To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: New Left.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'New Left'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'New Left.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Ng, Ting, and 吳婷. "Decoding China's new left phenomenon." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47869422.
Full textAbstract:
China has been through tremendous changes in the past thirty years. The
country not only experienced a drastic transformation in its socioeconomic
sphere, but also in its academic field. One of the most notable academic
movements is the on-going debate between China’s New Left scholars and the
Chinese liberals, which is developing alongside the deepening of reform in the
country. The New Left scholars argue that China must design an original
development path and to avoid excessive copying from the modernization model
in Western countries. They have identified many problems that occurred in the
society in recent years, which arguably resulted from the country’s rapid
development. This thesis aims to decode the two most prominent perspectives
from the New Left scholars – China’s revolutions and its economic reform.
To explicate their perspectives, I draw on the studies of New Left scholars
such as Wang Hui, Cui Zhiyuan and Gan Yang, as well as a few selected articles
from the liberal side of the debate. Through exploring the various publications,
this thesis has hopefully demonstrated a coherent clarification of the
still-blossoming new intellectual phenomenon. Furthermore, this thesis also aims
to alter the stereotypical discrimination against Leftism and its derivatives, as the
results have clearly shown that the New Left scholars are not anti-development
and in fact, they are calling for no more than an alternative modernization path for
the country.published_or_final_version
Comparative Literature
Master
Master of Philosophy
2
Lin, C. "The British New Left 1957-1977." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276174.
Full text
3
Sweeting, Theodore Patrick Abraham. ""Many Columbias" : remembering the New Left." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.595308.
Full textAbstract:
In narratives of the New Left, a number of key events and ideas are often used as symbols for broader movement trends. The Columbia University protests of the spring and summer of 1968 are one such example. Many Columbias examines a variety of autobiographical writings by one-time New leftists, using the protests as a thematic nexus. It examines how the texts coalesce to form a composite narrative of the protests, written by a group of autobiographers involved in the discursive process of creating cultural memories. The first chapter examines the Columbia protests as a broad coalition that brought together seemingly disparate groups into a moment that encapsulated many of the oppositional political trends of the late 19605. The protests were immediately mythologized by a variety of different presses, a process explored in Chapter Two. This examines how they were mapped in different journalistic contexts, including New Journalism, the underground press, and the mainstream press. Subsequently, the Columbia protests have become entrenched within dominant readings of the New Left and the American "1968". Such narratives often t race the rise and fall of SDS as a synecdoche for the New left and, in this way, Columbia is seen to precipitate the emergence of Weather Underground and the destruction of SDS. Accordingly, the events have been read primarily through the memories a few key Columbia SDS leaders who helped found the Weather Underground. Such narratives are explored in Chapter Three, which contextualises a group of participant histories and memoirs written in the 1980s via the Cold War and culture wars. Participants have subsequently been involved in a process of reinstating the idea of Columbia's political and racial diversity. Chapter Four examines how the protests were remapped around the fortieth anniversary in 2008, and how participants helped to complicate an SDS-centric reading of the events, as they were reclaimed by, and for, marginalised groups, particularly African American participants. Exploring similar t hemes, Chapter Five deliberately forgoes chronology to examine the personal relationship between Mark Rudd and Jane Alpert, as represented in a variety of autobiographical texts, which sheds light on how gender affects the memory of Columbia, the New Left and feminism. Primarily concerned with autobiography, memoir and participant history, this thesis contextualises these genres with a number of other cultural forms, including archival material, academic histories of the New left and of the 1960s, cinema, political-essay and journalism, and the reunion as cultural phenomenon, in order to build a rich historiography of the protests that investigates layers of their representation.
4
Bell, Robert A. "The changing voice of Left history, new Left journals and radical American history." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ52025.pdf.
Full text
5
Goldie, Christopher Thomas. "Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2005. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3194/.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between the New Left and modernisation, and to suggest that modernisation provides a powerful means of understanding the underlying dynamics of Britain's history in the 1960s. This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The New Left is defined broadly for this purpose as a movement emerging from the dislocating experiences of social, cultural and physical mobility in the postwar period. What is termed the 'modernisation project' is more expansive than the technological and scientific modernisation espoused by Harold Wilson in the early 1960s and is understood to address these new, politicized forms of mobility. Whilst one element of this Politics of dislocation and mobility was a concern about affluence and new forms of cultural consumption, another was concerned with the cultural and geographical dislocation of the upwardly-mobile (sometimes thought of in the language of the 'scholarship boy, ' but with the growth of the student population also associated with the notion of a counterculture). The significance of an enlarged and dislocated intelligentsia is explored through the example of British Pop theory, the approach of which was to engage positively with popular culture, emphasising the value of mass-produced cultural forms which had the qualities of rawness and vitality on the one hand, and expendability on the other. British Pop theory employed pop to explore an alternative historical approach to working class culture but also suggested a different approach to upward-mobility. Contested geographies are explored through the example of New Left attitudes towards suburbia, megalopolis and the cultural geography of the North- South divide. 1968 is explored as the moment when the New Left engaged in a particular form of spatial politics: certain types of space were valued for their psychological characteristics, their sociological inaccessibility to the manipulative power of capitalism, and their capacity to liberate the subject from new forms of alienation. The spaces of New Left protest in 1968 are then compared to other examples of radical space based on radical architecture theory. The politics of the barricade are compared to the politics of indeterminacy.
6
Yang, Manuel. "Yoshimoto Taka'aki, communal illusion, and the Japanese new left /." See Full Text at OhioLINK ETD Center (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing), 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?toledo1122656731.
Full text
7
Cook, V. Marie. "Revising the bureaucratic ideal the new left and the new public administration /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2004. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2004.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2937. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 3 preliminary leaves (iii-v). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-54).
8
Wilkins, Anna Jane. "Intersection Performance and the New Zealand Left Turn Rule." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1778.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis reports the use of Paramics microscopic simulation software to model the differences between the performance of ten Christchurch intersections under the existing New Zealand road rule which requires left turning vehicles to give way to vehicles turning right into the same road, and a changed rule that would see the right turning vehicle have priority.
Previous research concerning this issue is reviewed and the history of the existing road rule and recent moves to change it are discussed.
At each of the ten intersections a range of traffic volume combinations was assessed and the journey times and queue lengths were compared. The ten intersections represent a range of different layouts and forms of control including give way signs, stop signs and traffic signals.
The impact of a rule change on the use of shared lanes at intersections using a Paramics model of the Christchurch Central Business District, as developed for the Christchurch City Council, is also reported.
Conclusions are drawn about which types of intersections and traffic volume combinations are likely to be affected by a rule change. The features of intersections that contribute to this susceptibility are identified and conclusions drawn about whether positive or negative effects are likely.
It is concluded that there is no compelling intersection performance reason why the rule could not be changed. The successful implication of such change would require a review of the road network to identify critical intersections. Some monitoring and mitigation measures may also be required.
9
Thompson, Duncan. "The movement of the New Left Review, 1960-1992." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363851.
Full text
10
Gordon, Daniel Alexander. "Immigrants and the New Left in France, 1968-1971." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368495.
Full text
11
Khan, Usman Awais. "Neighbourhood forums and the #new left' in local government." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282119.
Full text
12
Evaristi, Maria Franscesca. "New biomarkers and therapeutic targets in left ventricular hypertrophy." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU30047.
Full textAbstract:
L'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche (HVG) est un remodelage prédicteur du développement d'une insuffisance cardiaque et de la mortalité cardiovasculaire. L'hypertension artérielle est une cause majeure de l'HVG, puisque 30% des patients hypertendus développent une HVG. Un dépistage biologique précoce de l'HVG post hypertensive permettrait d'optimiser la prise en charge des patients et d'empêcher que l'HVG évolue vers l'insuffisance cardiaque. L'utilisation de biomarqueurs est un outil rapide, efficace et peu couteux pour le diagnostic de nombreuses pathologies. Dans la pratique clinique il n'existe pas de biomarqueurs pour identifier les patients hypertendus avec HVG de ceux sans ce remodelage. Le premier objectif de notre étude a été d'identifier des biomarqueurs plasmatiques de l'HVG post hypertensive. Une analyse métabolomique obtenue par spectroscopie de résonance magnétique nucléaire du proton (H1) a été effectuée sur les échantillons de plasma de 48 patients hypertendus avec HVG, 48 hypertendus sans HVG et 24 témoins. A l'aide d'outils bio-informatiques et d'analyses statistiques adaptées, nous avons mis en évidence la présence d'un ratio des groupements chimiques méthylène/ méthyle (-CH2-/-CH3) des chaines aliphatiques des lipides plasmatiques augmenté chez les patients hypertendus avec HVG (p<0.001). Ce ratio détecte la présence d'une HVG chez les patients hypertendus avec une sensitivité de 52.08% et une spécificité de 85.42%. Nous proposons que le ratio -CH2-/-CH3 des chaines aliphatiques lipidiques présent dans plasma représente un biomarqueur diagnostique de l'HVG dans l'hypertension artérielle. L'incidence de l'HVG est aussi augmentée chez les patients qui souffrent du syndrome métabolique (MetS). Le MetS est défini par la présence d'une obésité abdominale plus deux facteurs parmi la dyslipidémie, l'insulino-résistance et l'hypertension artérielle. Ces facteurs synergisent et sont les responsables de l'instauration d'une HVG et d'une progression vers l'insuffisance cardiaque. Des données publiées montrent que les patients MetS ont un taux réduit de l'insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP2). L'IGFBP2 a un rôle potentiel dans le diabète et dans le métabolisme, mais il n'existe pas d'étude sur son rôle dans les pathologies cardiaques causées par une dérégulation métabolique. Le premier objectif de notre étude sur l'IGFBP2 a été de mesurer le taux plasmatique d'IGFBP2 et le taux d'expression cardiaque de l'ARN messager d'IGFBP2 dans une cohorte de patients avec et sans MetS. Nous avons montré que le taux plasmatique ainsi que le taux d'ARN messager cardiaque d'IGFBP2 sont diminués chez les patients avec le Mets comparé à des témoins. Puis, nous avons mesuré le tôt cardiaque d'ARN messager de l'IGFBP2 dans un model murin de MetS. Pour générer ce modèle, nous avons nourri des souris C57BL/6J avec du régime gras à 60% pendant 15 semaines. Le taux d'expression cardiaque de l'ARN messager de l'IGFBP2 est réduit chez les souris avec Mets, en accord avec les résultats obtenu chez l'homme. Enfin, nous avons testé si la thérapie génique utilisant un virus adeno-associé qui exprime l'IGFBP2 humaine (AAV9-hIGFBP2) pouvait restaurer un niveau normal d'IGFBP2 et interférer avec l'HVG causé par le MetS chez ces souris. Nos résultats montrent que l'injection de l'AAV9-hIGFBP2 rétabli durablement le niveau cardiaque d'IGFBP2 chez la souris avec MetS et qu'IGFBP2 prévient l'épaississement des parois du ventricule gauche, l'hypertrophie et la dysfonction cardiaque. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'IGFBP2 est une nouvelle cible thérapeutique potentielle de l'HVGLeft ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a strong predictor of future heart failure and cardiovascular mortality. Arterial hypertension is considered as the main causative agent for LVH as 30% of hypertensive patients develop LVH. These patients have an increased risk for cardiovascular complications and heart failure. Early diagnosis of LVH and prompt treatment are crucial to reduce LVH and stop its progression towards heart failure. Biomarkers could represent a rapid, effective and low-cost tool to discriminate hypertensive patients with LVH from those with normal LV size. Therefore, we aimed to identify plasma metabolomics biomarkers by 1H NMR to provide novel diagnostic tools for rapid detection of LVH in populations of hypertensive individuals. We realized a cross-sectional study including 48 hypertensive patients with LVH matched with 48 hypertensive patients with normal LV size, and 24 healthy controls. Two-dimensional targeted M-mode echocardiography was performed to measure left ventricular mass index. Partial least squares discriminant analysis was used for the multivariate analysis of the 1H NMR spectral data. From the 1H NMR analysis, we found that the methylene/methyl (-CH2-/-CH3) ratio of aliphatic chain from plasma lipids was significantly increased (p<0.001) in hypertensive patients with LVH compared to hypertensive patients without LVH and to control. Receiver operating characteristic curve showed that a cutoff value of 2.34 provided a 52.08% sensitivity and 85.42% specificity for discriminating LVH (AUC=0.703, p-value<0.001). We propose the -CH2/-CH3 ratio from plasma aliphatic lipid chains as a biomarker for the diagnosis of LVH in arterial hypertension. LVH incidence is also increased in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). MetS is defined by central obesity plus any two medical conditions such as dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension. These factors synergize to cause LV dysfunction and HF. Published data have shown that MetS patients have low plasma insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP2). IGFBP2 was shown to play a role in diabetes and metabolism, but studies investigating its role in cardiac diseases are lacking. We first aimed to investigate plasma IGFBP2 levels and cardiac IGFBP2 mRNA levels in MetS patients. Both plasma levels and heart expression levels of IGFBP2 were decreased in patients with MetS compared to control patients. Further, in a C57BL/6J mouse model of 60% high fat diet-induced MetS, we measured cardiac mRNA IGFBP2 levels. According to the observed data in human, mice with MetS showed a decreased cardiac IGFBP2 mRNA level. Finally, we investigated whether a gene therapy strategy using adeno-associated virus 9 carrying human IGFBP2 coding sequence (AAV9-hIGFBP2) could prevent from MetS associated left ventricular hypertrophy. Our data showed that AAV9-hIGFBP2 injection restored durably cardiac IGFBP2 levels in mouse heart and prevented from left ventricle wall thickening, hypertrophy and dysfunction. These clinical and animal data suggest that IGFBP2 is a potential new cardiac therapeutic target in MetS
13
Yang, Manuel. "Yoshimoto Taka’aki, Communal Illusion, and the Japanese New Left." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1122656731.
Full text
14
Slonecker, Blake Filene Peter G. "Living the movement Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the New Left, 1967-1981 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2246.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.
15
McAdam, Lindy. "Seeking a new agenda for the left : Marxism versus post-Marxism /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm113.pdf.
Full text
16
Biegon, Rubrick. "Reconstituting hegemony: US power and the New Left in Latin America." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654100.
Full textAbstract:
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, and in stark contrast to the immediate postCold War period, Latin American politics was defined by the ascendency of leftist and centre-left forces. The emergence and consolidation of the 'New Latin Left', as this thesis terms these governments, signalled a profound challenge to the longstanding hegemony of . the United States in the Western hemisphere. In their foreign and domestic policies, the countries of the region began distancing themselves from Washington's geopolitical and economic agenda. This thesis examines the ways in which US foreign policy responded to the counter-hegemony manifested in the New Latin Left. Defining hegemony as an asymmetrical and dialectical relationship patterned by multiple and overlapping fOlIDS of power, it investigates US efforts to reconstitutJ its hegemonic position in the Americas. Building on Gramscian historical materialism, it Situates US hegemony alongside the political economy of the Post-Washington Consensus. The analysis utilises the taxonomy of power developed by Barnett and Duvall to examine the interplay of the different facets of US hegemony in Latin America, which, as the argument goes, are inextricably interlinked with on-going processes of neoliberalisation. Empirical chapters focus on: the coercive leverage of US compulsory power; as realised through. the Pentagon's resources and strategy in the region; the institutional power of the Organization of American States in relation to newly-created and Latin American-led mechanisms ofmuitilateral cooperation; the structural power of the US's multi-track free trade agenda; and the productive power expressed in the discursive construction of Latin American populisrri. By exploring the different facets of US power in the region, the thesis brings clarity to what remains an open and contested process of hegemonic reconstitution. In doing so, it contributes to critical International Relations/International Political Economy scholarship on US hegemony, US foreign policy and contemporary US-Latin American relations.
17
Kivari, Carson Alexander. "No man left behind : towards new models of male engaged therapy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45986.
Full textAbstract:
Counselling literature often focuses on men’s limited help seeking behaviours. Less explored is how men engage or disengage when they actually do enter helping programs. Contrasting decades of quantitative research pairing masculine ideology with low help seeking (i.e., identifying the problem), this article looks qualitatively at the factors that help men to become engaged and committed to therapy (i.e., identifying solutions). This study examines a treatment program with high success rates and virtually no drop out–a unique occurrence in men’s psychotherapy. Enhanced Critical Incident Technique data suggest that helping men to feel competent, free from judgment, and in the company of down-to-earth and genuine practitioners are all instrumental in helping this sub-population engage in therapy. Further, it is suggested that while appealing to male gender roles may be critical at the outset of therapy, men transition to broader non-gendered (i.e., that might be shared by men and women alike) and universal human needs as therapy progresses.
18
Wang, Yu. "A NEW DEVELOPMENT OF FEEDBACK CONTROLLER FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2386.
Full textAbstract:
The rotary Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump surgically implanted in patients with end-stage congestive heart failure to help maintain the flow of blood from the sick heart. The rotary type pumps are controlled by varying the impeller speed to control the amount of blood flowing through the LVAD. One important challenge in using these devices is to prevent the occurrence of excessive pumping of blood from the left ventricle (known as suction) that may cause it to collapse due to the high pump speed. The development of a proper feedback controller for the pump speed is therefore crucial to meet this challenge. In this thesis, some theoretical and practical issues related to the development of such a controller are discussed. First, a basic nonlinear, time-varying cardiovascular-LVAD circuit model that will be used to develop the controller is reviewed. Using this model, a suction index is tested to detect suction. Finally we propose a feedback controller that uses the pump flow signal to regulate the pump speed based on the suction index and an associated threshold. The objective of this controller is to continuously update the pump speed to adapt to the physiological changes of the patient while at the same time avoiding suction. Simulation results are presented under different conditions of the patient activities. Robustness of the controller to measurement noise is also discussed.M.S.E.E.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering and Computer Science
Electrical Engineering MSEE
19
Hair, Steven. "New Methods for Finding Non-Left-Orderable and Unique Product Groups." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9633.
Full textAbstract:
In this paper, we present techniques for proving a group to be non-left-orderable or a unique product group. These methods involve the existence of a mapping from the group to R which obeys a left-multiplication criterion. By determining the existence or non-existence of such a mapping, the desired information about the group can be concluded. As examples, we apply this technique to groups of transformations in hyperbolic 2- and 3- space, and Fibonacci groups.Master of Science
20
Wu, Di. "New Therapeutic Target in Pressure-Loaded Left Ventricular Remodelling and Fibrosis." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29856.
Full textAbstract:
Background:
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key role in regulating the pathophysiological signalling in heart disease. FXYD1 protein as a subunit of Na+-K+ pump shown a protective effect on acute oxidative inhibition of the cardiac membrane Na+-K+ ATPase. However, the effects of FXYD1 on protecting against longer term cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy have not been examined. We hypothesized that absence of FXYD1 would worsen transverse aortic constriction-induced cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy. Dysregulation of the redox signalling pathway and post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump is well understood to play a role in the development and progression of cardiovascular disease. However, antioxidant therapy targeting the redox signalling pathway has remained unsatisfactory in clinical trials. Therefore, a great space exists for the discovery of novel therapies. Previously, we found that the post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump occurred at a particular site (cysteine 45) on the β1 subunit of the Na+-K+ pump. We designed a novel transgenic mouse, herein referred to as the redox-null mouse, by CRISPR/Cas9 technology with a cysteine to serine modification at site 45 of the β1 subunit of the Na+-K+ ATPase. This engineered mutation allows us to examine the in vivo role of post-translational redox signalling through this single reactive cysteine with important mechanistic and therapeutic implications for heart disease.
Aims:
Aim 1: To examine whether deletion of the FXYD1 protein exacerbated heart failure and LV remodelling in transverse aortic construction-induced mice (Chapter 3).
Aim 2: To investigate the characteristics of cardiac function in CRISPR-ATP1b1 mice, in which cysteine is replaced with serine at site 45 on the β1 subunit of Na+-K+ ATPase (Chapter 4).
Aim 3: To investigate whether inhibiting the post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump plays an important role in mediating LV remodelling induced by Ang II and TAC (Chapter 5).
Methods and Results:
TAC surgeries were performed on FXYD1+/+ and FXYD1-/- mice to establish pressure-loaded LV remodelling and cardiac fibrosis. Heart function was determined by high-resolution echocardiography using the Vevo 3100 imaging platform. A series of pathophysiology and molecular biology analyses were conducted and are presented in Chapter 3. The results demonstrated that after the TAC procedure, FXYD1-/- mice exhibited significantly impaired LV function and myocardial fibrosis as compared to their wild-type (WT) counterparts, which were caused by modified redox signalling and a post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump. The observations of the biological and molecular characteristics of redox-null mice are summarized in Chapter 4. A similar protocol including echocardiography, western blot and PCR were applied to these mice to uncover whether targeting the post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump can lead to novel therapeutic targets. It was found that redox-null mice had improved resistance to TAC-induced cardiac dysfunction, myocardial fibrosis and hypertrophy. In response to Ang II infusion, it was found that redox-null mice had improved cardiac function and reduced myocardial fibrosis and hypertrophy relative to Ang II-treated WT mice in Chapter 5.
Conclusion:
The first finding in this thesis was that targeting FXYD1 may be a novel therapeutic strategy to ameliorate TAC-mediated fibrosis. Secondly, it was found that the protein residue changes at site 45 in the Na+-K+ ATPase β1 subunit, did not affect the development of major organs or the reproductive ability of the mice under physiological conditions. Thus, these mice will be a useful and novel platform for studying the redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump β1 subunit. The third finding was that abolishing post-translational redox modification of the Na+-K+ pump β1 subunit has a profoundly protective effect against heart failure induced by TAC and hypertension.
21
KRALJ, Karlo. "Pathways to politics: new left movement parties in Post-Yugoslav space." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11384/125842.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis investigates processes behind the formation of new left movement parties in post-Yugoslav space by tracing and comparing the emergence of two movement parties: Initiative for Democratic Socialism (Slovenia) and Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own (Serbia). Its main aim is to describe mechanisms through which activist groups with long-term experience of nonelectoral activism engage in movement party formation, which is conceptualized as a core change in social movement strategy. The central argument of the thesis is that movement party formation can be explained by two key mechanisms: strategic learning, which takes place over a longer period of time, and cognitive liberation, which is provoked by the experience of eventful protest. In addition to establishing similarities across the two cases, comparative design serves to investigate to what extent and how each of the two contexts structured different movements’ strategic articulations. It identifies two strategic articulations of the electoral new left in the post-Yugoslav space: national-level democratic-socialist pathway and local-level green-municipalist pathway.
Empirically, the thesis combines theory-building process tracing and cross-case analysis, outlining the movement parties’ long-term origins through detailed case studies. In addition to in-depth interviews with activists from various sub-sectors of left-wing activism in Slovenia and Serbia, the case studies draw on the analysis of activists’ strategic framing within protest events, media appearances and organizational documents.
The thesis aims to contribute to the body of research on stability and change in social movement strategy as well as to update the literature on left-wing movement parties with cases that remained relatively underinvestigated. At the same time, the thesis takes a novel approach to postsocialist left-wing activism, going beyond the usual analytical division between electoral and nonelectoral forms of activism. Against the backdrop of the assumptions on the static, transactional and NGO-ized nature of postsocialist activism, it shows activists’ capacity for strategic change.
22
Boraman, Toby, and n/a. "New left and anarchism in New Zealand from 1956 to the early 1980s : an anarchist communist interpretation." University of Otago. Department of Political Studies, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060830.113811.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis draws upon anarchist communist theory in order to provide a historical account of the New Left and the anarchist movement in New Zealand from 1956 to the early 1980s. This account explains, describes and evaluates critically these movements.
The praxis of the New Left and the anarchist movement can be explained by a variety of social, economic, political, cultural and psychological factors. However, overall, it is argued that these movements were largely shaped by the underlying antagonisms of global capitalism. Because the New Left emerged during a lull in working-class self-activity, the politics of the early New Left and the anarchist movement from 1956 to the late 1960s were generally reformist and quietist. The later New Left emerged during a global resurgence in class-struggle from 1968 to the early to mid 1970s. Consequently, the demeanour of the later New Left and anarchism during this period was boisterous and ebullient.
The New Left in New Zealand was unique in that, compared with the New Left overseas, its major organisations were neither campus-based nor dominated by students. It consisted of young workers and students who jointly established numerous small affinity groups. The early New Left was less action-oriented than the later New Left. It was formed by dissidents from the Old Left and was closely associated with anti-nuclear protest. The later New Left issued from the more confrontational wing of the anti-Vietnam War and anti-apartheid movements, and then dispersed into various new social movements from the early 1970s onwards. The anarchist movement of the 1960s and 1970s was intimately interrelated with the New Left, and hence shared most of its characteristics.
This work employs anarchist communism as a theoretical tool to evaluate critically the innovations and limitations of the New Left and the anarchist movement. In particular, the class-based "non-market" anarchist communist theory of Peter Kropotkin is utilised. The main criterion used for judging the New Left and anarchist movement is their emancipatory capacity to spark a process whereby the underlying social relations of capitalism are fundamentally transformed.
The key strengths of the New Left and the anarchist movement were their sweepingly broad anti-authoritarianism, their festive politics and their focus upon everyday life. The primary weakness of these movements was their isolation from the working-class. The New Left concentrated on supporting nationalist struggles overseas and mostly overlooked domestic class-struggle. Numerous New Leftists and anarchists championed self-management yet did not question the market and the wage-system. This thesis highlights the complexities of the New Left. For instance, the later New Left was genuinely anti-disciplinarian yet often supported totalitarian Stalinist regimes overseas. As a result, it is argued that the New Left was paradoxically both anti-authoritarian and authoritarian.
It is claimed that an updated anarchist communism, integrating the best qualities of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s with classical anarchist communism, is highly relevant today because of the rise of neo-liberalism and the anti-capitalist movement, and the demise of Stalinism and social democracy.
23
Rinn, Daniel. "John Dewey, the New Left, and the Politics of Contingency and Pluralism." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12965.
Full textAbstract:
Most histories of the New Left emphasize that some variant of Marxism ultimately influenced activists in their pursuit of social change. Through careful examination of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), I argue that New Left thought was not always anti-liberal. Founding SDS members hardly rejected liberal political theory during the early years of the movement (1960-1963). New Left thought was profoundly indebted to John Dewey's political and philosophical method. Deweyan liberalism suggested theory should be directly applicable in the world of social action and truth should always be regarded as contingent. The connection between Dewey and SDS becomes apparent when one considers the role of Arnold S. Kaufman in the movement. Kaufman, a University of Michigan philosopher, applied Dewey's political and philosophical method in his work as an activist and academic. He coined the term "participatory democracy" for the New Left. Consequently, this key New Left concept was itself grounded in Dewey's philosophy.
24
Carpenter, Susan Streeter. "Liberty Boulevard." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122389263.
Full text
25
Vergottini, Giulia. "Women, comrades, and feminists : how the discourse about genderdeveloped in the press of the Italian revolutionary Left, 1974–1976." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-188229.
Full text
26
Cord, Florian. "Postdemocracy, the New Right and the Paralysis of the Left: A Commentary." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21113.
Full text
27
Hyde, Sarah Jane. "From old socialists to new democrats : the realignment of the Japanese left." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7acd9f90-0e06-41a2-83c5-76d8d8de7f82.
Full textAbstract:
In 1996, a new left of centre party emerged in Japan called the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and effectively replaced the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) as the main opposition party. This thesis asks what conditions caused this realignment and how the DPJ differs from the JSP. An increasing distrust and disinterest of politics and politicians has meant that the non-aligned voter in Japan forms the largest group of the electorate. Every party has lost support, but the left faced the worst drop of support. With the end of the Cold War, and the intensifying call for Japan to reassess its role on the World stage, the traditional ideology of the Japanese left, which has become synonymous with peace and preservation of the Peace Constitution, has lost its stabilising effect on the party and on its supporters. The labour unions, which were once the key mobilisational force for the left-wing parties at election time, began to question their relationship with the JSP and found new links to government. Simultaneously, they were also losing members so mobilisation of voters for the left also declined. Finally, a new electoral system did not reward the opposition as much as the LDP. Overall, the mobilisation of the electorate has become increasingly difficult for the Japanese left as a result of these factors. The DPJ has had to find ways of dealing with them and also has had to create its own identity. The way in which the party has dealt with this is by 'widening out' its types of candidate and using new methods to attract support. Furthermore, the DPJ has become more aware of its party coherence and has ensured that party unity is maintained even when ideological disputes occur.
28
Rooksby, Edward. "State, power and socialism : towards a new stategy for the socialist left." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444763.
Full text
29
Jordan, Tim. "Reinventing revolution : value and difference in new social movements and the left." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19883.
Full textAbstract:
The problems of post-nineteen sixties left-wing politics are explored by analysing a hypothetical collective memory of the left. This memory claims that the hegemony over thought and practice held by Marxism has been broken down since the nineteen sixties by many different non-class based forms of oppression. The nature of Marxism as one political movement among other such movements is then explored and implications for any movement that tries to base itself on unified and universal values are outlined. It is argued that any politics based on unified values will create oppression because the values of such a politics will exclude the values of some other group. The possibility that politics can be based on difference is then explored. The works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and Jean-Francois Lyotard are examined as examples of difference based political theories. It is then concluded that, in general, difference is an inadequate basis for liberatory politics because difference based politics is only concerned to protect the process of differentiation and so ignores the particular values on which anti-oppression movements have been based. The possibility that difference and value based theories and movements are actually part of the one debate and do not follow each other in a linear progression is then analysed. The difference/value debate is characterised as consisting of paralysed motion because both difference and value have important critiques of each other and answers to those critiques, thereby creaating a constant motion between the two poles of difference and value which yet never moves beyond these two poles.
30
Kramer, Howard. "The apocalyptic speculation of the New Age Left: Social and political implications." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456673.
Full text
31
Mulkern, Matthew. "Feasibility Of Left Side Rumble Strips On Rural Arterial Freeways In New Bunswick." Thesis, Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1882/44575.
Full textAbstract:
This study evaluated the feasibility of adding rumble strips
to the left side of rural freeways in New Brunswick. A
review of 940 collisions that occurred on Route 2 and Route
95 was supplemented with an analysis of 547 incidents that
occurred on the Brun-Way owned and operated sections of
Route 2 and Route 95.
The study revealed that despite significantly more traffic
travelling in the right lane, a larger number of ROR crashes
occurred to the left side. Four Crash Modification Factors
(CMF’s) ranging from 0.87 to 0.96 were developed in order to
estimate the potential benefit of left side rumble strip installation. A left side specific CMF of 0.95 was developed for all crashes and a CMF of 0.93 was developed for Fatal
and Injury (FI) crashes. A benefit-cost analysis revealed that the B/C ratio of the installation of left side rumble strips ranged from 7.9 to 9.4.
32
McLaverty, Peter. "Trade unions and political change in local government : a comparison of Sheffield and Doncaster." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1989. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6047/.
Full textAbstract:
The new urban left in local government from the early 1980s aimed to change the way in which local councils operate so that the users and providers of council services and the local community could gain greater control over the development and provision of council services. Material is produced and analysed to show that the aims of the new urban left Labour councils in this area were, at best, only partially successful. The findings of a comparative case study into industrial relations in Sheffield City Council and Doncaster Borough Council will show that the commitments of Sheffield City Council, on the industrial relations front, as set out in District Labour Party election manifestos, council documents and statements by ex Leader of the Council David Blunkett, have been unfulfilled. Theoretical insights into the relationship between socialism and trade union praxis, the position of professional workers in advanced capitalist society and the theory and practice of new urban left councils will be advanced to help explain the lack of progress. The argument that Labour councils need to think more strategically in order to overcome the structural and institutional obstacles to radical change is advanced. A number of issues highlighted in the literature on the new urban left are considered. Original material affecting the understanding of the relationship between different council trade unions and Labour councils is produced. Arising out of the case study, the role played by senior council officers and leading councillors in the policy making and policy implementation process and the relationship between councillors and senior officers in two different Labour councils is explored. New insights into those areas are produced. Important issues and areas requiring further research are highlighted.
33
Hanna, Karen Buenavista. "Unity and the Struggle of Opposites| The Evolving New York City Filipino Left." Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1548245.
Full textAbstract:
My main research questions explore how contradictions of unity, organizing structures, gender, sexuality, citizenship, class, and ability are addressed within Filipino leftist organizations that utilize dialectical materialist theory. I also ask: How have US-based women of color feminist and queer of color theory impacted Filipino nationalist frameworks in the US? How do they also remain at odds with one another? I interviewed 21 NYC-based activists and organizers involved in anti-imperialist Filipino organizations the summer of 2012. I also used participant observation as an active member of study groups, educational workshops, and a town forum.
My central framework explores conflict as contradiction using Mao Tse-tung's "On Contradiction" and the Haitian concepts of balans and konesans. In doing so, I examine how hard-lined leadership has impeded dialogue. I also interrogate how sexism, transphobia, masculinist organizing structures, and neoliberalism impact women, trans, queer, disabled, working class, and undocumented organizers—particularly those with overlapping identities of marginalization. "The Movement's" familial dynamic, combined with the value of utang na loob, creates hierarchies that cause some members to feel both silenced and guilty. I name these feelings as indicators of invisible emotional labor "for the sake of the movement" that lead many members to eventually leave their organizations. Their departures raise questions of sustainability. Lastly, I ask how the Fil-Am Left can draw strength from its familial dynamic but still address hierarchical issues that mirror societal hierarchies of oppression.
Applying work by Patricia Hill Collins, Audre Lorde, and other women of color, along with feminist grounded theory and sociological movement theory, I highlight three strategies that New York City based Filipino organizations have taken within the past ten years. I argue that organizations have recognized problems with sustainability and are creating their own interventions as theory-producers. Organizers' relationships to the National Democratic movement in the Philippines shape both the creation of interventions and how they respond to new ideas. Drawing on Arlie Hoschchild's concept of "stalled revolution," individual behaviors lag behind organizations' formal ideological shifts. Thus, they are works in progress.
34
Van, Dyck Brandon Philip. "The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11221.
Full textAbstract:
Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative organization and aggregating the interests of powerful societal groups. Yet we continue to know relatively little about the conditions under which strong parties form. The dominant theories of party-building are mostly based on historical studies of the United States and Western European countries, almost all of which developed stable party systems. Drawing on this literature, a segment of the early scholarship on party-building in third-wave democracies optimistically took "party development" for granted, assuming that parties would follow from democracy, cleavages, or certain electoral rules. Yet party-building outcomes in third-wave democracies fell short of scholars' initial, optimistic expectations. In many third-wave polities, social cleavages, attempts at electoral engineering, and decades of democratic competition did not produce durable parties. On the other hand, in numerous third-wave democracies, new political parties did take root. What accounts for the variation in party-building outcomes observed across the developing world? More generally, under what conditions does party-building succeed?Government
35
Piatt, Jennifer Lauren. "Pink Tides: Femininity, Dictatorship, and the Rise of the New Latin American Left." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579025.
Full textAbstract:
During the second half of the twentieth century, military dictatorships came to power throughout Southern Cone Latin America and contributed to the continued patriarchal tradition of the region. A literary and art movement arose after these dictatorships fell, centered on the patterns of re-victimization of the feminine and criticism of the atrocities carried out by the dictatorships. In my honors thesis, I argue that along with the rise of the marea rosada, the New Left in Latin America, we have witnessed a turn in post-dictatorship literature towards a criticism of the society that fostered the dictatorships and that continued the patriarchal traditions of the region. I also argue that the authors and directors of these texts and films advocate that in order to change the patriarchal pattern of society, it is necessary to participate within that society and manipulate the society's discourses to one's own advantage.
36
Söderqvist, Emil. "New approaches to monitoring of cardiac function." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4211.
Full textAbstract:
Left ventricular pumping performance may be described by intraventricular pressure and volume variables, usually presented as a pressure-volume plot. However, on-line monitoring of left ventricular pressure and volume with high temporal resolution requires the use of an invasive catheter technique such as, for example, the conductance catheter method. On the other hand, the very invasiveness and complexity of this approach makes it less suitable for clinical use. It is then not surprising that there has been long-felt need to make the conductance method less invasive and attempts have been made to adjust the method to clinical demands and routine in order to extract more information from pressure-volume interplay and possibly translate relevant data to their non-invasive estimates. In the present studies, a standard five segmental conductance catheter was used in animal (pig) experiments. Segmental conductances were compared to global conductance. Since the mid-ventricular segment was shown to reflect global volume, which was also shown on theoretical basis, it was concluded that a single segmental catheter most probably could be used to estimate global left ventricular volume. Subsequently, a thin and flexible single segmental conductance catheter was constructed and applied to an animal (pig) experimental model. Results were reproducible and very few arrythmias were detected. At the next stage, left ventricular isovolumic phases were investigated using the standard conductance catheter method, as well as echocardiographically derived tissue velocity doppler. Conductance was shown to decrease during isovolumic contraction, and an adjustment method was proposed in order to account for the subsequent decrease in pressure-volume loop area. In separate experiments, the left ventricular pressure wave form during left ventricular systole was examined, and an algorithm was proposed to discriminate between the changes in afterload, preload and contractility. Results showed clearly discernible patterns of the respective load and contractility alternation. Finally, the left ventricular continuous area was monitored continuously during the entire cardiac cycle as a measure of left ventricular volume dynamics in normal subjects and three patients with left ventricular abnormalities using echocardiographic automatic boundary detection. The left ventricular area thus obtained was plotted against its first derivative, to form a flow-volume estimates loop, in accordance with the flow-volume examinations used in respiratory physiology. Data obtained from the abnormal ventricles were presented as flow-volume estimates loops, exemplifying the possible use of the method.QC 20100922
37
Schleusener, Simon. "Political Disconnects: Donald Trump, the Cultural Left, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21112.
Full textAbstract:
This essay will primarily focus on the 2016 US election, including its ideological, socioec-onomic and political circumstances. Evidently, this context relates to numerous ‘political disconnects,’ phenomena which are all too obvious in contemporary American culture and society. In this respect, the narrow victory of a TV celebrity, businessman, and right-wing nationalist, who now serves as the 45th President of the United States, can be seen as an apt expression of the ideological divisions by which American culture and politics have been marked for quite some time. Perhaps, then, liberal commentators and intellec-tuals should not have been all that surprised about the election’s outcome. For although former President Barack Obama was successful in getting reelected in 2012, his eight years in office also saw the rise of the Tea Party movement and a Republican Party which has increasingly drifted to the right. While this essay is certainly concerned with such po-litical divisions – divisions, that is, which separate ‘blue states’ from ‘red states,’ Demo-crats from Republicans, liberals from conservatives, and the so-called left from the new right – I prefer to concentrate on a different (but perhaps equally challenging) type of disconnect. What I mean is the disconnect between today’s left (or, more precisely, what I have termed the ‘cultural left’) and large segments of the American working and lower middle class. Here, regarding the 2016 election, I will analyze the Clinton campaign’s cu-rious inability to effectively articulate issues like class injustice and socioeconomic ine-quality. While this may seem to be mostly an ‘American’ issue, I am convinced that the class problem and the question of inequality go well beyond the US context and are in many ways related to the general upsurge of the new right, a phenomenon which can be observed in numerous European countries as well.
38
Fischer, Christian [Verfasser]. "New active safety Approaches - Left behind Occupant Detection and physiological Parameter Sensing / Christian Fischer." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1015605699/34.
Full text
39
Horritt, Leah. "Dramatizing New Left Contradictions : Television Texts of Ken Loach,Jim Allen and Trevor Griffiths." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533786.
Full text
40
Macqueen, Ian Martin. "Re-imagining South Africa : Black Consciousness, radical Christianity and the New Left, 1967-1977." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7348/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis places Black Consciousness in comparative perspective with progressive politics in South Africa in the late 1960s and the 1970s. It argues that the dominant scholarly focus on Black Consciousness, which is passed over as a ‘stage' in the Black struggle against white supremacy, insufficiently historicises the deeper roots, and the wider resonances and ideological contestations of the Black Consciousness movement. As they refined their political discourse, Black Consciousness activists negotiated their way through the progressive ideologies that flourished as part of the wider political and social ferment of the 1960s. Although Black Consciousness won over an influential minority of radical Christians, a more contested struggle took place with nascent feminism on university campuses and within the Movement; as well as with a New Left-inspired historical and political critique that gained influence among white activists. The thesis draws closer attention to the ways in which Black Consciousness challenged white activists in the late 1960s, who were primarily able, albeit it with pain and difficulty, to sympathetically interpret and finally endorse Black Consciousness. The thesis challenges the idea that Black Consciousness achieved a complete ‘break' with white liberals, and argues that black and white activists maintained a dialogue after the black students' breakaway from the National Union of South African Students in 1968. The thesis looks in turn at: the role played by the ecumenical movement in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s; student and religious radicalism in the 1960s; second wave feminism and its challenge to Black Consciousness; the development of Black Theology, and the relationship between Black Consciousness activists and the ecumenical Christian Institute; it closes with a study of the interplay between intellectuals Steve Biko and Richard Turner in Durban, and the significance of white students' and Black Consciousness activists' interaction in that city in the 1970s.
41
Wallis, Lesley Ann. "History, politics and tradition : a study of the history workshop 1956-1979." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369414.
Full text
42
Witham, Nicholas David. "After the New Left : U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14112/.
Full textAbstract:
After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to rethink the question of the relationship between radical culture and activist politics.
43
Mitchell, Brandie Shauntelle. "Trinkets Left By Katrina: How Changes to New Orleans' Landscape Have Led to Personal Attachment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/942.
Full textAbstract:
Humans have an innate tendency to attach themselves to objects on their cultural landscape. After a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina, people seem to hold on to objects left behind by the disaster. This paper examines several of the concepts and reasons as to why attachments may have formed to objects left on New Orleans' landscape after Hurricane Katrina. I explored human reactions after a natural disaster, and discussed how memories, collective and individual, often lead to personal attachment to objects. In an attempt to get a better understanding of this phenomenon, 250 surveys were distributed to residents in the New Orleans metro area. The surveys were used as a tool to discover if attachments were formed and if so, what led to the attachment. The results from the survey revealed that 38% of the people surveyed formed an attachment to an object left by Hurricane Katrina.
44
Kelley, Samuel E. "10Be Surface-Exposure Chronology of the Left-Lateral Moraines of the Former Pukaki Glacier Lobe in the Mackenzie Region, South Island, New Zealand." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2009. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KelleySE2009.pdf.
Full text
45
Atkinson, Hugh. "The rise and fall of the London new urban left in London Labour politics 1976-1987." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336383.
Full text
46
Yin, Ning [Verfasser]. "Inhaled vasodilators as a new treatment strategy in pulmonary hypertension with left heart disease / Ning Yin." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1023580365/34.
Full text
47
Bar-on, Tamir. "The ambiguities of the intellectual European New Right, 1968-1999 /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36750.
Full textAbstract:
The subject of this dissertation is the intellectual European New Right (ENR), also known as the nouvelle droite. A cultural "school of thought" with origins in the revolutionary Right and neo-fascist milieus, the nouvelle droite was born in France in 1968, the year of the spectacular student and worker protests. In order to rid the Right of its negative connotations, the nouvelle droite borrowed from the New Left ideals of the 1968ers. In a Gramscian mould, it situated itself exclusively on the cultural terrain of political contestation in order to challenge what it considered the ideological hegemony of dominant liberal and leftist elites. This metapolitical focus differentiated the nouvelle droite from both the parliamentary and radical, extra-parliamentary forces on the Right.This dissertation traces the cultural, philosophical, political, and historical trajectories of the French nouvelle droite in particular and the ENR in general. The dissertation argues that the ENR worldview is an ambiguous synthesis of the ideals of the revolutionary Right and New Left, and that it is neither a new form of cultural fascism, nor a completely novel political paradigm. In general, the ENR symbiotically fed off the cultural and political twists of the Left and New Left, thus giving it a degree of novelty. In the 1990s, the ENR has taken on a more left wing and ecological aura rather than a right-wing orientation. As a result, some critics view this development as the formulation of a radically new, post-modern and post-fascist cultural and political paradigm. Yet, other critics contend that the ENR has created a repackaged form of cultural fascism.
The nouvelle droite has been able to challenge the main tenets of its "primary" enemy, namely, the neo-liberal Anglo-American New Right. Moreover, it has restored a measure of cultural respectability to a continental right-wing heritage battered by the burden of 20th century history. In an age of rising economic globalization and cultural homogenization, its anti-capitalist ideas embedded within the framework of cultural preservation might make some political inroads into the Europe of the future.
48
Nordell, Erik. "”Kolonialkriget hemma” : Bilden av Amerika inom den svenska marxist-leninistiska vänstern 1963–1977." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-180155.
Full textAbstract:
Historical research about the so-called New Left was until the late 1990s an entirely newacademic field in Swedish academia. However, a large part of this research still deals withquestions concerning “who did what” and perhaps more notably “who was right”.This thesis is an attempt to move away from such inquiries and instead look towardshow one albeit small but very important part of this so-called New Left discussed andused the term America and things American. Formed largely around the Anti-WarMovement, the Marxist-Leninist – or “Maoist” – Left naturally opposed US worldpolicies; but perhaps more interesting a significant part of the ideas about America andthe Vietnam War seemed to stem from USA itself – such as naming your anti-war folkgroup “Freedom Singers” after the US civil rights group “The Freedom Singers”.Analyzing three Swedish Marxist-Leninist magazines the study thus complements theresearch on not only the Swedish New Left but also the study of anti-Americanisms;firstly, by examining what the Marxist-Leninist left considered particularly American;secondly, by studying in what context these particular Americanism was discussed; and,thirdly, by observing if these notions changed over time, and why. The aim is thereforenot to paint a “complete” picture of the image of America in the Swedish New Left butto analyze how things considered American was used, and why.By discussing the term narrative (berättelse) against the term image (bild) the study amongother things shows that the terms America and things conceivably American was used toexpress a number of things, such as a demonization of the Soviet Union. Moreover, a lotof motivation not only came from China – the natural utopia for European Maoist – butfrom American black-power leaders such as Malcolm X; that is, the image of America inthe Swedish New Left was not only more complex than previously thought of, butindeed took inspiration and ideas, albeit sometimes anti-American ideas, from the UnitedStates itself – or rather, “the other America” inside the United States of America.
49
Yang, Manuel. "YoshimotoTaka'aki's Karl Marx : translation and commentary /." Connect to full text in OhioLINK ETD Center, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1219769309.
Full text
50
Taylor, Kieran Walsh Hall Jacquelyn Dowd. "Turn to the working class the New Left, black liberation, and the U.S. labor movement 1967-1981 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1419.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.