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Showing 1 to 20 of 1061 for “"occupy"”.
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No Stable Ground: Real Democracy in the Occupy Movement
… documents and analyses various aspects of the Occupy movement in Dublin and Cork in Ireland as well as the San Francisco Bay Area (Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley) in the United States. The core focus of this investigation is Occupy’s direct democratic processes and dynamics both as a way …
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… inequality. The first chapter uses accounts of Occupy Wall Street to understand how the movement conceptualized class inequality as a result of hierarchical power and attempted to implement horizontal tactics including the people's microphone. I then look to Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 and Rachel …
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Occupying identities : hierarchal divisions and collective identity in the occupy movement
… at collective identity formation within the Occupy movement through an ethnographic study conducted over the autumn and winter of 2011-2012 at three sites, including New York, New York; Victoria, British Columbia; and Edmonton, Alberta, with an examination of problems of frame resonance with …
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The best alternative? The use of alternative media in the occupy movement
… explores the use of alternative media among the Occupy social movement. A combination of factors, including emerging media technology and an antagonistic relationship with mainstream media has led many social movement actors to use alternative media to mobilize participation. The study looks into …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
Why was there such heated disagreement within the Occupy movement around the word nonviolence, and why was this disagreement so generationally marked? Why were the social movements in the 2011 global wave of unrest so suddenly disruptive, even violent, almost always involving riots? What does this …
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Leadership, Leaderlessness and Leaderless Groups: The case of the Occupy London Movement
… Drawing on an empirical study of the London Occupy protests, it emphasises the socially-constructed nature of ‘leaderlessness’, arguing that the London Occupy movement can be understood as an ensemble of symbolic meanings, practical accomplishments and communicative political actions that …
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Tufted Titmice, Black-crested Titmice, and their Hybrids Occupy Different Habitats within their Hybrid Zone
… Further, PCA revealed that hybrids tended to occupy a habitat that was intermediate between that of TUTI and BCTI. Anthropogenic disturbance did not appear to influence relative abundances of BCTI, TUTI, or hybrids. The second objective of my study was to determine if there are differences in …
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Occupy Wall Street: An "Imaginative" Exploration of the September, 2011 Protests in New York City
The Occupy Wall Street Movement on September 17, 2011 that involved public protest and the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district, is an important example of mass public dissent in American history. The conflict that lies at the heart of the protests is between two …
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‘It’s Not a Protest, It’s a Process’: A Critical Analysis of State Power, Class Struggle, and the Occupy Movement
… emerge thereafter, would come to be known as the Occupy movement. This thesis offers an examination of the Occupy movement by way of considering this phenomenon through a neo-Marxist framework, concerning, in particular the matter of class struggle. The research contained within, offers a series …
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The Constitutionality of Permission to Occupy as Opposed to the Deed of Grant and Title Deed under South African Law
… such as the constitutionality of permission to occupy (PTO) vis a vis the deed of grant regarding land tenure, remain elusive. Although PTO is widely utilised as evidence of title to land ownership, a landholder with a PTO is insecure. This is so because PTO does not grant ownership to the …
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Studying Network Structural Changes Using Information Event Signatures
… statistics to analyze over 64 million Occupy movement tweets, this dissertation makes four essential contributions that enhance our understanding of the relationship between the flow of information and the dynamics of social networks. First, based on a large set of Twitter data related …
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Generating Random Walks and Polygons with Thickness in Confinement
… distributions. The generated polygons do not occupy any volume { although that would be useful for some applications. This thesis investigates how to generate walks and polygons which occupy some volume in spherical confinement. More specifically, in this thesis, existing methods described in …
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'Occupying' Anarchism and Discovering the Means for Social Justice: Interrogating the Anarchist Turn in 21st Century Social Movements
… the experiences of what it was like to join the Occupy movement"an anti-systemic movement that began in 2011"through an empirical analysis of learning about and practicing the anarchist(ic) characteristics of the movement"horizontal, non-hegemonic, affinity and consensus-based ways-of-being as a …
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Kinship and Collectivity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction
… of this arrangement: first, that children occupy its most privileged position, and second, that women occupy its most oppressive one. In answer, many of these authors keep their heroines children ; others explore alternatives to the nuclear family. Yet whatever their strategy, none of these …
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Breaking Ground
… a chapel and the relationship to the land they occupy.
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Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinities and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris
… 2011 Arab Revolts, and the subsequent worldwide Occupy movement, social movement scholars faced sudden, powerful mass mobilisations without easily identifiable resources, networks, or forms of organisation underlying them. These instances of mobilisation beyond the scope of what we traditionally …
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