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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"micropolitics"”.
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A mixed methods study of teacher evaluation reforms and micropolitics in Illinois
… of teacher evaluation, focusing on how micropolitics have influenced the implementation of teacher evaluation reforms in Illinois. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design with the follow-up explanation variant was selected to collect data in two phases. The study examined two …
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Micropolitics and Southern European socially engaged art practices in the age of austerity
… thesis develops a genealogy of the concept of micropolitics as a militant and analytical tool through the lens of which it examines the institutional dimension of socially engaged art practices in Southern Europe between 2008 and 2015. The period under examination was marked by the emergence of …
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Foucauldian Micropolitics and the Evolution of Party Polarization: Diverging Discourses in America's Two-Party System
… speeches. By employing Foucauldian theories of micropolitics and biopower, a qualitative case study, critical discourse analyses, and ANES polling data, this study finds that not only have the parties been deploying drastically diverging discourses on issues of biopolitical administration, but …
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Complexity, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Micropolitics of American Civil-Military Relations in Small Wars, 1945-Present
<p>This dissertation examines the political-military effectiveness of U.S. small-scale, long-duration military advisory missions focused upon the mission of foreign internal defense within the subset of so-called "small wars." Why focus on this issue? First, an explicit assumption of the …
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Micropolitics and the Principalship: A Qualitative Examination of How Principals Develop This Critical Attribute of School Leadership
<p>Schools, like most contemporary organizations, are complex places, and there is an extensive body of evidence that outlines the skills that school leaders must possess to effectively operate schools. Effective school leadership is essential, and not only for the safe and orderly operations of …
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An investigation into the micropolitics of the South African Schools Act : a case study of a school in the Western Cape
The apartheid system of government in South Africa created undemocratic governing structures, inequity and inequality in the country's education system, as were evident in the pattern of school organisation, governance and funding (Hunter Commission Report, 1995: 1). This situation led to the …
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Greening the EU : Power practices, resistances and agenda setting
… fruitful way to conceptualize agenda setting as micropolitics is through a modified garbage-can approach. Starting from such an approach, the thesis looks at the way environmental problems have been defined and solutions articulated and adopted; and addresses the question of which individual and …
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Spatialising student voice
… initiating these in contradiction to the micropolitics of power. I have employed Q methodology to reveal students’ lived experience of student voice, drawing on it to operationalise their subjectivity. Forty-five students from five consecutive cohorts of undergraduate students at a …
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Ways of seeing: Conflicting rationalities in contested urban space - the N2 Gateway in the context of Langa
… reversals of power in state encounters with the micropolitics of local claims on space, place and belonging. The narratives reveal how diverse and concurrent resistance pathways including ‘quiet encroachment’, street protests, ‘elite capture’ and legal proceedings which went to the Constitutional …
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The sociology of local food and transformational engagement: a case study of the rise of the local food movement
… thesis examines sociological process, and the micropolitics of the community of local food players, illustrating the progression of civic agriculture. I describe how transformative learning, or the process of changing a frame of reference, is key to understanding the capacity of local food …
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… of agency on the part of authors and readers. A micropolitics of the self through prose narrative is derived, as against a grand narrative of influence, filiation, and static sexual definition.
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Religious and secular places: understanding the changing geographies of religion in Ireland
… asks that geographers of religion go beyond the micropolitics of religious spatial expression to connect with broader political processes. I apply three examples from Ireland to show how a relational geography of religion can respond adequately to her call to move beyond the micropolitical. The …
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The Emergence of the Documentary Real within Relational and Post-Relational Political Aesthetics
… of art from non-art; of representation from micropolitics and of the anti-relational opposition of the philosophical categories of the general and the particular. Overall, I seek to reclaim Bourriaud as instrumental to the re-thinking of these categories and as essential to a reading of …
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Manly Vice and Virtu: State Specters, Secular Rituals, and Public Culture in Taiwan
… three overarching questions: What are the micropolitics of disreputable social activities through which men negotiate status and identity and construct homosocial bonds of intimacy? How are mainstream gender values and norms perpetuated and reworked through these activities, and how do …
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Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter’s Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy
… Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of micropolitics, as well as the latter's concept of a combined ecology--mental, social, and environmental--to discuss how a study of sensory scapes reveals the presence of ecophilosophical and political concerns all through Pinter's dramatic …
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Amphibian urbanism in Dhaka’s contested wetlands
… from global and regional into the scale of micropolitics and practices, I examine the modalities by which urban and peri-urban wetland dwellers engage in farming and fishing practices to sustain themselves in a precarious urban economy as well as produce people-centered wetland …
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A cinema of immanence: the films of Paul Verhoeven in Hollywood and beyond
… can be seen to show a supple segmentarity and micropolitics of the individual, whereas the remakes present unified models of individuality that resonate with the interests of the nation-state and capitalism. The study concludes that the capacity to think in terms of immanence allows Verhoeven’s …
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Implications for Educational Equity Due to Master Scheduling Decisions Made by Site Administrators
… shows teacher labor market economics and the micropolitics of schooling significantly facilitate the migration of excellent teachers between districts and schools and within schools so the teachers may secure course assignments that house the most academically successful students. No study has …
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Distributed forms of school leadership: A critical and sociological analysis
… leadership is predominantly silent around power, micropolitics, and the performative policies that have created environments conducive to distributed leadership being recommended as a ‘vehicle’ for reform. Most of the research to date can be categorised as either descriptive, with a tendency to be …
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Negotiating institutional transformation : a case study of gender-based change in a South African university
… be disempowered using political structures and micropolitics. Effecting transformation of the complex institutional culture in higher education will require a deep engagement with these powerful conservative forces.
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