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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"political resistance"”.
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An Exploration of Political Resistance to Cooperative Learning
… not support the use of cooperative learning. (3) Political resistance is heavily tied to philosophical beliefs and vested interests. (4) Cooperative learning is basically the province of newly appointed administrators and teachers newer to the profession. (5) Cooperative learning will draw the ire …
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Liberian Women and Political Resistance: Family Influences and Collective Organizing
Fatigued and enraged by 14 years of political conflict rife with violence targeting women and children, Liberian women formed a transnational network of peace activists that ended civil war in their home in 2003. Numerous grassroots organizations, market women, legal aid workers, and women’s rights …
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Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1763-1783
The colonial clergymen who justified political resistance to British authorities from 1763 to 1783 did so in continuity with previous justifications of political resistance found within Reformed Protestantism. Clergymen such as Jonathan Mayhew who justified a right of resistance in the eighteenth …
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Spatial Sovereignties: Autonomous Subjectivity and Political Resistance in Hamburg’s Rote Flora,1989-2017
… Berlin to re-think the nature and purpose of political protest. Left-radical practice thereafter rejected the use of terrorist violence, and effectively refused organised Leninist Marxism, teleological revolutionary politics, and solidarity with syndicalist organisations, all of which had been …
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From British Nationality to Political Resistance: BN(O) Status and the Vision for a Hong Kong Crown Dependency
… a token of British nationality into a tool of political resistance against a totalitarian party-state’s assault on Hong Kong. Through examination of the documents, the study discovered that under the British Nationality Act 1981 (UK), the British government took a racial demarcation policy and …
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Water management in Latin America: political resistance strategies and types of community. Comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia
… investigates the causal relation between resistance to water management strategies and types of community in Latin America, and establishes whether communitarianism, communicative community or post-modern community are merely ideal-types or if they coexist in real-life communities. Most …
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Uncivil Disobedience: Beyond the Orthodox View of Resistance and Counter-Resistance
What I call the Orthodox View of resistance and counter-resistance holds that at least in reasonably just societies a) political resistance is sometimes justified and b) the state and other citizens are justified in taking it seriously and treating it as relevantly different from other illegal acts …
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Uncivil Disobedience: Beyond the Orthodox View of Resistance and Counter-Resistance
What I call the Orthodox View of resistance and counter-resistance holds that at least in reasonably just societies a) political resistance is sometimes justified and b) the state and other citizens are justified in taking it seriously and treating it as relevantly different from other illegal acts …
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Resistance, education, and rites: An ethnographic study on Afrocentric community education
… the use of Afrocentric methods as a means for political resistance while grounding the experience in a critical lens of Afrocentric Theory.</p>
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Tactical Dramaturgies: Media, the State, and the Performance of Place-Based Activism
… In these sites I explore moments of performative resistance that challenge the supremacy of state power, dominion over language and voice, control of the body, and agency over space. Primarily informed by Marxist spatial theory, supplemented by additional postcolonial and feminist theory and …
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Healing Bodies: Micro-sites of Sovereignty as Places for Refuge, Regeneration, and World-building
… is derived from being in spaces activated by political resistance. These spaces demonstrate the power of Black and Native communities cultivating alternative ways of being and knowing as they work towards attaining our hopes and dreams of a decolonial and just future. Those futures reflect our …
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
… the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to concrete events, it attempts to expose the mechanics of capitalist state repression as presented in its current form. Central themes are police violence, state repression, popular sovereignty and political resistance. It is the …
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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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Inscrutable Islands: Narrative Difficulty and the Rhetoric of Creolization in Twentieth-Century Caribbean Novels
… perception enacts a form of cultural and political resistance. However, in the novels of Patrick Chamoiseau, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys, Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, difficult narrative forms can instead entrench social divisions and hierarchies.</p>
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From the Ground Up: Journeys Through the Leitrim Landscape
… ‘off-the-grid’ living, community education, political resistance, pre-Christian rituals and indigenous music. This research explores Leitrim’s rural landscape as a site of subjugated or outmoded knowledge, as well as a site of deep-rooted tensions: old/new; local/global; native/foreigner etc. …
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The Implications of Introducing Sustainability and Climate Change as Grounds for Compulsory Licensing Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement
… However, legal ambiguity, economic concerns, and political resistance constrains implementation. The thesis concludes that clearer interpretative guidance and reforms are needed to reconcile intellectual property protection and access to technologies with global climate imperatives.
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Sermons in Stones: Mormon Chosenness and the Politics of Land in the American West
… the intersection of religion, land use, and political resistance in Latter-day Saint culture, arguing that Mormon land ethics are shaped by a ritualized process I term the “Cycle of Chosenness.” Through historical and ethnographic analysis, I trace how collective memory of the pioneer era …
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The politics of loving blackness in the UK
… assess the concept of ‘loving blackness as political resistance’ as outlined by the African American feminist bell hooks (1992). The thesis will show the ways in which blackness has been both negated and denigrated in western cultures and thus constructed in opposition to notions of love and …
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"Svaraj and Self -Reliance: Translating the Self and Its Rule From the ""Bhagavad -Gita"" and ""Manusmr&dotbelow;ti"" to the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi"
… Enlightenment tint, while also weakening the political implications. Emerson, fueled by the Romantic drive for originality, restored these elements: the power of self-trust arose from reliance on God within. Thoreau cultivated himself by the asceticism of The Laws of Manu, and he transformed …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… the increasing instrumentalization of social and political content by the fashion industry in recent years. Such content raises questions about the relationship between notions of political resistance and market capitalism. Marxist theorists such as Frederic Jameson and David Harvey would perhaps …
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