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Showing 1 to 20 of 271 for “"materialist"”.
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Articulating a decolonial materialist rhetoric.
… communities. Beginning with Ronald Greene's "A Materialist Rhetoric," this thesis injects Native intellectual scholarship into the field of rhetoric, forming what I call a decolonial materialist rhetoric. A decolonial materialist rhetoric issues two unique challenges to the field of rhetoric. …
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Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Ralf Dahrendorf's Materialist Liberalism
… in his conception of politics. It argues that materialist conceptions, borrowed from Karl Marx and other materialist theorists, informed his liberal outlook throughout his career, transcending his early abandonment of political socialism. Situating Dahrendorf within a tradition of debate about …
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Disability as an entanglement: A new materialist reimagination of disability
… can be challenged through using new materialist theory to reimagine disability. The thesis begins by outlining the big picture of disability oppression in Aotearoa New Zealand and across the globe. Thereafter, literature from disability studies and the humanities more widely is drawn …
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
… Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual portrait of the dominant themes and ideas that emerge from …
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Video game rhetoric and materialist contingency: genre, circulation, and narrative
As technology changes, people find new ways to entertain themselves, tell stories, and create imaginary worlds. This dissertation examines the development of Dragon Quest, a video game created for Nintendo’s Famicom game console. I argue Dragon Quest provides insights into the rhetorical techniques …
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Towards a Historical Materialist Analysis of Femicide in Post-Conflict Guatemala
Despite nearly twenty years of official peace in Guatemala since the signing of the 1996 Peace Accords, violence continues to remain a grave problem throughout the country. In particular, extreme forms of gender-based violence have been reportedly problematic over the past two decades, with a …
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Satire and the satirist : a materialist reading of eighteenth-century satire
This thesis presents an attempt to engage materialist literary analysis in a serious reconsideration of eighteenth-century satire as satire. In the process I see myself as challenging received notions of how the satire of the period is to be contextualized, as well as the way in which the category …
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The materialist interpretation of John Millar's philosophical history: towards a critical appraisal
This dissertation examines aspects of John Millar's philosophical history in order to provide grounds for a critical appraisal of the content of his contribution to social and historical science. Using Millar's published books and lectures in civil law as primary sources, it is suggested that …
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Foucault, Marx and the question of politics: The materialist problematics of power
What would a materialist position today be like, especially after Marx and Foucault? In order to address this question, the dissertation examines the relationship between Marx and Foucault by situating them within a new and specific kind of materialist discursive practice which Foucault seeks to …
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Striking the Match: A (Non-)Materialist Rhetoric of the 2012 Chicago Teachers Strike
STRIKING THE MATCH: A (NON-)MATERIALIST RHETORIC OF THE 2012 CHICAGO TEACHERS STRIKE
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Catastrophic Progress: A Queer Materialist Analysis of the 2023 Trans/Bud Light Controversy
… particularly through the nexus of queer and materialist theoretical frameworks, providing a glimpse into the growing conflict between big business and queer-allied consumers. From a materialist perspective, the Bud Light/Mulvaney controversy demonstrates how social media – a visual and …
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Materialist-feminist criticism and selected plays of Sarah Daniels, Liz Lochhead and Claire Dowie.
… woman performer respectively. Using aspects of a materialist-feminist analysis I examine the ways in which feminist epistemology has brought about a transformation of social relations in so far as these are deployed through representation and specific processes of performance based upon the slogan …
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Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
This thesis explores the materiality at play within installation and performance artworks from across the interdisciplinary fields of media arts, digital arts and contemporary technological arts and is positioned at the noisier end of the artistic spectrum of these disciplines. The practice-led …
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A materialist and intertextual examination of the process of writing a work of children's literature
This thesis comes under the terms of Clause 3.2 in the booklet Research Degrees, Regulations and Notes for Guidance for the University of North London where it is stated that 'A candidate may undertake a programme of research in which the candidate's own creative work forms, as a point of origin or …
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A Transnational and Intergenerational Account of Value Preference Patterns: Revisiting Needs-gratification and Post-materialist Theories
… theory (Maslow, 1970), and post-materialist theory (Inglehart, 1971), this paper discusses agency in terms of relational autonomy (Oshana, 2006), as it pertains to power. I argue that a) personal and national economic affluence or security may not be sufficient to describe social …
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Surveillance, Subjectivity and Resistance at the Frontiers of Europe: A Materialist Analysis of the Greece-Turkey Borders
The Greece-Turkey borders have become one of the main points of undocumented entry into the European Union since 2009. The borders operate through complex elements: historical processes that shape their structure, ideologies that legitimize their violent existence, techniques and technologies that …
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Racial Subsumption: A Historical Materialist Analysis of Syrian Refugee Governance in the Longue Durée of Turkish Capitalism
… and deportable. I develop a historical materialist framework that synthesises Marxian Political Economy and Critical Race Theory through racial subsumption, a state-mediated process through which accumulation fuses expropriation and exploitation, stabilising their effects as racialized …
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Making a Difference that Matters: A New Materialist Approach to Environmental Education in the Age of Algorithms
… educational, civic and institutional change, New Materialist and Deleuzoguattarian ontologies and ethics reveal the relational power of collective agencies that are never only human – in particular, everyday practices – to make a real world difference that matters. In short, they allow for the …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
… in the world of the text. This thesis adapts new materialist concepts about the effects of material objects and the distribution of agency to expand the discussion of interconnections between entities. In close readings of passages in Exodus, Joshua, and Samuel that feature the Ark of the …
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The merits of the human security paradigm : a materialist account of peasant insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa
Contemporary food security concerns in sub-Saharan Africa centre on the pertinence of food versus fuel forms of production. As the global energy market enters into the postfossil-fuel epoch, the demand on land for commercial biofuel and feedstock production threatens the livelihood of sub-Saharan …
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