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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social dislocation"”.
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Economic Development, Social Dislocation and Political Turmoil in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis and a Test of Causality
… the relationship among economic development, social dislocation and political turmoil. Social dislocation, as defined in this study, means "urbanization," and it is used as an exogenous variable to model and test the hypothesized causal relationship between economic development and political …
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Human Rights in Turkey: A Comparative Perpsective on Violation and Resolution
… to the development of capitalism and the social philosophy of natural law, a theoretical framework of economic self-interest and an emotional 'social imagination' is constructed. Being a contemporary variation on Adam Smith's understanding of self-love and sympathy, this theory develops a …
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RUSSIA IN TRANSITION: A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE DISOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, EVOLUTION OF CAPITALIST REFORM AND THE CREATION OF PUTINISM, 1985-2015
… thesis examines the historical progression of social and political transitions in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to establish the development of Putinism in an historical context and assert a definition of Putinism as a governing philosophy which exploits the rhetoric of democracy …
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Towards an understanding of the structure, function and cause of gang formation in Cape Town
… us into wider and deeper areas, to poverty, social dislocation and strategies of class defence. And within and beyond these conditions can be found an ongoing struggle for survival, a class struggle, and the outline of the state itself. (It is here that one encounters a strange paradox: a …
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State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development
… us into wider and deeper areas, to poverty, social dislocation and strategies of class defence. And within and beyond these conditions can be found an ongoing struggle for survival, a class struggle, and the outline of the state itself. (It is here that one encounters a strange paradox: a …
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Towards an understanding of the structure, function and cause of gang formation in Cape Town
… us into wider and deeper areas, to poverty, social dislocation and strategies of class defence. And within and beyond these conditions can be found an ongoing struggle for survival, a class struggle, and the outline of the state itself. (It is here that one encounters a strange paradox: a …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
… ?suggest[s] affirmative ways in which profound social dislocation and rupture can be managed and perhaps contested in the cultural arena.? This hiphop methodology produces voice, subjectivity, and agency as weapons to combat oppression, challenge discourses, and produce knowledges. I theorize …
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Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico
… Mexican communities, creating new tensions and social ruptures. Going beyond a simple accounting of abuse, I engage ethnography as a lens through which to understand the social effects of historical and contemporary processes of war, displacement, economic restructuring and social dislocation as …
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Trauma experiences of ex-combattees
… dignity in situations of extreme poverty and social dislocation or become involved in violent crime as well as ongoing political and social instability in the communities where they reside. As pan of an ongoing trauma counselling programme, this research explicated narrations from …
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Arab American women in engineering: How did their culture influence their achievement?
… tutoring services as a major area of support. Social support seemed easier for many participants to find in high school than in college. Participants who wear the hijab noted a prevailing sense of otherness throughout their education. This study concludes with recommendations for parents and …
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Parapsychological Beliefs and the Effects of Exposure to Skeptical Inquiry
… the general public should be used as an index of social dislocation and of the inadequacy of the U.S.'s program of science education. Since discussions of the parapsychological/paranormal are most likely to occur in psychology classes, it is important that teachers have methods that they can …
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Locating an Ottoman Port-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Izmir 1580-1780
… of Ottoman economic and political crisis and social dislocation. This formulation gives little credit to the city’s regional setting as an agent of change. This dissertation, in contrast, addresses the question of Izmir’s rise from the vantage point of Western Anatolia’s environmental outlook, …
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point
Corporate Citizenship as a social phenomena spans a growing body of corporate initiatives, nascent policy frameworks, and global civil society action. Corporate engagement with fragile states, and other situations identified as contexts of conflict and/or weak governance, is the subject of …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… consequential. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge’s social dislocation and the aid influx delayed the emergence of what the thesis calls “confrontationist” civil society actors, while the state sought to channel dissent through NGOs. As the confrontationists expanded, China played a critical role in …
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Human geographies of the rural-urban fringe: Social dynamics of land development in the Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya
… of the most important dimensions of economic, social and physical change. It is almost a truism that the planet’s future is an urban one and that the largest and fastest growing cities are primarily in developing countries. As in other parts of the developing world, the urban population in …
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Space, place, and nationalism: Constituting, transmitting, and contesting national identity in the urban landscape of Zagreb, Croatia from 1850 to 1940
… slowing modernization to limit the economic and social dislocation it was causing in the countryside, between 1895 and 1935. The third empirical chapter covers the same time period, 1895 to 1935, but returns the focus to the efforts of the modernizing elements of the Croatian national project to …