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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"dissident"”.
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
This dissertation examines the interplay of queer sexuality, theology, and transatlantic modernism in the oeuvres and critical receptions of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Hart Crane (1899-1932), and W.H. Auden (1907-1973). As an interdisciplinary study in literary criticism and of each author’s reception …
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Who are the dissidents? : analysing changes in the sociological profile of violent dissident republicans in Northern Ireland
… offences as a result of suspected involvement in dissident republican activity in Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2014. The charges result from involvement in the four main dissident groups currently active in armed struggle in Ireland namely Continuity IRA (CIRA), Real IRA (RIRA), Oglaigh Na …
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Dissident physiocrats : value, surplus and distribution in the economic writings of Le Trosne, Turgot, Morellet and Isnard.
The economic writings of G.-F. Le Trosne (1727-1780), AR.J. Turgot (1727-1781), A Morellet (1727-1819) and AN. Isnard (1749-1803) can be understood as attempts to develop F. Quesnay's seminal conception of the economy as a reproductive system. The idea that the economy annually produces a 'net …
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Corpovoz: ARThivISMO dissidente como estratégia de (r)existência em dança
… because of subordination processes, effects of dissident social categorization and ills presented in performative actions. In this research, there are elucidations on how political, social and cultural processes are responsible for the condition of abject body, in which Dance takes the task of …
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(Re)vivendo amores pretos: mapeamento dos afetos nas danças d’quebradas contemporâneas
… and methodological constructions of some dissident black artists from São Paulo and Salvador, in dialogue with the productions of the author of this writing. The understanding that affection, love and identity are crossed by the intersection of racial issues and sexuality will be …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… replaced politics with culture, disregarding the dissident practices that offered political alternatives to identity, belonging, and commonality. I analyse how this struggle has played out in the field of cultural production, particularly within and among the three strands of poetry which I …
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The Choice of Terrorism in Conflict and the Outcomes of Mixed Methods of Dissent
… at understanding the choice of terrorism in mass dissident movements and the outcomes of civil resistance campaigns that coexist with the use of terrorist tactics by radicals. Towards this end, it focuses on dissident organizations and conflict dynamics and therefore contributes to the existing …
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The midwife and birth of conservatism in 1960: Barry Goldwater and the ascendancy of the right in the Gop
… of Conservatism in 1960 studies the rise of the dissident minority conservative faction of the Republican Party during the 1950s and early 1960s and its takeover of the Republican Party in 1964. Using established communication theories that define a social movement and a movement leader, the …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
… poetical language in the works of the Ukrainian dissident poet and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus (1938-1985). Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his incarceration to the periphery and instead engages in radical …
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Transnational networks and nation-building: the protest of Barágua and the transition from plantation societies to the modern nation-state in Cuba and the Americas
… of nation-building, taken by a body of Cuban dissidents primarily from eastern Cuba, and their allies in the United States and the other islands of the Anglophone Caribbean, presents a new view of interpreting the rise of nationalist movements in the Americas. The practice of nation-building …
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The 1961 Texas special senatorial election.
… sharply divided. A solid Republican bloc, dissident Democratic factions, and a light turnout, gave Tower the victory and Texas its third Republican Senator in the state's history.
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Alliance Politics, Solidarity Praxis, Precarious Alliances: A Case of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey
This dissertation focuses on a dissident youth group in Turkey which came to national and international attention during the uprisings of May- June 2013 and dissolved two years later. The Anti-Capitalist Muslims (A-C M) were a meeting ground for individuals from different walks of life but …
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Repression and reduction: the apparatchik's discourse in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus, Denis Diderot, Victor Serge and George Orwell
… insidious application of this involves attacking dissidents who point out the state’s failure. Paul Ricoeur, in his work on character and identity, demonstrated the tension between two halves of human personality, the ipse, which is initiated by the self, and the idem, by society. The …
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The Performers Alliance: Conflict and change within the Screen Actors Guild
… movement and of The Performers Alliance as a dissident movement within the union itself. An argument is made that the Performers Alliance may be a successful social movement within the larger format of the Screen Actors Guild; Questions arise as to whether unions will survive, how the nature …
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The Politics of Iranian and Palestinian Cinema: Expressing Dissent Through Creativity
… for resistance and opposition, through which dissident demands can be expressed in the face of hegemonic dominant powers using creativity and symbolism as the main processes.
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The Effects of Alternative Energy on Saudi Arabia and the Implications for U.S. National Security
… oil wealth to purchase tribal loyalty, quiet dissident groups, and endear itself to the population, a decrease in its ability to make such pay-offs could result in the collapse of the Saudi regime. Such a collapse could have devastating consequences for the U.S. if an Islamic fundamentalist …
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Can You Hear Me Now: A Cross-National Analysis of Media, New ICTs, Press Freedoms and Sociopolitical Instability, Conflict, and Democracy.
… of new ICTs and freedom of expression on popular dissident activities. My results suggested that countries with higher rates of Internet and cell-phone penetration are more likely to experience sociopolitical instability, are more likely to experience nonviolent conflict compared to violent …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
… of state-sanctioned Socialist Realist art, these dissident artists pursued diverse creative directions in their private practice. When they attempted to display their work publicly in 1974, the carefully crafted facade of Soviet society cracked, and the West became aware of a politically …
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Urban rage in Bronzeville: Social commentary in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960
… also became the literary target of a chorus of dissident voices: a cultural contingency accused her of directing her writing to a white audience and ignoring her own Black community, while a critical coterie viewed her work as unduly obscure and complex because of her use of inverted syntax, …
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Critique of normative motherhood and of nature as an object of appropriation in Libertad Demitrópulos’s dictatorship and post-dictatorship novels
… that ranges from non-normative to openly dissident forms, while also examining nature as a dynamic, resistant, and multiple entity. The study argues that Demitrópulos establishes symbolic and political correspondences between the exploitation of women and the appropriation of nature, while …
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