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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"state projects"”.
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(Re)creating the Jewish State : projects of (in)security and the disjuncture to price-tag violence
Jewish-Israeli settlements built over the State of Israel’s internationally-recognised territorial borders are sites of contestation. The focus of this thesis is upon conflicts and contestations which have developed between the State of Israel and some of its own subjects, Jewish settlers, over the …
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Muslims and the Relational State: Contesting Security, Identity, Diversity
Muslims and the Relational State: Contesting Security, Identity, Diversity Tobias Müller Interactions between Muslims and the state have become deeply contested political issues in 21st century Europe. States relate to Muslims in very different ways, in some instances as law-abiding citizens, …
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Las novelas de la Violencia y la Revolución en la formación del Frente Nacional en Colombia y el Estado revolucionario mexicano
… period in Colombia known as “la Violencia”, two state projects were consolidated and dominated the field of power throughout the 20th century. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico and the bipartisan coalition of the National Front in Colombia made use of the notions of revolution …
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What Happens When No One is Watching? Ecological and Institutional Considerations for the Long-Term Management of Compensatory Wetland Mitigation in the Western Washington Coastal Zone
Once compensatory wetland mitigation projects meet their permit criteria they are expected to last in perpetuity and are presumed to be self-sustaining. However, once projects are beyond their period of regulatory obligation there is rarely any follow up to determine how the projects ultimately end …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… such as graffiti writing challenge the memory projects of the state as well as state projects that are perceived by citizens to be 'inadequate,' 'inappropriate,' and/or as promoting the erasure of memory. Many of these initiatives are a reaction to the proreconciliation and pro-oblivion …
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(Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture
… codes of being and belonging, which resonated State projects and narratives that were used to define and secure the boundaries of a unified, mestizo imaginary of mexicanidad. And, it is within this context that I suggest that blackness has been framed as invisible, problematic, and foreign. For …