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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"public intellectuals"”.
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Installectualism: Public Intellectuals in a Digital World
… tools gave birth to an entirely new breed of public intellectuals for which existing sociological and theoretical frameworks do not suffice to capture the nuanced yet unrestrained facets of the phenomenon and its transformative capacity. The thesis presents a new theoretical framework by …
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Conor Cruise O'Brien, public intellectuals, and politics in twentieth-century Ireland
This thesis is a study on the ‘public intellectual’ in mid-twentieth century Ireland, where the figure of the intellectual in politics was routinely maligned or altogether rejected by a broad cross-section of civil society for being insufficiently deferential to societal norms and out of touch with …
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Representations of writers as public intellectuals : Jean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Gao Xingjian and Pablo Neruda
This thesis takes as its subject the various public roles and representations of writers, using Said's 1993 Reith lectures on the subject of the intellectual as a starting point. The main questions raised are how writers, in various political and historical contexts, have functioned as public …
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The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
… examines the life and thought of three Canadian public intellectuals: T. Watson Kirkconnell, Robert England, and John Murray Gibbon. While each of these men developed philosophies of cultural pluralism in the context of larger projects, all three philosophies were rooted in colonialism, relied on …
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Representations of writers as public ntellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Gao Xingjian and Pablo Neruda
This thesis takes as its subject the various public roles and representations of writers, using Said's 1993 Reith lectures on the subject of the intellectual as a starting point. The main questions raised are how writers, in various political and historical contexts, have functioned as public …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… – including state authorities, mass media, public intellectuals, victims, and former Aum believers – have constructed the Aum Affair as a collective trauma in multiple and conflicting ways. Many media representations situated Aum as an evil ‘cult’ which ‘brainwashed’ believers and intended …
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Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863
… construction. It was through this engagement as public intellectuals that these men demonstrated their manhood and performed an “intellectual masculinity” which garnered their place among America’s “great men” of the nineteenth century.
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Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
… of neoliberalism, and the rise of economists as public intellectuals. By following veterans of the New Deal and Marshall Plan through Colombian reform projects of the 1950s and 1960s and back to the United States in the era of the Great Society, it suggests that one way of studying the route from …
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University Faculty Members’ Understanding of Their Role: Identity, Power, and Silence
… freedom also enables faculty members to be public intellectuals who shape and critique social policies and make knowledge assertions. In effect, the faculty members are institutionally protected to speak truth to power. Purposeful sampling of 9 participants from 2 universities yielded 3 …
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New Nations, Anxious Citizens: Social Change and Filmmaking in the West African Sahel, 1950--1980
… of Sahelien filmmakers as a cadre of African public intellectuals, cultural critics, artists and activists who utilized films as platforms for commentary on colonialism, decolonization, Islam and migration between the Sahel and France during the post-colonial era. This project seeks to go …
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The Multifarious Jihads Of Malcolm X: From Malcolm Little To El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Quote: I Am All That I Have Been. El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964
… I was exposed to him as an extraordinary public personality. I have determined that Malcolm X was one of the most compelling Black public intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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L'Historien dans la cite l'oeuvre intellectuelle de Donald Creighton et de Michel Brunet
… dissertation explores the participation of two public intellectuals, Donald Creighton and Michel Brunet, in the public space. It examines their historical writings as well as their participation as intellectuals outside of academia. These two men descended from the ivory tower to become active …
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Intellectuals as spokespersons for the nation in the post-Yugoslav context : a critical discourse study
… Amid growing uncertainty and insecurity, public intellectuals may play a key role in ‘making sense’ of these complexities, in particular by shaping shared representations of the nation and by defining national identities in public discourse. Engaging in symbolic practices of …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… following 1917, many American and European intellectuals attempted to understand the Soviet Union through travel. Hundreds of writers, journalists, academics, philosophers, engineers, and public intellectuals travelled to Russia (or, more properly, to the Soviet Union) to see the land of …
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Narratives of Normalisation: War Discourses in German Politics and Literature After Unification
My thesis focuses on the Federal Republic’s foreign policy ‘normalisation’ after unification, specifically Germany’s gradual re-militarisation and participation in offensive military engagements abroad, and investigates to what extent German authors – through their literary writing and in their …
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The Spiritual Curation of American Modernism
… A cadre of artist-writers, museum curators, and public intellectuals found their power in early 20th century America by building institutions to introduce a new, spiritually grounded modern art to a mercantile nation. In the US, beyond European sources for "the spiritual" were flirtations with …
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"The Eye Is The Window for the Soul:" Essays on the American Anti-Comics Movement
… documents and legal materials, the writings of public intellectuals, and nonprofit organizations, this study aims to present an expanded portrait of an often-misremembered period of repression in American history.
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The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico, 1938-1958
… popular support via print journalism, but also public speeches, and use of other mass forms of media, in a broad and long-term collective mobility project. The key claim of this faction – and in particular the small handful of its most capable and already politically connected leaders – was that …
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Walking backwards in high heels: narratives of women’s (non)representation in corporate leadership in the UK and Germany
… that circulate in business, academia and the public sphere: first, the story that men and women are “naturally” different and biologically suited for different destinies; second, the story that success wears high heels as (heterosexual) women can use erotic capital to get ahead; third, the …
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Merlin, the Brain, and the Market: Intelligent Machines and Global Order in Public Debates in Britain 1945-50
… after World War Two (1939-1945), influential public debates in Britain concerned the postwar settlement. This was a global war and Britain was a global empire in its final epoch. A crucial aspect of several schemes for reconstruction and the establishment of global order concerned the place of …
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