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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"territorial control"”.
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Between global flows & territorial control : the state, tourism development, and the politics of reterritorialization in the Middle East
… has been focused on debating the question of deterritorialization where the powers of territorial nation-states are viewed as being eroded by the increased transnational mobility of capital. This dissertation, in contrast, demonstrates how international tourism development-like many other …
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WHO SUPPORTS TERRORISM? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TERRORIST RESOURCE NETWORKS
… to existing resource structure, especially territorial and political control to explain terrorist-civilian interaction. The importance of territorial control and political involvement with respect to terrorism has been under studied because of the inherent clandestine and violent nature of …
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THE URBAN-AGRICULTURAL CITY AS A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: A CASE STUDY OF PHILADELPHIA
… city’s history but spans from the era of Lenape territorial control to the consolidation of the modern city in 1854. Three historical-geographic antecedents to contemporary racial justice practices within urban agriculture were uncovered and examined through this research: the settler-colonial …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… keeping England from upholding its ambitions of territorial control. The English characters of each text thus demonize these women, defining Englishness in “civilized” opposition to their alterity. By invoking witches’ unruly and grotesque bodies, militant Englishmen in these texts justify their …
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Three Essays on Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction with Applications to Political Violence and International Security
… explanatory power than theories emphasizing territorial control or threats against the regime. A third dissertation paper extends this geolocation work, providing a neural network-based method for linking the events described in text with the locations where they occurred, even when multiple …
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Border Control Paradox: The Political Economy of Smuggling Between Colombia and Venezuela
… research is guided by a central paradox: border control policies intended to suppress organized crime, such as militarization and border closures, often produce the opposite effect—empowering criminal actors, deepening violence, and institutionalizing hybrid forms of authority. This "border …
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WHY FIGHT WHEN YOU CAN RULE TOGETHER? REBEL POWER-SHARING DURING CIVIL WARS
… wars face complex challenges in consolidating territorial control and establishing governance structures that are inclusive of diverse ethnic constituencies. While existing literature has extensively studied the violent dynamics between rebel factions, there is a significant gap in …
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In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese
… site that has been strongly associated with territorial borders of poleis in ancient Greece. When used as a distinct site type, it correlates location in a border zone with specific functions related to that border, such as community definition or territorial control. Focusing on the Archaic …
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CONTESTED TERRITORY: VIOLENCE, ORGANISED CRIME AND TERRITORIAL PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY HONDURAS
… for criminal actors, that usually seek to obtain territorial control in certain areas and often compete over it with their rivals and authorities. Despite this, Honduras remains a highly understudied country in academic and policy discourses on the issue, especially due to the objectively …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… to state enclosure of land for conservation, territorial disputes between local governments, and ethnic-based conflict over land access. The issues I explore intersect discussions on peasant resistance and African land regimes–institutional arrangements linking forms of public authority, …
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Invisible Etruscans: a study on rural landscape and settlement organisation during the urbanisation of Etruria (7th - 5th centuries BC)
… Etruscan centres adopted different strategies to control their lands and benefit from them. Urbanisation was however also met with resistance. These approaches led to a variety of ways of acting, reacting to and experiencing urbanisation, and have been abundantly studied through material culture …
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Planning under deep political conflict: the relationship between Afforestation planning and the struggle over space in the Palestinian Territories
… different policies of using space to achieve control over the Palestinians. The Palestinian authority with its planning system under the Israeli policies of control does not have enough power to deal with the different spatial problems that face planning endeavor. Palestinian planners find …
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Arkitekturens territorialitet : till en diskussion om territoriell makt och gestaltning i stadens offentliga rum
… for a discussion on architectural design and territorial power relations within the context of everyday life, and more specifically to investigate what role architectural design plays in these territorial power relations. The empirical framework of the discussion is set by public urban spaces, …
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Space sharing, territoriality, and situational environments in Shanghai's high-rise gated developments
… developments in Shanghai, focusing on a set of territoriality-related environmental meanings such as spatial control, spatial rights, imagination of home, and senses of responsibility and care-taking. Particular attention is paid to how people derive territorial senses and attitudes and how …
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¿Hacia una recentralización en Colombia?: una mirada desde el control fiscal excepcional
En materia de control fiscal territorial, se ha evidenciado la urgencia de una reforma en su estructura orgánica como consecuencia de los casos de corrupción que se han presentado en las entidades territoriales, los cuales han generado la intervención de la Contraloría General de la República en …