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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"reformism"”.
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Islamic Reformism on the Periphery of the Muslim World: Rezaeddin Fakhreddin (1895-1936)
<p>During the apex of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the geopolitical paradigm was gradually transitioning from imperialism toward the nation-state order. Where the former framework witnessed a handful of European empires vie for global hegemony and influence, the latter …
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Politics of Iran-West relations within the contextof Iranian occidentalism; image of the west in theIranian press during reformism (1997-2001) and conservatism (2005-2009)
The present research is about relations between Iran and the West from the communication point of view and the role of the media in creating anti-American and anti-Western sentiments amongst the Iranians. It studies how Occidentalism has evolved in Iran and how, as an ideological representation, it …
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Social Revolution vs. Nationalism: Misleadership of Senegalese Writer/politicians
… petty bourgeois limitations of nationalism and reformism.
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Securing Their Place: The Ba'alawi, Prophetic Piety and the Islamic resurgence in Indonesia
… the nation. Further challenges came from Islamic reformism, preaching egalitarianism increasingly defined public articulation of Islam, confronting "traditional" notion of Islamic authority.The Ba'alawi adapted by reshaping of the tariqa rituals, shifting emphasis on Prophetic piety, expanding the …
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Iran; A Nuclear Super Power? Understanding Nuclear Ambitions
… from the reign of the Shah of Iran. The fall of reformism has left the nation politically isolated from the international community. Iran is a nation on the brink of nuclear weapon capabilities and with strained relations there is little comfort in sight for an amicable solution. The …
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Od radikalismu k reformismu. Utváření představ o třídě ve druhé generaci představitelů českého dělnického hnutí, 1890-1914
… of pioneers to engagement oscillating between reformism of Bebel and revisionism of Bernstein. Even since the early 1890s gradually alternated Class about itself (Klasse an sich) at precisely defined Class for itself (Klasse für sich). Thesis seeks to answer the question: Why occured to the …
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Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction
… to closely examine both his treatises regarding reformism and Arab identity. His more important treatise is <italic>Tabai‘ al-Istibdad wa-Masari‘ al-Isti‘bad</italic>, (The Characteristics of Despotism and the Demises of Enslavement). The fact that <italic>Tabai‘ …
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Workers against Institutions: Power Relations and Political economy in the Irish Mushroom Industry
… which is reflected in tendencies such as 'reformism', 'partnership trade unionism', and bureaucratic tendencies as opposed to rank-and-file unionism, and 'popular power'.
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Missionaries, reformers, and the beginnings of western music in late imperial China (1839-1911)
… a by-product of Christian evangelism and Chinese reformism. The central contention of the thesis is that Western music was introduced to the Chinese not for its aesthetic appeal or artistic superiority but for its utility in China’s conversion to God and in its struggle for modernity. This study …
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Workers' Councils In Portugal 1974-1975
… movement and the strength of its counterpart reformism, some suggestions are made as to why the workers' council movement was relatively weak. At the micro level workers' councils type formations are compared, looking specifically at the features identified as being salient. The conclusion …
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Chilean conservative thought, 1866-1904
… to achieving progress emphasised gradual reformism while preserving customs and habits. Accordingly, having a unified and standardised language was essential to achieving their idea of “conservation by progress”. However, this conservative idea of progress contained inherent tensions. …
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Reframing socialism from the fifties to the fin-de-siècle : the intellectual odyssey of André Gorz
… his elaboration of a strategy of revolutionary reformism in the 1960s, through his role in the genesis of French political ecology in the 1970s, and his advocacy, in the 1980s and 90s, of a civilization of free time. The dissertation seeks to situate Gorz's ideas in the changing social and …
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The Origins of British-American Cooperation in Foreign Affairs 1897-1920
… nationalism within the framework of imperial reformism; the construction of Wilsonian foreign policy; the role of propaganda in British-U.S. relations; the beginnings of U.S.-British intelligence collaboration; the role of race in imperial and internationalist economic development; strategic …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… (or, for many Southerners, intrusive) New Deal reformism, and a Depression-traumatized national culture fascinated with images of both Southern rural suffering (""white bondage"") and literary grotesquery. I see Depression-era Southern writing as a literature of conflict rather than consensus, …
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Trading in Soweto
… both the diffusionist paradigm and its offshoot, reformism, as well as various strands of the Marxist paradigm to studies of trading in Third World situations. The chapter then turns to an alternative construct, structuration, as a framework within which to place the study of trading in Soweto. …
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Preaching Marxism? The Politics and Ethics of Leftist Muslim Activists in Java
… organisation instead of giving up on it. Beyond reformism, their project aims at the development of a new version of progressive Islam. Furthermore, they apply religious practices such as prayers in their activist struggle alongside elements of the leftist activist repertoire. Acknowledging that …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… management. Thus, contrary to liberal promise, reformism functions to disarticulate and <em>redistribute</em> the carceral system.</p> <p>Informed by abolitionist organizing and research methodologies, this dissertation focuses on sites of collective struggle and theorization against state …
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The nature of the tripartite alliance and its impact on the operations of the ANC government in South Africa, 1990-2017
… ANC administrations to embrace the "Keynesian-reformism" narrative that served to defend the Neo-liberal macroeconomic policy framework. According to the theory, the government used the ANC-led alliance's contradictory "revolutionary" position to further the interests of newly emerging black …
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Man, Society, and Knowledge in the Islamist discourse of Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb's conceptions of man and society inform and are themselves informed by his theory of human and divine knowledge. Our aim in this dissertation is, first, to highlight the intricate relationships between Qutb's ontology and his epistemology, and, second, to point to the active context of …
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Politics of the Project: Radical Art in Britain (1972-79)
The 1970s saw collaboration and local, grass-roots activism become common in radical art in Britain. Concomitant with anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-nuclear efforts, a group of Leftist artists challenged social and financial elitism, patriarchy and inequality in both the art world and British …
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