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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"political activist"”.
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"She was certainly not a Rosa Luxemborg" : a biography of Cissie Gool in images and words
… explores the life of Cape politician and political activist Cissie Gool (1897-1963) against the backdrop oflocal, national and international politics as it impacted on her in both a direct and indirect way. Culled from oral and documentary sources, the historical Cissie is a representation …
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How Black Lives Matter Has Influenced and Interacted with Global Social Movements
… of BLM. I conducted telephone interviews with activists and advocacy organizations who have organized activist networks and/or won struggles against institutional racism outside of the United States. These activists are located in Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, India, Spain, The …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
This project discusses the cultural and political significance of a number of lyrics by songwriter and political activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. By drawing on both the singer's personal experiences and relevant American history, I lay out how larger political and cultural forces in society …
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Escrita autoral e poder erótico: a experiência do Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura na periferia sul de São Paulo
… study, intertwined with my personal, activist and artistic trajectory, uses the understanding and application of the concept of Erotic Power, developed by Audre Lorde ([1978] 2019), to analyze the epistemologies of black and decolonial feminism, present in the practices and written …
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'Look for the truth and tell it': politics and Harold Pinter
… as an artist he has often sought to reflect this political engagement through his representation of the relationship between an oppressive totalitarian state and the dissenting individual. In interviews he claims that he was always a ‘political playwright’. Yet it is not Pinter’s overt political …
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Soe Hok-Gie : a biography of a young Indonesian intellectual
… aim is to detect the early glimmerings of the political activist of his mature years. Chapter 2 offers a concise overview of Indonesian national politics during the 1950s and 1960s, that period when Soe's own understanding of politics was steadily developing. The emphasis is on the Guided …
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Soe Hok-Gie : a biography of a young Indonesian intellectual
… aim is to detect the early glimmerings of the political activist of his mature years. Chapter 2 offers a concise overview of Indonesian national politics during the 1950s and 1960s, that period when Soe's own understanding of politics was steadily developing. The emphasis is on the Guided …
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The British Fair Trade Movement, 1960 - 2000: a new form of global citizenship?
… within the context of historical debates about political consumption. It examines the role of the ethical consumer as a political activist and questions whether Fair Trade has led to a new understanding of the meaning of global citizenship. It is argued that contemporary questions about the …
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MARK TWAIN'S SPEAKING IN THE DARK YEARS (COMMUNICATION, RHETORIC, MOVEMENTS).
… Mark Twain while expanding his role to that of political activist. Using a Burkean perspective, Twain's anti-imperialist rhetoric is analyzed. His private philosophy dictated the use of two ratios. Though he did not successfully defeat the imperialists, he was effective in rallying and unifying …
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Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948
<p>John H. McCray was a political activist who served as editor of South Carolina's leading black newspaper from 1941 to 1954. After years of dormancy, the civil rights movement sprang to life in the state in the 1940s. A historian writing in the late 1950s called it 'one of the South's most …
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Religion in the work of Frantz Fanon
… of race and racism. As a cultural theorist and political activist with strong Marxian-humanist sympathies, Fanon asserted that, as an irrational force, religion anaesthetised the oppressed and inhibited the recovery of the black self. In this study I draw on critical and analytical work in the …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With political activist ethnography as my central theoretical framework and methodological approach, I conducted field research, interviews and textual analysis of City and organizational documents. Focusing on OCAPs homelessness campaigns, I examine the …
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"Into the Mainstream and Oblivion": Julian Mayfield's Black Radical Tradition, 1948-1984
… and Oblivion” is a study of the intellectual and political biography of the African American writer and political activist Julian Hudson Mayfield. As a member of the black Left, Mayfield’s life of activism and art bring the complex network of artists, activists, and political theorists who …
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Love and marriage in Labour and Conservative party cultures, 1918-1970
… men and women engaging in electoral politics and political activism in twentieth-century Britain. It argues that marital status is an underappreciated category of analysis, particularly for women, in understanding access to political worlds post-suffrage. It provides a unique perspective that the …
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Nicolas Berdyaev: An Intellectual Journey
… intellectual study. He was at various times a political activist, literary expositor and religious philosopher.</p> <p>Although Berdyaev was born a privileged member of the landed gentry, he began his intellectual life as a Marxist Due to his political activism during his days as a university …
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State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
… between contesting social forces in the political field. Grounding the mutual penetration between state and civil society in a dialectical perspective, the study links the interactions of political agents with the divergent norms and practices which they struggle to embed in society. More …
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The scholar advocate: Rudolf Schlesinger's writings on Marxism and Soviet historiography
… a notable academic, Marxist writer and one-time political activist, an extensive critique of Rudolf Schlesinger’s writings is long overdue. Raised in the revolutionary atmosphere of early twentieth century Austria, Schlesinger soon became embroiled in central European communism, taking on …
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Towards a theory of trust in libraries and democracy
… consistently negotiating trust in a democracy: Activists. As a group, activists experiences collective breaches of trust and/or injustice from the US government while simultaneously engaging in democratic processes to rectify these injustices and holding the US government accountable. This …