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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"political imaginaries"”.
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… which have been occupying the social and political imaginaries of Western individuals, communities and institutions since the disenchantment of the world. My methodological approach is built on Benjamin’s notion of historical materialism. Thus, I engage with the historical object(s) (e.g., …
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Cost-Benefit Analysis as Democratic Ritual: The Controversy Over a Proposed Uranium Mining and Milling Project in Virginia (1981-2013)
… call an unmasking function by working to expose political, cultural, gender, corporate, and other factors that get masked by the cultural authority of scientific expertise. Following the lead of other STS scholars seeking to move beyond an unmasking-only mode of scholarship, this dissertation …
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Occupying Politics: Black women reimaging power and representation in Rio de Janeiro's Legislative Assembly
… Souza, all positioned within Brazil's left-wing political spectrum - this dissertation examines the political imaginaries constructed within their institutional representative practice, specifically focusing on their ongoing demand for political occupation in positions of power. Grounded in …
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Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups: the Eln and the Mpla, Colombia-Angola, 1956-1986
… representations with the purpose of building new political imaginaries, in whose analysis it is possible to explain features such as the structures of power, knowledge and language, how they are constantly changing, and how guerrillas gain legitimacy within a society by using ideological …
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The Sea on the Other Side: The Making of Hamburg and Rostock through the Cold War: 1945-1986
… of space and territory by economic and political interests. This dissertation argues that spatial claims circulated by local and national actors did as much to divide Germany as the infrastructures of the intra-German border. Instead of in barbed-wire fences and walls, this dissertation …
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Instituting Dissensus: The Democratisation of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
… of democratic politics. Building on contemporary political philosophy, post-structuralist theory, and cultural studies, it begins by analysing both dissensus, as the democratic principle that entails the never-ending redefinition of the members of the society (meaning, whose voice is heard and …
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Mirror, mirror : fairness and justice in climate geoengineering
… fairness and justice and of different social and political imaginaries. The thesis locates this exploration of justice concerns in a case for a relational care-based imaginary of the future, rather than in (neo)liberal administrative, risk-managerial imaginaries based on autonomous subjects. It …
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Between Violence and Utopia: an ethnography of pedagogy, childhood, and spatial politics in urban Pakistan
… there is substantial ethnic, religious, and political conflict and a striving towards social justice aims in education via the development project. There is an ongoing debate about the role of teachers in such contexts, particularly as it relates to ‘outcomes’ and success for young people as …
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A political ecology of design : contested visions of urban climate change adaptation
… designed and engineered solutions and sociopolitical measures. It often assumes urban politics to be contained and cohesive. And it has relied on static conceptualizations of the city as a bounded territory, neglecting interconnections across networks and broader processes of globalization, …
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Politics of religious diversity: toleration, religious freedom and visibility of religion in public space
… immigration concerns have increased social and political anxiety about the visibility of religion and religious diversity in public space. Visibility in public space is a measure of sociability: expressions of identity in public space attest to a public recognition as well as integration of this …