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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"social tensions"”.
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Exploring Moral Courage When Resolving Economic and Social Tensions in Social Enterprises: A Mixed Methods Study
… through an economic-based design. Today, social enterprises embrace the frictions of making decisions between profit and purpose, business and society, and stability and change. Making decisions in these tension-filled dimensions requires a certain amount of professional moral courage and …
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Our brothers' keepers: Societal reactions to the Russian aliya in Israel, 1989-1992
… for already scarce jobs with veteran Israelis, social tensions are on the rise.
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Bumbling Biddies and Drunken Pats: Anti-Irish Humor in Antebellum New Orleans
… By doing this, jokes were able to release social tensions, become non-physical confrontations, and create lasting stereotypes about Irish immigrants.
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Composing the body: narrative in the age of improvisation, 1770-1867
… and performative practice—to negotiate the social tensions that afflicted nineteenth century American culture. Drawing on a diverse archive of primary materials, I argue that music’s development into an improvisational aesthetic inspired sentimental authors to integrate musical form and …
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On Virtual Becoming and Belonging: Visualizing the Performativity of Sudanese Cultural Identity and Resistance
… it is in a troubled present. For the diaspora, social media platforms function as spaces for the continuous formation and expression of these identities. These platforms often serve as spaces to (re)produce the social and political relations that define everyday life in the homeland. This thesis …
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What makes war? Assessing Iron Age warfare through mortuary behaviour and osteological patterns of violence.
… of Britain and how communities negotiated the social tensions caused by violent interactions.
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The cityscape and the modern gaze in Bogotá, 1930-1950
… early capitalist period of Bogotá reflect the social tensions and configured a scenario of symbolic violence that would lead to the actual violence that erupted by the end of the 1940s. The results show the correlation between one type of violence and the other and how they would settle the …
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A urbanização do bairro Valentina Figueiredo e suas desigualdades sociais.
… a worsening housing problems and creating social tensions in the city, so many of those who came to the city had not nowhere to live.This work targets the urban sprawl and changes in the form of land use atValentinaFigueiredo, located in the south of the city of João Pessoa-PB. During its …
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Deranged doctors and panicked patients: the doctor-patient relationship in fin de siécle literature
… doctor-patient relationship around 1900, 2) the social tensions between doctor and patient due to economics, class, media, politics and, most importantly, gender, 3) the narrative structure of voice. Close readings with particular attention to these three areas indicate the breakdown in the …
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Advanced ideas, Anachronistic landscapes: The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis
… was undergoing profound political, economic and social changes, especially those modes of discourse and political intervention promoted by an economically and racially hegemonic and homogenous intelligentsia. While Machado de Assis uses madness and egocentrism to challenge the idealistic view of …
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Contested valleys : reclaiming the common landscape in Bisri, Lebanon
… local communities, exacerbating existing social tensions for political gain. Visualizing river valleys as contested landscapes, this thesis explores the transition of these valleys from a constant state of destruction to places where people can reclaim their rights to the landscape. Taking …
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Between paradise and pressure : rethinking sustainable tourism in Labuan Bajo
… gap in between this ecological, financials and social tensions. Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Collaboration Theory, Capacity Building Theory, Carrying Capacity Theory, and Theory of Change, study critically examines how tourism development can help to improve the …
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Integration of sustainable development goals in business strategies /
Environmental degradation and social tensions have been significantly increasing in society since a couple of decades ago due to the growing populations and industrialization started the problems such as equality and job opportunities, climate change, global warming, health, pollution of water …
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Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage
In this dissertation I explore the social, historical, and theatrical significance of dramatic representations of childhood. In three case studies, one each on childhood in the Early Modern, Modern, and Contemporary periods, I focus on the relationship between larger social, industrial, and …
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The "Silent Scream" of "Pathetic Seeds": exploring a feminist ethics of care as a means to broaden the scope of current GM crop risk assessment practices in South Africa
… the backdrop of growing environmental pressures, social tensions and political instability, problems that cannot be accommodated in the current regulatory framework in South Africa are consistently emerging. This calls for a reformation of regulatory procedures to account for problems neglected by …
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Participation in a shifting global context? A case study of labor and faith in the American South
… This analysis concludes by exploring the social tensions often associated with participatory development and offering recommendations for increasing worker engagement and leadership in farmworker ministries and for confronting the agrarian imaginary.
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Social Capital and Vanua: Challenges to Governance Development in a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Project in Cuvu Tikina, Fiji Islands
… resource management system and the production of social capital in Fijian villages. Due to legally recognized resource tenure and the communal nature of village living, Fiji has been a popular site for community-based natural resource management projects (CBNRM). The aim of these projects is to …
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Social Capital and Vanua: Challenges to Governance Development in a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Project in Cuvu Tikina, Fiji Islands
… resource management system and the production of social capital in Fijian villages. Due to legally recognized resource tenure and the communal nature of village living, Fiji has been a popular site for community-based natural resource management projects (CBNRM). The aim of these projects is to …
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Resettlement & Namibian San communities: prospectives for sustainable community development through empowerment
… incapacity of the process to adapt to diverse social dynamics and locally conceived priorities. Community-level implementation of resettlement remains in the hands of authorities entrenching the continued dependency of San settlers on government provisions. Forced integration of settlers of …
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Crime and subversion in the later fiction of Wilkie Collins
… Sub-textual meaning in the novels reveals tensions and anomalies within ideas of criminality, the Victorian ideal of womanhood, medical discourses and the idea of the gentleman and his counterpart, the knight errant figure. Collins's later fiction presents itself as an impressive attempt to …
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