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Nielsen, Beatrice Helena Date. "War on Culture: The Destruction of Cultural Property During Civil Wars." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579303.
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Acts of violence against civilians during conflict is a topic that has been examined increasingly in the literature on civil war. However, a systematic study on the destruction of cultural and religious sites as a strategic means to achieve territorial control has not yet been explored. I examine this aspect of civilian targeting in this project, and I argue that in many cases, combatants use cultural property as a tool to gain territory, coerce civilians, public perception, and degrade the social fabric of a given religion or population. In preliminary research, I have observed that destruction of a population‘s cultural property indicates and precurses a willingness to destroy human lives. Through a cross-national empirical analysis of civil wars in Iraq and Syria after 1990, I anticipate that the destruction of culturally significant objects and sites is not collateral damage during civil war, but rather intentional actions through which combatants achieve and exert power.
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Roberts, Julia. "Towards a cultural history of archaeology : British archaeology between the Wars." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2005. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/towards-a-cultural-history-of-archaeology(689403e4-b24e-4158-ba82-0e1d5f06a114).html.
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Perrott, Lisa. "The New Zealand Wars Documentary Series: Discursive Struggle and Cultural Memory." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2579.
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The 1998 television broadcast of The New Zealand Wars documentary series was a significant public event, which had a major impact on a broad range of communities and individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand. This popular television history engaged with issues of historical veracity, race, culture and nationhood and challenged previously dominant discourses associated with these concepts. In doing so, it provoked heated debate, and a re-imagining of 'nation', and also opened up spaces for alternative ways of engaging with historical narrative. Informed by post-colonialism, cultural studies and cultural memory, this thesis explores the discursive and affective role of The New Zealand Wars, as it has operated within the turbulent climate of 1990s New Zealand cultural relations. This catalytic function is described in this thesis as a phenomenon of a television series shaped by, whilst also intervening in, processes of cultural colonisation and decolonisation. While both of these processes involve the transmission of discourse via cultural forms, the act of cultural decolonisation requires, in addition, the convergence of a number of agents (people and communities, discursive and memory resources) and circumstances, within particular contextual conditions. Such a convergence provided the conditions for the discursive synthesis, which shaped the production, construction and reception of this series. The role of audio-visual media (and specifically television documentary) in transmitting cultural memory is significant as it enables the flow of memory through channels or forms (such as visual, oral and aural traditions) that can bring about new perspectives and critical reflections upon colonial discourse and dominant concepts of nation and culture. In addition to these social and intellectual processes of audience engagement, this thesis argues that experiential and affective dimensions of cultural memory can (in these specific circumstances) open up radical spaces, offering the potential for generating awareness and sparking political action. These issues are explored through a tripartite analysis of the production context, construction and reception of The New Zealand Wars series. The integration of these three phases of analysis has generated a number of insights into the potential of audio-visual forms, including their producers and audiences, to participate in the negotiation of, and resistance to, colonial discourse. Such insights serve to challenge taken-for-granted constructions of nation and history, and suggest the increasing relevance of alternative concepts such as community-building and cultural memory. Ultimately, this thesis argues that television documentary can serve as a prime site for the articulation of these concepts. The New Zealand Wars serves as a case study, which demonstrates both the potential of this site, and the significance of the social-historical and cultural context in framing this series.
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Fitzgerald, Jenrose D. "SCIENCE WARS AS CULTURE WARS: FRACKING AND THE BATTLE FOR THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF WOMEN." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/18.
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In this thesis, I examine how claims regarding the environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” are constructed by industry advocates who promote the practice and environmental and social justice groups who reject it. More specifically, I examine the cultural underpinnings of the debate over fracking, and the prominence of gender as a central framing device in that debate. While the controversy over fracking is often presented as scientific or technical in nature, I maintain that it is as much a culture war as it is a science war. I demonstrate this by showing how both pro-fracking and anti-fracking groups mobilize cultural symbols and identities—motherhood, environmentalism, family farming, family values, individualism, and patriotism among them—in order to persuade the public and advocate for their positions. I contend that engagement with the cultural and ideological dimensions of those debates, including their gendered dimensions, is as important as engagement with its scientific and technical dimensions. Ultimately, I argue that a greater focus on gender contributes to our understanding of environmental risk more broadly, and to the field of environmental sociology as a whole. As such, gender deserves more scholarly attention within the field than it is currently receiving.
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Burton, James Amos. "Film, history and cultural memory : cinematic representations of Vietnam-era America during the culture wars, 1987-1995." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10493/.
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My thesis is intended as an intellectual opportunity to take what, I argue, are the "dead ends" of work on the history film in a new direction. I examine cinematic representations of the Vietnam War-era America (1964-1974) produced during the "hot" culture wars (1987-1995). I argue that disagreements among historians and commentators concerning the (mis)representation of history on screen are stymied by either an over-emphasis on factual infidelity, or by dismissal of such concerns as irrelevant. In contradistinction to such approaches, I analyse this group of films in the context of a fluid and negotiated cultural memory. I argue that the consumption of popular films becomes part of a vast intertextual mosaic of remembering and forgetting that is constantly redefining, and reimagining, the past. Representations of history in popular film affect the industrial construction of cultural memory, but Hollywood's intertextual relay of promotion and accompanying wider media discourses also contributes to a climate in which film impacts upon collective memory. I analyse the films firmly within the discursive moment of their production (the culture wars), the circulating promotional discourses that accompany them, and the always already circulating notions of their subjects. The introduction outlines my methodological approach and provides an overview of the relationship between the twinned discursive moments. Subsequent chapters focus on representations of returning veterans; representations of the counterculture and the anti-war protest movement; and the subjects foregrounded in the biopics of the period. The fourth chapter examines Forrest Gump as a meta-sixties film and as the fulcrum of my thesis. The final chapter posits that an uplifting version of the sixties has begun to dominate as the most successful type of production in the post-Gump marketplace.
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Puzey, Guy Edward Michael. "Wars of position : language policy, counter-hegemonies and cultural cleavages in Italy and Norway." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7544.
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This thesis investigates the development of the present-day linguistic hegemonies within Italy and Norway as products of ongoing linguistic ‘wars of position’. Language activist movements have been key actors in these struggles, and this study seeks to address how such movements have operated in attempts to translate their linguistic ideologies into de facto language policy through mechanisms such as political agitation, propaganda and the use of language in public spaces. It also reveals which other extra-linguistic values and ideologies have become associated with or allied to these linguistic causes in recent years, how these ideologies have affected language policy, and whether such ideological alliances have been representative of language users’ ideologies. The study is informed by an innovative methodological framework combining the theories and metaphors of Antonio Gramsci (including hegemony and wars of position as well as his linguistic writings) with the theories of Stein Rokkan on cultural-political cleavage structures and the relationships between centres and peripheries. These constructs and relationships are thereafter documented as ideologically defining strands running through the history of the movements studied, through reference to activist periodicals and party newspapers. In Italy, the focus of the research is on the Lega Nord (Northern League), a far-right populist autonomist political movement. The Lega has sought to legitimise its imagination of a northern nation (‘Padania’) by portraying the dialects of northern Italy as minority languages, emphasising the hegemonic relationship between the Italian national language and northern dialects. The movement has also used this perception of northern dialects as peripheral and suppressed by Italian to bolster its depiction of ‘Padania’ as a wealthy periphery allegedly held back by central and southern Italy. Although this campaign has achieved some successes in increased visibility of dialects in public spaces, dialects largely remain restricted to ‘low’-status domains. In Norway, the thesis devotes special attention to the post-war efforts of the counter-hegemonic campaign for the Nynorsk standard of Norwegian, which was devised as a common denominator for Norwegian dialects, as opposed to the hegemonic standard Bokmål, which is a Norwegianisation of written Danish. In opposing the challenges of globalisation and centralisation, the Nynorsk movement has retained a radical character and is generally associated with a left-wing variant of nationalism, a key part of the Norwegian cultural cleavage structure. The social argumentation of the Nynorsk movement was instrumental in its successful promotion of dialects, now seen as an unstigmatised means of spoken communication in all social contexts.
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Nerich, Laurent. "Les New Zealand Wars : la culture guerrière maorie face à l’impérialisme britannique." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2020. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/ulprive/DDOC_T_2020_0248_NERICH.pdf.
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Les New Zealand Wars sont les conflits ayant opposé les Britanniques à différentes tribus maories pour la possession de la Nouvelle-Zélande au XIXe siècle. Ces conflits trouvent leur origine dans l’interprétation divergente du traité de Waitangi, signé en 1840 avec les principaux chefs maoris, qui est en fait une prise de possession par le Royaume-Uni. Ces conflits - épisodiques - s'étendent de « l'incident » de Wairau en 1843 à la fin de la résistance du chef Te Kooti en 1872 et se déroulent quasi exclusivement dans l’Ile du Nord de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Période de crise parmi les plus longues de l’ère victorienne, les New Zealand Wars sont le premier véritable conflit, et le seul de cette ampleur, entre une nation européenne et un peuple polynésien. À cet égard, ces conflits sont révélateurs, car les deux camps ont dû transformer profondément leur stratégie au cours du conflit. Les Maoris firent preuve de capacités d’adaptation hors du commun en utilisant leur culture guerrière et l’expérience acquise au cours des guerres intertribales du début du XIXe siècle. Par exemple, les pa (fortifications traditionnelles maories) évoluent de manière drastique et vont progressivement figurer au cœur de la stratégie maorie. Les Britanniques, quant à eux, doivent sortir des schémas tactiques utilisés au cours des autres conflits coloniaux et utiliser la puissance de leur empire pour l’emporter. Cette recherche s’intéresse en particulier à l’étude des mécanismes d’adaptation mutuelle lors des conflits coloniaux et leur héritage, puisque les pa préfigurent le développement des tranchées et des abris enterrésThe New Zealand Wars are the conflicts in which British fought Maori tribes for the control of New Zealand in the XIXth Century. Their origin can be traced back to the divergent interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 with most prominent Maori chiefs. This treaty is in fact a taking of control of New Zealand by the United Kingdom. From the « Wairau Incident » in 1843 to the surrender of chief Te Kooti in 1872, these conflicts were fought almost exclusively in New Zealand’s North Island. One of the longest crises of the Victorian era, these conflicts were also the first open conflict between Europeans and a Polynesian people, and the only one with such a large scale. In this regard, these conflicts are meaningful because both sides had to implement deep changes in their strategy. Capitalizing on their warrior culture and the experience acquired during the intertribal wars of the beginning of XIXth Century, Maori adapted outstandingly. For example, the pa (Maori traditional fortifications) changed drastically and became the center of Maori strategy. As for British, they had to adapt the tactical procedures used in other colonial conflicts while using the might of their empire to prevail. This research focuses in particular on mutual adaptation processes in colonial conflicts and their legacy, since pa heralded trench warfare and dug out shelters
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Hamilton, Tom. "Pierre de L'Estoile and his world in the Wars of Religion, 1546-1611." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:848fc095-05a9-48e0-8633-76d63d06b663.
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Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611) kept an extraordinary diary and collection in Paris during the Wars of Religion, recording everything from high-political scandals to low-life criminality during this crucial turning point in early modern history. The first extensive study of L'Estoile in any language, this thesis demonstrates how he negotiated and commemorated the conflicts that divided France as he engaged creatively with the rumours, ephemeral prints, poems, pictures, and books that he assembled in his diary and cabinet. It argues that the story of his life and times is the history of the civil wars in the making. While historians and literary scholars depend on L’Estoile’s diaries as an essential source of information, citing him as a mere passive observer, this thesis instead explores his subjectivity and interprets a wide range of hitherto unseen or neglected manuscript evidence that situates him in the Parisian society of royal office-holders and demonstrates his significance in the republic of letters. It follows a microhistorical approach to L'Estoile and his world in order to challenge established interpretations of his sources as evidence of a widespread mentality of eschatological anxiety in sixteenth-century France, instead focusing on L’Estoile’s personal responses to pieces in his collection. In this way, it critiques a common trend in cultural history to roam freely among ‘collective representations’ and argues for the importance of a precise analysis of social context, materiality, and individual subjectivity in reception studies.
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Sraka, Anthony M. (Anthony Mirko). ""Peasant Concord" between the wars : an examination of the cultural wing of the Croatian Peasant Party with special reference to the 1920s." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61339.
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Between the two World Wars the Croatian Peasant Party emerged as the largest political party among the Croats. It consistently received between seventy and ninety per cent of the Croatian vote and it ranked as the largest party in Croatia, and the second largest in Yugoslavia.In 1925 Rudolf Herceg, a leading party ideologue, created the CPP's cultural wing: Peasant Concord (Seljacka Sloga): which worked to promote peasant culture as separate from and superior to that of modern industrial society elsewhere in Europe.
Although the political aspects of the Croatian Peasant Party have been well-covered, its cultural wing has been comparatively neglected. This thesis presents an account of Peasant Concord: its aims, activities and influence.
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Jenks, Timothy David. "Naval engagements : patriotism, cultural politics, and the Royal Navy 1793 - 1815 /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021302.html.
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Knoblauch, William M. "Selling the Second Cold War: Antinuclear Cultural Activism and Reagan Era Foreign Policy." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1330967967.
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Bagnara, Sonia. "Il Politically Correct tra Stati Uniti e Italia. Analisi delle serie Netflix Bridgerton e Zero." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/25290/.
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Nascita e sviluppo del fenomeno Politically Correct negli Stati Uniti con riferimento alle Culture Wars e i Cultural Studies. Il concetto di Politically Correct in Italia. Casi studio sulla Censura e sul Politically Correct in entrambi i paesi. Analisi delle serie Netflix Bridgerton e Zero.
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Coker, Adam Nathaniel. "French influences in Russia, 1780s to 1820s : the origins of permanent cultural transfer." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19108.
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This dissertation defines aspects of Russian culture which bear the marks of French influence and explores the historical origins of that influence. While it is generally acknowledged that Russia’s culture has been influenced by France, no systematic history of the origins of this influence has been written. Previous research has dealt only superficially with the topic, focusing almost exclusively on the Francophile preferences of society’s elite. The present study examines Russian society more broadly and explores those elements of French cultural influence still relevant today through an historical analysis of the Russian language. French loanwords found in dictionaries from the time of Peter the Great to the present are analyzed chronologically and topically, yielding the conclusion that the most significant period of long-lasting French influence was the turn of the nineteenth century and was primarily cultural in nature—including the areas of fashion, cuisine, the arts, interior design and etiquette—but was also in areas related to technology and official administration. Following this lexical analysis, other primary sources—archival documents, military memoirs, and periodical publications from the resultant period—are searched for influences in these areas, especially during the period’s two major Franco-Russian events: the wave of immigration to Russia following the French Revolution and Russia’s war with Napoleon. The former facilitated deep cultural enrichment as native Frenchmen and French women, engaged in various occupations, acted as cultural mentors to the Russian nobility. The latter facilitated broad cultural immersion as tens of thousands of Russian troops—noble and common alike—marched into France and experienced French culture firsthand. This dissertation concludes that both of these explosive events, though by no means the beginning of French influence, were unique in the depth and permanence of their mark upon Russia’s culture.
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Robinson, Andrew. "'Not otherwise worthy to be named, but as a firebrand brought from Ireland to inflame this Kingdom' : the political and cultural milieu of Sir John Clotworthy during the Stuart Civil Wars." Thesis, Ulster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.667744.
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Sir John Clotworthy, later created Viscount Massereene during the Restoration of Charles II, has long been noted by historians to be a key figure in pan-Stuart kingdom opposition to the eleven-year tyranny of Charles I. Perhaps most famously one biographer of Archbishop Laud referred to Clotworthy as 'not otherwise worthy to be named, but as a firebrand brought from Ireland to inflame this Kingdom'. This thesis aims to look more closely at Clotworthy's career during the Stuart Civil Wars, 1638-1651, to argue that the Antrim planter was more than a mere conduit of discontent and played a leading role in the Long Parliament from 1640 to 1648. The personal traits that have defined his character for the better part of 350 years, namely his devotion to Presbyterianism, blatant anti-Catholicism and a thirst to expand his estates in County Antrim are all investigated throughout this thesis. Unfortunately no personal archive of Clotworthy papers is known to be in existence and letters written by him are piecemeal and spread amongst many archives and depositories. It is therefore imperative to contextualize his political career by considering the social, familial and political circles in which he moved, especially those occasioned by his marriage to Margaret Jones, daughter of Viscount Ranelagh, which brought him within the patronage network of Richard Boyle, 1 st earl of Cork. Clotworthy also shared a wider political and religious agenda that drew him into a nexus of leading English grandees which included such luminaries as the earl of Warwick, Viscount Saye & Sele, John Pym and Denzil Holles. This thesis contends that where Clotworthy's own papers are not extant, the political path he traversed in association with these important allies give strong indications as to his own ideology and mentalite. Furthermore this thesis draws attention to the relationships between Clotworthy and his servant and Gaelic Irish convert to Protestantism Owen O'Connally, as well as the Carrickfergus merchant John Davies, suggesting that a consideration of his agents, allies and men of business can help further elucidate Clotworthy's importance during the Stuart Civil Wars, suggesting his role was as much more than a mere firebrand and that he played a central role in the politics of the Three Kingdoms.
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Peyron, David. "La construction sociale d'une sous-culture : l'exemple de la culture geek." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30089.
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Cette étude porte sur la « culture geek » et son émergence en tant que sous-culture et identité culturelle revendiquée en France depuis le milieu des années 2000. En effet, ce mouvement d’abord américain a fait une entrée remarquée dans l’espace public qui incite à s’interroger sur sa réalité sociologique. Les geeks sont abordés ici comme fans de mondes imaginaires fantastiques (science-fiction, fantasy…), passionnés de nouvelles technologies et en tant que public premier et fondateur du processus de convergence culturelle théorisé par Henry Jenkins. La montée en visibilité du phénomène geek est ainsi liée dans cette étude à celle de pratiques médiatiques associées à ce processus (fanfictions, démocratisation des outils numériques, œuvres transmédiatiques et immersives, etc.). Dans ce cadre, le tournant réflexif (vers un sentiment d’appartenance à une identité collective) et la mode médiatique autour de la culture geek ces dernières années trouvent leurs racines dans les moments fondateurs de la convergence culturelle (depuis les pulps fictions et la naissance des comic books jusqu’à la sortie de Star Wars, du Seigneur des anneaux, des premiers jeux de rôles et jeux vidéo). Mais cela doit aussi à la radicalisation récente des croisements médiatiques, des pratiques participatives, de la mondialisation des partages liée aux technologies numériques et au passage des identités prescrites aux identités choisies dans les sociétés contemporaines marquées par l’individualismeThis dissertation is about « geek culture » and the emergence of this subcultural identity in recent years in France. This movement, born in North America, has entered the public sphere in a spectacular way and it encourages us to study its sociological reality. Geeks are seen here as fans of imaginary worlds (science-fiction, fantasy…), new technologies lovers, and as first and original audience of the process of cultural convergence defined by Henry Jenkins. The increasing visibility of the geek phenomenon is connected to many practices associated with this process (fanfictions, wide use of digital technology, transmedia and immersive storytelling, etc.). From this point of view, the reflexive moment (the feeling of being part of a collective identity) and the geek trend are both rooted by the beginnings of cultural convergence (from the pulp fictions, and the birth of comic books, to the release of Star Wars, the Lord of the Rings and the first role-playing or video games). It also has to do with the recent growth of links between media, with the success of participatory culture, the possibility of worldwide share thanks to digital technologies and the shift from preassigned identities to chosen ones in our individualistic society
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Karawya, Fayrouz. "The transmutes of the Egyptian Memesphere : navigating cultural dynamics and social changes post-2013." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2024SORUL104.pdf.
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Après le soulèvement populaire égyptien de 2011, l'influence omniprésente de la mémosphère Internet sur le paysage politique, social et culturel de l'Égypte est devenue remarquable. Les mèmes Internet se sont de plus en plus transformés en un moyen de commentaire réel et rapide qui a porté à un niveau différent la politique, les nouvelles et les tendances quotidiennes, les symboles historiques et les productions de la culture populaire.Définis comme la reproduction d'un matériau déjà présent par les « gens ordinaires », les mèmes en ligne peuvent être considérés comme une recontextualisation extemporanée d'histoires culturelles anciennes et récentes, où l'intervention intentionnelle des créateurs culturels et des acteurs sociaux se matérialise par un processus d'ingénierie de l'opinion publique et des positions sociopolitiques.L'examen de la mémosphère égyptienne après 2013, en tant qu'outil de contestation, véhicule de propagation des discours populistes émergents et concurrents, et espace interactif de critique sociopolitique, pourrait être considéré comme l'axe central et la problématique de cette thèse.Cette thèse explore principalement la manière dont la mémosphère influence les guerres culturelles et déclenche des tendances sociales dans les domaines conceptuels du nationalisme, de la religion et du genre après 2013. De ce point de vue, l'activité de la mémosphère apparaît comme le développement progressif d'un outil vital de contestation, de déconstruction et de négociation des histoires récentes et anciennes de la nation à la lumière des transformations sociopolitiques et des idéologies de courants conflictuels à l'ère de la confluence des médias fortement influencée par les agendas politiques et les propensions populistes.Mon choix d'examiner l'évolution de la mémosphère égyptienne dans les cadres du nationalisme, de la religion et du genre est motivé par les changements significatifs qui ont introduit de nouvelles dynamiques et les débats animés qui se déroulent dans ces domaines particulièrement actifs.Le réexamen de l'identité nationale, des idéologies religieuses et des normes de genre dominantes sont apparus comme des domaines cruciaux de conflit et de contestation après 2013.En étudiant la manière dont les mèmes Internet remplissent des fonctions allant au-delà du simple humour et de la précipitation de thèmes risibles, j'ai identifié ces trois lentilles conceptuelles comme étant au cœur de mon analyse. L'exploration des guerres de mèmes et de leurs symboles associés en relation avec le nationalisme, la religion et le genre a orienté mon processus de recherche et fourni trois perspectives complémentaires sur les transformations socioculturelles substantielles qui se produisent en Égypte depuis 2013.Mon étude de la mémosphère égyptienne après 2013 a été en partie motivée par le désir de contextualiser le soulèvement égyptien et ses conséquences dans des cadres culturels, historiques et mondiaux plus larges. La logique de participation sur les plateformes numériques, les réseaux sociaux et les phénomènes émergents du néo populisme et du néonationalisme sont apparus comme une influence significative.Le soulèvement égyptien a marqué un tournant, contribuant à ce que je considère comme une division tripartite des affiliations politiques et des tendances culturelles qui dominent la sphère en ligne depuis 2013 : Al-thawragiyya (les révolutionnaires) représentant l'opposition libérale et de gauche et les sympathisants du soulèvement de 2011, al-dawlagiyya (les partisans de l'État) représentant l'« alliance de stabilité » qui a soutenu la prise de pouvoir militaire et le régime de Sisi depuis la destitution de Mohamed Morsi en 2013, et al-Islāmgiyya (les islamistes) représentant les différents blocs de l'islam politique menés par l'organisation des Frères musulmansDuring the political mobilization years in Egypt (2005- 2013), and particularly after 2011, it is important to observe the parallel shifts in cultural discourses. In addition to the augmenting tone of protest against the political regime and the escalating generational conflicts, a generation affected by the global digital culture heavily impacted the scene of cultural production. Observing the evolution of the memesphere, online videos and vines, language- bending trends and “comics” may reveal more than a traditional flow of an online material compared to other places in the Arab world : Is “internet comedy” a transmediatic reaffirmation and enforcement of values and ideologies expressed by the “old” media (literature, film, television, political discourse), or it is rather the gradual development of a vital tool of contestation, deconstruction and negotiation of the nation's relevant recent and old histories.It is notable how effectively Internet comedy material infiltrated the political, social and cultural life in Egypt, particularly after 2011 uprising, as an actual and prompt commentary medium that takes the topsy turvy politics, daily news and trends, historical symbols and popular culture productions to a whole new level. Defined as the reproduction of an already present material by the “common people” , online memes and social media comics pages could be regarded as an extemporaneous re-contextualization of old and recent cultural histories, where an intentional intervention of cultural creators and social actors materializes as an engineering process of the public opinion and the sociopolitical stances.The political unrest taking place since 2011 was reflected in the cultural production sphere, taking different phases and transmutes in relation to the quick and successive transformations of the political regimes and people's interactions. As influential as they had been during the upheaval in January 2011, social media and internet comedy continued to convey the political and ideological dynamics animating the Egyptian society in the years of the aftermath. Starting from the emergence of omnipresent memes and comics during the presidential campaigns and the crucial political crossroads, internet comedy kept agitating the social imaginary and disrupting the mainstream media agendas of the successive governing regimes and their supporters. Meanwhile, internet comedy assisted a growing critical current of social conservatism through deciphering the nature of religious and cultural hypocritical discourses on gender, equality and citizenship. This trajectory in parallel to the sociopolitical critique is definitely a cornerstone in this research project.It is important to delineate the specificity of the Egyptian context where “digital caricatures” as a generic global category are modulated and appropriated in different forms. Among the most popular forms come the ‘comics' that acquired so different connotation in Egypt than their Anglo-Saxon one . Comics represent the genre where the confluence of the local popular culture- (cadres from popular films, TV drama or theatrical pieces), the visual organization of a caricature, and other elements like written commentary or dialogue occurs.In the conceptual fields of nationalism, religion, and gender, this dissertation scrutinizes the rise of populist strategies of governance, the postrevolutionary societal polarization, and the tactical media mobilizations in Egypt after 2013. Through the lens of the memesphere, and its diversified contributors, the Egyptian sociopolitical trends open a wide gate on the current social dynamics and the multi-dimensional cultural representations reflecting on the contemporary Egyptian reality
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Corlett, David Michael. "Steadfast in their ways: New England colonists, Indian wars, and the persistence of culture, 1675-1715." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623344.
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The Indian wars of early New England were traumatic events. During King Philip's, King William's, and Queen Anne's Wars (1675 to 1715) dozens of towns sustained attacks, and English communities and their inhabitants were buffeted and challenged by the experience. The scholarship on colonial warfare and New England as a whole has focused on change and development that occurred as a result of these wars. War places great stress on individuals and societies, forcing them to act in new ways and often to reevaluate and abandon old habits. New Englanders and their communities did change dramatically as a result of repeated wars with the region's natives and their French allies. Yet New Englanders were also resistant to change, and this persistence of core culture ideals is often as historians analyze the transformation of New England from colonies to provinces.;Beyond the extensive physical damage, the conflicts challenged the identities and values of English colonists in myriad ways. In the midst of battle, many men failed to live up to the expectations of their gender, while some women stepped beyond theirs to act in a manly fashion. Despite the troubling behavior of cowardly men and manly women, gender norms and roles in New England did not change under the pressures of Indian wars, in part due to the uncoordinated management by ecclesiastical and political leaders of the narratives of the conflicts. Alternately chastising and praising their constituents, leaders offered examples of "proper" behavior, reasserted control over "amazons" and "viragos," and created larger-than-life heroes.;Indian raids forced hundreds of English settlers from their homes, putting great stress on towns and colonies and creating the dilemma of either aiding refugees (and abandoning the traditional insular nature of towns) or excluding and expelling them (failing John Winthrop's exhortation to bind together). Historians argue that traditional aid through family and towns was incapable of meeting the demand. Instead, New England's governments responded by relieving towns of this responsibility. However, this aid was actually limited and narrowly directed. Towns remained exclusive, gathering in those they were obliged to aid through familial or proprietary connections and allowing outsiders to remain only conditionally. Following the natural hierarchy of their community, refugees sought to support themselves before turning to family and friends, and sought town and colony aid only when traditional sources were exhausted.;Finally, in the midst of Indian wars, New Englanders often had to "dispose of" captured Indians. Having suffered grievously in the wars, New Englanders might have abandoned the law (albeit English law for Englishmen) and exacted revenge. Many prisoners suffered vigilante justice, and others faced servitude or public execution after a formal trial. New Englanders are rightly criticized for their actions, but while the colonists' treatment of prisoners was "uncivil" by modern standards, when viewed through the context of the time, New England's leaders tempered the "rage of the people," and the colonies remained within bounds of tradition and law.;New Englanders resisted changes to the core cultural ideas and institutions of patriarchy, localized community, and morality based in English law. Though these notions of gender, community, and morality were battered by war, they survived and remained central to New England identity.
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Breton, Pauline. "Genèse et élaboration d’une « civilisation morale » : influences de l’expérience de guerre sur la pensée de Georges Duhamel (1902-1946)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100022.
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Au carrefour de l’histoire et de la littérature, cette étude biographique consiste d’abord en un questionnement de la place de l’individu dans l’Histoire. À l’aide d’un corpus interdisciplinaire et d’une approche expérimentale de la génétique des textes, elle doit déterminer l’empreinte de la guerre sur la genèse et l’originalité de la position intellectuelle et philosophique de Georges Duhamel à l’égard de la « crise de civilisation », mise au jour par une réflexion sur les conséquences de la guerre. La démonstration vise à établir la corrélation entre sa philosophie morale, son engagement intellectuel et son expérience dans l’ « envers » de la guerre en tant que médecin. Après un état des lieux de la pensée de l’humaniste à la veille de la guerre, la reconstitution des multiples « colloques singuliers » développés par Georges Duhamel avec les soldats blessés livre la matrice des fondements de la « civilisation morale », progressivement élaborée au fil des récits de guerre. Reflet d’une âme individuelle et parcelle de la conscience collective, c’est selon cette double perspective que l’itinéraire de la « civilisation morale » est ensuite reconstitué de 1919 à 1939, du temps des mirages à l’épreuve des périls. Par des jeux d’échelle, l’évolution culturelle de la société et des consciences françaises de la Première à la Seconde Guerre mondiale se dévoile, ainsi que la permanence des enjeux éthiques et métaphysiques soulevés par la violence et la mort de masse du début de siècle. Enfin, le développement s’achève sur les significations et les implications de la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur la « civilisation morale » envisagée dans sa double dimension, métaphysique et culturelleIn the crossroads of history and literature, this biographical study consists at first of a questioning of the place of the individual in History. By means of an interdisciplinary collection and of an experimental approach of the genetics of texts, we have to determine the mark of the war on the genesis of Georges Duhamel's intellectual and philosophic position towards the “crisis of civilization”, brought to light by a reflection on the consequences of war. The demonstration aims to establish the correlation between his moral philosophy, his intellectual commitment and his wartime experience. After a state of the thought of the humanist on the eve of the war, the reconstruction of multiple “singular colloquium” which Georges Duhamel develops with the wounded soldiers of the Great War delivers the matrix of the foundations of the "moral civilization", gradually achieved over war stories. Window to an individual soul and part of the collective consciousness, this double perspective reconstitutes the path of the “moral civilization” from 1919 to 1939, from time for illusions to test of dangers. By games of scale, the cultural evolution of society and French consciousnesses from the First to the Second World War comes to light, as well as the durability of the ethical and metaphysical issues raised by the violence and the mass die-off at the turn of the century. Finally, the development ends on the meanings and the implications of the Second Conflict on the “moral civilization” envisaged in its double dimension, metaphysics and cultural
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Bustamante, Vásquez Stephanie E. "Ways of knowing and cultural awareness." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/6129.
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Frighetto, Gianandrea <1992>. "Star Wars analisi storica, economica e culturale della saga cinematografica." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16492.
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La tesi prende in considerazione la creazione e lo sviluppo completo della saga di Star Wars, con un’approfondita analisi cinematografica, scenografica e strutturale delle prime due trilogie, seguita dall’illustrazione e spiegazione dell’universo espanso che si è formato in seguito ai film.
Il lavoro si concentra anche sulla Lucasfilm Inc., società creatrice e proprietaria del marchio, analizzandone la nascita, i principali protagonisti e le innovazioni che questa realtà ha introdotto nel mondo hollywoodiano.
Lo studio prosegue sulle motivazioni che hanno portato la saga ad un successo mondiale nel corso di un intero trentennio e che hanno permesso la costituzione di un marchio economicamente e socialmente influente. Si considera infine la recente acquisizione da parte della Disney, con lo sviluppo di una nuova trilogia e la continuazione del Mondo creato da George Lucas.
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Whitehead, Eileen. "A Leap In The Dark: Identity, Culture And The Trauma Of War Mediated Thorough The Visual Arts Of North-East European Migrants And Émigrés To Australia After 1945." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1438.
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This thesis explores the contribution to the cultural life of post-war Australia by migrant artists from north-eastern Europe. It researches the lives and work not only of displaced artists arriving in the mass exodus from Europe after the Second World War, but also second and third generation artists descended from original migrant families, and much later émigré artists.
Art histories written to date about the post-war period provide little coverage of the contributionto the art and culture of Australia by migrant artists from north-eastern Europe. The coverage in the literature written about the visual art produced by established Australian artists is far greater than that given to the migrant artists also exhibiting at the same time. Insofar as the ‘gap’ in the literature is concerned, this research reveals a number of factors which appear to have influenced the non-recognition of migrant art—such as, poor reception of abstract art in Australia post-war and the protection of established Australian artists. The impact of European abstract expressionism that migrants introduced in the 1950s had a lasting effect on Australian modern art, together with the innovation of their contemporary sculpture, which changed the urban landscape of Australian cities.
This research questions the possible long term repercussions emanating from colonial Anglocentric Australian government policies, which in turn leads to questions about the importance and location of cultural heritage, sense of identity, third space and cultural hybridity. With a focus on migrant artists from north-eastern Europe—the Baltic States and Poland—the research investigates how second and third generation artists locate their visual art in relation to their cultural environment and how they navigate between their cultural heritage and the cultural mosaic of an Australian context. The impact of war on artists from migrant families through the subjugated experience of those families is also addressed to ascertain any effect on the visual art currently being produced.
Interviews were conducted with ten artists of north-east European ancestry, using an ethnographic qualitative research methodology incorporating in-depth interviews together with close analysis of artwork during interview or subsequent contact in the artists’ studios and at exhibitions of their work.
Research revealed that, regarding a sense of belonging and identity, nine of the ten artists still retain a perception of living between cultures, which appears congruous with the importance of the retention of language and ‘home’ culture. Making art appears to strengthen their sense of living between cultures, and their creative praxis combines experiences passed down through the generations fused into their own Australian life-world, modified and shaped within a third space of meaning. The thesis argues that second and third generation Australian artists, whilst engaging with contemporary issues, make reference to cultural traditions interspersed with comment on contemporary conditions, resulting in a syncretic articulation which forms a third space of cultural transformation and unity.
The investigation into the impact of war, particularly World War II, revealed that only five participating artists directly manifest war themes in their visual art. However, the repercussions of that war and the Cold War, which lasted for many years after the Second World War, appear to have been subconsciously imprinted on the artwork of all three categories of artist, i.e. second and third generation and émigré artists.
The cultural aesthetics migrants introduced has had a long-lasting effect on Australian tastes generally and on art education in particular. This research underlines the particular contribution of migrant artists from north-east Europe, revealing the aesthetic value such cultural integration has produced. This research seeks to initiate dialogue and a growing understanding of the rich and complex history of art and culture which migration has stimulated in Australia since the 1950s.
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Wark, McKenzie. "The virtual republic: Australia's culture wars of the 1990s." Thesis, Wark, McKenzie (2000) The virtual republic: Australia's culture wars of the 1990s. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2000. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50750/.
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Avelar, Regina Paula Ambrogi. "Roosevelt, Vargas e a liberdade: história em contexto: o ethos e a guerra da língua pelas perspectivas da AD e dos estudos culturais." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2191.
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The present thesis can be read as possible transcultural implications referring to conceptualization of liberty as a socio-cultural theme determined by the identity of a people. We analyzed the position assumed by the subject (discursive ethos) and its roles considering the bivocality speaker/audience in dialogism of the following policy addresses: the speech of the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt The four freedoms (1941), and the address of the Brazilian President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1943), known as The celebrations of National Independence and the Entrance of Brazil in the War . Our general objective is to seek the voice of freedom in the process of erasure of voices which naturally act in the discourse, besides the observation of language wars which frame themselves surreptitiously there. The first stage of this research consisted of surveying concepts of Discourse Analysis (DA) concerning the notions of discourse and political discourse, its constitutive elements, its space-time coordinates, besides a panorama of discursive ethos knowledge from the Aristotelic understanding to its perspective in Cultural Studies. The procedure adopted aims to analyze the ethe built in the speeches selected with the intention of revealing voices of freedom that they might entail. The second phase examined the concepts of transculturality, interculturality and multiculturality through the perspective in Cultural Studies in order to depict a comparison between the ideas of liberty for the American and Brazilian peoples through transcultural analysis of language wars which wage themselves in the discourse. The third stage brought a stocktaking of the aspects from the historical-ideological-sociocultural context from the moments of the addresses which allowed us to delineate the analyses including those aspects. The transdisciplinary analysis here developed targeted for articulating three distinguishable subjects History, DA and Cultural Studies in a transcultural approach of a universal thematic (liberty/freedom) aiming at fostering the critical analysis of moments and speeches which left (trans)cultural legacies relevant to the present time.
A presente dissertação parte em busca de possíveis implicações transculturais referentes à conceituação de liberdade como um tema sócioculturalmente marcado na identidade de um povo. Analisamos a posição do sujeito (ethos discursivo) e os papeis assumidos por ele, considerando-se a bivocalidade locutor/alocutário na dialogização das seguintes alocuções políticas: o discurso do presidente americano Franklin Delano Roosevelt As quatro liberdades de 1941 e o discurso do presidente brasileiro Getúlio Dornelles Vargas de 1943, intitulado As comemorações da Independência Nacional e entrada do Brasil na guerra . O objetivo geral é o de buscar a voz da liberdade no processo de apagamento de vozes que naturalmente intervêm no discurso, além da observação das guerras de língua que ali se instauram sub-repticiamente. A primeira etapa dessa pesquisa consistiu em um levantamento de conceitos da Análise do Discurso (AD) referentes às noções de discurso e de discurso político, seus elementos constitutivos, suas coordenadas espaço-temporais, assim como um panorama da noção de ethos discursivo desde a noção aristotélica à perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais. O procedimento adotado visa a analisar os ethe construídos nos discursos selecionados com o intuito de desvelar a voz de liberdade que eles possam vincular. A segunda etapa examinou os conceitos de transculturalidade, interculturalidade e multiculturalidade pela perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais para que traçássemos um paralelo entre as ideias de liberdade para os povos norte-americano e brasileiro por meio da análise transcultural das guerras de língua que se travam nos pronunciamentos. A terceira parte trouxe um levantamento dos aspectos do contexto histórico-ideológico-sócio-cultural dos momentos dos pronunciamentos para que pudéssemos delinear as análises incluindo também esses aspectos. A análise transdisciplinar aqui desenvolvida objetivou articular essas três áreas distintas do conhecimento a história, a AD e os Estudos Culturais em uma abordagem transcultural de uma temática universal (a liberdade) com o intuito de fomentar a análise crítica de momentos e de discursos que deixaram legados (trans)culturais relevantes para a atualidade.
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Horowitz, Juliana Menasce. "The culture wars and the agenda of the U.S. Congress." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3380.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Government and Politics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Paolitto, Julia. "Guardians of culture: The British Sunday Press Between the Wars." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491076.
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This thesis is an investigation into the reception of literature, cinema, and the theatre in the inter-war Sunday press, and in particular how the concept of a "national culture" of inter-war Britain was reflected and defined in five specific newspapers of the time. Drawing on a vast amount of previously unexamined material, it provides the fullest picture to date of this widely neglected area.
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Thomas, Geraint Llyr. "Conservatives and the culture of 'National' government between the wars." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609335.
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Sheridan, Valerie. "The cultural context of breastfeeding on the labour ward." Thesis, Kingston University, 2008. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20341/.
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This study examines labour ward culture on two British labour wards, in terms of mother-baby contact and breastfeeding, which has not been empirically researched since 1985 (Garforth & Garcia 1989). ‘Aims’: to investigate the organisational culture; examine mothers' beliefs and experiences; and midwives' knowledge, beliefs and practices. ‘Objectives’: To compare organisational cultures; identify if midwifery practice is evidence based and factors which facilitate or detract from it; identify mothers' preferences, beliefs and levels of satisfaction. ‘Study Design’: Ethnography with case study and diagnostic analysis also utilised. Methods: observation and interviews: purposive sample of mothers (n = 50) and midwives (n = 51); interviews with Heads of Midwifery (n = 2); focus groups with midwives (n = 3); and documentary analysis. ‘Results’: Despite Trust strategies and Heads of Midwifery support for evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines and midwifery beliefs about mother-baby contact and early breastfeed were not usually congruent. Mother-baby contact after birth is usually interrupted for completion of tasks and some babies have multiple contact episodes, which has not been previously described in the literature. Completion of routine tasks for transfer of mothers and babies to postnatal ward takes precedence, because of organisational demands and insufficient resources. However, most mothers expressed feeling satisfied with contact achieved and support for breastfeeding. ‘Conclusion’: Findings of the study have contributed new insights and knowledge of labour ward culture. It is not conducive to uninterrupted mother-baby contact and is not evidence-based. ‘Recommendations’: The development of a learning culture and clinical leadership to promote evidence-based practice and woman-centred care is recommended. The unique period after birth should not be disturbed, to prioritise routine tasks.
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Masich, Andrew E. "Civil Wars in the Southwest Borderlands : Cultures in Conflict, 1861 - 1867." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/419.
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From 1861 to 1867 the diverse peoples—Indian, Hispano, and Anglo—of the Southwest borderlands struggled for survival and dominance in civil wars, quite apart from the Civil War of the Southern rebellion that raged in the eastern United States. Successful adaptation to the changing conditions in the borderlands required accommodation, compromise, and alliances as much as it did violent confrontation, martial prowess, and the capacity to wage war. The warrior cultures of each of the antagonistic groups bore many similarities, but each brought to the conflict its traditional means of fighting and adapted to the evolving political and social landscape. The martial traditions—tactics, logistics, weapons, martial customs, treatment of enemy captives—of the communities in conflict in order to demonstrate how the preparation and practice of warfare by the different ethnic groups set in motion actions that resulted in conflict and played a significant role in the causes and outcomes of the wars for the borderlands. At the beginning of the Civil War, Navajos, Apaches, and Comanches held the reins of power in the borderlands while sedentary, agrarian Indian communities, Hispanos, and Anglos struggled to maintain strongholds in fortified villages, outposts, and mining settlements. By 1867, the last of the volunteer soldiers of the Civil War era had mustered out of service, and Benito Juárez’s Republicans had driven out the French, executed Emperor Maximilian, and reclaimed Mexico. In the border states of Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexican Republican troops began relocating tribes and reestablishing settlements devastated by Apache raiders. In the newly-configured U.S. territories of Arizona and New Mexico, slavery as an economic and social system began to collapse, and a new social, political, and economic order arose, with Anglos and Hispanos at the top of the hierarchy and the raiding tribes at the bottom. The federal government exerted control over reservation-restricted Indians and defined new territorial boundaries. International relations had also changed. A more defined and restricted border between Mexico and the United States emerged from the war-torn borderlands while Hispano and Anglo citizens uneasily shared a new American political and economic model for survival in the Southwest.
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Pérez, Calderón Zacarías Ismael. "Secuencia cultural previa a la cultura Huari en Ayacucho: aportes y propuestas." Master's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/5733.
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Presenta un panorama general de la arqueología en Ayacucho ubicado en los Andes surcentrales del área andina, a partir de las informaciones obtenidas desde el primer tercio del siglo XX, hasta la actualidad. Incide en el análisis de las investigaciones efectuadas por el “Proyecto Arqueológico Botánico Ayacucho-Huanta”, dirigido por MacNeish entre 1969-1972 y destaca los nuevos trabajos que han dado como resultados importantes hallazgos en las cuatro últimas décadas. Plantea algunas propuestas sobre la secuencia cultural que dio origen a la cultura Huari, en el que prima un antecedente local expresado en el planteamiento del carácter estatal de la cultura Huarpa, enriquecida con la influencia asimilada de otras culturas de los Andes peruanos que llegaron a la zona de Ayacucho fundamentalmente desde el período Formativo.Tesis
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Falby, Alison. "Gerald Heard (1889-1971) and British intellectual culture between the wars." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324758.
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Ramsey, Nathan A. "Keeping America Exceptional: Patriotism, the Status Quo, and the Culture Wars." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314044247.
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Ratcliffe, Gavin M. "Parental Advisory, Explicit Content: Music Censorship and the American Culture Wars." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1467141078.
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MENDES, MARINA LIMA. "CULTURE COLLECTIVES: NEW WAYS OF SHARING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30869@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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Este trabalho reflete sobre a experiência dos coletivos de cultura no Brasil contemporâneo. Com formações heterogêneas sob a égide do mesmo termo, esses grupos vêm-se multiplicando e inventando espaços de criação e resistência política através de novas formas de partilhar o comum. A presente pesquisa, além de discutir alguns princípios da prática coletiva - como a cooperação e a desconstrução de hierarquias -, aborda o desejo, o magnetismo e o contágio forjados a partir dos laços de afeto. Expõe ainda a tensão entre ideologia e mecanismos de apropriação de Estado e mercado. Trazidos como intercessores à discussão, estão os coletivos Nuvem Cigana, Atrocidades Maravilhosas e Opavivará!, além do Ocupa X - termo amálgama criado para fazer referência às ocupações como procedimentos.
This research reflects on the experience of culture collectives in current Brazil. By way of heterogeneous assemblages under the aegis of the same expression, these groups multiplied and invented spaces of creation and political resistance through new ways of sharing. Besides discussing some principles of the collective practice such as cooperation and hierarchy deconstruction, this research approaches the desires, the magnetism and the contagion forged from ties of affection. It exposes, furthermore, the tension between the ideology and the appropriation mechanisms of the state and the market. A few collectives are brought into the discussion as intercessors: Nuvem Cigana, Atrocidades Maravilhosas and Opavirará!, as well as Ocupa X - an amalgam term created in reference to the occupations as procedures.
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Roberts, Amy L. D. "Children's reflections on cultural differences in ways of working together /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Schaeffer, Janna Orlova. "ACHIEVING CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: CULTURE'S WAYS EXPLORED." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/203495.
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Over the course of the last few decades the debate over culture and its relationship to language has remained heated and one can argue, unresolved. It has been underscored that it is not necessarily the question of culture teaching per-se but rather the methods and content of such teaching that remain controversial. Today's world demands that learners are not simply linguistically but also interculturally competent. It has been argued that high levels of intercultural awareness can be achieved with the help of experiential lessons taught in a formal setting that focus on the exploration of self as a cultural being.In this study, three groups of the intermediate learners of German and Russian were invited to participate in a number of cultural lessons based on either culture box highlights or experiential activities. The pre-posttests measured changes in learners' cognitive, behavioral and affective measures of intercultural competence. Results revealed that experiential activities tend to better facilitate the development of learners' intercultural skills and attitudes. Students written responses to critical incidents were analyzed with the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (Bennett, 1993) to assess changes in learners' perspectives and intercultural disposition over the course of the semester. Additionally, learners' experiences with foreign and local cultures were quantified and correlated with cognitive, behavioral and affective measures of intercultural competence. Results showed that not all measures of intercultural competence may be broadened by the individuals' firsthand experiences with other cultures. The relevance of one's previous experiences with `sub-cultures' (states, cities, towns, and communities), i.e. his `mobility' must also be acknowledged.
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Silveira, Stefanie Carlan da. "A cultura da convergência e os fãs de Star Wars : um estudo sobre o conselho Jedi RS." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/25129.
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A cultura da convergência abarca a questão tecnológica do fluxo de conteúdos, ocorrendo através de múltiplos suportes midiáticos e as questões de mudança de comportamento do público, que se apropria das redes digitais para buscar de diferentes experiências de entretenimento e de informação. Os sujeitos buscam um produto midiático que não se finde na sua própria exibição, mas sim proponha conteúdos que vão além de um único dispositivo de distribuição e necessitem do engajamento do público para que aconteçam efetivamente. Os fãs são personagens centrais da mudança na forma de operar da mídia de massa por serem pioneiros na adaptação às novas tecnologias de comunicação e informação e nos processos de produção e consumo participativos. A partir disso, esta pesquisa busca um olhar sobre as interações que fazem parte do comportamento dos fãs, tanto nas relações entre eles quanto com a indústria midiática. Para tanto, estudam-se os fãs de Star Wars, mais especificamente, os membros do Conselho Jedi do Rio Grande do Sul (CJRS), a fim de que através de um objeto empírico, consolidado e permanente se possa investigar o comportamento deste grupo no contexto de cultura da convergência, onde as interações entre eles e com o mercado de mídia são transformadas.The convergence culture includes the technological issue of the content flow going through multiple media and the issues of changes in public behavior which appropriates itself of the digital networks seeking for different experiences of entertainment and information. The individuals look for a media product that doesn‟t finish itself in its own exhibition, but propose content that go beyond a single distribution device and require the engagement of the audience to actually happen. The fans are central characters in the change of mass media operating way because they are pioneers in adapting the new technologies of communication and information and in participatory processes of production and consumption. From this, this research seeks a look at the interactions that are part of the behavior of fans, both in relations between them and with the media industry. To this end, the Star Wars fans are studied, more specifically, the members of the Jedi Council of Rio Grande do Sul (CJRS), so that through a consolidated and permanent empirical object, it became possible to investigate the behavior of this group in the convergence culture context where the interactions between them and the media market are changed.
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Thompson, Jay. "Sex and power in Australian writing during the Culture Wars, 1993-1997 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6714.
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I address a selection of texts published in Australia between 1993 and 1997 which engage with feminist debates about sex and power. These texts are important, I argue, because they signpost the historical moment in which the culture wars and globalisation gained force in Australia. A key word in this thesis is ‘framing’. The debates which my texts engage with have (much like the culture wars in general) commonly been framed as conflicts between polarised political factions. These political factions have, in turn, been framed in terms of generations; that is, an ‘older’ feminism is pitted against a ‘newer’ feminism. Each generation of feminists supposedly holds quite different views about sex. I argue that my texts actually provide an insight into how various feminist perspectives on sex diverge and intersect with each other, as well as with certain New Right discourses about sex. My selected texts also suggest how the printed text has helped transport feminism within and outside AustraliaMy texts fit into two broad genres, fiction and scholarly non-fiction. The texts are: Helen Garner’s The First Stone (1995), Sheila Jeffreys’ The Lesbian Heresy (1993), Catharine Lumby’s Bad Girls (1997), Linda Jaivin’s Eat Me (1995) and Justine Ettler’s The River Ophelia (1995). I engage with various critical responses to these texts, including reviews, essays and interviews with the authors. I draw also from a range of theoretical sources. These include analyses of the culture wars by the American theorist Lillian S. Robinson and the Australian scholars McKenzie Wark, David McKnight and Mark Davis. Davis has provided a useful overview of how the metaphor of ‘generational conflict’ circulated in Australian culture during the 1990s. I draw on Arjun Appadurai’s model of “global cultural flows” and Ann Curthoys’ history of feminism in Australia. I engage with research into the increasingly ‘globalised’ nature of Australian writing, as well as a number of feminist works on the relationship between sex and power
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Dinerstein, Joel Norman. "Swinging the machine : White technology and Black culture between the World Wars /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Mondo, Emilie. "European Culture Wars? Abortion and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (1998-2015)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/277249.
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This research addresses the conflictualization dynamics induced by the politicization of religion at the supranational level. It tests the Union’s institutional capacity to routinize dissension, temper animosities, and reconcile divergences in the light of religiously-loaded, issue-specific controversies. So-called “morality issues” such as abortion or human embryonic stem cell research emerged onto the EU agenda at the end of the 1990s. The main sites of bioethical contention correspond to the European Parliament and Commission arenas, where political, social, and religious entrepreneurs have been pursuing ideological interests of either liberal or conservative nature. We developed an interpretative approach to their discourses and perceptions through the qualitative content analysis of semi-structured interviews and online documentary sources. A key task consisted in determining whether one observes the routinization of bioethical conflicts by European institutions (“business-as-usual” scenario) or whether the said conflicts are remaining extrinsic to the Brussels political game (“culture wars” scenario). In other words, is the emergence of new stakes – morality issues – prompting the emergence of new divisions and repertoires of action? We put to the test the normal course of EU politics in the light of (1) the structuration of morality divides along religious, political, and national frontlines; and (2) the materialization of morality antagonisms through discursive, bureaucratic, and mobilization weapons. Overall, the “polarization” and “political style” variables showed that the supranational debates on abortion and hESCR do not fully alter the logics of supranational governance; in return, the EU polity is not closed to the crystallization of politicized modes of dissent expression. The hypothesis of an intermediary scenario oscillating between policy-seeking and position-taking perspectives is thus confirmed. On the one hand, issue-specific alliances characterized by internal multifold diversities do play the institutional rules of the European political game in their quest for ideological influence on the decision-making process. On the other hand, limited supranational competences on religiously-loaded issues constrain conflicting factions’ leeway to a symbolic use of morality causes and beliefs as instrumental devices worth of credit-claiming and identity-posturing.Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Wilson-Hart, Jessica H. "Culture Wars: Explaining Congressional Partisanship and Organizational Dysfunction Through Moral Foundations Theory." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2244.
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The focus of this study was the organizational working environment and existing partisanship evident in the United States Congress. There has been a reduction in the number of laws passed over the last 30 years from a high of over 1,000 to a low of around 120, with a period of complete government shutdown in 2013. This qualitative research utilized qualitative content analysis to discover the nature of partisan conflict as demonstrated by 6 members of Congress. The conceptual framework for this study was moral foundations theory. Different moral principles held by Democrats and Republicans were studied as a possible explanation for the inability of one end of the political spectrum to identify with, work with, and comprehend the belief systems of the other. Archival video data for each participant was viewed on C-Span and related transcripts were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Emerging themes were then inductively coded in order to understand the nature of the partisan conflict in Congress. Results demonstrate that Republicans and Democrats rely on different sets of moral foundations and that there is limited crossover between those who occupy the extreme ends of the ideological continuum. This lack of crossover essentially leads members with differing ideology and moral foundations to not comprehend the moral message of their opponents. With this knowledge, political strategists can help to develop communication and political approaches that take into consideration the moral foundations of ideological opponents. Social change implications include improved understanding of the ideological stance of members of the opposing party and improved working relationships in Congress, resulting in an organizational working environment that is less conflicted.
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Lyons, Patrick Daniel. "Winslow Orange Ware and the ancestral Hopi migration horizon." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280552.
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This project involved instrumental neutron activation analysis of 428 ceramic vessels and clays, typological analysis of 1135 vessels, and stylistic analysis of more than 400 bowls. Most of the items analyzed were recovered from the Homol'ovi villages, a group of eight Pueblo III--Pueblo IV (circa A.D. 1250--1400) sites located near Winslow, Arizona. These studies were conducted in order to address the question of the origin(s), geographically speaking, of the ancient inhabitants of the Homol'ovi villages. The results of the compositional analysis indicate local production of Winslow Orange Ware at Homol'ovi and in the Petrified Forest. Circulation of Winslow Orange Ware to the Anderson Mesa area, the Tonto Basin, and the Verde Valley is also evident. Furthermore, among the earliest ceramic assemblages from the Homol'ovi sites were found locally-produced versions of ancestral Hopi pottery types and vessel forms. The compositional data also point to local production of Roosevelt Red Ware at Homol'ovi and in the Petrified Forest. The whole vessel study resulted in the observation that most Winslow Orange Ware vessels represent attempts to produce Jeddito Orange Ware using materials indigenous to the Middle Little Colorado River Valley. An examination of the dating and distribution of different kiva forms revealed that Homol'ovi ceremonial architecture reflects western Kayenta and Tusayan patterns, supporting the ceramic-based inference of ancestral Hopi migration. Placing these results in broader context, it is possible to discern an ancestral Hopi migration horizon which corresponds with what has been called the Salado archaeological culture or the "Salado phenomenon." By examining Hopi oral texts, it was observed that many include information that correlates with archaeological and anthropological models of Hopi origins. By hypothesizing that these accounts represent significantly restructured texts, it is possible to resolve apparent disconformities between Hopi oral tradition and anthropological inferences. This conception of Hopi migration accounts allows resolution of conflicting interpretations of Homol'ovi, i.e., the idea that it is an ancestral Hopi place because its inhabitants moved to the Hopi Mesas circa A.D. 1400, versus the notion that it is an ancestral Hopi place because its inhabitants were immigrants from the Hopi Mesas.
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Riddington, William. "The right, rights and the culture wars in the United States, 1981-1989." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278057.
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This thesis explores how the American right fought the culture wars of the 1980s in the context of the rights revolution and the regulatory state. It does so by examining divisions over anti-abortion measures in Congress, controversies surrounding allegations of discriminatory withholding of medical care from disabled newborns, debates over the extent to which Title IX and other federal anti-discrimination regulations bound Christian colleges that rejected direct federal funding, and the interplay between rights and education during the AIDS crisis. In doing so, it contributes to the still-growing historiography on both American conservatism and the culture wars. Firstly, it adds shades of nuance to the literature on the American right, which has, until recently, posited the election of Ronald Reagan as the beginning of an era of untrammelled conservative ascendancy. However, these case studies reveal that despite Reagan’s resounding electoral success and the refiguring of the Republican party along conservative lines, the 1980s right was forced to fight many of its battles on terrain that remained structured by the liberal legacy. This finding also contributes to recent trends in the historiography of the culture wars, which have added a great depth of historical understanding to America’s interminable conflicts over abortion, evolution, equal marriage and other social issues. By examining how the right conceived of and reacted to the enduring influence of the rights revolution and the regulatory state in the culture wars of the 1980s, the centrality of the right to privacy becomes clear. Acknowledging the importance of this right leads to the conclusion that the fundamental restructuring of relations between the federal government and the states that had taken place during the 1960s gave rise to the culture wars of the 1980s.
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Kiel, Jacqueline S. "Hizbullah's culture wars understanding Hizbullah through social movement theory and its media usage." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Mar/09Mar%5FKiel.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Robinson, Glenn. "March 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 23, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Hizbullah; al-Manar; al-Jazeera; social movement theory; framing Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-68). Also available in print.
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Perez, Ambar A. "LANGUAGE CULTURE WARS: EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE POLICY ON LANGUAGE MINORITIES AND ENGLISH LEARNERS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/577.
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This thesis investigates the intertextuality of language policy, K-12 TESL pedagogies, and EL identity construction in the perpetuation of unjust TESL practices in these contexts. By examining the power structures of English language ideology through critical discourse analysis of recent California language policy, this thesis demonstrates English language teaching’s intrinsically political nature in K-12 education through negotiations and exchanges of power. Currently, sociolinguistic approaches to TESL and second language acquisition acknowledge the value of language socialization teaching methods. This requires the acceptance of cognition, not as an individual pursuit of knowledge containment and memorization, but cognition as a collaborative and sociohistorically situated practice. Thus, this project also examines the power structures in place that negotiate and enforce these ideologies and how these practices influence pedagogy and EL identity construction.
Many English users are second language (L2) users of English yet authorities of English use tend to consist of homogenous, monolingual English users, or English-sacred communities, not L2 users of English. Often, this instigates native speaker (NS) vs. non-native speaker (NNS) dichotomies such as correct vs. in-correct use, and us vs. them dichotomies. These are the same ideologies that permeate the discourse of California’s Proposition 227 and some pedagogies discussed in the data of this research perpetuating culture wars between monolingual and multilingual advocates and users.
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Cohen, Benjamin Robert. "Uniquely Structured: Debating Concepts of Science, from the Two Cultures to the Science Wars." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32736.
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The purpose of this thesis is to compare the science wars of the 1990s with the two-culture debate of the 1960s. It is a work in the history of intellectual debates, focusing on contested concepts of science. Over the past decade, there have been numerous references made in science wars literature that evoke comparisons to the two-culture controversy. I intend to show that while these comparisons have merit for their popular cultural reference, they are not valid when we consider the structures and contexts of the two debates. Thus, I will compare those structures, summarizing the main points of argument between the relevant actors in each instance, to illustrate the differences. The thesis advanced by C.P. Snow in 1959, and responded to most pointedly by F.R. Leavis in 1962, was predicated on the existence of foundational differences between science and humanities. The broader issues then were what validity a distinction between forms of knowledge had and which domain had the more reliable claim to knowledge. Just as the two-culture controversy called into question the credibility of literary knowledge, the credibility of science studies scholarship was ultimately at stake in the science wars, and is of central concern in this thesis. My contention is that recognizing the differences between the two-culture debate and the science wars can help guide the future of science studies, since those differences demonstrate the importance and validity of STS scholarship. When scholars ignore those differences, and presume that the two debates are comparable, they unintentionally give credibility to those who defend science against perceived assaults by STS scholars.Master of Science
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Simpson, Dava L. "Stormtroopers Among Us: Star Wars Costuming, Connection, and Civic Engagement." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001569.
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NUNES, Camila de Marillac Costa. "Fenologia, biologia floral e germinação in vitro de Cyrtopodium eugenii Rchb. f. & Warm. (Orchidaceae)." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2009. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2688.
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Previous issue date: 2009-02-18Cyrtopodium eugenii Rchb. f. (Orchidaceae) is a specie widely distributed in Brazilian savannah, being the Planalto Central its main center of diversification. C. eugenii is a terrestrial specie, usually found in the Cerrado, growing in sand soil, dry environment and to the half shade. Due the beauty and exotic character of its flowers, C. eugenii present high ornamental and commercial potential. However, no studies were found of its preservation even in vitro protocols for shoots obtainment to be used in flower production. Thus, the present study has as objective to characterize the fenology, morphology and reproductive biology in C. eugenii and to establish protocols for symbiotic and asymbiotic germination in vitro. The plants studied grows at the Biological Reserve Prof. Jose Ângelo Rizzo, a forest remainder of 500 ha of bioma Cerrado, whose predominant vegetation is of the type Cerrado Rupestre, located in the Serra Dourada, city of Mossâmedes-GO. From the months of July of 2007 through August of 2008 monthly visits had been carried out for accompaniment and collects of data of 51 plants, distributed in three populations. For the establishment of the germination protocols in vitro of C. eugenii established the symbiotic culture, pairs the isolated fungic contends the mycorrhizae Epulorhiza sp., obtained from roots of C. eugenii, with the seeds of C. eugenii in medium FA, and the asimbytic culture, where the seeds had been cultivated in culture mediuns that are regularly used for seed orchids germination, being the complete MS medium, the MS medium with reduction to the half of the concentration of macronutrients (½ MS) and the Knudson medium (KC). The analysis of the behavior of C. eugenii allowed to verify that this species present annual budding and at the dry time. At the rainy time, when the temperature raised, plants of C. eugenii start to invest its energy in the production of vegetative parts, such as sprouts of pseudobulbs and leves. The flowers of C. eugenii are disposed of cyclical form in the floral connecting rods, which arrive to reach up to 130 cm of height. This species is self-compatible, even so in natural conditions, the fruit set is low. Not evidenced was presence of efficient pollinators. High frequency of ants during budding of C. eugenii was verified. However, the observations indicated that these insects only act as visitors and they are attracted by the secretion of substance at the time of the budding throughout the floral connecting rod and that have high concentration of soluble solid. The establishment of the symbiotic germination in vitro did not disclose resulted satisfactory because no protocorms formation were obtained. However, satisfactory results had been founded in the asymbiotic germination in vitro, being the ½ MS medium superior to the KC and the complete MS medium for the time, germination of seeds and establishment of new plants of C. eugenii.
A espécie Cyrtopodium eugenii Rchb. f. (Orchidaceae) é amplamente distribuída pelo Brasil, sendo o Planalto Central o seu principal centro de diversidade. C. eugenii é uma espécie terrestre, comumente encontrada no Cerrado, crescendo em solos arenosos, ambientes secos e à meia sombra. Devido ao caráter exótico de sua inflorescência e à beleza de suas flores, C. eugenii apresenta elevado potencial ornamental e comercial. Entretanto, não são encontrados estudos para sua preservação ou métodos para obtenção de mudas que possam ser utilizadas na floricultura ou no paisagismo. Assim, o presente estudo tem como objetivos caracterizar a fenologia, a morfologia e os apectos reprodutivos desta espécie de orquídea e estabelecer protocolos para germinação simbiótica e assimbiótica in vitro. Parte do trabalho foi desenvolvida na Reserva Biológica Prof. José Ângelo Rizzo, um remanescente florestal de 500 ha do bioma Cerrado, cuja vegetação predominante é do tipo Cerrado Rupestre, localizada na Serra Dourada, município de Mossâmedes GO. No período de julho de 2007 a agosto de 2008 foram realizadas visitas mensais para acompanhamento e coleta de dados fenológicos e de biologia floral de 51 indivíduos, distribuídos em três sub-populações. Para o estabelecimento dos protocolos de germinação in vitro de C. eugenii estabeleceu-se o cultivo simbiótico, pareando o isolado fúngico contendo o micélio micorrízico de Epulorhiza sp., obtido a partir de raízes de C. eugenii, com as sementes de C. eugenii em meio FA, e o cultivo assimbiótico, em que as sementes foram cultivadas em meios de cultura comumente usados para germinação de orquídeas, sendo o meio MS completo, o meio MS com redução à metade da concentração de macronutrientes (½ MS) e o meio de Knudson (KC). A análise do comportamento de C. eugenii permitiu verificar que esta espécie apresenta floração anual e na época seca. Na época chuvosa, quando a temperatura é mais elevada, plantas de C. eugenii passam a investir sua energia na produção de partes vegetativas, tais como brotos de pseudobulbos e folhas. As flores de C. eugenii são dispostas de forma cíclica nas hastes florais, as quais chegam a atingir até 130 cm de altura. Esta espécie é autocompatível, embora em condições naturais, a taxa de frutificação seja baixa. Não foi observada presença de polinizadores eficientes. Foi verificada elevada freqüência de formigas durante a floração. Porém, as observações indicaram que estes insetos atuam apenas como pilhadores e que são atraídos pela secreção de uma substância liberada constantemente na época da floração ao longo da haste floral e cujo teor de sólidos solúveis é elevado. O estabelecimento da germinação simbiótica in vitro não revelou resultados satisfatórios uma vez que a formação de protocormos não foi obtida. Todavia, resultados satisfatórios foram encontrados na germinação assimbiótica in vitro, sendo o meio ½ MS superior ao KC e ao MS completo para o tempo, taxa de germinação de sementes e estabelecimento de novas plântulas de C. eugenii.
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Novotny, Jennifer L. "Sedition at the supper table : the material culture of the Jacobite wars, 1688-1760." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4659/.
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The Jacobite era (1688-1760) was a time of political, social, and economic change, when political culture and social practices combined with new technologies to produce material means of expression that are recognisably modern. By examining the material culture of the Jacobite wars, this thesis explores the ways in which artefacts reflect and inform the socio-political milieu. Specifically, it looks at how domestic objects became an extension of conflict in the period of study, acting as agents of political expression as well as aesthetic taste as warfare moved from the battlefield into the home. This research documents the ways in which individuals in the late-17th and 18th centuries used material culture to further political agendas by examining artefacts held in collections throughout Scotland. This politicised material culture struggled to negotiate the realities of war within an increasingly polite, Enlightenment society. The messy, divisive political factionalism that characterised the period hid behind a veneer of artistic craft. Political causes were planned and furthered alongside convivial habits like drinking, smoking, and snuff-taking, each of which required specialised material culture. Artefacts such as snuff boxes, wineglasses, and punch ladles were emblazoned with propagandistic sentiments, blending sociability and political expression. Jacobite, Williamite, and Hanoverian rulers materially represented power and authority through objects like medals and portrait ceramics, as well as the official material culture of state. In return, their subjects expressed loyalty and resistance through a variety of material goods, like household textiles and furnishings, or personal dress. Artefacts also commemorated and memorialised events and individuals, with specific types of objects blurring the ambiguous distinction between artefact and relic. These artefacts have maintained a prominent place in popular imagination over time and still have a resonance today. They have been sought out by private and corporate collectors, as well as public institutions, and there is a robust market for this material culture at auction. This study provides an examination of the collection and display of Jacobite-era artefacts from the end of the 18th century to the present, specifically highlighting the collections of individuals like Sir Walter Scott, Alexander Carmichael, and Frederick Duleep Singh, as well as institutional collections such as the National Museum of Scotland (formerly the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland), as recorded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the corporate Drambuie Collection. Further data was gleaned from Jacobite-era artefacts at auction (2000 - 2012) at Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonham's, and Lyon & Turnbull. Finally, this thesis looks at the ways in which the material culture of the Jacobite wars has been exhibited from the 19th century onwards, and how specific types of artefacts have come to materially represent an accepted narrative of the Jacobite wars. Key exhibitions examined in detail include the 1903 Highland and Jacobite Exhibition in Inverness, the 1911 Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art, & Industry in Glasgow, the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, the 1996 The Swords and the Sorrows exhibit in Edinburgh, the 2010 Rebels with a Cause: that Jacobites and the Global Imagination exhibit at Holyrood, and the 2011 Imagining Power: the Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. This thesis assesses collections of artefacts from the Jacobite era, bringing research on this material up to date, while offering fresh interpretations and thoughtful analysis of the cultural importance of these objects in their contemporary period as well as their modern significance. It interrogates this subset of artefacts and expands available resources for future study.
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Maho, Jonathan. "Regards sur l'oeuvre de Robert Mapplethorpe : réception au-delà des Culture Wars (1970-2010)." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC052.
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Notre étude a pour objet la réception de l'oeuvre de l'artiste américain Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Par l'examen des expositions et des publications, elle permet de retranscrire l'évolution du discours critique. Ce dernier est considéré pour ses lacunes dans le contexte polémique des Culture Wars — conflit latent marqué par des batailles idéologiques opposant conservateurs et libéraux aux États-Unis. Dans une première partie, nous proposons de dé-contextualiser la réception de l'oeuvre en montrant que la censure, souvent comprise comme une conséquence de la controverse à laquelle l'artiste est associé, doit être considérée comme étant au centre de ses préoccupations et ce, dès les années 1970. Nous montrons notamment que le contenu de ses travaux et de ses expositions a été soumis à de multiples contraintes pendant toute sa carrière. Nous offrons ensuite dans la partie suivante la possibilité d'étudier la part de l'oeuvre la moins connue afin de faire émerger des principes clefs, négligés dans les études portées par une approche formaliste. Après avoir critiqué cette approche conventionnelle (interprétée ici comme le coeur du problème dans la réception de l'oeuvre), nous proposons dans la troisième partie des arguments inédits permettant de mettre en valeur le contenu des travaux. Notre méthode pluridisciplinaire permet plus généralement de valoriser l'étude des archives personnelles de l'artiste, peu exploitées jusqu'iciOur study takes as its object the reception of Robert Mapplethorpe's work. By examining exhibitions and publications, it retraces the evolution of the critical discourse. The latter is considered for its deficiencies with regards to the polemical context of the Culture Wars — a latent conflict characterized by a series of ideological, disputes between conservatives and liberals in the United States. In the first part, we work to decontextualize the reception of Mapplethorpe's work, showing that censorship, often seen as a consequence of the controversy with which the artist has been involved, must be understood, as of the 1970s, to have been a central theme of his work. We notably demonstrate that the content of his art and exhibitions has been shaped by multiple constraints during the entirety of his career. In the second part, we offer an opportunity to study the lesser-known of his works, revealing key principals that have been neglected in studies conducted with a formalist approach. After having criticized this conventional approach (understood here to be the main problem in the reception of his oeuvre), we propose, in a third part, novel arguments that make it possible to focus on the works' content. More generally, our transdisciplinary method makes it possible to value the artist's personal archives, which have been largely underexplored in existing research
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Mehlman-Petrzela, Natalia Yael. "Origins of the culture wars : sex, language, school, and state in California, 1968-78 /." May be available electronically:, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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