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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"political radicalism"”.
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… thesis offers an examination of the feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor. Despite the growth of interest in the political and social campaigns of nineteenth century women, Helen Taylor has remained a marginal figure of historical enquiry, referenced mainly in terms of her …
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Alternative Ulster: voices of political radicalism, cultural empowerment and social dissent within loyalist paramilitarism in Northern Ireland since 1966
This thesis considers the political thought that has been threaded throughout the history of loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of the modern troubles in the mid-1960s - a political voice that would often speak in more radical tones than anything else emanating …
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The workplace and non-mainstream political ideas: the interplay between employee voice, unions, discrimination, and political radicalism and populism
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Rebuilding the soul : churches and religion in Bavaria, 1945-1960
… the Nazi past and ward off any future slips into political radicalism of either the left or right. These efforts centered on three core topics: regular worship attendance, confessional schooling for children, and an "ordained" marital life. This dissertation examines the theoretical foundations …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
… philosophies included the primacy of literature, political radicalism, sexual liberation, and group authorship. By writing a play in 1840 that reasserted these ideals, Hunt hoped to gather a new coterie following reminiscent of the Cockney School. Responses to the play from Hunt's younger …
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An approach to traditions of British stand-up comedy.
… tended to discourage stylistic innovation and political radicalism. The work of three comedians, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson, and Ben Elton, is then examined in detail, with a view to establishing how important the influence of tradition is on the work of individual comedians. The thesis …
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Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s
… World Solidarity movements. These claims of political solidarity between these two groups rested on ideas of a shared sense of cultural, historical, ethnic, and political origins. Through the combination of a wide range of archival sources and oral interviews collected in nine archives across …
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Darwin in context: the London years, 1837-1842
… work, with its dangerous associations with political radicalism and infidelity, and his intense desire for social respectability, evidenced by his determination to shun controversy and by his retirement to the security of family life in the Kent countryside. How Darwin coped with the tension …
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Narratives of Crime and Disorder: Representations of Robbery and Burglary in the London Press, 1780-1830
… and middling classes, already anxious about political radicalism and social change, who were not only the principal purchasers of newspapers, but who were also disproportionately portrayed in the press as most frequently the victims of these two crimes. Furthermore the state, needing public …
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Reading the Terror over Tea: Reflections of British Nationalism in the Guillotine's Blade, 1793-1795
… increasing middle class that demanded grater political participation. The French Revolution recast all of these issues and forced a reassessment of what it meant to be British, and, as such, was the chief stimulus for the development of British national identity as it changed from one based on …
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Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of 'Welsh Wales' through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation
… were linked with the cultural production of political radicalism. The assemblage of new wholes from existing parts established a critical method for negotiating the social world. Driven by technological and cultural developments, the practice of combining separate images is now applied within …
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Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
… to the land as a key dimension of their political radicalism and it interrogates the transformative potential of a back-to-the-land way of living. It does so by examining their lived experience of (post)migration and by paying attention to their affective experiences, encounters and …
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Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction
… of moral philosophy, Romantic idealism, political radicalism, and the cultural assumptions that guide literary production and consumption. Condition-of-England novels, such as Elizabeth Gaskell' s Mmy Barton (1848) and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke (1850), demonstrate the Carlylean …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
… of the concept of work. During this period the political strategy of "the refusal of work" (as employment or productive-labor) coincided with changing conceptions of the “work" of art, a dematerialization that manifested in a turn towards performance and conceptualism. Aesthetic and political …
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The Family, Morality and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813-1890
… fanaticism, and Modern Times is consigned to political anarchism. This dissertation claims, however, that despite the radical nature of their solutions, these movements found no simple or one-sided solution to the family question. Their ambitions were not single-minded, limited to economic, …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… the traffic between U.S. literary culture and political philosophy, this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… intellectuals, engaging in the cultural and political struggle for hegemony and the dominant ways of understanding social processes. Whereas poets are typically considered traditional intellectuals who participate in the struggle for hegemony through narration and observation, Def Poets were …