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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"power to act"”.
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Walking the City of Cape Town: (un)happiness
… in the postcolonial city, situating Cape Town as a critical site for interrogating its meanings, limits, and possibilities. While happiness has often been framed as a measurable state of well-being or a commodity of neoliberal governance, this study contends that such reductions obscure …
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Internet Art and Agency: The Social Lives of Online Artworks
During the 1990s, artists started to explore the possibilities of the World Wide Web. This thesis investigates online artworks by studying their agency. Why do people interact with them, as if they are alive? How do they mobilise people, or make them share visions and ideas? Based on research in …
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A Proposed Legal Framework On The Extraction And Consumption Of Outer Space Resources
… road maps take advantage of local resources to reduce mission costs and enable the growth of revolutionary self-sufficient technologies to prolong mission duration and reach beyond current destinations. The major space treaties included limited provisions on space resource utilization in …
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Zhang Xiguo’s writing world
… of my thesis, I give a brief introduction to Zhang Xiguo's life and his writing and a brief summary of Zhang Xiguo's humanistic concern: he writes for people. Chapter One discusses that Zhang Xiguo has focused his writing on the physical and spiritual exile of Chinese people. He thinks that …
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A hermeneutic phenomenological investigation of adult nurses’ concept of agency in clinical nursing care within hospital settings
… phenomenological investigation was undertaken to understand nurses’ concept of agency, or power to act, in clinical nursing care within hospital settings. It examined how free or constrained nurses felt in nursing care within their scope of practice. There were questions of what constituted …
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Plaster, as a vital material: The agency of plaster in the curation of the Çatalhöyük skull
… discovery of Neolithic plastered skulls has attracted widespread interest but there has been a disproportionate focus on the construction and meaning of the skulls, with little regard paid to the material, plaster, itself. In 2004, in Çatalhöyük, a plastered skull was excavated, which had been …
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"This is a Public Record": Teaching Human Rights Through The Performing Arts
… understanding of these issues and unleash their power to act toward positive change. This qualitative study attempted to gain a deeper understanding of the use of performance arts to teach human rights in an urban high school setting.</p> <p>The following meta-question guided this research: "Is …
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Thinking the Financial Subject with Contemporary French Thought: Ontology, Time, and the Critique of Capitalism in the Work of Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, and Frédéric Lordon
… can make a novel theoretical contribution to financialisation studies, and more specifically, to the field’s interest in the relation between finance and the subject. Mobilising Catherine Malabou’s notion of the *schème moteur*, I argue that unlike the current literature in financialisation …
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Companies in Private Law: Attributing Acts and Knowledge
… persons. They lack a physical body with which to act, and a mind with which to think. English law therefore developed the concept of attribution so that legal rules could be applied to companies. Attribution is the process of legal reasoning by which the acts and states of mind of human …
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Peacekeepers as enforcers? A legal analysis of the attribution of enforcement powers to UN peacekeeping operations in the new millennium
… UN peacekeeping operations and UN enforcement actions must be preserved so that the efficacy of peacekeeping will not be imperilled. It is submitted that the primary strength of peacekeeping has long been that it was not in the nature of enforcement. Whereas an enforcement operation is …
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Mandate of the Judicial Complaintss Authority: Analysis of Faustin Kabwe V Attorney Genera
The Judicial Complaints Authority is a statutory body established pursuant to the provisions of the Judicial (Code of Conduct) Act, No. 13 of 1999. Its primary function is to receive and investigate complaints made against judicial officers and thereafter submit its recommendations to "the …