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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"political transition"”.
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Liminal heritage and political transition in Burma/Myanmar since 1824
… Human beings are living through a deeply transitional moment characterised by a rise in authoritarian populism (Bugaric 2019) and a ‘brokenness of political reality’ that is both cause and effect (Wydra 2015a, p. 1) of the wicked problems that plague us, from the threat of nuclear warfare …
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Provision of public goods and health outcomes during political transition in Nigeria
… in Nigeria. One of the current debates in the political economy literature focuses on the bene ts of democracies to ordinary citizens, especially in developing countries, and particularly in sub-Saharan African countries. Most Nigerians have been questioning the bene ts of transition from …
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Exploration of leader inclusiveness in the context of a post-conflict political transition
… inclusiveness in the context of a post-conflict political transition” is a study of inclusive leadership in a new context and hence falls within the scope of the journal. This study juxtaposes the topic of inclusive leadership, which falls in the fields of human resources management and social …
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Televising truth commissions: the interaction between television, perpetrators, and political transition in South Africa
… broadcast coverage of truth commissions within politically transitioning societies, particularly how these discourses may influence the perceptions and experience of transition out of conflict. It focuses on the narratives constructed around apartheid-era perpetrators who participated in the …
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Bridging the gap : the role of the private sector in track-two diplomacy and South Africa's political transition
… can and do make to conflict resolution and political transitions. The theories regarding unofficial negotiations are explored in the context of a South African case study and will look at the ways in which the efforts made by members of the private sector during the last five years of …
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A case for the comparative study of the dramatisation of socio-political transition in South African theatre and Iranian cinematography
… creative responses to the experiences of socio-political transition as dramatised and refracted in the work of South African playwrights and Iranian cinematographers. The intention is not to offer a survey or linear periodisation of major works and auteurs. Instead, the aim is to explore how an …
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From protest to development : the dynamics of change at the Western Province Council of Churches
… This occurred as a direct result of the political transition in South Africa between 1990 and 1994. The main forces pressing change upon the WPCC during this period were: (i) its commitment to retain relevance in a changing political and social environment according to the principles of …
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An examination of administrative capacity to implement development programmes in South Africa
… needs which accompanied the country's recent political transition. This emphasis has in turn raised questions about whether these bodies possess the requisite or sufficient capacity to carry out development activities, and where this is judged not to be the case, that efforts should be …
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Mediating transition in Afghanistan, 2001-2004
… a case study to interrogate the notion of “media transition” and its underlying assumptions. It examines how development organizations such as the United Nations, bilateral aid agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, and non-governmental agencies created the institutional …
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Cuando Las Mujeres Leen: Teorizando El Sujeto Y La Narrativa en La Novelistica Femenina Hispanoamericana De Los 80
… Argentina and Uruguay are read as a form of political critique in order to reassess and reconsider cultural production through the specific social conscience developed by Spanish American women during the eighties. The political transition from military authoritarian rule to democracy …
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
… youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it reveals that today’s regime of police violence against youth is in fact deeply constitutive of the Kenyan political fabric; moreover, every post-independence political transition has cemented ideas of youth subordination as …
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Review and reform of South African health legislation
… citizenship in a sovereign and democratic state. Political transition brought with it the promise of a better life for all citizens of South Africa as apartheid policies and racist legislation were relegated to the annals of history, and as the process of reconstructing a society torn by …
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Antonio Saura's Monstrifications: The monstrous body, melancholia, and the modern Spanish tradition
… as a means of exploring moments of cultural and political refashioning of the modern Spanish tradition during the second half of the twentieth century. In his work, Saura rendered well-known artworks of masters of the Spanish pictorial legacy (El Greco, Velázquez, Goya and Picasso) as monstrous …
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Interest mediation and democratic transitions : NEDLAC and South Africa's experiment in Corporatism
… Nelson Mandela in 1990 marked the beginning of a transition process during which South Africa would finally move from an authoritarian apartheid state to a democratic state that respected and upheld the basic principles of human rights. The field of ""transition politics"" is huge. It necessarily …
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Working with the enemy : the military integration process in transitional South Africa and the factors that shaped a new defence force
Against the backdrop of South Africa's political transition from Apartheid to a democratic system of governance during the early 1990s, the South African military underwent a distinct transformation of its own. During the military's transition seven disparate forces that had previously been vying …
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Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
… in South Africa, specifically in the period of political transition to democracy and the two decades after apartheid. The history of placing the Holocaust in post-apartheid South Africa shows the dynamics and tensions of identity construction by the state, communities and individuals as the …
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Representing national identity within urban landscapes: Chinese settler rule, shifting Taiwanese identity, and post-settler Taipei City
… the settler rulers had to strongly control the political, cultural, and economic interests of the ‘native’ population. Democratisation can be a key factor undermining settler rule. Such a political transition can enable the home population to reclaim state power, symbolising that the nation has …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… discourse of Letra muerta (1984) links political extremism with the contagion of human bodies and the body politic. Silence and isolation ""cure"" the protagonist's unruly behavior; likewise, the dominant discursive practice of Spain's political transition from dictatorship to democracy …
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Reading smallness: micro-spatial constructions in South Africa's literature of the interregnum
… out literary micro-spaces from the country's transition (or ‘interregnum') and reads them in terms of their incursive potential on the grand historical and spatial discourses in which they lie. To this end, the project takes its reader on a tour of small places. On one side is a compost hole …
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