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Barrera, Núñez José Oscar. "Imaginaries and desires : transcultural "love affairs" in Guatemala /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6555.
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Early, G. P., and n/a. "Cultural policy in Australia : equity or elitism?" University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060706.163824.
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Taylor, James. "Racialisation and the cultural politics of advertising." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14746/.
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This thesis demonstrates that advertising is an important and neglected site of racialisation. It argues that advertising plays a crucial role in the cultural politics of 'race' but that, in order to examine this role, we need a more subtle understanding of the production and consumption of advertising meanings. That the relationship between advertising and racialisation remains understudied is arguably a result of traditional academic approaches to the media which have tended to focus exclusively on textual interpretations of media products by academics themselves. This project has attempted to move beyond such approaches by investigating the social relations of production and consumption of British television advertising in a number of sites, in addition to analysing the content of such advertisements. The project focuses upon young consumers; this is a group to which advertising most frequently targets racialised imagery, a group whose 'cultures' have been actively influenced by racialised minorities, and who are arguably the most 'media literate' of consumers. It employs a variety of research techniques, including content analysis, participant observation in an advertising agency, individual interviews with industry personnel and group discussions with young people in two contrasting London schools. It concludes that, in contrast to accounts of advertising that emphasise 'rational' economics, all stages of the advertising process are rife with racialised meanings. The thesis shows how advertising is sometimes consumed in different ways from those intended by its producers, and that there are significant differences in consumption among different groups of consumers. Such differential patterns of consumption are not adequately explained by reference to traditional social categories such as 'race', gender and class; instead relational categories of difference and distinction have greater explanatory value. The thesis incorporates an attempt to provide a critical handle on the advertising industry, and draws attention to the consistent presence of relations of power in the cultural politics of advertising. It discusses the notion of 'resistance' to such relations by the young people interviewed and concludes that previous research has tended to over-simplify, and over-estimate the extent of, consumer resistance to advertising's dominant meanings.
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Green, Sashai A. "Cultural competence in long term care : a qualitative phenomenological study of nursing home administrators' knowledge and perception of cultural competence." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1265.
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Remington, Christa L. "The Cultural Competence of Response & Recovery Workers in Post-Earthquake Haiti." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3455.
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Cultural competence is critical to public service, yet it is often ignored and underutilized, especially in post-disaster response and recovery. The current literature on cultural competence and frameworks developed by the private sector do not fully consider the complexities of a post-disaster public service context. This project explores the importance of cultural competence in post-disaster response and recovery, identifies effective training methods and organizational policies which may present barriers to competence acquisition, and proposes a new theoretical framework by which to assess cultural competence in international response and recovery work.
This study used focus groups with Haitian beneficiaries (n=7), in-depth interviews with response and recovery workers (n=50), close ended surveys with both groups (n=226), observation, and a review of secondary sources (e.g. job announcements, training manuals) to explore cultural competence from the perspectives of international response and recovery workers, their agencies, and Haitian beneficiaries after the January 2010 Haitian earthquake.
The analysis revealed that although 88% of participating aid workers identified cultural competence (CC) as critical to program effectiveness, 42% had no training before or during deployment. An analysis of the job announcements revealed that only 37% of agencies required cultural competencies. While aid workers and beneficiaries identified experiential strategies (e.g. immersion, mentoring) as critical to cultural competence acquisition, organizational policies (e.g. curfews, restrictions on travel) were often found to be at odds with these methods and more than 1/3 of participating aid workers felt that these policies were a barrier to cultural competency. Findings from this study may help aid workers better understand the importance of cultural competence and how it can improve the effectiveness of aid programs, and provide ways in which aid agencies can enhance cultural competence acquisition by their employees.
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Chignell, Hugh. "BBC Radio 4's 'Analysis', 1970-1983 : a selective history and case study of BBC current affairs radio." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2004. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/335/.
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The 'historical turn' in British Media Studies has yielded new histories of television but little work on the history of post-television radio. This thesis hopes to contribute to that neglected area. The research, based on radio and written archives and interviews with former BBC staff, examines the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, Analysis between the years 1970 and 1983. It addresses a number of questions about the programme, including the precise reasons for its creation, how it evolved, and how it covered a range of current affairs topics. In addition, this history of current affairs radio provides useful, new insights into the rise of professionalism in the BBC, the existence of informal networks, impartiality and bias, the tension between elitism and populism and the specificity of current affairs. The thesis includes a full discussion of the history of current affairs radio from 1927 to 1960. In this section the relationship of the literary elite to the BBC in the 1930s is addressed and the evolution of the 'topical talk' and the post-war 'talks magazine' are described. The precise origins of Analysis in the late 1960s are explained with reference to the tension between the more journalistic and populist 1960s news sequences and the elitist and anti-journalistic talks tradition from which Analysis emerged following the publication of Broadcasting in the Seventies. The role of individual presenters of Analysis is examined and the evolution of the form of 'broadcast talk' employed on the programme. There is a chapter on Analysis in Africa and a concluding chapter which evaluates the relationship between Analysis and the emerging political ideology of Thatcherism. By focussing on one programme over a period of time, and following the careers of named individuals who worked in BBC radio, it is possible to reveal conflicting broadcasting values and ideals of professionalism and current affairs and to trace these back to their antecedents in the pre-war BBC.
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Boczar, Amanda C. "FOREIGN AFFAIRS: POLICY, CULTURE, AND THE MAKING OF LOVE AND WAR IN VIETNAM." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/27.
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Foreign Affairs: Policy, Culture, and the Making of Love and War in Vietnam investigates the interplay between war and society leading to and during the Vietnam War. This project intertwines histories of foreign relations, popular culture, and gender and sexuality as lenses for understanding international power relations during the global Cold War more broadly. By examining sexual encounters between American service members and Vietnamese civilian women, this dissertation argues that relationships ranging from prostitution to dating, marriage, and rape played a significant role in the diplomacy, logistics, and international reception of the war. American disregard for South Vietnamese morality laws in favor of bolstering GI morale in the early war years contributed to the instability of the alliance and led to a rise in anti-American activities, health concerns, and military security threats.
The length of the war in addition to the difficulty for service members to definitively identify enemy forces placed stress on soldiers. Publicized cases of rape and disagreements over responsibility for orphans or children born outside marriage to U.S. servicemen in the later war years further deteriorated relations. Negotiating these relationships resulted in implicit assignments of power between the United States and their allies in South Vietnam. In addition to the bi-lateral relations between the U.S. and South Vietnam, North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front propaganda citing the GI-civilian relationships sparked security concerns and further threatened the alliance. This dissertation further contends that encounters provided propaganda material for opposition forces, strained the overall war effort at home, and shaped how Americans remember the war.
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LAW, Yuen Fun Muriel. "Cultivating identities and differences : a case study of the Hong Kong junior secondary economic and public affairs curriculum." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2006. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/10.
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This thesis studies the junior secondary EPA curriculum and the complex cultural process of teaching and learning of the curriculum. It draws on theoretical frameworks developed in the field of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, particularly works by Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Lawrence Grossberg and Paulo Freire. It investigates how the EPA curricular texts attempt to produce the identity characteristic of "rational, sensitive and active citizens" in contemporary Hong Kong through constructing differences that negate the Other. Through analyzing classroom discursive practices, the thesis examines how the curricular knowledge "interpellates" teachers into subject position to talk about the "rational, sensitive and active citizens".
The curriculum is a vast textual world where different and even competing ideological imperatives and discourses coexist and circulate. This thesis argues that teachers' discourses about the EPA curriculum and their classroom discursive practices have contributed to the creation of tensions and contradictions within the curriculum discourse. Such tensions and contradictions, coming from teachers' beliefs and the cultural resources they possess, may delimit the regulatory effect of the curriculum discourse. As a result, the regulatory power of the curriculum discourse on "suturing" subject positions that form identities of "citizens" is subject to negotiation, and critical pedagogies have a role to play to open up dialogues among the subject positions made available in the curriculum.
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Lane, Jonathon. "Anchorage in Aboriginal affairs: A. P. Elkin on religious continuity and civic obligation." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3691.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)In Australian Aboriginal affairs, the acculturative strand of assimilation developed in large part from Elkin’s religious and Idealist commitment, for which in the years 1928 to 1933 he won social-scientific authority. In competition with both an eliminationist politics of race and a segregationist politics of territory, Elkin drew upon religious experience, apologetics, sociology, and networks to establish a ‘positive policy’ as an enduring ideal in Aboriginal affairs. His leadership of the 1930s reform movement began within the Anglican Church, became national through civic-religious organs of publicity, and gained scientific authority as Elkin made religious themes a central concern in Australian anthropology. But from the 1960s until recently, most scholars have lost sight of the centrality of Idealism and religion in our protagonist’s seminal project of acculturative assimilation. This thesis aims to show how Elkin dealt with problems fundamental to twentieth century Aboriginal affairs and indeed to Australian modernity more generally – problems of faith and science, morality and expediency – in developing his positive policy towards Aborigines.
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Bernadett, Gabriela Maya Matokheosic. "Student Perceptions of Native American Student Affairs at the University of Arizona: What Can We Learn from the Population We Serve?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556434.
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This thesis uses Native American Student Affairs (NASA) at the University of Arizona (UA) as a case study to see where NASA matches and diverges from the current literature on Native American Cultural Centers (NACC). Twenty-eight current Native American undergraduates and graduates were surveyed about their views on NASA, and their responses were then analyzed for common themes. The findings showed that NASA was similar to the current research when it came to themes of community, promoting culture, feeling less isolated, networking, and having an independent space. It diverged on one demographic aspect, namely a significant portion of student respondents came from reservations, which is not reflective of the Native community in the United States as a whole. Additionally, it mentioned the importance of event hosting, which is not mentioned in the current literature at all. The majority of students identified NASA as creating a space for them to feel supported, provide resources, network, and host events that promote awareness of Native American issues. The thesis ends with recommendations for NASA based on the responses, and advocates for further research to delve deeper into the nuances of NACC's and their responsibility to continuously adapt to the needs of their students.
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Santomauro, Fernando. "As políticas culturais de França e Estados Unidos no Brasil." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13018.
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The main goal of this Master s Thesis is to observe how a Cultural Policy is structured and directed in International Relations as a political instrument or important complement to achieve the interests of a country abroad. Based on the main studies of the area and mainly on the documental research of diplomatic files, the Cultural Policies of France and United States in Brazil in the interwar period were analysed
O objetivo principal desta dissertação é observar como a Política Cultural nas Relações Internacionais se estrutura e é dirigida quando adotada como instrumento político ou um complemento importante para a consecução dos interesses de um país no exterior. Para isso, com base nos estudos sobre o assunto e principalmente na pesquisa documental dos arquivos diplomáticos, foram analisadas as Políticas Culturais de França e Estados Unidos no Brasil no período do entre-guerras
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Krievans, Liga. "Land of Mercury-Tinted Water: An Investigation of Methylmercury as an International Economic By-Product Pollutant and Local Cultural Detriment in the State of Minnesota." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/610.
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This thesis covers how global mercury emissions are effecting the Great Lakes region, specifically focusing on Minnesota. Minnesota is sensitive to mercury due to its abundant waters and love of fishing. Establishing state regulation and diversifying the State's economy only addresses a small percentage of emitted mercury prominent in Minnesota. Therefore, Minnesota must look to and promote out of State regulation to significantly decrease mercury exposure.
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Parker, Nazima Begum. "Employee perception of public sector compliance with corporate governance principles : case of the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/982.
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Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009Greater emphasis has in recent years been placed on the fiduciary duties of managers vis-a-vis Chief Financial Officers, Accounting Officers and political representatives. The exposure has given rise to the shift in focus to overarching activities promoting social responsibility, ethics, discipline, transparency, fairness, independence and most importantly, accountability. Previous research (Burger & Goslin, 2005) focused on the rising incidence of mismanagement of public funds within government departments which has been credited to non-compliance in good governance or best practices. The rising interest by the media and the public on governanace and the role of public officials may be attributed to the various high-profile televised media releases; which includes the alleged alliance of Jacob Zuma with Schabir Schaik as emerged in the Schabir Schaik trail, the "Travelgate Scam", the 'Oilgate Saga' and the 'Arms Deal', which are but a few media reports. Corporate governance is thus understood as the method of control and accountability prevailent within the management and directorship of an organisation. The seven principles as propagated by the King Report on Governance, 2002 (referred to as the King II report), namely discipline, transparency, independence, accountability, responsibility, fairness and social responsibility is examined in this paper so as to establish whether there is an understanding and application of corporate governance within the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Western Cape Provincial Government or whether good governance is integrated throughout the Provincial Department in question. In addition, the paper presents the analysis and findings of the employee perception survey conducted on public sector compliance to corporate governance principles, within the above provincial department, who were utilised as the case-study for this paper. The survey findings has reveals that the application of corporate principles exist in terms of the perceptions of the employees within the Provincial Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport. However, the study further revealed that there exists opportunities for improvement. The paper will detail the recommendations for the said department to promote corporate governance.
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Carvalho, Elizabeth Santos de. "Revista americana: caminhos e descaminhos de um projeto cultural para o continente." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4358.
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O presente trabalho contempla o projeto da Revista Americana, publicada entre 1909 e 1919, idealizado pelo Barão do Rio Branco e realizado por seu pupilo Arthur Guimarães de Araújo Jorge. Verificaremos a coleção da Revista, sob a perspectiva das revistas culturais e políticas característica do início do século XX, que se constituíam veículos de divulgação de cultura, idéias e doutrinas. A análise do objeto consiste em ponderar o comprometimento com o projeto inicial avaliando as transformações sofridas ao longo dos dez anos que esteve em circulação. Para além do conteúdo do periódico, este estudo busca revelar a rede de sociabilidade envolvida com a publicação, que passava pelos quadros do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, da Academia Brasileira de Letras e do Ministério das Relações Exteriores.This work contemplates the design of the Revista Americana, published between 1909and 1919, designed by the Baron of Rio Branco and directed by his pupil ArthurJorge Guimarães de Araújo. We will check the collection of the Journal, from the perspective of cultural and political magazines feature of the early twentieth century, which were vehicles for the dissemination of culture, ideas and doctrines. Theanalysis of the object is to consider the initial commitment to the project evaluatingthe transformations undergone over the ten years he was outstanding. In addition to the content of the journal, this study seeks to reveal the network of sociability involved with the publication, which passed by the membership of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, the Academia Brasileira de Letras and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Abrahams, Mymoena. "The impact of value-based leadership on organisational performance in the public sector : a case study of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96192.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.In an environment characterised by dwindling resources and citizens’ expectations relentlessly increasing, public sector organisations face many challenges to improve service delivery. This is further exacerbated by the failing confidence and public trust that result from leaders not leading with values. Recent research has illustrated that the importance of good leadership across the public sector is critical for building effective countries. Additionally, research has also shown that public sector organisations embracing value-driven cultures are able to achieve far greater performance and overcome some of the current challenges in the environment. The purpose of this research study was therefore to gain insight into the relationship between value-based leadership and organisational performance. The study was conducted within the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport and considered the importance of values to senior managers, how value congruency was achieved and how this related to the achievement of organisational performance. A detailed study of the literature in the field of leadership, values and organisational performance has provided various researchers’ opinions on these subjects, namely how values affects organisation performance. Information was obtained from the various documents available within the broader public sector. The target population for this research included the Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS) and his senior managers. The fourth chapter of this assignment discusses the results obtained from the primary data collected through the questionnaires sent to senior executives as well as the interviews conducted with the head of department (HOD) and senior managers of DCAS. The conclusions from the research results are discussed in Chapter 5. The findings of this study will contribute significantly to better inform public policy practitioners, departments and leadership on the role of value-based leadership and how it could greatly enhance performance within organisations. The study concluded that the senior managers of DCAS attribute great importance to values and could illustrate this through living these values. The research also revealed that leadership places great emphasis on implementing a detailed strategy to achieve value congruency within the organisation. Finally, the research concluded that DCAS is a value-based organisation and as a result infuses core values into all activities of employees, thereby resulting in the excellence they have achieved as a public sector organisation.
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Minchillo, Carlos Alberto Cortez. "Erico Verissimo, escritor do mundo: cosmopolitismo e relações interamericanas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-14082013-095744/.
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Este trabalho destaca um conjunto de três romances de Erico Verissimo cujos enredos estão ambientados total ou parcialmente fora do Brasil. Escritos num intervalo de vinte e sete anos, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) e O prisioneiro (1967) vinculam-se a uma atitude cosmopolita que cedo se manifestou na carreira do escritor gaúcho, assinalando significativo afastamento do projeto nacionalista hegemônico no modernismo literário no Brasil. Essa abertura cosmopolita de Erico Verissimo, sua atuação como editor, seu engajamento na esfera pública como intelectual e certas circunstâncias históricas lhe permitiram inserir-se nas malhas das relações culturais interamericanas a partir do período da II Guerra Mundial. Essa posição privilegiada, convertida em \"poder simbólico\", promoveu a tradução de algumas de suas obras para o inglês e abriu espaço para que assumisse um papel proeminente como \"tradutor e intérprete cultural\" entre Brasil, Estados Unidos e, em alguma medida, América Hispânica. Na confluência entre história intelectual, estudo da recepção crítica e análise e interpretação literárias, busco estabelecer relações entre o percurso internacional especificamente norte-americano do escritor, as transformações temáticas, formais e ideológicas desses três romances \"estrangeiros\" e a trajetória da recepção crítica de tais textos, discutindo as transformações que o cosmopolitismo e o humanismo de Erico Verissimo sofreram ao longo de três décadas de intensa atividade artística e intelectual.In this work I study three novels by Erico Verissimo in which the plot is set outside Brazil. Written over a period of twenty-seven years, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) and O prisioneiro (1967) represent a cosmopolitan attitude that manifested early 9 in Verissimo\'s career, marking a significant departure from the hegemonic nationalist project in literary modernism in Brazil. His cosmopolitan openness, his work as an editor, his engagement in the public sphere as an intellectual, and certain other historical circumstances helped integrate Erico Verissimo into the mesh of Inter-American cultural affairs during and following World War II. This special position, converted into \"symbolic power\", promoted the translation of some of his works into English and allowed him to assume a prominent role as a \"cultural translator and interpreter\" between Brazil, United States and, to some extent, Hispanic America. In the frame of intellectual history, the study of critical reception, and literary analysis, I intend to understand the relation between Verissimo\'s international projection especially in the U.S. , thematic, formal, and ideological features of these three \"foreign\" novels and the critical reception of such texts. My aim is to discuss the changes that the cosmopolitanism and humanism of the author suffered over three decades of intense intellectual and artistic activity.
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Jenison, Denise Laszewski. ""In Accordance with the Best Traditions of American Democracy": Arab Americans, Zionists, and the Debate over Palestine, 1940-1948." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511310258842165.
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Babidge, Sally. "Family affairs an historical anthropology of state practice and Aboriginal agency in a rural town, North Queensland /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942, 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - James Cook University, 2004.Thesis submitted by Sally Marie Babidge, BA (Hons) UWA June 2004, for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, James Cook University. Bibliography: leaves 283-303.
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Tswane, Silvesta Sisonke. "An analysis of how university management and administration staff deal with the social, cultural, economic and political differences that exist between urban and rural first year male students: an NMMU case study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020898.
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This study is a qualitative review to identify factors impacting on the management of student development and support at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in a developing country. For the purpose of the study student development and support includes all developmental and supportive services and interventions for rural and urban students within an institution of higher learning, regardless of the current structuring of the functions. The study first contextualises the scenario of a developing country in terms of the socio-economic, political, higher education, labour and other factors that set the scene for student development and support and then continues with a systematic exposition of factors that have direct relevance and impact on the future of student development and support. A systematic investigation of NMMU by means of interviews with student affairs professionals make it possible to identify factors that have direct relevance and impact on the future management and provision of student development and support. The result of the study is a construction of the specific factors identified on the international, national and institutional levels as well as the intricate relationships between rural and urban students. This research provides a potential framework for future management and provision of strategic focus areas for student development and support functions within NMMU and higher education in a developing country to ensure that it effectively positions the function within higher education as a key component of the core agenda.
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Tomblin, David Christian. "Managing Boundaries, Healing the Homeland: Ecological Restoration and the Revitalization of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, 1933 – 2000." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27577.
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The main argument of this dissertation is that the White Mountain Apache Tribe's appropriation of ecological restoration played a vital role in reinstituting control over knowledge production and eco-cultural resources on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in the second half of the twentieth century. As a corollary, I argue that the shift in knowledge production practices from a paternalistic foundation to a community-based approach resulted in positive consequences for the ecological health of the Apachean landscape and Apache culture. The democratization of science and technology on the reservation, therefore, proved paramount to the reestablishment of a relatively sustainable Apache society.
Beginning with the Indian New Deal, the White Mountain Apache slowly developed the capacity to employ ecological restoration as an eco-political tool to free themselves from a long history of Euro-American cultural oppression and natural resource exploitation. Tribal restoration projects embodied the dual political function of cultural resistance to and cultural exchange with Western-based land management organizations. Apache resistance challenged Euro-American notions of restoration, nature, and sustainability while maintaining cultural identity, reasserting cultural autonomy, and protecting tribal sovereignty. But at the same time, the Apache depended on cultural exchange with federal and state land management agencies to successfully manage their natural resources and build an ecologically knowledgeable tribal workforce.
Initially adopting a utilitarian conservation model of land management, restoration projects aided the creation of a relatively strong tribal economy. In addition, early successes with trout, elk, and forest restoration projects eventually granted the Tribe political leverage when they sought to reassume control over reservation resources from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Building on this foundation, Apache restoration work significantly diverged in character from the typical Euro-American restoration project by the 1990s. While striving toward self-sufficiency, the Tribe hybridized tribal cultural values with Western ecological values in their restoration efforts. These projects evolved the tripartite capacity to heal ecologically degraded reservation lands, to establish a degree of economic freedom from the federal government, and to restore cultural traditions. Having reversed their historical relationship of subjugation with government agencies, the Apache currently have almost full decision-making powers over tribal eco-cultural resources.Ph. D.
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Arendt, Emily Jane. "Affairs of State, Affairs of Home: Print and Patriarchy in Pennsylvania, 1776-1844." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417528942.
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Marquet, Julie. "Droit, coutumes et justice coloniale : les affaires de caste dans les établissements français de l'Inde, 1816-1870." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC078.
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Tout au long du XIXe siècle, le gouvernement des Établissements français de l’Inde promet de respecter les us et coutumes des Indiens. Il s’engage notamment à juger les habitants de ses établissements suivant ces us et coutumes. Il forge ainsi une catégorie juridique pour désigner les conflits coutumiers pris en charge par la justice coloniale : les « affaires de caste ».Cette étude des affaires de caste contribue aux développements récents des recherches d’histoire impériale et coloniale sur la formation du droit. Elle rejoint les travaux actuels qui remettent en cause l’idée que le droit colonial est imposé par le haut, suivant une logique rationnelle, et montrent qu’au contraire, il est le fruit de compositions avec les formes juridiques précoloniales et les possibilités locales. La thèse étudie spécifiquement les processus de composition à l’œuvre dans le façonnement du système juridique en matière de caste. Le système juridique, entendu comme l’ensemble des règles de droit, les institutions chargées de les appliquer et les usages de ces institutions, est envisagé dans son rapport aux demandes sociales. Cette approche localisée de la situation coloniale apporte de plus un éclairage nouveau sur la société indienne dans le sud du sous-continent. Elle participe ainsi au débat sur la constitution des castes comme unité sociale et comme catégorie administrative à la période coloniale. Le système juridique est examiné sous différents angles. Dans un premier temps, la focale est placée sur les cadres coloniaux des affaires de caste et les modalités d’expression de la souveraineté du gouvernement colonial. Dans un second temps, l’attention est tournée vers les différents acteurs de la résolution des conflits, qui participent au façonnement de ces cadres. Pour finir, l’étude s’arrête sur la forme et les enjeux des litiges, de manière à saisir le rôle des justiciables dans la production des normes sociales et juridiquesIn the course of the 19th century, the government of the French settlements of India promises to respect the habits and customs of the Indian people. It also commits to judge the inhabitants of these settlements according to these customs and habits. It consequently creates a legal category to designate the customary conflicts judged by the colonial justice: the “caste affairs”. This study of caste affairs contributes to the recent developments in imperial and colonial history on the formation of the law. It resonates with the current works that question the idea of colonial law being imposed in a top-down fashion following a rational logic and that show that, on the contrary, colonial law results from arrangements with precolonial legal forms and local possibilities. The thesis specifically studies the process that shapes the legal system regarding castes. The legal system, understood as all the legal rules, the institutions in charge of enforcing them, and the use of these institutions, is analysed in its relationship with social demands. Furthermore, this localised analysis of the colonial situation, shed new lights on the Indian society of the south of the sub-continent. It contributes to the debates on the constitution of castes as a social unit and administrative category in the colonial period. The legal system is analysed from different perspectives. First, the focus is put on the colonial frameworks governing the caste affairs and on the ways in which the sovereignty of the colonial government is articulated. Second, the study gives attention to the different actors involved in the resolution of these conflicts, which participates to the shaping of these frameworks. To finish with, the study focuses on the forms and stakes of disputes in order to understand the role of the litigants in the production of social and legal norms
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Fink, Madeline. "Welcoming Communities: Examining the Experiences of Dallas Area Immigrants on the Path to U.S. Citizenship." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404532/.
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The U.S. citizenship application process is a legal and symbolic journey shaped by many cultural processes. This research project aims to bring to light the experiences of immigrants and citizenship applicants living in Dallas, Texas, to promote a better understanding of Dallas' increasingly diverse population. In addition, the purpose of this project is to provide insights to a specific client, the office of Dallas Welcoming Communities and Immigrant Affairs, about Dallas' lawful permanent residents who are eligible for citizenship and their reasons for pursuing citizenship status. The data for this project was collected through observation at various citizenship workshops and community events, as well as through semi-structured interviews with 14 U.S. citizenship applicants. Reasons for applying for U.S. citizenship discussed in this project include a desire for membership in U.S. society, access to better educational and economic opportunities, improved ease of travel and the desire to vote. Barriers to the citizenship process discussed in this project include the amount of time one must dedicate to the application, lack of clear knowledge about the process and the financial cost of the application. Other themes include the effects of capital on applicant's experience with the citizenship process, symbolic meanings of citizenship, transnationalism and ideas of deserving and undeserving surrounding the issues of residency and U.S. citizenship.
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Sánchez, Resalt Ana María. "La Propaganda "cultural" soviética en la Segunda Guerra Mundial: los casos del Comité para los Asuntos de las Artes y Literatúrnaya Gazeta." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398143.
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Esta Tesis trata sobre la propaganda soviética durante la Gran Guerra Patriótica, en concreto sobre el modo en el que prensa y arte fueron puestos al servicio de la propaganda en este periodo. Para determinar cómo sociedad y sistema fueron “rehechos” por la propaganda “cultural”, hemos analizado documentos del Comité para los Asuntos de las Artes y el periódico cultural Literatúrnaya Gazeta. Partiendo de la consideración de la propaganda como herramienta para la construcción del imaginario (de clase) del pueblo soviético, en nuestro análisis hemos buscado referencias al papel del artista como “soldado” y a elementos presoviéticos recuperados en los discursos institucional y periodístico, con el objetivo de concretar las principales características del ciudadano soviético y su enemigo tal y como fueron descritas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Asimismo, nos detendremos en mostrar cómo el arte fue institucionalizado y cómo las instituciones culturales trabajaron para establecer el único tipo de arte posible (tanto en contenido como en forma) en la URSS durante la Gran Guerra Patriótica.Aquesta Tesi tracta sobre la propaganda soviètica durant la Gran Guerra Patriòtica, en concret sobre la manera en que la premsa i l’art van ser posats al servei de la propaganda en aquest període. Per a determinar com la societat i sistema van ser “refets” per la propaganda “cultural”, hem analitzat documents del Comitè per els Assumptes de les Arts i el diari cultural Literatúrnaya Gazeta. Partint de la consideració de la propaganda com a eina per a la construcció de l’imaginari (de classe) del poble soviètic, en la nostra anàlisi hem buscat referències al paper de l’artista com “soldat” i a elements presoviètics recuperats en els discursos institucional i periodístic, amb l’objectiu de concretar les principals característiques del ciutadà soviètic i el seu enemic tal com van ser descrites durant la Segona Guerra Mundial. Així mateix, ens detindrem a mostrar com l’art va ser institucionalitzat i com les institucions culturals van treballar per establir l’únic tipus d’art possible (tant en contingut com en forma) en la URSS durant la Gran Guerra Patriòtica.
This Thesis is on Soviet propaganda during the Great Patriotic War, and specifically the way that journalism and art were turned into propaganda. In order to examine how the Soviet system and society were “remade” through the arts by war under Stalin, we have analyzed documents from the Committee of Arts Affairs and the cultural newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta. The main premise of this research is to do with propaganda as a means for the construction of (class) imaginaries among the Soviet people. To that end, we have looked for references in the media and institutional discourse to: the role of the artist as a “soldier” or “warrior”; aspect of Russian culture from pre-Soviet elements; and the defining characteristics of the Soviet people and its enemies as described in Literaturnaya Gazeta during WWII. Furthermore, we have have tried to build an understanding of the ways in which art was institutionalized during the war, and of how state cultural institutions worked to establish the only permissible type of art (in both content and form).
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Hughes, Kevin Michael. "A mission in transition: Legitimacy, philosophical fit and student affairs cultures." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154095.
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Ushiyama, Rin. "Memory struggles : narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895.
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This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō between 1988 and 1995, which culminated in the gassing of the Tokyo subway system using sarin in March 1995. The Tokyo attack was the largest act of terrorism in post-war Japan. I combine qualitative methods of media analysis, interviews, and participant observation to analyse how different stakeholders have narrated and commemorated the Aum Affair. I propose ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural trauma’ to describe an event which is represented as harmful and indelible to collective memory and identity. In contrast to ‘cultural trauma’, which stresses the importance of symbolic representations of traumatic events, ‘collective trauma’ considers other ‘material’ processes – such as establishing facts, collective action, state responses, and litigation – which also contribute to trauma construction. My overarching argument is that various stakeholders – including state authorities, mass media, public intellectuals, victims, and former Aum believers – have constructed the Aum Affair as a collective trauma in multiple and conflicting ways. Many media representations situated Aum as an evil ‘cult’ which ‘brainwashed’ believers and intended to take over Japan through terror. State authorities also responded by treating Aum as a dangerous terrorist group. In some instances, these binary representations of Japan locked in a struggle against an evil force led to municipal governments violating the civil rights of Aum believers. Some individuals such as public intellectuals and former believers have challenged this divisive view by treating Aum as a ‘religion’, not a ‘cult’, and locating the root causes of Aum’s growth in Japanese society. Additionally, victims and former members have pursued divergent goals such as retributive justice, financial reparations, and social reconciliation through their public actions. A key conclusion of this dissertation is that whilst confronting horrific acts of violence may require social construction of collective trauma using cultural codes of good and evil, the entrenchment of these symbolic categories can result in lasting social tension and division.
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Julian, Nessa Duque. "Exploring the culture of assessment within a division of student affairs." Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3570909.
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The growing calls for accountability within higher education have mobilized student affairs divisions to develop practices that provide evidence of student learning and development. In order to do this effectively student affairs divisions understand the importance of creating, managing, and sustaining a culture of assessment. The purpose of this study was to explore and understand effective practices in creating a culture of assessment within a division of student affairs at a large public university. The findings from this study offer insight into the experiences of one division in creating a culture of assessment. Key themes of leadership, socialization, and learning were consistent with organizational theory regarding the creation and management of a culture of an organization and with student affairs assessment literature. This study offers suggestions for best practices in ways other divisions might approach the creation of a culture of assessment.
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Kassa, Ida B. "You Are What You (Can) Eat: Cultivating Resistance through Food, Justice, and Gardens on the South Side of Chicago." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/141.
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Though food is widely recognized as a basic necessity for humanity, disparate access to it highlights whose bodies, environments, health, nutrition, and utter existence has mattered most in American society—and whose has mattered the least. Through interviews with residents of the South Side of Chicago about the alternative food pathway they’ve forged for themselves, we learn that food becomes much more than just sustenance. Interviewees describe our present day food system as undeniably rooted in a history of enslavement and exploitation of Black and Brown bodies; they regard food justice work by communities of color as an important source of empowerment as it not only is an act of survival, but also an act of reclamation of spaces they’ve long been historically denied. For them, community gardens are safe spaces for neighbors of all ages to congregate, discuss issues happening in the neighborhood, and ultimately keep the community alive and healthy; they are transformative spaces for community building, learning, and collective healing. Residents become better stewards to the earth and to each other. Ultimately, community-led urban agriculture has the power to transform urban communities and their relationship with food, land, the environment, and each other. Ineffective public health initiatives often fail to sufficiently historicize and contextualize the relationship between social factors, unhealthy urban landscapes, and poor health outcomes. By placing the agency of the affected community at the center of research, however, we might better understand the relationship between positionality, food access, adverse health outcomes and any efforts we make to improve them.
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Zanifi, Karima. "Les politiques de communication extérieure de la France de 2003 à 2009." Thesis, Paris 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA020003.
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Dans un monde globalisé où compétitivité et concurrence façonnent en partie la scène politique etéconomique internationale, la construction d’une image voire d’une identité via la communication extérieuredevient un outil de puissance. Ces implications se retrouvent de la même manière dans les relations entre unÉtat, la France, et les opinions publiques nationales et étrangères.Cette thèse de doctorat complète le questionnement de la place de la France dans le monde.L’étude de la production de la communication extérieure par l’État, personnifiant la Nation, prend formedans un contexte géopolitique mouvant, caractérisé par une évolution technologique et médiatiquedifficilement prévisible. Elle propose une synthèse de la communication extérieure marquée par les structuresde la Ve République et par la politique étrangère menée par le Ministère des Affaires étrangères et impulséepar le chef de l’État. Les freins psychologiques, le refus de la communication comme outil de visibilité et depouvoir ainsi que les problématiques intérieures pèsent sur l’élaboration de politiques pensées et crédibles.Cette recherche interroge également la légitimité de l’échelle de la communication extérieure de la Francelorsque l’attractivité économique se dispute au niveau régional et que la compétition politique se livre à unniveau supra – national.Ce travail fait état de l’existant afin de proposer la correction de travers nationaux qui compliquent lespolitiques de communication supposées porter la voix de la France dans le mondeIn a globalized world partly shaped by competition between nations, building a strong identity andimage is becoming an increasing tool of power.Producing such a good image and appearance is similarly important when it comes to relationshipsbetween states as to relationships between France and its own public opinion or foreign publicopinion. That’s where foreign communication and public diplomacy counts.This PhD thesis aims at providing another point of view and an answer to the French questioningabout France’s place in the world nowadays.Mainly managed by the French foreign office, foreign communication policies represent the will ofthe government and express its directions more than a French identity.The characteristics of the French tradition of diplomacy and international relations are marked by thespecificity of the Vth Republic. The governments’ foreign policies between 2003 and 2009 follow thenew strategy of France as a member of the international community building and preserving peace.Ambitions for France as an independent and important nation have to find a foundation in its actionsas well as a translation in the medias.The skills and means devoted to the foreign communicationpolicies appear to miss some points.We looked at the current situation to reveal the lacks and strengths of the process. Our work alsointend to suggest ways of imagining, building and managing operational policies and campaignsthroughout the world this next years.Psychological pressures from domestical tradition of rejecting communication refrains the population in itsself-representation and so far the country from entering the cognitive war this new century brought in
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Sternberg, Jason. "Generation X and television current affairs: Journalism and youth culture in the 1990s /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17999.pdf.
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Wiley, Ronald Brooks. "“To Gallop Together to War is Simple-- To Make Peace is Complex” Indigenous Informal Restorative Conflict Resolution Practices Among Kazakhs: An Ethnographic Case Study." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/119.
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Advocates of restorative and transitional justice practice have long drawn from practices of indigenous peoples to form the basis for more sustainable, relational, participatory, community-based approaches to conflict resolution. With the resurgence in Kazakh nationalism since the Republic of Kazakhstan independence, repatriated diasporic Kazakhs, who through cultural survival in diaspora retain more of their ethno-cultural characteristics, influence a revival of Kazakh language and culture. The purpose of this study was to understand the indigenous informal restorative conflict resolution practices of the Kazakh people. The questions that drove this study were: What indigenous informal forms of dispute resolution have been in use among Kazakhs, as reflected in their folklore and proverbs; which have continued in use among diasporic semi-nomadic Kazakh populations; and, which, if any, are restorative in nature? This ethnographic multi-case study incorporates participant observation and semi-structured interviews of participants selected through snowball sampling from among diasporic Kazakhs in, or repatriated from, China. Kazakh folklore and proverb collections were examined for conflict resolution practices and values at the family and kinship levels. Key theories used to explore the topic include Post-Colonial Theory of Sub-Altern Agency, Essentialism Theory, Soviet Ethnos Theory, and Restoration of Trust Theory. This study expands the knowledge base regarding indigenous systems of conflict resolution and contributes to the ethnography of the Kazakh people. The existence of indigenous informal restorative Kazakh systems of conflict resolution can inform reassessment and reform of public policy as to alternatives to punitive criminal justice practices.
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Moorlag, Matthew J. Boynton Lois A. "The U.S. Coast Guard public affairs officer roles, perceptions, and culture - a communication excellence study /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1315.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Mass Communication in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication." Discipline: Journalism and Mass Communication; Department/School: Journalism and Mass Communication, School of.
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Leopoldie, Nicole. "The Franco-American love affaire : transnational courtship and marriage patterns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC142/document.
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Situé dans les méthodologies de l’histoire transnationale, l’histoire culturelle, et l’histoire des émotions, cette œuvre examine et compare des modèles de fréquentation et de mariage entre la France et les Etats-Unis pendant les dix-neuvième et vingtième siècles. Les pratiques sociales de fréquentation et de mariage étant devenues des mécanismes aux travers desquels les frontières étaient franchies et de nouveaux espaces culturels étaient créés, ils représentent d’importants éléments d’enchevêtrements transnationaux. Ainsi, cette œuvre non seulement cherche à examiner comment des modèles visibles de mariage transnationaux émergent de ces espaces sociaux créées par ces rencontres interculturelles entre les deux sociétés, mais aussi à montrer comment les dynamiques de ces rencontres ont changé avec le temps. Bien que d’autres études sur le sujet ont pointé du doigt les évidentes raisons socio-économiques de ces mariages, je soutiens que de telles rationalisations sont simplement trop étroites et que de plus larges réflexions doivent inclure les motivations culturelles et émotionnelles, motivations qui ont toujours été en arrière-plan. En localisant et en identifiant les espaces transnationaux qui ont contribué à ces mariages, et en analysant les dimensions culturelles et émotionnelles de ces espaces, j’argumente que les acteurs de ces mariages étaient principalement guidés par un fort attachement émotionnel aux différences culturelles perçues, attachement qui va au-delà de l’unité sociale nationale. Au sein de ces contextes globaux changeant des dix-neuvième et vingtième siècles, ces mariages soulèvent donc d’importantes questions concernant la construction familiale, le rôle du mariage dans la construction d’une cohésion et d’une appartenance nationales, et la perméabilité des frontières nationales pendant les différentes étapes de la construction nationaleSituated in the methodologies of transnational history, cultural history, and the history of emotions, this work examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because the social practices of courtship and marriage became mechanisms through which borders were crossed and new cultural spaces were created, these relationships represent important elements of transnational entanglements. This work, therefore, not only seeks to examine the ways in which observable patterns of transnational marriage emerged out of social spaces of cross-cultural encounter between the two societies but also how the dynamics of those encounters changed over time. While existing scholarship on the subject has pointed to obvious socio economic motivations for these marriages, I contend that such rationalizations are simply too narrow and that greater analytical considerations need to include both cultural and emotional motivations that were always in the background. By locating and identifying transnational spaces that produced marriages, and analyzing the cultural and emotional dimensions of those spaces, I argue that marriage participants were largely driven by a strong emotional attachment to perceived cultural differences that stretched beyond the national polity. Within the shifting global contexts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these marriages, therefore, provoke important questions regarding family formation, the role of marriage in the making of national cohesion and belonging, and the permeability of national borders during different stages of the national project
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Alavoine, Claude. "L'influence du facteur culturel sur la négociation d'affaires internationale : une étude exploratoire des orientations distributives ou intégratives à l'aide d'une simulation." Nice, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002NICE0064.
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L'influence du facteur culturel sur la négociation d'affaires internationale semble indéniable pour la plupart des spécialistes et chercheurs dans ce domaine. Néanmoins la question qui se pose est plutôt de savoir son degré d'importance et les conséquences qui en découlent pour la réalisation d'accords. De nombreux travaux ont porté en particulier sur les orientations intégratives et distributives de la négociation c'est à dire sur les aspects coopératifs et compétitifs inhérents à ce type de situation. Basés essentiellement sur une expérimentation réalisée à l'aide de simulations, ces travaux s'intéressent aux conditions qui permettent ou au contraire qui empêchent les négociateurs à la fois dans un contexte "intra" ou "inter" culturel d'atteindre des gains communs élevés dans l'accord. Cet aspect pose à la fois un problème de mesure et d'outil de mesure de ces gains communs et donc de définition de ce que l'on peut considérer comme un accord "intégratif". Après avoir présenté les principaux travaux dans ce domaine et étudié les mécanismes propres aux simulations utilisées, l'auteur présente son propre modèle de simulation. De par la situation qu'il génère, celui-ci devrait permettre de confirmer que les orientations intégratives et distributives des individus dans la négociation sont un facteur culturel déterminant pour la réalisation d'accords intégratifsThe influence of culture on international business negotiations is recognized by most of the specialists and researchers in the field. A more important question is to what extent and what are the consequences in agreement making. Research has focused in particular on the integrative and distributive orientations of negotiation i. E. On inherent competitive or cooperative aspects of this type of situation. Essentially based on experiments conducted using simulations, these works emphasise on the conditions enabling or preventing negotiators from reaching a higher level of mutual interest and gains both in an "intra" or "inter" cultural context. This aspect brings up a problem of measurement and of method of measuring these gains and thus defining what one can consider as an "integrative" agreement. Having presented the principle works in this domain and having studied the mechanisms inherently used in these simulations, the author presents his own simulation model. From the situation generated, this model should confirm that the integrative and distributive orientations of individuals in negotiation are a determining cultural factor for reaching integrative agreements
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Moss, Malcolm William. "Student affairs administrators' university relationships : a study of language usage in departmental meetings /." Diss., This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135114/.
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Adams-Manning, Andrea. "Individual and Organizational Culture Predictors of Participation in Training and Development Activities among Student Affairs Professionals." UNF Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/813.
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Organizational culture substantially impacts employee motivation, employee behavior, and employee participation in professional development activities. In the field of Student Affairs, it is critical for employees to regularly participate in professional development activities to stay up-to-date with understanding today’s students’ needs and meeting federal and state demands. This study examined what individual and organizational culture factors predict participation in professional development activities among student affairs professionals at higher education institutions. For this study, 354 participants from various public and private institutions were emailed an anonymous web-based survey. Field theory served as the theoretical foundation giving perspective as to how external and internal factors contribute to behavioral changes. Human capital theory and empirical research provided the framework for the organizational culture factors investigated. The results of this study informs practice and policy concerning supervision models; performance evaluation methods; the allocation of resources dedicated to developing and training staff members; professional development plans; higher education curriculum; policies and regulations associated with training and development (T&D); accreditation implications; and the logistics associated with T&D opportunities offered by professional organizations.
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Kamara, Hassan M. "The influence of strategic and organizational cultures on the Revolution in Military Affairs within the U.S. Army." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45205.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis thesis explores the influence of culture on the requirements for a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). It assesses how cultural factors at the strategic and the U.S. Army organizational levels may affect the changes required for realizing an RMA. Defined as a paradigmatic shift in the conduct of military affairs spurred by the confluence of organizational change with new and existing technologies and concepts of operations, the RMA has long been a controversial analytical construct. This thesis accepts the premise that the history of warfare can be interpreted as a series of RMAs. It explores the complex and powerful influence of American strategic culture and the organizational culture of the U.S. Army on the organizational, doctrinal, technology, funding and other factors vital to the realization of an RMA. The thesis compares the influence of U.S. strategic and Army organizational culture on the RMA during the interwar period (1919–1941) and the contemporary period (since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq) to highlight similarities and differences that U.S. military and civilian leaders can learn from to change the paradigm of military affairs in America’s favor.
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Smith, William S. II. "Send in the...Scholars?: The History of the Fulbright Program from 1961-1970." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305116307.
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Bassel, Leah. "Unveiling agency : feminism and multiculturalism in the "Affaire du Foulard"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64127.pdf.
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Schwartz, Mallory. "War on the Air: CBC-TV and Canada’s Military, 1952-1992." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30345.
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From the earliest days of English-language Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television (CBC-TV), the military has been regularly featured on the news, public affairs, documentary, and drama programs. Little has been done to study these programs, despite calls for more research and many decades of work on the methods for the historical analysis of television. In addressing this gap, this thesis explores: how media representations of the military on CBC-TV (commemorative, history, public affairs and news programs) changed over time; what accounted for those changes; what they revealed about CBC-TV; and what they suggested about the way the military and its relationship with CBC-TV evolved. Through a material culture analysis of 245 programs/series about the Canadian military, veterans and defence issues that aired on CBC-TV over a 40-year period, beginning with its establishment in 1952, this thesis argues that the conditions surrounding each production were affected by a variety of factors, namely: (1) technology; (2) foreign broadcasters; (3) foreign sources of news; (4) the influence of the military and its veterans; (5) audience response; (6) the role played by personalities involved in the production of CBC-TV programs; (7) policies/objectives/regulations set by the CBC, the Board of Broadcast Governors and the Canadian Radio-Television Commission (later, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission); (8) ambitions for program development and the changing objectives of departments within the CBC; (9) economic constraints at the CBC; (10) CBC-TV’s relations with the other producers of Canadian television programming, like the NFB; and, (11) broader changes to the Canadian social, economic, political and cultural scenes, along with shifts in historiography. At different times, certain of these conditions were more important than others, the unique combination of which had unpredictable results for programming. The thesis traces these changes chronologically, explaining CBC-TV’s evolution from transmitting largely uncritical and often positive programming in the early 1950s, to obsession with the horrors of war and questioning of the military’s preparedness by decade’s end, to new debate about the future of the forces and the memory of war in the 1960s, to a complex mixture of activism, criticism and praise in the 1970s and 1980s, and, finally, to controversy and iconoclasm by the 1990s.
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Arndt, Corinna. "Managing dissent : institutional culture and political independence in the South African Broadcasting Corporation's News and Current Affairs Division." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28269.
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Despite a fairly successful institutional transformation in the early 1990s, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), in particular its News and Current Affairs division, is widely perceived to lack political independence from the African National Congress-led government and to have neglected its role as a political watchdog in South Africa's young democracy. Most academic studies continue to be concerned with formal factors such as the SABC's institutional structure, media laws, or commercial imperatives -yet have not been able to explain the above anomaly. This paper focuses instead on the institutional culture around editorial independence which is conceptualised as comprising of beliefs (journalists' role perceptions), values (news values and the professional ethos) and internal practices (news decision-making, internal debate etc.). The main focus of analysis lies on the ways dissent is being managed within the corporation. This paper transcends the classical boundaries of political science into the neighbouring disciplines of media studies and sociology and draws specifically on (a) the literature on public broadcasting in young democracies, (b) debates around journalists' roles and professional values, and (c) conceptualisations of institutional culture as well as power and power relations within organisations. In-depth interviews with 17 current and former SABC employees suggest that beliefs and values around editorial independence are highly contested at the SABC - in particular among staff and management and so much so that the struggle around which ones should be dominant has become part of the institutional culture itself. The resulting dissent is being managed both from above (by management and senior editors) and from below (by newsroom staff). The SABC does not seem to be subject to unusual levels of political pressure from outside. Instead, threats to editorial independence seem to originate mostly on the level of the SABC's board and senior news management. They take the form of pressure and rewards which, in combination, effectively stifle independent thinking and hence work against editorial independence and a professional ethos integral to the SABC's public broadcasting mandate. Hirschman's concepts of exit, voice, and loyalty are used to analyse how journalists respond to such pressure and rewards. While exit is not an option for many staff and voice is perceived as costly, loyalty (towards the idea of public broadcasting) does not appear to be very common either. Instead, what I call opportunistic loyalty or quiescence in the face of power seems to be the preferred way of dealing with the dilemma of individually-held values and beliefs and a dominant institutional culture that runs contrary to them. As a result, debate is silenced, staff morale suffers, and routine processes of news decision-making are easily manipulated by senior managers or other powerful individuals with the will to enforce their preferred values and beliefs (which in tum might have little to do with the ideals of public broadcasting). Journalists and editors seem to generally be reluctant to get involved in sensitive news decisions, to take responsibility and exercise their professional judgement which then makes the corporation potentially vulnerable to political interference from outside as well.
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Guissard, Isabelle. "Les Lapons de Norvège : aspects historiques, politiques et culturels." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040008.
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Au XVIIIe siècle, les États du nord ont voulu évangéliser le peuple sâme et établir les frontières du Sápmi, territoire des Sâmes. En Norvège, la tentative d'assimilation de cette minorité ethnique devint systématique à partir de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, par la politique de norvégianisation. Au début du XXe siècle, les Lapons commencèrent à s'organiser sur le plan politique au travers de la presse et d'associations. Il fallut attendre les années soixante avec la fin de la politique de norvégianisation pour voir leur situation s'améliorer. Au début des années 80, l'affaire d'Alta révéla l'existence de ce peuple au monde entier et fut à l'origine de la création du Sameting - parlement lapon - en 1989. L'adoption de lois nationales et internationales par la Norvège reconnaît des droits spécifiques aux Sâmes, peuple autochtone qui joue un rôle de leader par rapport aux autres minorités dans le mondeIn the 18th century the Nordic countries tried to evangelize the Saami people and establish the borders of the Sápmi, the Saami's territory. In Norway, the attempts to assimilate that ethnic minority became systematic in the second half of the 19th century with the implementation of the policy of norwegianisation. The Saami began to organise themselves in a political way through the press and associations at the beginning of the 20th century. Their situation eventually improved in the 1960's when the policy of norwegianisation was abandonned. The Alta affair at the beginning of the 1980's revealed the Saami people to the world and led to the creation of the Sameting- the Saami parliament- in 1989. The adoption of national and international laws gives specific rights to the Saami, who as indigenous people play a role of leader on the other minorities in the world
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Adams, Leanne M. "MOLECULAR TYPING OF MYCOBACTERIAL ISOLATES CULTURED FROM THE TISSUE OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (CROHN'S DISEASE) PATIENTS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4450.
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The role of Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis (MAP) in the etiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including Crohn's Disease (CD), has been investigated. The fastidious characteristics and cross reactivity of MAP with other members in Mycobacteria have produced significant challenges in their detection and identification. In this two year pilot study, an array of three PCR molecular assays based on the detection of sequences from the16S rRNA, IS1245, and IS900 genes, belonging to members of the MAC, have been developed and optimized into a common protocol to be used as a rapid and accurate diagnostic tool regarding M. avium complex (MAC) infection. The PCR protocol time was reduced by half, and the sensitivity and specificity of the molecular assays has been significantly improved barring the need for southern hybridization. This improved methodology was employed for the molecular typing of MAC in 100 resected, full-thickness tissue samples removed from IBD patients. The tissue samples were homogenized, decontaminated, and inoculated into two mycobacterial culture media systems. A total of 328 Bactec and Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MIGT) cultures were evaluated for positive MAC growth. Harvested cells were then subjected to genomic DNA extraction and subsequent PCR typing. The I6 S rRNA-based PCR resulted in detection of 26/28 (93%) MAC in Bactec cultures. Specifically, 25/28 (89%) of positive MAC indicated the presence of IS1245 specific to M. avium subsp avium (MAV), and 6/28 (21%) produced results consistent with the presence of IS900 following nested PCR. Moreover, 20/100 (20%) of MGIT cultures were positive for MAP. Sequence analysis was performed on amplified regions of the IS900 element from seven isolates. A nucleotide alignment revealed that 2/7 isolates demonstrated 100% homology to Bovine MAP and 5/7 isolates showed 96-99% homology to sequenced Bovine MAP published in GenBank. The detection of at least two Bovine derived MAP in IBD tissue will have great impact on the epidemiology and reclassification of IBD. The significant homology of the other five isolates to Bovine derived MAP suggests a diversity in the geographical distribution of MAP regarding Johne's disease and CD. Ultimately, the etiology, diagnosis, and the treatment of IBD as well as control and prevention measures may be enhanced with better tools for investigating emerging infectious diseases.M.S.
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Health and Public Affairs
Molecular Biology and Microbiology
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Franco, Alexander. "The impact of the Miami Cuban exile's political culture on the 1996 fiscal crisis of the City of Miami." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3411.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if the political culture of the Miami Cuban exile community was a significant factor in creating the environment that led to the 1996 fiscal crisis of the City of Miami. The study performed an ethnographic case study that utilized a triangulation strategy which included both qualitative and quantitative methods. Focus groups were conducted to ascertain qualitative and quantitative data as to differences among ethnic and generational groups regarding notions of governance, public administration practices, and overall political values and core beliefs. Quantitative data was obtained through a five year and seven month review of newspaper articles from two periodicals based in Miami-Dade County. A review was also conducted of secondary data in audit and management reports, blue ribbon commission studies, Certified Public Manager (CPM) enrollment, and legal case decisions to examine the administrative practices of the City of Miami leading up to and subsequent to its fiscal crisis. The study found that a political subculture of caudillismo was present in Cuban exile core areas of Miami that appears to have had an influence on the administrative practices and notions of governance that led to the fiscal crisis. The author concludes that an imported foreign political culture has imposed itself as a subculture in core areas of the exile community and that the operationalization of this subculture has manifested itself in non-mainstream notions of governance and public administration practices.
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Garrido, Caballero María Magdalena. "Las relaciones entre España y la Unión Soviética a través de las Asociaciones de Amistad en el siglo XX." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10891.
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La investigación ha abordado los contactos oficiales y extraoficiales entre España y la Unión Soviética durante el siglo XX, y, especialmente, se ha centrado en la proyección del modelo soviético desplegado por las Asociaciones de Amistad, tales como la Sección Española de los Amigos de la Unión Soviética y la Asociación España - URSS, como un medio de calibrar su impacto en España. Asimismo, se ha prestado atención a las asociaciones de amistad británicas para comparar el relativo éxito de estas asociaciones en los dos países. Las principales fuentes utilizadas han sido los fondos VOKS y SODD, procedentes de los archivos estatales rusos, documentos privados de las Asociaciones y testimonios, los cuales han sido cruciales para comprender estas asociaciones, los problemas que encararon así como sus éxitos y fracasos. Las Asociaciones de Amistad con la Unión Soviética fueron un medio de difundir ideales - el antifascismo y la coexistencia pacífica- defendidos por el gobierno Soviético. Así, estas asociaciones constituyeron un tipo de diplomacia popular. En términos generales, la gente que creía en un modelo diferente al capitalista se unió a estas asociaciones y proveyeron ejemplos de respecto en un mundo multicultural. Debido a ello, su mensaje no es obsoleto en el mundo de hoy.The research deals with the official and unofficial contacts between Spain and the Soviet Union, focussing particularly on those perceptions of the latter disseminated through the various Friendship societies, such as the Spanish Friends of the Soviet Union and the Spain - USSR Society. As a way of assessing their impact in Spain, a chapter is dedicated to the British Friendship societies, which will compare the relative successes of these societies in the two countries. The main sources utilized have been the VOKS and SSOD files from the Russian Federation archives, private documents of the societies and testimonies, which have been crucial to understanding these associations, the problems they faced, as well as their successes and failures.The friendship societies with the Soviet Union were a way of spreading ideals -antifascism and peaceful coexistence - championed by the Soviet government. As such, these societies were a type of popular diplomacy. Broadly speaking, people who believed in a different model than capitalism joined these associations and they provided examples of respect in a multicultural world. Because of that, their message is not obsolete in today's world.
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Vale, Teresa Leonor 1967. "A importação de escultura italiana no contexto das relações artístico-culturais entre Portugal e Itália no século XVII." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Letras -- -Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património, 1999. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29039.
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Yu, Chia-Fang. "Du cultuel au culturel : les mutations du festival des fantômes de Keelung Zhongyuanjie XXe-XXIe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA079/document.
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Un festival tel que le Festival des fantômes de Keelung Zhongyuanjie est un fait religieux, esthétique et de communication qui assure des fonctions de transmission des pratiques et des valeurs ainsi que des fonctions symboliques de régulation des relations entre groupes sociaux et de diffusion des représentations. Dans cet espace-temps spécial les cadres de la vie collective et les identités sont en permanence décomposées et recomposées selon une dynamique qui évolue avec le temps. Les individus y jouent temporairement, au sein des clans, un rôle social qui ne dépend pas directement de leur statut social, de leur niveau de richesse, de leur origine ethnique ou provinciale, et même les appartenances religieuses sont associées dans des pratiques syncrétiques. Les festivals traditionnels de Taïwan ont évolué au cours du XXe siècle. A l’origine une double fonction dominait : sociale – il s’agissait d’assurer une cohabitation harmonieuse entre clans – et religieuse – il s’agissait d’assurer une relation apaisée avec les âmes des disparus. Au cours du XXe siècle le festival s’est transformé pour intégrer la nouvelle culture nationale dominante. Au début du XXIe siècle le renforcement de l’identité culturelle taiwanaise est devenu une priorité politique. Les autorités ont œuvré à la promotion d’un ensemble de festivals rassemblés sous le nom de « Festivals d’art de Formose ». Un de ces festivals, la fête des fantômes de Keelung Zhongyunjie, qui était jusqu’alors plutôt traditionnelle et folklorique, a dès lors connu une telle expansion qu’elle est devenue un festival d’art national. Cette étude traite du processus qui voit la mutation de la Fête des Fantômes de Keelung Zhongyuanjie en festival. Des facteurs tels que la mondialisation de l’économie, les mutations technologiques et la dynamique des politiques publiques se combinent pour modifier le modèle original qui passe d’une dominante cultuelle à une dominante culturelle. Ce processus à l’œuvre ne se comprend que dans le cadre des transformations plus générales de l’identité nationale taïwanaise au XXIe siècleA festival such as the Keelung Zhongyuanjie Ghost Festival is a religious, aesthetic and communication event that provides functions of transmitting practices, value and symbols, regulating relations between social groups and dissemination of representations. In this special space-time framework, collective life and identities are constantly decomposed and recomposed according to the dynamics that has evolved over time. Meanwhile, individuals play temporary social roles within the clans regardless of their social status, level of wealth, ethnic or provincial origin, and even religious affiliations. In the festival, the social status of the individual is associated with practices of syncretism.Traditional festivals in Taiwan have evolved over the 20th century. At first, a dual social function dominated. On the one hand, it was to ensure a harmonious cohabitation between clans and religion. On the other hand, it was to ensure a peaceful relationship with the souls of the deceased. However, the essence of the religious activity has been transformed with time. Throughout the twentieth century, the festival has been compatibly integrated with a new dominant national culture. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, strengthening Taiwan's cultural identity became a political priority. The authorities promoted a series of festivals, all of which were officially called "Formosa Art Festivals". One of them,“The Keelung Zhongyuanjie Ghost Festival”, has expanded so much from the traditional and folkloric realm that it has become a national art festival.This study discusses the process of the transformation of Keelung Zhongyuanjie Ghost Festival. Some factors, such as the globalization of the economy, the change of technology and the dynamics of public policies, combine to support the change of the original model from a folk ceremony to an art festival. This research not only elaborates the transformations of the festival but also explores the formation of Taiwan's national identity in the twenty-first century
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Tung, Li-Hua, and 佟立華. "FROM CULTURAL DIPLOMACY DISCUSSING THE TRANSFORMATION OF TAIPEI CULTURAL CENTER IN NEW YORK, COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL AFFAIRS." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61965447699482168754.
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碩士元智大學
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Taipei Cultural Center in New York was founded in 1991 as an overseas office of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan. It was operated into two major units: Taipei Gallery and Taipei Theater. In July 2002, the Council for Cultural Affairs made its decision to close the Theater and Gallery. The operation focus of the Taipei Cultural Center accordingly became as an agent to form partnerships with arts institutions such as performing art centers, festivals, galleries, museums and alike. After such transformation, how to position, structure and promote the Center and its mission are yet to be identified. The term of “Cultural Diplomacy” represents exchanges between countries and people through ideas, arts, information and cultural activities to further understand each other. The outcome of such peaceful and tolerant exchange method is much greater than traditional political model. For the country of Taiwan, cultural exchanges enhance international diplomacy with those countries which we do not have formal diplomatic relationship. Taipei Cultural Center is situated in New York City, the heart of art world, that is the most ideal location for cultural diplomacy exchanges for Taiwan. This thesis attempts to discuss the position of Taipei Cultural Center as a medium for cultural diplomacy and to further explore its mission and management strategy. The purpose of the thesis is to maximize the Center’s potential to expand Taiwan’s international identity and artistic image as a country.
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Chiu-Chan, Lin, and 林秋蟬. "A Study on Upgrading the Service Performance of Cultural Affairs Bureau Volunteers." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06367157852222541776.
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These years the fast changing of the social environment led to diversified social values. Coupled with encouragements from governments of different countries, the volunteerism has been booming and NGOs have been mushrooming. That’s why we can tell 21st century a century for services and volunteerism. What is more, volunteerism can help complement where the government lacks resources to do the job well. This study aims to find, through analyzing the successful experiences in upgrading volunteers’ service performance, the key successful factors for planning to upgrade the volunteers’ service performance, making volunteers understand their directions and goals and providing the related units responsible for volunteer services as a reference in upgrading volunteers’ service performance in the future. This study started from documentation and interviewing experts to organize the factors that influence the upgrading of volunteers’ service performance and to design an expert questionnaire. Then three expert questionnaire interviews, through Delphi Technique of experts from the industry and the academe, were conducted. The key successful factors to influence the upgrading of volunteers’ service performance were acquired after data and figures had been analyzed. They were then analyzed to see how much each factor could influence. The analysis found the key successful factors, when reaching a certain level, could form a critical influence of upgrading volunteers’ service performance. The final stage of this study was to find out 33 key successful factors in such nine dimensions as environment, individual volunteer, quality of the volunteer, training of the volunteer, inspiration of the volunteer, service quality of the volunteer, activity design, leadership of the organization and organization and management of the organization.
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Liu, Huei-Mei, and 劉惠美. "A Study for Congressional Liaison Mechanism of the Council for Cultural Affairs." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08077866615170244625.
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The aftermath of the 2000 Presidential election left the ROC fragmented among several political parties. The increasing political conflict between the Executive Yuan and the Legislative Yuan has aggravated the administration process of government policies. The legislative elections in year 2004 created an even difficult situation when the Pan-Blue Coalition has gained the absolute majority over the Pan-Green Coalition, resulting in much of govenment-sponsored bills being deadlocked. Executive divisions are faced with increasingly complicated political environment, which requires greater manpower and resources to reconcile with the legislative branch. This situation, occurring when legislative branch overpowers or when inter-branch relations hampered, then calls for a strengthening of congressional liaison functions. In contemporary democratic systems, the congressional liaison is an important strategic intermediary between executive and legislative branches. A successful practice of the liaison function is expected to improve the communications and collaborations and to mitigate potential conflicts between executive and legislative branches. Congressional liaisons become the keys to the success of the function. The purpose of this study is thus to investigate the role of congressional liaison at the Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA) in inter-branch politics. Major conclusions of this thesis are summarized as follows: 1.In a divided party government, strategic operations of congressional liaison provide great contributions to the interactions between executive and legislative branches. 2.Strengthened public relations with the congress improves the administrative efficiency and helps achieving policy goals of executive divisions. 3.Service-type tasks have become the major load of congressional liaison offices at the CCA and have shown to suffer the greatest complications. 4.The congressional liaison office, being on the front line of executive-legislative branch relations, is responsible for information delivery, opinion exchanges and reconciliation of issues with the legislative institution. 5.A competent congressional liaison will successfully assist the congressional operations and is expected to have the following characteristics: being professional and enthusiastic, having great communication and coordination skills, being familiar with political operations, having extensive connections in congress, and being authorized and endorsed by superiors.