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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"political identity"”.
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Race and space : mapping the construction of political identity
Identity construction is subject to pre-existing meaning systems and values attached to these meaning systems. Race, like class and gender is imbued with meaning which has been given to it through historical circumstance and event, global and local relations, and national policy and ideology. The …
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Queering Survey Research: Measuring LGBTQ+ Political Identity in the U.K.
… politics, there is little research within political science that engages with LGBTQ+ topics. An even smaller amount of research engages with LGBTQ+ people as research subjects. This dissertation sheds light on this blind spot by asking what is the political identity of LGBTQ+ people in …
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"Who Am I?": The Development of a Male Palestinian Political Identity
… manifestation of the struggle against Israel, a political Goliath that has used tactics to repress the Palestinians such as, detentions, beatings, and land confiscation, which many outside of the Israeli state deem as illegal. Scholar Rashid Khalidi states that “the quintessential Palestinian …
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Gender performance and political identity at the January 6 Capitol insurrection
1 PDF file (vii, 129 pages)
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Laclau and Mouffe's theory of radical democracy, and political identity in contemporary Europe
The rapid social and political transformation of post- Communist Europe has necessitated a re-examination of the question of political identity, particularly in relation to democracy and the nation-state. Laclau and Mouffe's post-Marxist notion of 'radical democracy', incorporating a …
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Political Identity Priming and Own-Race Bias in Caucasian and Hispanic/Latino College Students
… that promoting the salience of shared non-racial identity can foster in-group bias of face recognition for other-race faces. The purpose of this study is to assess whether ORB can be attenuated for faces belonging to members of one’s political in-group in Hispanic/Latino and White college …
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Political identity switching and change in religiosity among students at a conservative Christian university.
… may be due to higher education's influence on political identity which – in a context of increased political polarization and expressive political identity – may impact religious commitment. Using longitudinal panel data from the Baylor Faith and Character Study, this study examines change in …
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Getting by in Urban China Sociality, gender and political identity among migrant petty entrepreneurs
… for understanding the subjectivity, gender and political identity of the self-employed rural migrants in contemporary China.
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Getting by in Urban China Sociality, gender and political identity among migrant petty entrepreneurs
… for understanding the subjectivity, gender and political identity of the self-employed rural migrants in contemporary China.
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Harvesting Consciousness: The Impact of Seasonal Labour on the Transnational Political Identity of Guatemalan Migrants to Canada
… This dissertation illuminates the transnational political realities of Guatemalans by examining the impact that circular migration has on the subaltern migrant body. Fieldwork was conducted in two sites, the first St. Rémi in Québec, the second Santiago Sacatepéquez in Guatemala. Research …
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Homelands and the representation of cultural and political identity in selected South-Asian texts, 1857 to the present
… is a study of representations of cultural and political identity in a selection of literary and cinematic texts (in English and in regional South-Asian languages in translation), all of which situate South-Asian cultural and political subjectivity in relation to specific narrative constructions …
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The power of books: book publication, the civil service examination, and political identity in seventeenth-century Chosǒn Korea (1392-1910)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Can a Civil Society Organization Quietly Affect Political Identity in a War-Torn Nation? The Story of Escuela Nueva in Colombia
… Nueva Foundation enacts policies based on the political belief that all children should have the basic right to an education. The most visible way that the Escuela Nueva promotes this belief is through the implementation of multi-grade classrooms, where more advanced students aid those who are …
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Politics and pandemics: an investigation of the potential covariates in the relationship between conservative political ideology and reduced facemask wearing
… research shows that individuals identifying as politically conservative are less likely to comply with mask mandates and engage in less mask wearing. This study investigated five variables that could explain the relationship between political identity and less mask wearing: loyalty to ingroup …
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From "Total Liberation" to "Phased Liberation": Temporality and Identity in the Provisional IRA and Hamas
… liberation. Using discourse analysis, shifts in political identity are examined in the Provisional IRA and Hamas. Each case study shows that the organization is undergoing an identity change from a more religiouslyinfluenced identity to one that emphasizes national elements; this shift to a …
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Colour, citizenship and constitutionalism : an oral history of political identity among middle-class coloured people with special reference to the formation of the Coloured Advisory Council in 1943 and the removal of the male franchise in 1956
This thesis explores the political identity of middle-class coloured people in metropolitan Cape Town focusing particularly on the period extending from the formation of the Coloured Advisory Council in 1943 to the removal of the qualified coloured male franchise in 1956. The findings of the thesis …
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Politics in the Pews: The Creation and Maintenance of Black Political Churches
Recent work in the Black political participation literature has pointed to the importance of political churches. While scholars have established that these churches positively impact Black participation, they do not explain how these political churches come to exist. I argue that a church will …
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Islam, sex, and sect : a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
… religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, religious experience, religious salience, and religious practice have direct effects on women's rights attitudes, while controlling for gender, in a majority-Muslim context. My findings show that gender, sect, religious school of …
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
<p>Ethnogenesis, or the process of identity construction occurred in medieval Ireland as a reaction to laws passed by the first centralized government on the island. This thesis tracks ethnogenesis through documents relating to change in language, custom, and law. This argument provides insight …
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Searching for Truth(iness): Mapping the Religio-Political Landscape and Identity of Christian Emerging Adults Through a Reception Study of the Colbert Report
… young Christian viewers negotiate their religio-political identity in relation to the show, and what this negotiation says about the religio-political landscape of Christian emerging adults (19-29) (Arnett, 2004) in the United States. I conclude that <em>The Colbert Report</em> provides a …
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