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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"power and authority"”.
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Gender, Power, and Authority in Indigenous Mexico City, 1700-1829
… indigenous populations organized into 'cities and villages and towns' that so amazed Bernal Díaz, Hernando Cortés, and others. This dissertation aims precisely to answer that question, especially for the late colonial period when it would seem that multiple generations of the indigenous and …
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The Power and Authority of the Committee On the Rights of the Child
… takes a different approach. Based on Barnett and Finnemore's theoretical framework of bureaucratic theory (1998, 2004), this research claims that because IOs bear rational-legal standing, delegated tasks, moral position and expertise they are bestowed authority by many actors. Consequently, …
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ETHNOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa)
ETHNOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa) This dissertation is an interdisciplinary folkloristic search for resistance poetics in tradition-oriented folklore of the Salale Oromo in central Ethiopia using both …
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Rhythms of the gods: the musical symbolics of power and authority in the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh
… theories in symbolic anthropology and musicology, the study stresses the primacy of symbolic action as a means of defining and controlling social reality, and proceeds to examine the relationship between the activation of musical structures and the social construction of power and …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
Conduct and courtesy literature have a long history, its vernacular tradition extending back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We are familiar with modern versions of this literature: Ann Landers advice column, women's magazines, and even modern books that tell us about etiquette. My …
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Working-Class Black Male First -Year Writers and Their Composition Teaching Assistants: Negotiating Power and Authority in the Basic Writing Classroom
… aspects of decentered classroom pedagogy, and three African-American males, two of whom hail from single-mother working-class homes. In particular, this study explores how effective certain decentered classroom heuristics are in relation to the three men and their twelve women classmates, …
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A national survey of school board members' views on the impact of reform and restructuring on school board power and authority
… board members concerning the impact of reform and restructuring initiatives on their school districts and on their power and authority to govern. Data were gathered regarding the frequency of reform programs and cross tabulated with selected demographic variables to include region, size of …
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Voices as equal as others: a narrative inquiry into the doctoral journey of psychologists and psychotherapists from authoritarian background
The relationship with power and authority operates on multiple levels, influencing the development and clinical practice of psychological practitioners. This narrative inquiry explored the lived experiences of power and authority during the training of counselling psychologists and psychotherapists …
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Sacred Power and Chiefly Headdresses in Sāmoa, Tonga, and Fiji
This research is invested in recovering and recuperating the indigenous knowledge and visually encoded meanings associated with chiefly headdresses in the Pacific, using a form of analysis that is centred on themes of personhood, lineage, and materiality. These themes are woven in throughout the …
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Creating a Somali Manhood: Navigating Race, Place, and Power in Seattle, WA
… Washington. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this study examines social interactions in key urban spaces. These spaces include the mosque, streets, a community center, and the soccer field. By focusing on how young Somali men interact and navigate social space, …
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Violent Actors and Embedded Power: Exploring the Evolving Roles of Dons in Jamaica
… don is a non-state actor who wields considerable power and control inside that nation's garrison communities. A don is a male figure, usually from the community in which he plays a leadership role. Garrisons in Jamaica have often emerged as neighborhoods that are don-ruled shadow versions of the …
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The Implementation of a Lay Counseling Program at Oak Park Baptist Church, Jeffersonville, Indiana
… involves evaluating an individual’s competency and confidence in using the Scriptures, developing a curriculum to help foster more confidence in using the Scriptures, and exposing the person to the authority and sufficiency of the Scriptures regarding several everyday occurrences that take place …
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Women's Perceptions of Leadership Roles within a Southern Baptist Congregation
… Georgia assign meaning to leadership roles and understand particular biblical scripture. The interviews revealed (1) knowledge gaps between the women's stated beliefs and their basic knowledge of their faith, and (2) contradictions between their views and their practices. The interviewees …
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Teorie dell’autorità e del potere nell’Islam sciita secondo l’opera di ʿAlī Fayyāḍ
… work of ʿAlī Fayyāḍ, a prominent polit-ical and intellectual figure within Lebanese Hezbollah, and to analyse theoretical founda-tions of power and authority from a specific Shīʿa perspective. This will make it possible to reconstruct the nature of the relation between authority and …
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Sophie Calle: Her(e) but Not Her(e)
… alliance with philosopher, Michel Foucault, and their shared work with the Prison Information Group in France in the early 1970’s. Having established this common connection between the artist and theorist, I will trace Calle’s work and its continued alignment with the prolific theorizations …
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Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne's Aachen
<p>Statements in Stone is an intersectional and preliminary study of the architecture and Social aspects of the palatine complex of Aachen Germany during the reign of Charlemagne approximately spanning from the 790s to 814CE. The interplay between built space and its Social uses inform the larger …
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Power, Authority and Influence: A Comparative Study of the Behavioral Influence Tactics Used by Lay and Ordained Leaders in the Episcopal Church
… that is necessary for the attainment of societal and organizational goals. Leadership is both conspicuous in its absence and mysterious in its presence — familiar and yet hard to define. Leadership happens within the power and authority structures of organizations. The body of research on the …
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Monstrum : the vampire in the detective story /
… its connections to the private detective's story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically in their reformation of the' other' and of traditional forms of power and authority. Seen in this light the movement of horror's imaginary 'other' into …
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Civil society strategies on urban waterways : stewardship, contention, and coalition building
… their contamination, environmental injustice, and nebulous development futures given changing economies-present multiple problems that are confronted by environmental civil society organizations. Despite the many problems, these groups view urban waterways as some of the last available open …
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Uncovering Queer Domesticity: Intuition and Possibility as Methods of Intervention Into the Historic House Museum and Archive
… of queer domesticity, queer possibility and intuitionin historic house museums. It develops a methodological framework intended to intervene in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using the Elfreth’s Alley Museum’s podcast The Alley Cast as a case …
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