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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"militant"”.
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Militant memories: family, gender and politics under Pinochet’s dictatorship
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse political memories, through the life stories of people who participated in political parties or movements during the time of Pinochet’s dictatorship. The analysis focuses on two aspects of activism which have usually been neglected, namely family and gender …
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Organizational Fragmentation and the Trajectory of Militant Splinter Groups
Militant organizations commonly break down and split apart, with new groups emerging from the ranks of existing organizations. From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan, militant groups have splintered and proliferated in this way, creating fragmented oppositions that significantly complicate the conflict …
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German Militant Ignorance towards Palestinian Experiences of Israeli Settler Colonialism
… on Palestine, it develops the concept of militant ignorance which it defined as an active production of ignorance which militantly prevents an acknowledgement of ‘threatening’ knowledge and the reality it depicts. This research locates and identifies this German militant ignorance, its …
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Wounded Knee, 1973: Consummatory and instrumental functions of militant discourse
Little academic research exists of the American Indian takeover of the hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973. This thesis is an analysis of the discourse of the Wounded Knee incident, which served dual purposes for the activists. First, American Indian discourse served as a reinforcing agent …
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Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization
<p>Militant feminism is characterized by two positions. First, the militant feminist believes that where the use of violence is justified, it is just as justified when performed by women as by men. Second, militant feminists hold that militant action can be justified in the pursuit of aims …
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MILITANT SEPARATISM IN WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, 1965—1975
… of their shared ideology, which it terms ‘militant separatism.’ Militant separatism coalesced at a time when these states were experiencing economic growth, quality of living was generally on the rise, and supranational institutions codified more rights than ever before. Such conditions …
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Jihadists Assemble: The Rise of Militant Islamism in Southeast Asia
… came under scrutiny for its role in the rise of militant Islamism. Generally, scholarship on militant Islamism in Southeast Asia branched into two approaches: terrorism experts tended to see the problem through the prism of al- Qaeda, with Southeast Asian jihadists following orders from their …
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Jihadists Assemble: The Rise of Militant Islamism in Southeast Asia
… came under scrutiny for its role in the rise of militant Islamism. Generally, scholarship on militant Islamism in Southeast Asia branched into two approaches: terrorism experts tended to see the problem through the prism of al- Qaeda, with Southeast Asian jihadists following orders from their …
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The Protester as Producer: Militant Action and the U.S. Radical Media
The Protester as Producer: Militant Action and the U.S. Radical Media analyses militant protest as an apparatus of cultural production. I examine the relationship between militant protest tactics and the radical media to show how actions like vandalism, sabotage, armed self-defence, armed …
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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
… explain, through biography, Hecht's increasingly militant propaganda campaign. This study argues that two friends, one the Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen and the other the Jewish poet Max Bodenheim, provide keys to understanding Hecht's militant rhetoric and its historical relevance. While the Cohen …
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The evolving role of youths in militant Nationalist activity in Ireland, 1909-21
… accounts by minors involved in well–known militant organisations, notably Fianna Éireann and the Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army). As this study will demonstrate, the unprecedented involvement of an emerging generation of boys and girls in the political and militant …
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The rhetoric of autobiography : analysis of autobiographical writings of militant civil-rights leaders.
… the rhetorical nature of the autobiographies of militant black civil-rights leaders, this thesis examines A Lonely Rage by Bobby Seale, Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. These autobiographies represent rhetorical messages designed to show these highly …
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The second coming of Paisley: militant fundamentalism and Ulster politics in a transatlantic context
… Major: History. The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context. Dissertation directed by Associate Professor Meredith Veldman. Pages in dissertation, 345. Words in Abstract, 277. ABSTRACT On August 1, 1946, the Reverend Ian Paisley was …
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Protecting the Majority: A Study into the Difference in State Response to Militant Extremists
… of the hypothesis that the political ideology of militant extremists and the selection of Majority or Minority target influences sentencing severity. The research uses information collected on 510 indictees in "The American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002", which was funded by the United States …
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The PPTA and the State: from militant professionals to bargaining agent : a study of rational opportunism
This thesis using oral historiographic techniques examines the changing role and function of a teachers' union during changes in the nature of a national State which can also be related to changing forms of capitalism. The teachers' union is New Zealand Post-Primary Teachers Association (the …
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ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A MILITANT DEMOCRACY AGENT: PROMOTING DEMOCRACY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
… the European Union (EU) can act as an effective militant democracy in its external relations amid renewed, heterogeneous autocratization across Europe and its neighbourhood. It challenges linear narratives of democratic advance or uniform recession, arguing instead that democratic erosion varies …
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
<p>This thesis examines the participation of domestic workers in the Civil Rights Movement, specifically in Gulf South bus boycotts in Baton Rouge, Montgomery, and Tallahassee; voter registration efforts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida; and Head Start work in those same Deep South …
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