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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"power struggles"”.
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Prestige, manipulation, and coercion : elite power struggles and the fate of three revolutions
How do leaders win power struggles in Leninist regimes? Many political scientists emphasize the importance of institutions in such regimes. Such institutionalization allegedly provides a mechanism for distributing patronage and debating policies, stipulates rules that delineate a group that selects …
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The cost of (Mis)communication : information routes, power struggles and gender in sport for development
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (57-60). Also available online.
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Exploring the impact of trade union power struggles on the employment relationship in the South African mining sector
… employees at a mine in Marikana on the effect of power struggles between trade unions and the influence thereof on the employment relationship. The majority of the research focused on the two key unions in the mining industry namely, The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and The Association of …
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Image selling: how depictions of power relations, plasticity, and abjection in high-fashion advertisements construct terrifying social narratives
… order to construct social narratives related to power struggles, plasticity, and abjection. In creating these types of images, high-fashion advertisers send explicit messages to their viewers regarding the ways they should engage with the depicted social narratives, ranging from objectification …
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Discourse and Device. The Power Strategies of Hildegard Medicine
… alternative medicines and biomedicine, I reveal power struggles and discursive strategies that have lead to its contemporary popularity in German culture. Yet while its interest to scholars of German cultural studies is plain, the ultimate significance of my investigation is more than academic. …
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Transcendence
… sexuality, mortality, psychological issues and power struggles. I incorporate both cultural and personal references and use traditional and non traditional materials and processes that are intended to conceptually inform the viewer further. My intention is to create distinct embodiments that …
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Postcolonial Criticism and the Gospel of Mark: An Assessment
… studies. This methodology focuses on ideological power struggles between natives and imperial forces. In the first century CE the Roman empire exercised political authority over Jewish authorities such as the High Priest and the Pharisees. The gospel of Mark represents a form of resistant …
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Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
… considering interactions between culture and power relations. My dissertation understands prize fighting as a cultural text, structured in conjunction with social relations and power struggles. In so doing, the dissertation details how agents used a sport to construct, reinforce, blur, …
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The Elephant in the Baithak: Tabla and Audio Technological Discourse
<p>This thesis discusses how power, status, and performance practices play out between performers of <em>tabla</em> (North Indian hand drums) and audio engineers. To do so, I analyze engineer, performer, and music critic discourse surrounding <em>tabla</em> performances and technology to place it …
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Educational policy and literacy learning in an ESL classroom: constraints and opportunities
… of the program, which in turn ignited power struggles among school district leaders and the local school teachers. The findings also demonstrated that multiple and conflicting language ideologies affected the expectations of teachers, parents, and students themselves, regarding the …
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Using visual culture to address gender expectations in middle school art education: Visual art curriculum design based on the Manga Ranma1/2
… and students can work in a classroom with less power struggles. Educators provide students space to let them open-minded to have conversation in the classroom. Through sharing personal experience and interacting with classmates and teachers, students may owing to the empower activity to get more …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre crucefié and De la Saineresse. A …
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Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed
… and responsibly obtaining a sense of power is central to quality young adult literature. Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed show their adolescent protagonists' struggles with identity formation, consumerism, and the adult world. In order to address power …
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other oceans, other skies
… stories of belonging, feminism, and language as power. These stories offer a potential for transformation from viewer to participant and a shift in how our world is seen and experienced. Through an exploration of perception and affect, I challenge dominant narratives, prompting a contemplation of …
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On dictatorships
… The first two study the economic impact of power struggles in dictatorships. They focus on one mechanism used by dictators to remain in power, shuffling, where delegates have a short and uncertain tenure in any assignment. In these models, there is a ruler, a delegate and a population. The …
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Indigenous knowledge in international Arctic governance regimes
… is without the dramatic features of tension, power struggles, and uncertainty. In the following thesis, I will use the lens of international regime theory to analyze the discourse of indigenous knowledge in the Arctic Council. Through this analysis, I aim to reveal the power of this discourse …
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Dem Schwerte Muss Der Pflug Folgen: Űber-Peasants and National Socialist Settlements in the Occupied Eastern Territories during World War Two
… Himmler and the notorious internal fights and power struggles between the various governmental agencies involved. The Ministry for Food and Agriculture under the leadership of Darré was systematically pushed into the background and all previous, often publicly announced re-settlement policies …
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To adapt or not to adapt? : Writers and writing across prose fiction, theatre, and film 1823-1938
… twentieth century worked together to create power struggles, binaristic boundaries, and cultural prejudices that both promoted and limited adaptation across media. Using an interdisciplinary, historical, cultural, and analytical approach, this thesis traces continuities and changes between …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
… rather problematic and subject to geopolitical power struggles. It also finds that core concepts for a peacekeeping mission such as ‘security’ and ‘stability’ are also problematic and subject to discursive strategies. It is possible to find different strategies of legitimation and argumentation …
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Understanding discursive hegemony in Turkish politics : discursive strategies as instruments of hegemonic projects
… literature about Turkey concentrates on the power struggles between political actors on the policy level, the use of language as a strategic tool to establish a discursive hegemony as an indispensable part of wider political hegemony is neglected. Especially since the AKP has come to power as …
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