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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"cultural relations"”.
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Cultural Reaction Systems: An Orientational Unit of Analysis for Cultural Relations
… of an orientational approach to studying cultural relations. Orientationalism can be considered a molar extension of J. R. Kantor's interbehavioral psychology that considers the orientations of organisms - described in terms of reaction systems - to be the basic psychological unit of …
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Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973-1993
… that this encounter transformed social and cultural life in the United States by ideologically and materially introducing Americans to their first intense, sustained engagement with the processes of contemporary globalization. The dissertation proceeds thematically, first outlining the …
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British Policy Towards Cultural Relations with South Africa, 1960 to 1994
This thesis analyses British policy towards cultural relations with South Africa in the period 1960 to 1994. These aspects of UK-South African relations have gained little scholarly attention, this thesis aims to rectify this, and demonstrate that these policies worked alongside more traditional …
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Embodied understandings: Dance, movement, and discourse in India’s international cultural relations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The Narungga and Europeans: cross-cultural relations on Yorke Peninsula in the nineteenth century.
… South Australia. This thesis explores cross-cultural encounters and relations between the Narungga and Europeans in the nineteenth century. Contemporary Narungga people, hoping to learn about the lives of their forebears, instigated this research. The Narungga have not previously been the …
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The influence of cinema in destination image and place identity to foster tourism and cultural relations between Portugal and India
… setor pode ter para a promoção da compreensão cultural e fomento da proximidade entre povos. O desenvolvimento de políticas adequadas às necessidades da procura sem colocar em causa o bem-estar das comunidades recetoras é, hoje, fator diferenciador de destinos que pretendam promover a …
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The role of social media in cultural relations: an analysis of whether the British Council's social media strategy coheres with the organisation’s core purpose
… approach to building trust and making relationships worldwide, and also placing the organisation into the context of a contributor to UK “soft power”, this research explores the role this modern means of communication has for a cultural relations organisation.
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The Infrastructure of Influence: Transnational Collaboration and the Spread of US Cultural Influence in Colombia, 1930s-1960s
This dissertation examines the growth of US cultural influence in Andean and Caribbean Colombia during World War II and the first half the Cold War (1930s-1960s). Exploring Colombian-US collaboration in educational and cultural arenas, the study articulates a mid-century shift in Colombian cultural …
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Public enterprise reform problems and prospects : a comparative study of Iran and Malaysia
… privatisation. The socio-economic environment, cultural relations and legal barriers also need to be considered in the policy formulation process.
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Japanese-United States relations, 1949-1962.
… into Japan during the occupation. Japanese relations with Red China have become entangled with domestic political controversies over social policy and rearmament, with the struggles between left and center in the labor movement, and with literary and other debates among intellectuals. …
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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
… encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, politics, and aesthetics of narration and self-representation create the …
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Reassessing the cultural distance between China and the United States as perceived by students from the Sino-American 1+2+1 dual degree program
… validity of those Chinese and American cultural characteristics, such as practices and values, historically understood as defining cultural differences. Using Babiker's Cultural Distance Index (Babiker, Cox, & Miller, 1980) questionnaire (an institutionally established instrument since …
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Reaching through the Iron Curtain: Practicalities in the Anglo-Soviet cultural exchange of music and musicians, 1955-1975
… on reducing Cold War tensions, and implicitly on cultural competition). A significant portion of these professionals were interested in material gain, while others sought to gain access to foreign audiences, music, and musicians. After setting the historical context for the opening of Anglo-Soviet …
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The Artistic Uses of Metaphors in Constructing Meanings and Messages in new Generation Songs in Tanzania
… use, body of knowledge and experience and socio-cultural relations. Furthermore, the study found that the suggestive meaning of metaphors gravitates around certain themes of society such as HIV/AIDS, gender inequality, role of woman, love and sexuality and socio-economy. This study therefore is …
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The problem of the poetic revolutionary
… and transformative traction in their sociocultural context. From an introduction considering recent debates about the cultural politics of parody, pastiche, and intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of texts by writers for whom formal and …
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The upgrade of the public realm through architecture: Re-enforcing existing social practices and community connections in Wentworth, Durban
… with South Africa’s racial groupings, my family culturally represents as people of colour due to our multi-cultural relations. Despite being a born-free, having been born in 1998, the lingering effects of the apartheid pass laws remain seared in my family tree. Remnants of apartheid resurface …
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Are you disabled? Social and cultural factors in understanding disability in Trinidad and Tobago
… in the context of identity construction, power relations and self-empowerment, and takes into account the ways in which that identity is shaped by historical events, cultural relations, social interactions and political structures. It identifies the relationships between disability and local …
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Language and the politics of Roman identity
This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest sense as the political and cultural practices involved in being Roman. It focuses on evidence of multilingualism: Roman identity was defined through opposition and interaction, and it is at points of …
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Moral geographies of social justice and the city : theologies, spatialities and spiritualities in urban Scotland
… religion remains a key feature of social and cultural relations that is practised by the majority of the world's population. Likewise, for a significant minority of the population in Scotland, the Christian religion continues to be a key source of meaning, identity praxis and ethics. This …
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