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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"military-industrial complex"”.
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Military Industry and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Military Aid, Technology, and Barriers to Peace
… people that result from this policy, and the military-industrial complex that benefits from the US-Israel relationship. I also note that the military industry profits from the Israel-Palestine conflict and, thus, has an incentive for the conflict to continue. I argue that despite billions of …
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A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis academically rehabilitates a neglected literary subgenre, and utilises it to prove …
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From Stockyards to Defense Plants, the Transformation of a City: Fort Worth, Texas, and World War II
… the war unleashed forces that caused rapid industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in two regions, the South and the West. This study examines one community's place in that experience as those forces forever altered the city of Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to World War II, Fort Worth's …
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An Environmental History of the New Deal in Mississippi and Florida
… recreational spaces, but the development of a military-industrial complex that remains in place today. In addition to canvassing secondary historical works, primary sources utilized for this project include a wide range of regional newspapers and journals from Mississippi and Florida, federal …
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Alien Affects: Movement, Migration, and Landscapes of Citizenship
… relationship occurring within the cultural-military-industrial complex between cinema (namely extraterrestrial arrival cinema), migration control apparatuses, and the defense of constitutive citizenship laws. I am arguing that what connects each of these aspects of citizenship landscaping …
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What are the possibilities of the sonic laboratory?
… most conventional laboratories perpetuate the "military-industrial complex" (Beck and Bishop, 2020, p.1). This hegemonic structure becomes problematic because it derives from colonial practices in which models that exclude otherness predominate. In response, my research suggests that sonic …
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Russian Civil War
… His development of the “Deep Battle” military theory in the late 1920s and 1930s, the attendant mechanisation of the Red Army and his role in the development of the Soviet military/industrial complex have been well-researched. The “Tukhachevsky Affair”, the discussion surrounding his …
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Seeing systems: A rhetorical history of visual media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1969
… argue that as MIT shifted from functioning as an industrial ancillary to a prominent center of the military-industrial complex, visual media research became crucial to the construction and promotion of its anti-instrumental and networked approach to science and engineering. This approach heavily …
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The Real "Syriana": Interlocking Directorates Shaping a Defense-Petroleum-Policy Complex
… executives of the United States petroleum and military-defense industries, and examines the implications of the interlocking directorates that exist between these two industries, along with the strength of ties to government through former lawmakers and bureaucrats seated on these boards. The …
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Between Technophilia, Cold War and Rationality: A Social and Cultural History of Digital Art
… art produced with the tools and support of the military– industrial complex. If on the one hand artists such as Brown understood these new artworks as central to art and its history, a normative development of a new technological era, on the other hand opponents located at the centre of …
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Female participation in research and development: the role of government and defense spending
… change in a specifically gendered way. Military considerations have long played a significant role in the development of science, technology, and industry. The large role played by military spending in shaping R&D has biased R&D institutions towards militaristic purposes, especially in …
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The U.S. Government and the Privatized Military Industry: Obscuring the Line Between Public and Private Sector Roles
… resulted in dramatic changes to the structure of military forces. Worldwide-disappearance of the Soviet threat led many countries to initiate force demobilization. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in a new era in which conflicts increased worldwide. These conflicts, coupled with …
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Deliver Me From The Days Of Old: Rock And Roll, Youth Culture, And The Civil Rights Movement
… War culture and politics, the expansion of the military-industrial complex, unregulated capitalist development, and overt racial segregation and discrimination, even outside of traditional Southern boundaries. Rock and roll music therefore helped young people to talk about race relations and …