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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"naturalisation"”.
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
… it identifies tensions between narratives of naturalisation and narratives of eugenic manipulation that emerged as British biologists reconceptualised sex variations, sex differences, and sexualities more generally, following major discoveries in genetics and endocrinology around 1900, …
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Magyar‒román államközi viszony és az RMDSZ kapcsolatrendszere a rendszerváltástól a könnyített honosítási eljárás bevezetéséig = Hungarian‒Romanian inter-state relations and the impact of RMDSZ from the regime change to the adoption of the simplified naturalisation procedure
Doktori értekezésemben a magyar‒román államközi kapcsolatok alakulását és a Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség (RMDSZ) érdekérvényesítési lehetőségei vizsgáltam az 1989-es rendszerváltást követő időszakban. Kutatásomban három olyan döntésre fókuszáltam ‒ magyar‒román alapszerződés, státustörvény, …
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The domain of the 'Disconnected' : struggles against cost recovery mechanisms on water delivery - a study of the low income community of Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain
… At the conceptual level of the paper the 'naturalisation of water commodification' serves as the framework through which privatization, commercialisation and cost-recovery are examined. The policy of cost-recovery has been accompanied by harsh punitive measures, including water …
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The political economy of Henry Martyn, 1701-1721
… manifested itself in discussions on consumerism, naturalisation and the division of work. The success of this model also depended on the maintenance of a strong commercial position, wherein the significance of transnational capital was taken into account. Where Martyn's writings are particularly …
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An exploration of strategies to convey evaluation in the "NoteBook" texts
… especially on White's (2004, 2005/6) notions of naturalisation and unarguability, and on the other on evaluation conveyed through attributed material. It is argued that such resources indirectly position readers in a stance similar to the writer's own, which places him/her in control of the …
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Hydromorphological evolution of a restored river; a case study in the Upper River Eden catchment
… controlling unwanted erosion to river naturalisation and the “re-meandering” of channels back to an historic planform. This is driven by acknowledgement of rivers as dynamic systems that, through restoring erosional and depositional processes and floodplain connection, can restore …
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The discourse of New Zealand and French television advertising: a comparative approach
… in an effort to engage in a cross-cultural “de-naturalisation” of New Zealand and French television advertising specificities. In this endeavour, the contrastive framework was particularly helpful as it made possible the “de-naturalisation” of advertising representations that are usually taken …
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The G.A.A. a Contested Terrain
… The GAA acted against this perceived Anglican naturalisation and organised itself from rural to urban enclaves, which resulted in a national organisation that recognises only county borders; it is organised around a parochial regional level, to a county level administration that is accountable …
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Identity without citizenship: towards a global uniform registration system for the stateless
… and document stateless people pending their naturalisation. This thesis argues that ending statelessness is a too ambitious and improbable goal; given this fact, leaving the stateless without a legal identity embodied in proper documentation is perilous, as documentation is needed today to …
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Mind the Matter: Active Matter, Basal Cognition, and the Making of Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
… to natural phenomena. That is, it addresses the naturalisation of agency: how do we reconcile the purposive nature of organismic processes with our naturalist commitments to scientific methodology? Historically, this amounted to showing how the supposedly agential nature of organisms can be …
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Undocumented and Invisible: Are SADC Member States Implementing the Rights to Birth Registration and Nationality for Migrant Children?
… be stateless, as well as onerous barriers to naturalisation. Given these findings, this dissertation concluded that SADC members are not adequately giving effect to their international obligations
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Lexical meaning and propositional representation : an investigation into the problem of the unity of the proposition
… solutions propose a range of approaches to the „naturalisation‟ of the concept of meaning and the phenomenon of propositional representation. Whilst I take this naturalistic turn to be - at least in some respects - commendable, in chapter 5 I develop an alternative account, focusing how lexical …
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Stories from the ̶p̶e̶r̶i̶p̶h̶e̶r̶y̶ Centre: Counter-narratives of Anglophone Caribbean Teachers on the Permanence of Racism in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Industry
… survelliance, policing based on the co-naturalisation of race and language, racialised Caribbean teachers are cast not only as linguistic trespassers irrespective of speaking what is deemed as “standard” English, but their corporeal presence often induces disorientation in the spaces …
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The Limits of Social Citizenship: Unemployment Insurance and the Reproduction of the South African Racial Capitalist State, 1937-2023
… in the final years of apartheid. The incremental naturalisation of racialization in the UIF’s eligibility criteria, combined with the rise of neoliberalism and the increasing presence of American imperial capital interests, meant that the UIF in the democratic era maintained its core structure …
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On naturalistic saltation genealogies of content: an exploration of continuity & discontinuity in nonreductive diachronic explanations of content by Adam H. Schroeder supervised by University of Cape Town
… affords in avoiding the perennial objections naturalisation projects face in relation to normativity, my aim is to show that it is susceptible to its own set of difficulties due to the tension between naturalism, normativity and intentional content. More specifically, my aim is to show that …
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Empire and the animal body: violence, ecology and identity in the imperial romance
… urbanite recovers in the colonial wilds. Such naturalisation of colonial violence leads into a discussion of the psychological undercurrents of male aggression. While the eroticisation of hunting is crucial, the imperial romance reveals male sexualities that hinge, most notably in Ballantyne’s …
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A Microhistory of Migrants and Their Identifications in a Paris Tenement (1882-1932)
This dissertation offers a micro-analysis of migration from a social and a cultural perspective. It is premised on the conviction that the micro scale can be of great value to avoid, or at least control for, the perils of taking ethnic, national, racial or gender boundaries for granted. Recounted …
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In chronic exile: A critique of South Africa's legal regime for refugees in protracted refugee situations
The major thrust of refugee protection worldwide is directed towards providing assistance to refugees in emergency situations. In South Africa, a large number of refugees have moved beyond this initial emergency phase such that the extended nature of their refugee status has left them in a state of …
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Point-Based Hukou Policy Direction: An Examination of Reproduction of Social Inequalities in China, 2010-14
… hukou conversion, facilitating their naturalisation as urban citizens. Under this system, the brightest, most educated, skilled, and resourceful migrants are more likely to convert their hukou from rural to urban status. However, the least privileged migrants remain with rural hukou …
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Deux décisions de la Cour Suprême du Canada sur le suicide médicalement assisté de Rodriguez (1993) à Carter (2015) : parle-t-on toujours du même geste ?
Avec l'arrêt Carter (2015), la Cour Suprême du Canada (CSC) a statué que les articles 14 et 241b) du Code criminel canadien (CCC), prohibant le suicide médicalement assisté, étaient inconstitutionnels. Elle bouleversait de ce fait un jugement émis par la Cour Suprême en 1993 (arrêt Rodriguez). Que …