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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"political community"”.
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Peace Negotiations and Remaking Political Community in Somalia
What is the relationship between processes of political community formation and peace-making in Somalia? Drawing primarily on original archival research, extensive interviews and personal memoirs, I trace the ways in which representation modalities in international peace negotiations, such as the …
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The Labour Party's commonwealth : an analysis of discourses on political community in the 1930s
… develops a method for the analysis of political discourse from the work of Foucault which it uses to construct the Labour Party in the 1930s, in a specific relation to the issues of antisemitism and Indian independence. These issues are chosen because they are some of the issues in …
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The press of a people : the evolution of Spanish-language news and the changing political community
… of Spanish-speaking groups into American political life and the ability of the media to affect democratic values. Evidence from other countries shows the dangers of fractured mass communication, and a theory based on (a) the treatment of minorities by the state, (b) the special functions …
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The Sovereign State as Political Community: A Revisiting of the Post-Structuralist Critique of the Neorealist State
… nature and possibilities of alternative forms of political community, or into the political and economic effects these alternative forms of political community (such as social, economic, religious and environmental) pose to the traditional state and the envisioning of a global society. The aim of …
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Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
… politics. Centering on the relationship between political community and difference, it develops an "agonistic political theology" of radical democracy grounded in the claim that conflict is inherent to the goodness of creation and constitutive of flourishing creaturely sociality. It argues that, …
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Liberalism and community: Communitarian criticisms of John Rawls' liberal theory of justice
Liberal political philosophy is often accused of being excessively individualistic and of failing to provide an adequate conception of political community. The purpose of this study is to evaluate such criticisms as they have been most recently advanced against the liberal theory of John Rawls by …
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A vindication of politics : political association and human flourishing
… by important work in recent natural law political theory, this research revisits the relationship between political association and human flourishing. Does the political community itself realize some aspect of human sociability intrinsic to our full flourishing or is it simply an …
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Reflections on political authority and rootlessness in works of Hawthorne and Melville
… how we should live. The literary form of their political reflections recalls the incarnation of political theory in Plato's dialogues. The stories of Hawthorne and Melville enlarge our understandings about political authority and rootlessness, two features of every political community, within …
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
… or anti-speciesist understanding of moral and political community (one that would be a better alternative to traditional anti-speciesist moral and political theories).</p>
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The Partisan's Violence, Law and Apartheid: The Assassination of Matthew Goniwe and the Cradock Four
This dissertation is a study of an instance of political violence that took place during 1985 in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, but which had a wider resonance across the country. It involved the killing of four prominent anti-apartheid activists, known as the Cradock Four, by a state …
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"Civil war by other means": Conflict, resistance and coexistence in Colombia. Exploring the philosophy and politics of Alasdair MacIntyre in a conflict setting
… and the prospects for constructing a viable political community in the country. With up to 5 million internally displaced people, rampant impunity for perpetrators of crimes against humanity and human rights and International Humanitarian Law violations, dozens of politicians and countless …
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Women, development, and communities for empowerment: grassroots associations for change in Southwest Virginia
… a process of coming to personal autonomy through political community is presented as an alternative to the economism and individualism of conventional women in development analysis.
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Justice, prudence, and foreign relations in Aristotle's political thought.
This dissertation examines how the political thought of Aristotle addresses foreign relations and the nature of international politics. I argue that for Aristotle the practice of justice and prudence occurs only in relation to the common good of particular and separate political communities. Thus, …
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Lancashire and the exclusion crisis
… objective of this thesis is to examine the local community of a Northern county after the Restoration. The thesis covers the years 1660 to 1681 with special reference to the Exclusion Crisis of 1679 to 1681. The first three chaot.ers concern the socio-econom:Lc religious and political framework of …
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Perfectionist Republicanism: Liberty, Flourishing, Excellence
… towards a new interpretation of republicanism in political philosophy. The contention is that if we are going to be republicans rather than liberals, then we should be perfectionist republicans, rather than pursuing the neo-Roman brand of republicanism pioneered by Philip Pettit and Quentin …
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Towards the Ideal: Coherence Theories of Judicial Adjudication and the Ideal Law in Hard Cases
… equilibrium to determine principles of a political community, and then determines and chooses the decision with the largest weighted aggregate realization of principles. It will be argued that the ideal law methodology presents a better method for determining hard cases than coherence …
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Just war, legitimate authority and non-State actors
… of the authority principle framed by Walzer's political community. These applications have, unfortunately, diluted the efficacy of one of just war's most important principles. Through an empirical examination using the standards of authority espoused by Augustine, Aquinas and others, this paper …
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“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
… younger generations integrate their social and political values with their faith: personal cosmologies that function alongside a global political community are generally more important than a general cohesive doctrine that is shared by people of multiple disparate socio-political backgrounds.
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Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman
… of exchange catalyzes the social production of political legitimacy and ensures continued generous distribution by mythopoetically presenting such cyclicity as resulting from elite and non-elite mutuality. This praise poetry is rendered within two song and dance complexes: al-razḥa, a collective …
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