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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"instrumentalization"”.
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
This thesis is concerned with understanding how smart technologies are conceived, created and implemented, and explores the ways these processes are shaped by historical, geo-political, economic and technical contexts. At its core the thesis is concerned with understanding how technical citizenship …
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The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission
… Congress (ANC) in the early 1990s. By political instrumentalization, I am referring to the strategy of using an identity marker, in this case Christianity, to achieve political ends. I propose that that the Mandela administration purposely employed religious elements in the political …
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Informing indicated prevention: factors associated with the development of problematic cannabis use in young people
… at-risk cannabis users, and how theories of drug instrumentalization and normalization frame cannabis use behaviour in young people in contact with drug services using a mixed-methods approach. Additionally, this research addresses the implications for indicated prevention and the targeting of …
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RELIGION AS A CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INTOLERANCE: ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL(IZED) FORMS OF RELIGION ON ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRATION ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
… religion on intolerance, investigates religion's instrumentalization in political discourse across European countries, and analyses religious contexts in Serbia, Italy, and the UK. The first study delves into individual-level manifestations of culturalized religion, examining how cultural …
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A resistência à ocupação também é colorida: o pinkwashing israelense como tentativa de estigmatização da população palestina.
… Eastern ‘barbarism’, an opposition marked by the instrumentalization of LGBT rights. Here, Palestinian queer/anticolonial struggle and its international solidarity against pinkwashing is positively highlighted. A post-modernist and postcolonial theoretical framework was chosen, given that …
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Asylum, Security, Neoliberalism and the Development of the Rwanda Plan
… discourse-centred approaches in analysing their instrumentalization of security logics.
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Operational images and the interpretive turn
… and reconnaissance runs a long tale of instrumentalization, a history of calculable images primed for machine-readability. Before computers allowed for a truly "operational" image that could be harvested and interpreted independently, there were many other logistical images -- only these …
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The ‘Coloured Question’ and the University of Pretoria: Separate Development, Trusteeship and Self Reliance, 1933-2012
… premises: that of the ‘coloured’ subject and its instrumentalization in the practices of university disciplines
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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… between the city and the institution through the instrumentalization of the exhibition by city politics, and the correlative micro and macro effects. I thus link the exhibition to a passage from an industrial to a post-industrial economy, New Labour politics and the competition of cities in a …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… political power. The thesis concludes that the instrumentalization of citizenship and belonging by the autochthons as well as the specific historical and socioeconomic factors in Kibaale district have contributed to persistent conflict over access to and ownership of land.
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Building protestant modernism : John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the architecture of an American internationalism (1919-1939)
… its theopolitical dimensions and its unexpected instrumentalization of secular buildings and landscapes towards religious concerns. Focusing on the so-called Orient (which valued modernity, sought freedom from European powers, and understood Western Christianity as an accomplice to imperialism), …
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Interstate rivals’ intervention in third-party civil wars: The comparative case of Saudi Arabia and Iran in Yemen (2004-2018)
… their conflict through the mechanism of rivalry instrumentalization. The external and internal perspectives are reinforcing each other and create networked interdependencies. With this two-dimensional logic, I move beyond the conventional framework of proxy wars.
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Towards Polycentric Regionalism: Sino-Russian Geo-Economic Relations and the Formation of the Pacific Arctic Region
… the terrestrial Pacific Arctic, and via the instrumentalization of technology, the fourth dimension of (celestial) Space. Both activities (the Pacific Arctic/Space) now strategically link North East Asia with Europe, physically and virtually, via combination of Russia’s North East Arctic …
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The Greater Sage-grouse in Wyoming: A Technonatural Study
… of neoliberal environmentality through the instrumentalization of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming. It treats technological interventions within environmental construction as generating biotic-machinic entanglements termed technonature. I present the formation …
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Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter
… and distinguished from the problem of political instrumentalization of cinema (propaganda). Political cinema refers to real cinematic inventions that happen in relation to processes of human emancipation.</p><p>"Political Cinema" tests this basic conviction through four separate case studies. …
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Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499-1610
… a multifaceted analysis of the royal family’s instrumentalization of architecture. By analyzing changes in the monarchy's modes of inhabiting its kingdom, from fortified towers to the socio-architectural experiment that was Versailles, this dissertation emphasizes the relationship between …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… thesis takes as its subject the increasing instrumentalization of social and political content by the fashion industry in recent years. Such content raises questions about the relationship between notions of political resistance and market capitalism. Marxist theorists such as Frederic …
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The Accommodation of Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK’s Territorial Constitution
… courts and in political discourse. Third, the instrumentalization of the normative purchase of ‘sovereignty’ generally, and parliamentary sovereignty specifically, to justify or necessitate the recentralisation of constitutional power. The dominance of the sovereignty principle, this thesis …
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L'apprentissage par résolution de problèmes mathématiques avec utilisation de logiciel de géométrie dynamique chez l'élève d'origine africaine subsaharienne immigrant récent en Ontario au primaire
… cross-referencing of the observation data of the instrumentalization and instrumentation processes and the problem-solving processes has made it possible to identify certain elements of the answer to our research question. The results reveal, on the one hand, that the DGS occupies a preponderant …
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Education Development in Qatar: Between Geopolitical Influences and Women's Social Mobilities
… my discussions on rentier politics and the instrumentalization of religion in the education field. Later on in the chapter, I focus on the Sahwa of the 1980s and its discourse on women. I investigate how its teachings, which were promoted in Qatari public schools and the national university, …
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