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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cultural violence"”.
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A Peaceful Death?: Kamilaroi French ‘family’ and ‘relative autonomy’ for ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’
… are the root causes of Aboriginal experiences of violence in Australia today? Second, what cultural resources can be drawn upon to promote ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’ in response to this violence? This thesis provides new insights into the extent and types of violence Aboriginal peoples are facing …
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Single mothers getting by: cultural and structural violence in public policy
… model of the rhetorical and enacted route from cultural violence to structural violence ending in direct violence to this case. To explore the in the creation and "reform" of the welfare system, I will use discourse from various sources such as addresses to congress, public policy, media sources …
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Artists for Humanity's Sake: An Ameliorative Project Concerning Artists and the Existentialist Struggle Against the Dominant Narrative
… as we look at the evidences of the ways in which cultural violence have been used historically and today as a means to withhold power from the people, we find that participating in the arts grants a great deal of power to the people. Thus, accessibility to participating in artistic acts or the …
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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… theological approach to evaluate Christian (non)violence in light of interviews with twelve scholars and activists in the United States about the means of social change and the relationship of those means to social location. Social location conditions an understanding of what violence is and how …
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Inscribing Violence: Quantifying the Impact of World Heritage Site Inscription on Direct and Structural Violence.
… host nations. These critics have often described violence as an unintended side-effect of heritage sites, but this research has lacked a systematic analysis of types of violence associated with the inscription of sites. The background to this study explores the application of Galtung’s Triangle of …
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The Impact of Criminalisation on Female Genital Mutilation in England: From the Perspective of Women and Stakeholders
… the potential and limitations of social and cultural change through the law. My qualitative research findings are based on two focus groups each with 11 women from FGM-performing communities and 79 semi-structured interviews with women and stakeholders who are responsible for designing and …
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Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
… just but powerless men and symbolize the larger cultural anxieties of antebellum Americans living in growing cities. Lippard and Thompson wrote about such crime associated with disparate wealth distribution in the Metropolis, whereas Ridge and Bennett, for example, exposed racial and cultural …
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Factors associated with intimate partner homicide in a West Australian context
Domestic Violence (DV) is prevalent within Australian society with one in four women experiencing some form ofDV (ABS 2017) in their life. The Australian homicide rate is about 250 deaths per year, of which 52% are domestic related (Virueda & Payne 2010). Domestic homicides include Intimate Partner …
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How does the analysis of structural violence help to explain the persistence of the Israel-Palestine conflict? A case study of the barrier
… goal-ownership of the same piece of land. Violence has constituted a characteristic feature of this struggle, widely employed by the two peoples. The analysis of violence, however, has often been limited to acts of direct and physical violence that can be attributed to an individual …
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Politiche di sviluppo e questione etnica. La cooperazione italiana IN Bosnia Erzegovina
… democratic purpose to build a multicultural and democratic state. Ethnic and also religious differences were the instruments for a national statement that might cause the transition and development projects failure. Fifteen years later social fragmentation was still present and it …
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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 …