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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"historical conditions"”.
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Conditioned by History: Experience and Critique in Foucault's Thought
… French philosopher Michel Foucault's theory of historical conditions. It argues that historical conditions take the form of what Foucault calls “historical a priori”: rules that are at once transcendental and historical, and that, as such, serve as historically modifiable yet necessary …
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The Securitization of Cyberspace Through Technification
… the public's understanding of cyberspace and the historical conditions under which this framing developed.
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The James River Nature Center: A Study of Context and Concept
… issues, stemming from physical, social and historical conditions. This context can be helpful, if not essential, in developing the architectural questions that lead to a concept. To establish an autonomous existence as an architectural place. The James River Nature Center provided a complex …
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Postcolonial and Constructivist Theoretical Explanations of Women'S Traditional Agency In Sociopolitical Participation and Reproductive Rights In Present Day Mali and the Pilipinas
… views identities as socially constructed historical conditions. Employment of theoretical concepts from both theories can aid in analyzing identities as constructs that are time specific, that create and influence, and are in turn created by historical conditions. These concepts, notions …
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Characterizing radio channels : the science and technology of propagation and interference, 1900-1935
… flow. This dissertation grapples with the historical conditions that gave rise to such a transformation: the studies of radio-wave propagation and the treatments of radio interferences in early twentieth-century America and Western Europe. The part on propagation examines the debate between …
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'Conditions of time and space': a re-enactment experiment with the British TV series Doctor Who.
… it seeks to further our understanding of the historical conditions of British television drama production; in particular the constraining and liberating influences of production space on the role of the director, and their decision-making process to bring script to screen. Secondly, the work …
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Bloggers and the Blogosphere in Lebanon & Syria: meanings and activities
… censorship, impediments to Internet access, historical conditions under which blogging emerged, attitudes to the Internet, changing events and new entrants to blogging. By its comparative nature, the project reveals how the meanings that bloggers attach to their blogging activities and to …
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A Legacy of Empire: Russian Imperialism and the Survival of the Ukrainian State
… nurtured each other, helpng create the proper historical conditions for the construction of both the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union's empire. Though the Soviet Union has collapsed, all of Russia's history has not been rendered irrelevant and there are strong indications that Russia will …
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Popular newspapers in post-Mao Guangzhou: toward a social history of Southern Weekend, 1984-2010
… forms and politics of their journalism under new historical conditions. For each period of development, the project worked to locate the key transformations of the Guangzhou press, and then characterized the journalistic paradigm of Southern Weekend in reference to the sources of change. It …
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Squeegee Punks reunite: safe streets for all: an insider qualitative study
… navigate deviant identities? 3) What social and historical conditions interacted with the moral panic to shape the Squeegee Punk deviant identity? 4) What policy lessons can we learn from the experiences of Squeegee Punks in the 1990s, and what alternative policy responses were available?
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Understanding the Islamic conversion experience of two African American males: a case study approach to decision making toward transformational change
… learning processes, and the social, cultural and historical conditions impacting this phenomenon. Differences and similarities between Islamic conversion among these two African American males and general theories of religious conversion were examined. A model of Islamic conversion among these two …
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There Must Be a Reason People Come Here
… no artistic expression exists outside of the historical conditions in which it was made, and those conditions must be broadcast in concert with the poem.</p> <p>I cite that these poems are the result of existential degradation developed during the production of subjectivity under modern, …
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
… centuries, investigating how the politico-historical conditions of early modern Spain and Mexico gave rise to varying concepts of heroism. Through an analysis of Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega’s *Mexicana* (1594), Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán’s *El peregrino indiano* (1599), Juan Cortés …
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Al-Munqidh mina al-Ḍalāl in English with special focus on retranslation
… its re-discovering in the 19th century, but the conditions that have occasioned and influenced the translation and retranslation of it in English have not been explored in depth yet. This study aims to study five English translations of Munqidh in order to 1) locate them into the socio-cultural, …
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The Feminine Mistake: Burkean Frames in Phyllis Schlafly's Equal Rights Amendment Speeches
… is fully explored within the cultural and historical conditions distinctive to Schlafly's main speeches during the ERA debate, meaningful debate about the women's movement and feminism's current state is subject to remain truncated.
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The role of military-industrial relations in the history of vaccine innovation
This thesis examines the historical conditions that have contributed to high rates of vaccine innovation in the U.S. during the twentieth century. Empirical analysis of vaccine license data demonstrates that the highest rates of innovation were achieved during the 1940's. Historical analysis of …
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Entering one-party dominant democracy in South Africa : political institutions, social demographies and party strategies, 1994-1999
… Against conventional explanations that rely on historical conditions and voting patterns driven by ascriptive identities, this study offers an explanation of events that focuses on the role of political institutions and social demographics in structuring the incentives that shape strategic …
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Memory Machines: Exploring Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow Through the History of Film
… of artifacts, and how these dynamics reflect the historical conditions that affirm or produce them. Specifically, all the writers I have selected to study, in some way consider the play between the mechanical apparatus and the representation it produces. Thus, I concluded that my literary …
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Some Assembly Required: The Structural Condition of Collage in Architecture and Urbanism
… as it relates to contemporary cultural and historical conditions. In terms of process and product, collage is construed with meaning through juxtaposition and context. A collage does not convey an essential meaning, as its meaning arises through the deliberate techne - the act of its making, …
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Modeling Monte Carlo simulations for retirement savings accumulations in Iceland
… based on 45-year accumulation periods, applying historical return data across a thousand randomly generated investment paths. Asset allocations were modeled according to both Frjálsi’s recommended glide paths and a self-directed alternative based on international benchmarks, with results adjusted …
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