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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"rioting"”.
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Battle of the Corner: Urban Policing and Rioting in the United States, 1943-1971
Battle of the Corner: Urban Policing and Rioting in the United States, 1943-1971 provides a national history of police reform and police-citizen conflicts in marginalized urban neighborhoods in the three decades after World War II. Examining more than a dozen cities, the dissertation shows how …
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An Analysis of Major American Riots: Issues in Riots and Riot Control
… research to understand the concepts surrounding rioting and efficient riot response tactics, professionals, especially whose main job is to ensure the tranquility in the society, will be better prepared to deal with all kinds of civil movements. The purpose of this study, consequently, is to meet …
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Pandemic panic : a network-based approach to predicting social response during a disease outbreak
… overwhelming medical infrastructure and rioting. We developed a coupled network approach to understanding and predicting social response to disease spread. We couple the disease spread and panic spread processes and model them through local interactions between agents. The behavioral …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
… and the aversion to inflicting injury to bodies. Rioting has proved central to recent movements because it is exemplary (though not exclusive) of how such strategies are enacted, and bears out in condensed form their logic: necessarily embodied and risky in the discursive action of transgressing …
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Slippin’: A participatory and psychocultural study of inner city youth, masculinity, race and mental health.
… the period immediately before August 2011, when rioting dramatically broke out in several English metropolitan cores, including St Pauls. The research belongs to a literary tradition in the human sciences concerned with oppression and resistance, and draws from ideas across anthropology, …
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An assessment of head teachers’ management practices of violent behaviour among learners in Luanshya district, Zambia.
… fighting, insulting, vandalism, drug abuse and rioting among others. Various constraints were experienced in the management of violent behavior among the notable ones were parental interference, increase in child headed homes, irresponsible human rights use, external influence and high levels of …
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A Critical Analysis of the Print Media Representation of Children and Young People during Transition from Conflict in Northern Ireland
… represented as youth involvement in ‘sectarian’ rioting in July 2010. In exploring the role of the media and the impact of negative media representations on social reaction, this study includes interviews with editors and journalists, politicians and policy makers, and a spokesperson for the …
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"The cradle of liberty": Faneuil Hall and the political culture of eighteenth-century Boston
… inhabitants. After the dispute resulted in rioting, the cosmopolitan merchant Peter Faneuil proposed a conciliatory, yet still controversial, plan for a building that offered progress while yielding to tradition.</p><p>Named in honor of its donor, Faneuil Hall helped negotiate relations both …
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… effort to erase memory. All prosecutions for rioting, and all damage suits against the city were dismissed. By year-end, the local newspapers omitted all mention of the riot, occupation, and trial in their wrap-ups of the year's events. This thesis uses the lens of the Coffeyville riot to …
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Black, white, and blue : media and audience frames from visual news coverage of police use of force and unrest
… and White participants. For White participants, rioting and chaos are primarily negative, while Black participants position their evaluations in more sympathetic, understanding terms. Non-violent visualizations also lead to various assessments. Black participants were overly-cautious of White …
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Reporting Race and Resistance In Dixie: The White Mississippi Press and Civil Rights, 1944-1964
… the Citizens' Council, lynching of Emmett Till, rioting in Oxford, assassination of Medgar Evers, and murder of three civil rights workers, the state certainly earned this reputation. Singer Nina Simone insisted that 'everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!,' but this dissertation reveals that …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
… and myth-like. Through the confusion of rioting images, however, Thomas' desire for structure and meaning emerges, Thomas repeatedly employs the term "shape" in the sonnets in a context of questioning, of trying to determine what the correct shape is. In addition, the poem is filled with …
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Inoperative Poetics: Lyric And Anarchy In The Era Of Financialization
… expanding today with the global proliferation of rioting and other forms of social unrest which, in their attempts to experiment with rather than affirm socialized identities, tend not to be recognized as "political" in a conventional sense. My analysis of the lyric alongside anarchism shows that …
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Twelve Days of Hell: A Study of Violence, Historical Memory, and Media Coverage of the York, Pennsylvania Race Riots, 1968-2003
… 1960s, in particular, endured years of violent rioting due to social and economic inequalities between whites and blacks, and many of these riots have received ample coverage from the media and academic scholars. However, a lesser-known riot that destroyed homes, devastated businesses, and took …
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An economic approach to social interactions and institutions
… of social phenomenon, that of riots. Although rioting is a form of social interaction, it is not usually defined as an institution. Yet, it is only through a proper definition that one can proceed to meaningfully evaluate and predict riots. The model of social interaction developed in Chapter …
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The origin and organization of the covenanting movement during the reign of Charles I, 1625-41: with a particular reference to the West of Scotland
… liturgical innovations, as manifest by the rioting which greeted readings from the Service Book in Edinburgh during the summer of 1637, form the substance of the next three chapters and are complemented by the subsequent two which trace the progressive emergence of the tables from a …