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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"national community"”.
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Representing the American rifleman: how the NRA built and maintained a national community of gun owners
… as influential in making meaning for guns as the National Rifle Association of America (NRA). The NRA is a powerful force in conservative politics, “gun rights” lobbying, and the wider “gun culture.” It makes meaning and provides political access for millions of American gun owners. Previous …
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The emergence of a national community health worker programme in South Africa: dimensions of governance & leadership
National community health worker programmes are returning to favour across the globe. While such programmes expand access and deepen community engagement in health, they require considerable resources and support to sustain. This thesis seeks to enhance understanding of the system-wide changes and …
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Padania or Northern Italy? The invention of a national community in the words of the Lega Nord
… the party resorted to the usual repertoire of nationalist movements - from the rediscovery and reinterpretation of the past to the adoption of new rituals and symbols. Is this to be defined as 'virtual nationalism', given that a 'nation' of the north of Italy was proposed here for the first …
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Teaching Forests as Living Museums: Case Study Research in Innovative Practices that Further National, Community, and Environmental Sustainability
Teaching Forests are physical entities with numerous attributes for human well-being, including ecological services (e.g., flood control, carbon storage relevant to climate change), provision of timber and non-timber forest harvests, health, and social benefits, and are places of spiritual value. …
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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
My dissertation examines contestations of national identity and representation of individual aspirations within a globalized imagination of 21st century India. In analyzing the metaphoric construction of a New India, I look at the unrestrained urbanization that has followed economic liberalization …
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The Sacrifices of the American Textile Industry and the Common Good
… acted in the best interest of the textile community and their notion of the common good. U.S. Representative Butler Derrick and Senator Ernest F. Hollings recognized the threat to the common good in the early 1980s and spent the following two decades fighting to protect the textile …
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An Exhibition Proposal for Contemporary Art in India
… advocates for the right to self determination on national, community and personal levels.</p>
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Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afro-descendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba
… of Afro-Latin Americans in the emergence of national print cultures and the state formation process in three of the most important areas of the African diaspora in the Americas. I argue that in Colombia, Brazil, and Cuba leaders and intellectuals of African ancestry intended to construct a …
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Multilingual practices in a disavowed community: The case of new Italian migrants in London
… while the last linguistic study on the Italian community in London was carried out in the 1990s and thus it does not cover the new wave. The research presented here is an attempt to fill this gap. Recorded data collected through ethnographic observations of social gatherings organised by new …
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Malay Natives and New Citizens: Negotiating Cultural Citizenship in Malaysia
… internalization of contradictory notions of the national community.
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A constructivist and institutionalist political economy perspective on ideational, political and institutional changes in France
… by paying greater attention to the ideas a community holds about itself - that is, to how national communities, as social constructs, are reconstructed by their members. By drawing on political anthropology and the constructivist approach to international relations, this dissertation …
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Promoting Active Retirement: A Case Study Examining The Mobilisation of Social Capital to Achieve Desired Organisational Outcomes.
Community and voluntary organisations harness and develop network ties and resources, volunteerism and civic participation. Organisations contribute to society’s social capital stock and play a role in maintaining social cohesion, supporting civil society and generating social renewal. National …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… special focus on museums and art institutions in national life, to analyse the impact of enduring fractures within Australia's evolving nationhood in the twentieth century. These faultlines are traced through a continuing British Imperial legacy of denied colonial conquest of Aboriginal peoples …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… special focus on museums and art institutions in national life, to analyse the impact of enduring fractures within Australia's evolving nationhood in the twentieth century. These faultlines are traced through a continuing British Imperial legacy of denied colonial conquest of Aboriginal peoples …
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A sample survey: describing community development practitioners training in provincial districts in South Africa
Community development is a multidisciplinary approach aimed at addressing socio-economic disparities and fostering transformative change in communities. The practice of community development is guided by core values and principles and requires specialised knowledge, skills, and attributes for …
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Gender, Religion and Development in Rural Bangladesh
… structures of inequality that existed at global, national, community and domestic levels. Based on fieldwork carried in the village of Jiri in Chittagong, Bangladesh, the thesis argues that while it is possible to see the attacks against NGOs as 'resistance' against 'Western' or 'elite' …
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Italian creations : elaborations of collective identity in Milan, Italy
… study of local elaborations of Italian national identity based on fieldwork primarily undertaken in Milan, Italy from May through August 1997. In this work I examine ways in which a localized network of individuals variously construct a sense of intimacy within the collective identity of …
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Temperament and Child Maltreatment: A Closer Look at the Interactions Among Mother and Child Temperament, Stress and Coping, Emotional and Behavioral Regulation, and Child Maltreatment Potential
… for the current study. As part of this study, a national community sample of 158 culturally diverse mothers of young children who were between the ages of 1½- to 5-years rated their own temperament, emotional and behavioral regulation abilities, parenting stress, daily hassles, and coping …
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Think Globally, Act Locally: A Delphi Study of Educational Leadership through the Development of International Resources in the Local Community
The probable future of international resource development in the local school community for the years leading up to 2000 was researched using the Delphi method--the best available tool for building consensus in emerging fields. A panel of 28 identified experts in elementary and secondary schools …
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"Far in Distant Lands to Dwell": The Sacred Harp Presence in the Arkansas Ozarks
… and stated and unstated rules at the local and national level. Interviews, observations, and participation with multiple Sacred Harp groups also revealed that participants help navigate their Sacred Harp experiences through the creation of identity. Finally, because of their group demographic …
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