
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POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION: VOICE, AUDIENCES, AND NARRATIVE AUTHORITY
… are unsettled by the challenges of the post-war conjuncture: in particular, it addresses fantastic elaborations of the childhood story (Chapter One) and the ‘asylum story’ demanded of asylum seekers (Chapter Two). The second section is devoted to downright unnatural, anti-mimetic narrative forms. …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… to history in Korean cinema corresponds with the conjuncture of democratization and globalization from 1992, which is an antithesis of the former conjuncture: modernization and military dictatorship from 1961 to 1992. Through the rapid economic development, Korea's economy reached its apex in the …
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Beyond anti-utopia: towards the labour of freedom
… orientation to the contemporary socio-political conjuncture. It describes this latter, whether still predominantly Neoliberal or tending towards a different configuration of capitalism - or a syncretism of both - as ‘anti-utopian’ in its effects, despite the proclamations to the contrary that …
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… and normative position within a historical conjuncture of social, cultural, political, and economic changes that have threatened it. My investigation of these various cultural productions of youthful white masculinity within American sport and popular culture during the 1990s are grounded in …
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Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune
… structure, born out of a unique mid-century conjuncture of American media consolidation and Cold War geopolitics.
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AIDS/representation and psychological practice : (inter)subjectivity in HIV counselling
… through subject positionings which are in conjuncture with those of the client, disavows a knowing of the client as a person with AIDS. Through these positionings a necessary allusion of attunement is produced, allowing the counsellor to mirror the client. From this analysis various …
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A Phenomenological Analysis of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
… collective conduct – and introduces the idea of conjuncture to account for how Dasein and avatars function together at an existential-ontological level. In so doing, the dissertation puts pressure on the fundamental-ontological distinction between Dasein and entities other than Dasein, the idea …
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"But... the luminous tree!" The Uses of the Imagination in Resistant Cultural Production
… that has produced the present political conjuncture and a reconceptualisation of the grand narrative of history on which affective stasis depends. The imagination is not a subjective process of mental cognition but a collective and relational force that finds its most necessary expression …
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Crowd funding: between politics and antipolitics
… The analysis suggests that if the institutional conjuncture seems to seize the public sphere from people, citizens might be fighting back by recreating the public realm within the purportedly private space on online crowd funding. In the process they rely on cathartic self-perceptions and …
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