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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"dispossession"”.
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Nadir : a graphic interpretation of dispossession and aspects of conflict
Dispossession, aspects of conflict and the breakdown of the relationship between people and their environment is the subject of this thesis. The body of work presented consists of twenty-four photographs and sixteen screen-printed off-set lithographs (referred to as the prints). The photographs are …
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Dispossession, Adoption, and (Dis)Inheritance: The Sympathetic Sublime in George Eliot’s Fiction
<p>The aim of this dissertation is to explore the promise and the peril of George Eliot’s sympathetic sublime in her fictional writing. To arrive at this designation for Eliot’s literary project, the dissertation synthesizes three distinct yet interconnected strands within Eliot scholarship: her …
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Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia
… of David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession. Neoliberal globalization created the conditions that allow Dollar General to thrive in the region – in particular, the corporate enclosure of the commons, the decline of the coal industry, and the new economy which has forced many …
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Hegemonic conflict in the Caspian region: Accumulation by dispossession and the spatial fix
… concepts of the spatial fix and accumulation by dispossession and Arrighi's concept of hegemonic decline and conflict to understand the uneven development of this region.
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
… century, a period marked by rural violence and dispossession that, by abandoning national industrialization, paved the way to neoliberalism in both countries. I argue the idea of “persistence and mutation” to theorize the relation between the realist form and the impact of transitions to and …
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Capitalism and nature in South Africa: racial dispossession, liberation ideology and ecological crisis
… current strategies of overcoming racial dispossession on the basis of capitalism rely on increasing and unbridled exploitation of natural resources. The dissertation concludes with a consideration of political perspectives and agency responding to the ecological crisis in South Africa …
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From Dispossession to Surplus Production: A Theory of Capitalist Accumulation in Neoliberal Bangladesh
Dispossession has been playing a central role in capitalist accumulation over the last four-hundred-year history of modern capitalism. This dissertation theorizes how dispossession contributes to producing and reproducing the capitalist mode of production in Bangladesh. To do so, the dissertation …
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Does land dispossession equal impoverishment or liberation in rural China?: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China
Land has consistently been central when disentangling the complex picture of rural China. It is also considered to be the fundamental asset for Chinese farmers. Drawing on extensive literature review and qualitative data collected from several villages and various other institutions such as …
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Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans
… and newness as the trend of "accumulation by dispossession" (Harvey, 2005) blanketed the city. To create this new city, a narrative of an ideal new resident was necessary to embody this change and represent the city's future. I refer to this ideal in this dissertation as the "Renewers" who are …
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China Dispossession Watch: Making Visible the Human Costs of Forced Land Expropriation in Urbanizing China
… systematically captures land value through a dispossession machinery operating at the intersection of state power, market mechanisms, and contested citizenship. The ethnographies reveal a sophisticated system of dispossession enabled by a network of actors whose complementary roles maintain …
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Aboriginal Dispossession and Proletarianization in Canadian Industrial Capitalism: Creating the Right Profile for the Labour Market
… central theme of this paper revolves around the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) from their traditional socio-economic means of production and their subsumption into the industrial-capitalist mode of production. The investigation is a hypothesis about the …
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LAND DISPOSSESSION AND JURIDICAL LAND DISPUTES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NORTHERN MEXICO: A STRUCTURAL DOMINATION APPROACH
… This thesis looks at land disputes and the dispossession of Rarámuri communities in northern Mexico by examining the way dominant groups shape the structural conditions for land appropriation and its perpetuation over time. This is pursued by exploring the link between the Rarámuri …
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African palm and Afro-indigenous resistance: Race and dispossession of Garifuna lands on Honduras' northern coast
<p>This thesis seeks to connect the Honduran state’s need for capital accumulation, it’s almost myopic focus on agro-industrialization and dispossessing Garífuna from lands valued for African palm production, and finally how the Garífuna have been able to effectively resist the state’s attempts to …
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Habitats of Abandonment: Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Dispossession from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression
… allowing one to enter into the currents of dispossession rather than their fixed social positions.</p>
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"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda
… from 2012-2013. It focuses primarily on land dispossession and challenges to resettlement. Conflicts over land intensified in the early 1990s, coinciding with the early stages of resettlement in southern Teso after a period of regional civil war and large-scale cattle rustling. In contrast to …
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Hip hop in South Tel Aviv: third space, convergent dispossession(s), and intercultural communication in urban borderlands
This thesis critically examines the transformative function and the limitations of crosscultural elements in current musical practices in Israel, specifically, in Hip Hop practices in the urban context of the diverse neighbourhoods of South Tel Aviv. This study explores locales on border-areas of …
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The Ryans of Inch and their world: a Catholic gentry family from dispossession to integration, c.1650-1831
In October 1767 a Tipperary landowner named Daniel Ryan of Inch passed away. Word of his demise spread beyond the immediate locality, and eventually newspapers as far away as Belfast would recount how his ‘plentiful estate’ had been in the family ‘above 500 years’. Based on the surviving records, …
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Land dispossession and options for restitution and development: a case study of the Moletele Land Claim in Hoedspruit, Limpopo Province
… community to understand their experiences after dispossession and their perception of the restitution claim. Thirdly, a combination of desktop analysis and household interviews was employed to understand the socio-economic dynamics and evaluate the feasibility of the community's perceptions.
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A Socio-Environmental History of Dispossession and Displacement in the Zimunya, Marange and Bvumba (Chirara) Communities of Eastern Zimbabwe, 1920s - 2015
… and Bvumba inhabitants as they were shaped by dispossession and displacements. Historians have long emphasized that massive land expropriation and forced dislocations in Africa were a consequence of colonial rule. While this is true, this research recognizes that dispossession and forced …
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