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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"political work"”.
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Subterranean governance: The political work of artisanal miners in the northern Peruvian Andes
… mining company. This dissertation examines the political work of this group of artisanal miners to secure and sustain their livelihoods in a context marked by state initiatives aimed at regulating their informal activities. Based on eleven months of ethnographic research, it unpacks four key …
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Plastic / Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise
… English-language treatment of the long-neglected political work of Claude Cahun, a French Surrealist writer and activist most famously known as an avant-garde photographer active in the 1920s but who later formed a powerful anti-Nazi resistance movement on the Channel Island of Jersey in the 1940s …
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When Activism, Tactical Media, Visual And Participatory Media Involve High Stakes: Investigating The Visual And Participatory Aspects Of Science Communication
… including how it exerts effects as a sociopolitical phenomenon. I conducted two case studies: on anti-GMO mobilization and pinkified cancer awareness. While constructing the cases, I describe what technologies I research, how they came to be adapted in Hungary, and who the proponents or …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… and material violence. Following the work of Sylvia Wynter, a framework of "genre" is engaged to provide an account of intersectional social identities, disproportionately distributed hegemonic violence (including both state and non-state actants), and the traditions and technologies …
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NFL Films and the re-production of Pro Football
The choreographed work of NFL Films in their first documentary, They Call It Pro Football (1966), offers a fitting case study in which to examine the construction and promotion of pro football in the 1960s. Using techniques of textual analysis and social/cultural historiography, I investigate the …
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Theorising evidence based policing: a discourse analysis
… the UK over the last two decades. EBP is a ‘what works’ initiative, claiming to offer benefits to policing policy and practice based on scientific research graded as ‘evidence’. EBP has exerted growing influence in British policing in parallel with attempts to 'professionalise' policing through …
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Black Influencers: Interrogating the Racialization and Commodification of Digital Labor
… celebrity status flattens and makes palatable political projects easily consumed by digital audiences. In particular, brands and digital media companies appropriate woke culture at the expense of Black communities, influencers, and people by propping up economic solutions to racial strife and …
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
… when wind knowledge assumed unprecedented political and economic significance. How did people come to know the wind and to narrate and communicate wind knowledge in the seventeenth century? What work did these complex and competing narrations perform? And what do they make visible? In …
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Revolution and its bureaucracy ; an analysis of the similarities and differences of revolution and its bureaucracy of Ignazio Silone and Milovan Djilas.
… simple in intent. It analyzes some of the major, political ideas of Ignazio Silone and Milovan Djilas, and endeavours to account reasonably for their personal rebellions and commitment to revolution. It traces their subsequent metamorphoses from Marxists to democratic Socialists. The work is …
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Making Home : (Re)Writing Motherhood and Identity in African American Women’s Fiction
… maternal theory and historical enquiry, the work develops across four chapters, beginning with Paule Marshall’s 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, and progressing chronologically in its discussions of Sarah E. Wright’s This Child’s Gonna Live [1969], Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress and …
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Love and marriage in Labour and Conservative party cultures, 1918-1970
… men and women engaging in electoral politics and political activism in twentieth-century Britain. It argues that marital status is an underappreciated category of analysis, particularly for women, in understanding access to political worlds post-suffrage. It provides a unique perspective that the …
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
… tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his political writings, Feyerabend develops a critical diagnosis of late modernity vis-à-vis pervasive misrepresentations of science and the authority of …
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Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university
… most unlikely places outside the classroom. This work is premised on the educational philosophies of liberation, embodiment and freedom of the oppressed and the marginalised. The qualitative research is largely presented as ethnographical research, with the researcher located as both participant …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… citizenship. Using a Latino/a Critical Race framework to address socio-political discourses surrounding the immigration debate, my analysis presents the ways undocumented youth communicated about their identity and agency and the ways they constructed their demands publicly in seeking passage of …
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural dimension of African American culture has mediated black writers' engagement with written public discourse. Looking at such diverse works as …
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Theatres of the Mind A Kleinian analysis of the plays of Harold Pinter
… searching for a critical language to explain the work of Britain’s most successful playwright, Harold Pinter. One of the richer paths of enquiry has been to analyse the plays using a psychoanalytic vocabulary. In general terms, however, most of these studies have been restricted to using a …
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Reinforcing social infrastructure : the role of physical interventions in revitalizing Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain
… interventions have reinforced the social-political work of neighborhood institutions and organizations. These physical interventions have stimulated and encouraged the revitalization momentum by producing physical, social, and economic benefits for the neighborhood. Each intervention's …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North America. In this thesis, I take an interdisciplinary, mixed-method approach to studying the cultural and political work done by Ontario-based, women-identified stand-up comics …
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Infrastructural Landscapes: The Technopolitics of Watershed Planning in Asia
… and social world. Using this conceptual framework, each essay analyzes a different watershed rationale, to understand how the politics of infrastructure restructure urban processes, development, and governance. Essay 1 analyzes China’s Sponge City movement and how stormwater management …
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Enacting other foodworlds: Affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference
… food initiatives (AFIs), both practically and politically. The surge of interest in AFIs in the past few decades has focused on the ways that AFIs might operate independently of capitalist, anonymous and mass-production processes, and is based predominantly on urban studies in the global north. …
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