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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"political dissent"”.
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Conceptions of Authority, Political Orientations and Political Dissent
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IMF Conditionality and Political Dissent in Developing Nations
… nations has been a topic of debate in both the political science and economic fields of study. On the political science side the argument has centered on whether or not austere and structural conditionality can in effect cause political dissent in the developing nations, and whether or not the …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… American imperialism and the protest culture of dissenting Protestantism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through the lens of an American-born apocalyptic movement: Seventh-day Adventism. Invoking biblical apocalypticism to foreground their anti-imperialism, Adventists developed …
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Rising Up to Fall Down: Women, Political Dissent and the Gender Barrier in Brazilian and Argentine Cinema
Latin American countries went through periods of military intervention from the 1960´s to the 1990s. During these decades, resistance and revolutionary groups emerged in these nations, as strong oppositions to the military rulings and their ideologies. A lot of scholarship has investigated these …
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Political Dissent of the New York Literary Intellectuals: From the 'Masses' to the 'New York Review of Books'--1910 to 1969
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
… national security concerns to tar their domestic political adversaries as enemy agents of foreign enemies from the Kaiser and Hitler to Stalin and Al-Qaeda. Further, this study explores how these efforts have intersected with issues of gender, slavery, and the pathologizing of political dissent, …
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Sparks on kindling : terrorism's role in civil war onset, recurrence, and escalation
… an active indicator of the level of violent political dissent, measures of terrorism give agency to political violence that has been missing from previous civil war studies.
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
This thesis addresses the subject of political dissent during the Khrushchev era. It examines the kinds of protest behaviours that individuals and groups engaged in and the way that the Soviet authorities responded to them. The findings show that dissenting activity was more frequent and more …
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Internal colonialism and social control in the Age of Terror : the FBI's war on Islamic charities following the September 11th Attacks of 2001
… that also serve the latent functions of quelling political dissent with U.S. policy, maintaining a racial state, and preserving the primacy of U.S based global capital in the world economy. In addition, the thesis looks at how the prosecution of the nation's largest Islamic charity, The Holy Land …
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Pasolini's Cinema of the Outside and the Problem of the Renewal of Marxism: Ontology, Semiology, Semiotics and Pedagogy
… It extracts for the first time a consistent political philosophy from his multifaceted activity as an intellectual, literary critic, poet, journalist, and cinema director, spelling out the specific relevance of his cinematic oeuvre for the debate on the crisis of Marxism. In my historical and …
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Grassy Knoll-Edges: Conspiracy Theories and Political Rationality in the 1990s
… ways official analyses have assessed them as a political problem. First, I examine the common representations of conspiracy theories by prominent cultural texts and institutions. Mainstream journalism (major newspapers, weekly magazines, and television broadcast news programs), alternative press …
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… presents an ethnographic case study into the political anthropology of contemporary religion. By exploring the ‘liquid’ faith of participants in the Religious Society of Friends (‘Quakers’), it carefully examines the social and political practices that constitute the ‘postmodern’ religious …
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An investigation into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s
… which anarchism - both as a means of theoretical political dissent as well as a practical tool of shock - was transformed from the `chaotic' intent of first wave punk towards a more informed political ideology in the emerging `anarcho-punk' scene of the 1980s. In particular, I wish to explore the …
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Spatial Practice : The politics of "activating" public space in the State of Kuwait
… site-specific typologies in Kuwait: first, the political actions taken in squares and streets; and second, the design interventions in large and small park networks within the city of Kuwait. In this thesis, I investigate the political dissent movement from Al-Safat square since 1938 and …
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Fanaticos, Exiles and the Mexico-U.S. Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929
… revolution, found that the best way to deal with political dissent was to exile its malcontents. By the 1920s, this practice had conjured the necessity for an expanding external surveillance apparatus, as it also created the conditions by which dangerous alliances could be made between Catholic …
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The Making of Pretoria as the Citadel of Apartheid, 1948-73
… and making use of excessive violence to suppress political dissent. This was done through the promulgation of several laws which collectively became known by the platform on which the Reunited National Party had won the election – apartheid. Influential legislation included the Prohibition on …
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Rapping feminism, rapping the family: hip hop, the Mudawwana, and the monarchy in Morocco
… gender equality, and accepted modes of feminist political engagement in public space. This rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape has raised questions among Moroccan and international observers alike as to the efficacy of the nation’s protest culture in light of the regime’s cooptive power. …
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Legitimating the IMF : lessons from the Asian crisis
… authority and an increasing need for more political kinds of legitimacy. The increasingly intrusive nature of Fund conditionality has also changed the audiences for Fund legitimacy claims as cooperation from domestic populations became more important to secure implementation. The first part …
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The Consequences of Annexation on Financial Markets
… of annexation through a lens that is political and financial. The scope of research will include the three prominent cases of annexation by major powers over the past twenty years. This lends itself to three case studies: Crimea, Kashmir and Hong Kong. We will be selecting these three …
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