Dissertations / Theses: 'Civilization'

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Hägelstam, Sebastian. "Tropico : Civilization Bar." Thesis, Konstfack, Keramik & Glas, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7232.

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Some years ago I stumbled upon and straight into the bliss of the tropical paradise when setting foot in a Tiki bar for the first time. The story behind this enchanting pop cultural institution unfolded a history built upon colonial power, cultural appropriation and hegemonies. This paper investigates the western construction of the tropical paradise and the power relations that it is built upon. The work revolves around processing my own attraction towards the tropical paradise and adressing how eurocentric narratives have been depicting Oceanic cultures, people and environments in Western popular culture. I approach this attraction by both researching the colonial history of Europeans presence in Oceania and how those events intertwine with our ideas of the paradise on earth today, as well as making objects, scenes and performances that alludes to the topic. At the end of this phase of the project, the colonial gaze that constructed the tropical paradise is turned towards the West itself in the making of the installation Civilization Bar.

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Brinson, J. C. "A critical phenomenology of civilization." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/350.

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Civilized culture is killing the planet. At present, we are facing the largest extinction event in 65 million years and the cause, according to most scholars, is "patently" human. My question, however, is not whether the mass destruction of the biosphere is the result of an unfortunate and misguided particularity within civilization (e.g., over consumption, driving too much, etc.), but rather: Is it the case that civilization, by its very nature, entails the destruction of the natural world and of both human and non-human communities? In the vein of a fairly recent movement in scholarship, my answer is a resounding "yes." Taking a cue from one of the foremost voices of this recent movement, Derrick Jensen, I'll briefly trace the genesis and justification of the following premise: "Civilization is not and can never be sustainable," as well as the philosophical fallout of what this may mean for us today. Employing the thought and method of certain strands of phenomenology, I first examine how it is that civilization appears in our collective everydayness and how certain movements within this appearance give way to its replication, continuation, and (largely) unquestioned legitimacy. From there, I move to incorporate the insight of Theodor Adorno and other critical theorists, uncovering the finer ideological strands that tie us to civilization. From the arguments outlined by Jensen, John Zerzan, and others, I make a case for the active rejection and dismantling of civilization, ultimately attempting to articulate a philosophically based strategy of resistance.
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Bachelors
Arts and Humanities
Philosophy

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A, Sopizhenko L. "INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION: PREDICTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/28082.

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Fioccoprile, Emily Ann. "Gender in the Indus Valley Civilization." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146215.

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Mano, Olivia Hatsue. "Hawthorne's defense of nature against civilization." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106099.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1979.
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Palabiyik, Mustafa Serdar. "Travel, Civilization And The East: Ottoman Travellers." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611743/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyzes the Ottoman travellers&rsquo
perception of &ldquo
the East&rdquo
in the late Ottoman Empire. In doing that, it links the Ottoman intellectual debates on the concept of civilization to their perceptions on the non-European lands and peoples. It mainly argues that the Ottoman intellectuals&rsquo
attempt to create a synthesis between the material elements of Western civilization and their own morality resulted in a perception of the East different from the Western perceptions. While the Western perceptions envisage a monolithic, unchanging and static East, the Ottoman perceptions vary in accordance with the temporal and spatial setting as well as with the intellectual inclinations of the travellers. Hence, this thesis contributes to the literature by fulfilling the gap about the Ottoman perceptions of the concepts of civilization and the East, by questioning the limits of existing literature on the Ottoman perception of the East which defines it as Orientalist/colonialist, by attracting attention to the use of Ottoman travel literature in understanding the Ottoman identity and their perception of the world, and, finally, by underlining the importance of the Ottoman perceptions of civilization and the East in understanding the historical roots of the &ldquo
identity question&rdquo
in Turkey.

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Li, Shuxue. "Lewis Mumford : critic of culture and civilization." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438250.

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Schmidt, Marcus. "Creating Worlds: Fan Modifications of Civilization 4." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75153.

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The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between author, text and user-generated modifications in the context of the computer game Civilization 4. These relationships are studied in part by analyzing how the game mechanics have been modified, and in part through analyzing the communication taking place between players of Civilization 4 in the CivFanatics online forums. The study concludes that fans as creators are increasingly leaning on each other and their self-produced accumulated body of knowledge in the generation of new and further changes to the narrative universe, and that the original creators of the game have all but faded from view. This suggests that fan creativity is not situated against or directed at particular authors (original or otherwise), but a community effort quite independent from original intent.

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Hannikainen, Mikael. "Demise of Classic Maya Civilization : a theoretical approach." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1043.

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Kollapsen av den klassiska Mayakulturen under sen 700- till sen 900-tal e.Kr. har förbluffat forskare ända sedan studier av Mayakulturen påbörjades på 1840-talet. Både arkeologer och antropologer som epigrafiker eller klimatforskare har arbetat med att lösa gåtan av hur ett kulturellt vidsträckt samhälle kunde kollapsa utan någon klar förklaring. Civilisationen som än idag talar till oss genom sina kolossala pyramider och tempel, inskriptioner och den vetenskapliga kunskapen som ansetts outförbara utan moderna instrument. Dock har inte kollapsen varit ett direkt fokus i Mayastudier sedan forskningen påbörjades. Det var inte förrän på 1960-talet som systematiska undersökningar utfördes för att hitta rimliga teorier till kollapsen. Ända sedan dess har hypoteser och teorier haglat in och forskarna idag hittar sig själva i en sjö av oförklarlig information. Kunskapen av Mayakulturen är enorm men det har inte hjälpt att hitta någon bestämd teori om kollapsen av klassiska Maya. Det finns forskare som fokuserar på stora katastrofala händelser såsom drastiska klimatförändringar, sjukdomar eller jordbävningar så svåra att återhämtning var omöjligt. Sedan finns den andra skaran av forskare som förkastar enskilda händelser och fokuserar mer på mångfaldiga katastrofer som kunnat utlösa ödesdigra mönster i samhället som till slut utmynnat i en kollaps. Trots oklarheter kring kollapsen har framsteg gjorts inom fältet. Många teorier har mycket tack vare avancerade metoder kunnat förkastas medan andra blivit mer debatterade. Vad som än Mayakulturen kan berätta för oss, står ändå kollapsen som den stora nöten att knäcka och ju längre forskningen av ämnet fortgår desto närmare kommer även forskare till svaret. Frågor dyker dock fortfarande upp om det är möjligt att lösa en av arkeologins stora gåtor.

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Lu, Di Yin. "Seizing Civilization: Antiquities in Shanghai's Custody, 1949 – 1996." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10437.

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Seizing Civilization uses the Shanghai Museum as a case study to examine an extraordinary process of art appropriation that persisted from 1949 to 1996 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). At the heart of this story is the museum's destruction of the preexisting art market, its wholesale seizure of privately-owned antiquities, and its sale of these objects on the international market. My findings show that museum employees used these events to create public art collections in the PRC. The Shanghai Museum pioneered the techniques that Chinese museums use to transform craft objects, as well as select ancient paintings, ceramics, and bronzes, into canonized cultural relics. I argue that the application of these techniques explains the erasure of provenance at Chinese Museums, and demonstrate how state cultural institutions render acquisition ledgers, private collecting records, and connoisseurship disputes invisible. I examine cultural relics' transformation into Chinese cultural heritage in five chapters. I first demonstrate how museum employees appropriated private collections during nation-building campaigns such as the nationalization of industries (1956). Second, I investigate changes to the Chinese art historical canon, placing them in the context of art market takeovers, the wholesale acquisition of ethnic minority artifacts, as well as municipal programs in salvage archaeology. Then, in two chapters, I reveal the Shanghai Museum's active participation in antiquities confiscation and divestment during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976), which enriched public art collections on a previously unprecedented scale. I conclude with an examination of the mass restitution of expropriated property in the 1980s and 90s, which underpinned the museum’s dual function as both a preservationist institution, as well as a political and commercial enterprise. The antiquities and events I analyze not only explain the ascendency of a dominant narrative about Chinese civilization, but also reveal the limits, contradictions, and challenges of PRC national patrimony.
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Stout, Jeffrey Wayne Sessions Kyle C. "Teaching western civilization through eyes of faith and reason." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914574.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1998.
Title from title page screen, viewed July 11, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Kyle Sessions (chair), Lawrence McBride, John Freed. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-161) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Margerison, John. "Accountability in the context of civilization change in China." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/12099.

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The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of accountability in the context of civilization change in China. Using a Foucaultian epistemic framework and archaeological method, data has been gathered from four sources: textual, interviews, case studies and surveys. Each source has been considered in terms of the viability of the modern episteme and the possibility of episteme change to ecological civilization taking place in China. Also the actors in the sustainability accountability network have been identified along with the key contingencies that could lead to changes in accountability in China. Based on the data collected there is strong evidence that the existing industrial civilization in China is seen to be unsustainable. Also that there are particular contingencies in place in China that make episteme change both likely and perhaps already taking place. The key contingency in this research is the metaphysical continuum based on harmony ideas in ancient Chinese philosophy. As a result there are strong grounds for predicting that new forms of accountability will be based around groupings of organizations in provinces, geographical areas (river basins) and regions, feeding up to accountability for sustainability at national and supra-national levels. Practically this research has opened up the possibility of accountability in China that could seriously address sustainability issues rather than the typical Western approaches based on empty rhetoric to improve reputation and legitimacy. This research has operationalized Foucault’s ideas on episteme change empirically in China. As such it represents an original contribution to research on sustainability and accountability responses thereto.

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Salter, Mark Basil. "On barbarians, the discourse of civilization in international theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0016/NQ46414.pdf.

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Fletcher, Jonathan. "Violence and civilization in the work of Norbert Elias." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284000.

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Goddard, Peter Allen. "Christianization and civilization in seventeenth-century French colonial thought." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304891.

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Trejling, Maria. "Discontent with Civilization in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-111778.

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The essay examines the concept of revolt in D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover through an analysis of its portrayal of society, oppression, and violence, as well as love, tenderness, and the body. Sigmund Freud's essay Civilization and Its Discontents is used as a theoretical framework.

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Morton, Anne Caroline. "The place of classical civilization in the school curriculum." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001444.

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Classical Studies, as a subject, has not been seriously presented in many schools until fairly recently. Britain initiated the introduction of Classical Studies to the school curriculum in 1974, and interest has continued to grow steadily in other countries like America, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. This thesis was started on the assumption that this entirely new subject could be introduced into the curriculum for standard six and seven pupils at South African schools, for reasons which will be given later. As work continued on the thesis, the 1985 syllabus for Latin lent it further impetus. Some of the implications of the new Latin syllabus will be considered in the conclusion (Introduction, p. 6)

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Majoka, Hashir. "Islam and the Turkic Tajik symbiosis in Central Asia." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111583.

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This thesis explores two factors that have been instrumental in the evolution of society and ethnic and national identities in southern Central Asia. It is argued that the development of these identities (and the obstacles encountered in the process) are closely linked to the place of Islam in central Asian society, and the delicate ethnic balance between the Turkic and the Iranian cultural spheres -- which also manifested itself as the symbiosis between sedentary-agrarian and nomadic populations. It was the disruption of these two factors under Soviet rule which led to lasting problems that continue to bedevil the region to this day.

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Flath, James A. "Printing culture in rural North China." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56541.pdf.

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Hemming, Ann J. McBride Lawrence W. Holt Niles R. "The evolution and dissemination of the modern concept of civilization." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9720806.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.
Title from title page screen, viewed May 30, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Lawrence W. McBride, Niles Holt (co-chairs), Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, John Freed, William Archer. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-283) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Algaze, Guillermo. "The Uruk world system : the dynamics of early Mesopotamian civilization /." Chicago : University of Chicago press, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35629465c.

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Howland, Douglas Roger. "Borders of Chinese civilization : geography and history at Empire's end /." Durham : Duke University Press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37493304t.

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Urbain, Olivier. "Daisaku Ikeda's philosophy of peace : human revolution, dialogue and global civilization." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3354.

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Daisaku Ikeda is the Buddhist leader of one of the most visible religious movements today, the Soka Gakkai International (SGI). In this thesis, the main research question concerns the peace philosophy of Ikeda and its contribution to peace theory. Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI have been the subject of several scholarly studies in the fields of religious history and sociology. The focus of this research is on the significance of Ikeda's contributions in the field of peace studies, where his work has not yet been the subject of systematic investigation. It is argued that the originality of Ikeda's philosophy of peace resides in two main elements. First, the starting point is consistently human life and its potential for peace and happiness, not the omnipresence of conflict. Second, he offers a coherent system linking the individual, dialogical and global levels, which can be represented as a triangle made of three conceptual frameworks, that of Humanistic Psychology (Human Revolution), Communicative Rationality (Dialogue) and Cosmopolitan Democracy (Global Civilization). It is also argued that while being inspired by Ikeda's Buddhist spirituality and his loyalty to his mentor Josei Toda, this secular humanist approach to peace offers an effective and original way for all people to participate in the construction of a better world, regardless of their religious or ideological affiliation, social background or cultural practices.

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Wardle, Nicola M. H. "Centre and periphery : the impact of Mycenaean civilization on its neighbours." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/3dc471a9-ea97-42e7-9993-4229edc2c5f4.

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Morris, E. Scott. "Gis, Modeling And Human Civilization: The Birth Of Geo-social Engineering." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103362/.

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Computer-based, mathematical models have significant value in describing the processes behind urban development and its inhabitants. The following research describes the theories and concepts behind modeling and offers insight into the potential future of the field. First, the research covers a brief history of applicable modeling strategies. This is followed by a summary of current popular approaches. The numerical background of geo-social engineering is developed through mathematical techniques. Geo-social engineering is the integration of modeling into the basic design human civilization. The mathematical models will be incorporated into a design of a computer program. From this, a possible geo-social model structure is presented and its architecture is described.

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McMeley, Mark. "Apostles of civilization : American schoolteachers and missionaries in Argentina, 1869-1884 /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974661.

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Kriel, Lize. "The "Malaboch" books Kgaluši in the "civilization of the written word"." Stuttgart Steiner, 2002. http://d-nb.info/99230315X/04.

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Alsbjer, Tekla. "Strategispel för att utveckla historiemedvetande -Historiska biografier i Sid Meier’s Civilization." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75125.

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This essay concerns how historical biographies in the computer game Sid Meier’s Civilization can be used to develop the players historical consciousness. The purpose of this essay is to explore how this game can develop historical consciousness through its biographical portraying of historical individuals. The purpose is also to examine how these biographies relates to the historical biography as genre. The theoretical framework is based on a definition of the genre and historical consciousness through narration. By using a narrative analysis as a method, according to Seymor Chatmans definition of narrative, the biographies in the game are analyzed. In conclusion the analysis shows how the historical biographies in Sid Meier’s Civilization relates to the genre and has potential to develop the players historical consciousness.

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Jones, Jeffrey Daniel. "FRANK ZAPPA AND HIS CONCEPTION OF CIVILIZATION PHAZE III." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/108.

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When Frank Zappa died in 1993, he left Civilization Phaze III as a last testament to both his musical and thematic purpose. The work received a handful of reviews in the popular music press, and has subsequently been ignored by both the popular press and, with few exceptions, academia. Many are the composers whose careers have been thought describe a mid-period mastery, followed by later decline. This presumption seems to have fallen upon Frank Zappa, apparently due to his retirement from the concert stage, and final years writing music on the Synclavier. This thesis seeks to demonstrate that Zappa's compositional abilities were in no way diminished at the end of his life, but had instead reached a peak level of mastery in composition of his last work. This thesis shall provide an analysis and musical/extra-musical description of this piece, with the intention of situating it in relation to Zappa's compositional legacy, and to establish Civilization Phaze III as the crowning compositional achievement of his career.

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Tao, Zhijian. "Drawing the dragon : testimonies to the reinvention of China." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40265.

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The accidental, or maybe not so accidental, equation of the Long $ rm lbrack TE rbrack$ with the dragon is a minor, yet in many ways symbolic, incident in Western European reinvention of China. This reinvention can be found in a wide variety of discourses, the authors of which range from Enlightenment philosophes to nineteenth-century political economists, to the recent Derrida, and from the even earlier Sir John Mandeville, Oliver Goldsmith, to Coleridge, to W. S. Landor and De Quincey. It covers all aspects of Chinese culture, including philosophy, religion, government, language, poetry, and folklore. This dissertation argues that the divergent, even contradictory, accounts of China as a culture Other, on the one hand reflect divergent or conflicting domestic agenda and, on the other, converge as products of an inherent epistemological ethnocentrism. As such, they can offer no substantial alternatives to "Orientalism," which is an ideology that functions in a cross-cultural context. However, Edward Said's delineation of Orientalism has the weakness of vacillating between the incompatible notions of "truth" and of discourse. And Dennis Porter's corrective, based on the "generic heterogeneity" within the West's cultural tradition, has a theoretical problem of traversing contextual boundaries. To contribute to the on-going debate, this dissertation proposes a distinction between internal and external perspectives, on the criteria of material, objective, and standard, in the representation of a cultural identity. With each perspective conscious of its own specific values, a cross-cultural textual dialogue may be pursued.

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Belling, Veronica. "The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10084.

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This dissertation sets out to investigate the history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa. Yiddish theatre first emerged in Jassy in Rumania in 1876. However with Czarist persecution and the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe, the 1880s it had spread to Western Europe, the Americas, and South Africa. This dissertation attempts to answer the question as to why of all Eastern Europe's diasporas, Yiddish theatre at no stage put down permanent roots in South Africa. It aims to prove that the survival of Yiddish theatre was entirely dependent on the survival of the Yiddish language. Thus the fate of Yiddish theatre in South Africa was influenced by the early timing of the formative immigration, between 1890 and 1914, the common origins of the immigrants in Lithuania and White Russia, and their educational and cultural poverty. These factors were reinforced by the exclusive adherence of the Anglo-German Jewish establishment and the vast majority of the immigrants, to Zionism and the Hebrew revival. Yiddish was unequivocally rejected, so that it never featured in the construction of South African Jewish identity. Finally the Quota Act of 1930, reinforced by the Alien's Act of 1937, put a total halt to Eastern European Jewish immigration, the lifeblood of Yiddish theatre.

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Bonny, Yves. "L'individualisme, de la modernité à la post-modernité : contribution à une théorie de l'intersubjectivité." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74291.

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This work attempts to examine the relevance of the conceptual opposition between modernity and postmodernity on the basis of a typological analysis of the modes of subjectivity and intersubjectivity which are implicated in the integration and the reproduction of a given form of society. We first show that traditional societies rest on concrete and particular modes of personal identity and of mutual recognition, which are integrated together within a common culture, whereas modern societies rest on an abstraction and universalization of forms societally legitimized of subjective identity and of intersubjective recognition. These we propose to designate by the concept of individualism. After presenting the main stages in the construction of modern individualism, we attempt to illuminate some of the implications, but also some of the aporias, that the modern conception of subjectivity and intersubjectivity presents. In the final part of this work, we seek to establish the validity of the notion of postmodernity to define contemporary society. We try to show that the universalist type of individualism, which characterizes modern society and provides its identity, gradually gives way to a "singularist" type of individualism. This latter form of individualism attests to a crisis of personal identity and is associated with the progressive dissolution of any collective identity, that is, of any a a priori intersubjectivity.

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Vallin, Olesya. "Circuits of Civilization: Progressive Democratic Character Education in the Process of Globalization." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9199.

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This thesis interprets John Dewey’s theory of the moral life in the global context in order to shed a light on major ethical challenges of the process of globalization. Dewey’s perspective provides an explanation of (1) formation of the individual commitments to particular sets of values,(2) justification of the responsibilities to the distanced peoples as opposed to the responsibilities to the nearest and dearest peoples and (3)the meaning of democratic social arrangements on the global scale.

In order to find a theoretical basis for justification of democracy in the globalizing world, the thesis reviews Dewey’s educational philosophy. His inquiry in the underlying ideas of public education reveals its core democratic meaning which points out the necessity of progressive democratic character education. This thesis suggests that in the current global context the existing educational bodies (such as UNDP and UNESCO) are insufficient in providing such a humanistic education which would actualize democracy as interdependence of all humans within civilization.

In order to establish a just social order which would be responsive to every human being within civilization there is the need to maintain a democratic mode of associated living on the global scale where every human partakes in the accumulation of knowledge of civilization and benefits from it in return. Relying on Dewey's theoretical basis the thesis suggests the criteria which the global educational institution should fulfil in order to maintain democracy as a mode of associated living in the global society.

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Atia, Nadia H. "War in the cradle of civilization': British perceptions of mesopotamia, 1907-1921." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528956.

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Li, Patrick. "Occidental civilization and its problems : a dialogue between Weber, Elias and Habermas." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34133.

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This thesis starts with an analysis of Weber's thought. Weber's analysis of occidental civilization is multidimensional. Weber attempts to provide a judgement about the value of occidental civilization for the improvement of human welfare which is more differentiated and more balanced, and therefore neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic. Opposed to some commentators' misunderstanding that his viewpoint about occidental civilization is too pessimistic, Weber's viewpoint is actually an heroic one. Weber conceives value differentiation and value irreconcilability as the natural outcomes of societal rationalization. He suggests that his heroic pessimism provides a viable way to confront this impasse of occidental civilization. While I appreciate Weber's attempt to provide a differentiated and balanced view about occidental civilization, I argue that his work is empirically inadequate in certain regards and is not critical enough concerning the solutions to the problems generating in occidental civilization. Therefore his work needs to be reconstructed and corrected. Elias and Habermas's works provide valuable resources for this task. In fact, an analysis of Weber's. work provides a good starting point for developing a dialogue between Elias and Habermas. I believe that this is an important step in the appraisal of Elias and Habermas's contributions to our understanding of occidental civilization. In developing a dialogue between Elias and Habermas here, I identify a central difference between their accounts of occidental civilization. While Elias admits the presence of an inescapable evaluative aspect to our understanding, and he suggests that we should keep a good balance between involvement and detachment, Habermas suggests one way of understanding which consciously incorporates into it an evaluative stance. I argue that this aspect is essential for the critique of social injustice and the promotion of human welfare. The remaining target is to show how this critical approach enriches our understanding of occidental civilization.

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Rodrick, Anne Baltz. "Artisans of civilization : self-improvement, citizenship, and municipal reform in Victorian Birmingham /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Cryderman, John Phillip. "Paying for Civilization: The Origins of Public Tax Preferences in Seven Countries." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/380612.

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What is the individual’s preferred income tax rate? How much income tax progressivity do people want? How do individuals form these preferences? This dissertation answers these questions by leveraging the 1996 International Social Survey Program – Role of Government III survey and the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. When researchers ask individuals for their income tax preferences most respondents construct their preference on the spot using few cognitive resources. Individuals also want their income tax preference to be reasonable (i.e., the state can afford basic goods and services), so individuals anchor their preferences on existing state tax policy, their own income tax rate, and their previous responses when applicable. After individuals establish an anchoring point, they make adjustments based on ideological beliefs, level of trust, and self-interest; however, the effects of these adjustments are mediated by the institutional structure of the state. The results of the ordinary least regression models point to four conclusions. First, individuals behave as reasonable cognitive misers. They anchor their income tax preferences on the status quo, and their previous responses. This result explains cross-state differences in income tax preferences. Second, liberal individuals prefer progressive taxation in individualistic states (i.e., states with means-tested welfare states, majoritarian governments, and pluralist interest group systems), and flat taxes in cooperative regimes (i.e., states with expansive welfare states, consensus regimes, and corporatist interest group systems). Third, trusting individuals prefer flat taxes, and preferences for progressive taxation are a means to ensure tax evaders pay their fair share. Fourth, the effects of self-interest on tax preferences are limited, and only influence tax preferences on those earning one-times and eight-times the wages of a full-time unskilled worker.
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Doffing, Rebecca. "Betwixt East and West: Turkey's prospects for mitigating intercivilizational clashes." Thesis, Boston University, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/28562.

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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Raath, Johannes Jacobus. "Oorsprong en manifestasie van die suid-Afrikaanse hartbees- of dakhuis 'n kultuurhistoriese studie /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12212005-150916.

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Barker, Elaine M. "Civilization in the wilderness : the homestead in the Australian colonial novel, 1830-1860 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb255.pdf.

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Mortensen, Melanie J. ""A civilization of the mind" : sovereignty, Internet jurisdiction, and ethical governance." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101822.

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The treatment of Internet jurisdiction ordinarily looks to how the laws of a local jurisdiction apply to the Internet. Less examined is the underlying jurisprudence that may create the basis for legitimate Internet jurisdiction in light of the ambiguity that the Internet creates for establishing sovereignty. This thesis thus takes recent decisions of the Quebec courts that apply the province's Charter of the French Language to the Internet as a point of departure for an in-depth analysis of the nature of sovereignty as an increasingly indeterminate principle of law in the emerging discipline known as Internet Law. Ultimately, the chaos that the Internet initially provoked may be resolved by the return to ethical principles based on the theoretical approach of legal pluralism and the philosophical treatment of ethical responsibility as proposed by Emmanuel Levinas' "humanism of the other".

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De, Michele Grazia. "'At the gates of civilization' : southern children in Turin primary schools, 1950s-1970s." Thesis, University of Reading, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603496.

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In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italy witnessed one of the hugest population movements of its history. The migratory now of Southerners toward the industrialized cities of the North West was particularly remarkable, both for its numerical dimensions and for the difficult and often dramatic encounter between Northern and Southern Italians. The latter where still considered as internal 'others'. This thesis is focused on the case of Southern children in the primary schools of Turin between the 1950s and the 1970s. The first chapter offers an analysis of the post-war discourse on the South and Southern migrants moving to Northern cities and particularly Turin. The second chapter is devoted to the discussion of what is referred to as the educational otherness of the South and to the construction of Southern pupils by primary schools teachers and head of school as a 'problem'. The third chapter focuses on the presence of Southern children in Turin classi differenziali (special education classes). It also sheds light on the role played by psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers in constructing Southern migrants' children as educationally and socially maladjusted. The fourth chapter is based on interviews conducted with grown-up Southern migrant children who attended primary school in Turin.

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SANTOS, PAULO CESAR CARLOS DOS. "THE PHILOSOPHER AS CIVILIZATION`S PHYSICIAN: LANGUAGE AS PHÁRMAKON IN NIETZSCHE`S PHILOSOPHY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6706@1.

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A associação que procuramos fazer entre a linguagem na filosofia de Nietzsche e a idéia do termo grego phármakon nos apareceu quando da leitura de O Nascimento da Tragédia. Segundo Nietzsche, a origem da tragédia se deu na busca de realizar a união da embriaguez com a lucidez, numa experiência de simultaneidade dos impulsos artísticos apolíneo e dionisíaco. É nesse ponto que, para ele, se configura a função terapêutica da linguagem, como o principal elemento apolíneo a incorporar os impulsos dionisíacos através da união e harmonização do texto com a música. Mas por outro lado, Nietzsche atribui a Sócrates a responsabilidade pela decadência da arte trágica por meio da influência sobre Eurípides, traduzida na supervalorização da linguagem frente à música em suas peças, com a conseqüente perda da tensão dramática e da força artística, em virtude de uma maior clareza intelectual da história representada. O que para Nietzsche acaba por se tornar um veneno que veio a matar a tragédia antiga. Ou seja, a problematização nietzschiana acerca da origem e ocaso da tragédia sugere a idéia de que a primeira investida do racionalismo sobre a cultura grega se deu justamente sobre o domínio da linguagem. O nosso objetivo no presente trabalho é ampliar a análise de Nietzsche a respeito do papel da linguagem no nascimento e ocaso da tragédia grega a todo o percurso de sua filosofia, e com isso fazer uma releitura do seu pensamento a partir da sua concepção acerca da linguagem.
This thesis associates language in Nietzsche`s philosophy with the Greek concept of phámakon. In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche claims tragedy was born when drunkenness and soberness were combined in one art form that was driven simultaneously by Apollonian and Dionysian artistic drives. In this context, language, an Apollonian element, has a therapeutical function - it integrates Dionysian drives and get music and text together harmoniously. In spite of this, Nietzsche blames Socrates` influence on Euripides for the death of tragedy. The Greek playwright emphasized language and rationality over music in his plays, losing dramatic tension and artistic power. It turned into the poison that ultimately exterminated ancient tragedy. Therefore, Nietzsche argues that the first rationalist assault over Greek culture was made through language. In this thesis, we try to broaden Nietzsche analysis about the role of language on the birth and death of Greek tragedy, studying his works from his ideas about language.

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Goiana, Francisco Daniel Iris. "Instinct and civilization: Norbert Elias's procedural sociology and his encounter with Freudian psychoanalysis." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=19822.

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This work make a reflective analysis on the work of the sociologist Norbert Elias, especially in its interpretation of the civilizing process occurred in Europe from the formation of European absolutist states, present in The Civilizing Process (1939). In the constitution of his Sociology, Elias brings an interdisciplinary proposal to sociologically analyze a historical object. For this analysis, the author makes use of freudian psychoanalysis. I tried to make this work, first an analysis sociobiographical Freud and Elias, addressing his intellectual formation, looking for a 'meeting point' of these two authors. Specifically, this site was the Frankfurt School, which had a very strong relationship between social theory and psychoanalysis, which influenced authors such as Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno. In his life, Elias comes into contact with Freud's work during the period he was in the city (1929- 1933), when he was assistant Karl Mannheim. The initial period of Elias in Frankfurt coincides with the release of Civilization and its Discontents, the great work in which Freud, even starting from a clinical assumption makes a great analysis of the social. Elias falls into a tradition of authors who used psychoanalytic theory as support for the construction of both theories in the field of Sociology and Anthropology. So we did a genealogy of this interaction and realize that it occurs almost simultaneously with the emergence of sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, with Freud himself one of the authors to make this interaction in works such as Totem and Taboo and Civilization and its Discontents, among others. Based on these works and concepts formulated by Freud to the ideas of 'superego', 'instinctual repression', Elias constructs his theory of the 'civilizing process'. This process, Elias tells us that is mostly based on a repression of affects and emotions process, which in Freud's language is the 'repression of instincts' which leads to the formation of the superego, our moral censor. For Elias this 'repression' occurs in two stages: first through an external coercion, with the emergence of feelings such as shame that path leads to internalization of these prohibitions causing individuals to self-control their emotions, such a rationalization process. When formulated his idea of 'civilizing process', Elias also postulated that this process is not unilinear and is not totally safe thus resulting in the idea of 'descivilizing process' that occur in situations such as wars and genocides and Elias analyzed in its The Germans work.
Este trabalho faz uma anÃlise reflexiva sobre a obra do sociÃlogo Norbert Elias, especialmente na sua interpretaÃÃo sobre o processo civilizatÃrio, ocorrido na Europa a partir da formaÃÃo dos estados absolutistas europeus, presente em O processo civilizador (1939). Na constituiÃÃo de sua Sociologia, Elias traz uma proposta interdisciplinar de analisar sociologicamente um objeto histÃrico. Para tal anÃlise, o autor faz uso da psicanÃlise freudiana. Nesse trabalho busquei fazer, primeiramente uma anÃlise sociobiogrÃfica de Freud e Elias, tratando de sua formaÃÃo intelectual, procurando um âponto de encontroâ desses dois autores. Concretamente, esse local foi a Escola de Frankfurt, onde havia uma relaÃÃo muito forte entre a teoria social e a psicanÃlise, que influenciou autores como Hebert Marcuse e Theodor Adorno. Em sua vida, Elias entra em contato com a obra freudiana no perÃodo que ficou na cidade (1929-1933), quando era assistente de Karl Mannheim. O perÃodo inicial de Elias em Frankfurt coincide com o lanÃamento de O mal-estar na civilizaÃÃo, a grande obra em que Freud, mesmo que partindo de um pressuposto clÃnico faz uma grande anÃlise do social. Elias se enquadra em uma tradiÃÃo de autores que usaram a teoria psicanalÃtica como apoio para a construÃÃo de teorias tanto da Ãrea da Sociologia como da Antropologia. Portanto, fizemos uma genealogia dessa interaÃÃo e percebemos que ela ocorre quase que simultaneamente com o surgimento da Sociologia, da Antropologia e da PsicanÃlise, sendo o prÃprio Freud um dos autores a fazer essa interaÃÃo em obras como Totem e Tabu e O Mal-estar na civilizaÃÃo, dentre outras. Baseado nessas obras e por conceitos formulados por Freud com as ideias de âsupereuâ, ârepressÃo instintualâ, Elias constrÃi sua teoria do âprocesso civilizadorâ. Esse processo, Elias nos diz que estÃ baseado majoritariamente num processo de repressÃo dos afetos e das emoÃÃes, que na linguagem freudiana Ã a ârepressÃo dos instintosâ que leva a formaÃÃo do supereu, nosso censor moral. Para Elias essa ârepressÃoâ ocorre em dois momentos: primeiro por meio de uma coerÃÃo externa, com o surgimento de sentimentos como a vergonha esse caminho leva Ã internalizaÃÃo dessas proibiÃÃes levando os indivÃduos ao autocontrole de suas emoÃÃes, num processo de racionalizaÃÃo dessas. Quando formulou sua ideia de âprocesso civilizadorâ, Elias postulou tambÃm que esse processo nÃo Ã unilinear e que nÃo estÃ totalmente a salvo surgindo assim a ideia de âprocesso descivilizadorâ que ocorrem em situaÃÃes como guerras e genocÃdios e que Elias analisou na sua obra Os alemÃes.

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Gapochenko, S. D., O. A. Lyubchenko, and S. S. Tkachenko. "Tasks of the higher technical school within the context of the civilization crisis." Thesis, СПД "Охотнік", 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/46184.

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Ramberg, Svante. "Minnet av svunnen fantasi : Om det utopiska i Herbert Marcuses Eros and Civilization." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Filosofi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43804.

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As a member of the Institut für Sozialforschung, Herbert Marcuse wrote in 1955 Eros and Civilization in which he applied an elaborated and reformulated freudian meta-psychoanalytical perspective on the contemporary society, which both Freud and Marcuse had diagnosed as sick. Marcuse’s overall ambition was to seek man’s anamnestic abilities to negate contemporary capitalist society, re-structure the organization of products and reduce alienated labor and thereby liberate man from the most agonizing doing in life – living a life as an instrument. This political revolution Marcuse argues, would liberate man’s powerful subconscious energies stemming from Eros and mankind would no longer function as an alienated instrument. However, for the revolutionary agents to be conscious of their position, the mind of the human being must be transformed and only then a true negation of the prevailing system is possible. In his reading of Freud, Marcuse finds in the subconscious part of the mind a specific part that´s free from reality´s repression of the mind – fantasy. This essay seeks to illustrate and analyze how fantasy, alongside man’s ability of remembrance, has the ability to reform the consciousness of men, negate the structure of living imposed on them by capitalist domestic rationality and thereby formulate a new non-repressive society free from surplus repression and alienation. The overall purpose of this thesis is to explore and shed light on how the complex dynamic relation between memory and fantasy can achieve an intersubjective formulation of a new non-repressive society, free from the hegemony which is capitalist rationality.

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Lindsey, Benjamin A. ""Organized Crime Against Civilization": The Congressional Investigation of Liberated Concentration Camps in 1945." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2012. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/381.

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This study examines the congressional mission to liberated concentration camps in April and May 1945. General Dwight D. Eisenhower requested a congressional mission and a group of newspaper editors and publishers to view firsthand the horrors of the concentration camp Buchenwald, so that the American public might be made more aware of German atrocities in concentration camps and to dispel the belief that the atrocity reports were wartime propaganda. The congressmen and newspapermen were horrified by what they saw at the German concentration camps, and many reported back to the American public about the atrocities and conditions in the concentration camps through articles, interviews, speeches, and rallies. Upon their return to the United States, the congressmen published a report on the conditions within the camps, and many of them spoke in Congress and to the public about the need to re-educate the Germans, try guilty Germans, and rebuild Germany. The congressmen and editors and publishers brought legitimacy to the reports of American war correspondents concerning German atrocities, and their efforts contributed to constructing a political climate that allowed for and legitimized the Nuremberg Trials, the U.S. Army denazification efforts, and the rebuilding of Germany through the Marshall Plan. To examine this mission, newspaper articles from April and May 1945 were collected from thirteen American newspapers, as well as the Times of London. Research was also conducted in the personal collections of two of the congressmen who toured Europe at that time, as well as at the National Archives in College Park, MD. This study goes beyond the existing research by examining the congressional mission to Buchenwald, Dora, and Dachau, which, though it has been briefly mentioned in existing Holocaust literature, has never been fully examined.

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Theisen, Terri Christian. ""With a View Toward Their Civilization": Women and the Work of Indian Reform." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5205.

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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, white middle and upper class women active in reform became involved in the movement for American Indian reform. Focusing on the so-called "Indian problem," groups such as the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA) were formed to address the injustices against, and sufferings of, American Indian people at the hands of the U.S. military due to the increasing pressures and demands of western migration. This study addresses the role white women played in the movement for Indian reform through their involvement either as part of the WNIA membership or as missionaries, teachers or field matrons. The thesis is concerned, above all, with the ways in which their involvement reflects larger historical trends that enveloped white middle class women during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work of reform groups like the WNIA helped transform missionary and field positions into jobs which were identified as specially suited for women. While missionary work was, before the 1870s, part of the male or public sphere, through the feminization of American religion, Victorian tenets of domesticity and moral superiority, and changing economic and commercial opportunities, the way was opened for women to serve as missionaries without the "protection" of a husband. The WNIA provides an impressive example of the scope and influence of women's reform organizations during the Progressive era. However, the goals and beliefs of WNIA leadership provide a contrast to the goals and beliefs of women working in the field. This contrast illuminates women's intentions in their quest for Indian assimilation and their role in that pursuit. The thesis is based upon the individual experience of women who worked as missionaries, teachers and field matrons. Four case studies explored in chapter III provide a window into the redefinition of "true womanhood" that took place at the turn-of-the century through the ways in which the subjects of this thesis arrive at a new self consciousness about their role in Indian reform.

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Bondoc, Makonen E. G. "Meta-civilization." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3384.

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This thesis argues that the role of the United Nations’ (UN) human rights regime is to constitute all peoples into a specific universal standard of civilization, which this thesis identifies as the UN meta-civilization. Meta-civilization is defined as the UN’s colonial and imperial impulse to legislate, implement and enforce human rights in ways which are meant to uniquely ‘civilize’. Analysis of the doctrinal and theoretical foundations of international law illustrates the historical and contemporary power dynamics that enable the UN to ‘universalize’ human rights. As a case in point, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC) political dialogue highlights the UN’s constitution of the meta-civilization. The case study proves the UN meta-civilization is hegemonic in its claim to universality. In the end, this analysis demonstrates that more consideration about the appropriate utility of human rights within the theories and practices of international relations and international law is required.
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Huang, Wei-Lin, and 黃威霖. "Civilization Differences and Modernity——Rabindranath Tagore’s Political Ideals and His Perspective on Chinese Civilization." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29810016113343159036.

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For most of the contemporary Chinese scholars, the tempestuous debates among Chinese intellectual community induced by Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to China in1922 is no less a misunderstanding of Tagore’s words than a burst of blind hostility against Tagore. However, beyond the ‘misunderstanding’, it remains a difficult problem to locate Tagore’s thoughts in any intellectual or political position; hence numerous researchers take “ambivalence” as the character of Tagore’s thought. Tagore and his Chinese criticizers shared a common problem besides the pressure of the invasion of Western civilization: to compete with the West in the name of “modernity” without losing their civilization particularity, identities and dignities. However, the perspectives on civilizations Tagore and his Chinese criticizers share were not in agreement, inconsonance was obvious among them since their visions of “modernity” were divergent. To understand Tagore’s ideals developed from his perspective on civilizations, this thesis will first analyze how Tagore had been influenced by India’s colonial circumstances and the circulation of Orientalism knowledge. Secondly, it will elucidate how Tagore integrated his universal ideals, particularity of Indian civilization and the picture of world-politics together, and then developed his civilization perspective and political ideal of “Pan-Asianism.” Finally, through analyzing how 1920s Chinese intellectuals understand Tagore, I will argue that the debates aroused by Tagore’s visit represented different expectations of “modernity” among Tagore and his criticizers.

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