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Sacchi, Landriani Martino. "Naissance du moderne régime de mobilité : politique de l'identification en France (1770-1880)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H021.

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Cette recherche vise à tracer une généalogie des rationalités de gouvernement et d’identification de la mobilité du travail dans la France métropolitaine et coloniale du XIXème siècle. Gouverner la mobilité ne comporte pas un pouvoir simplement coercitif, mais plutôt un certain degré de liberté nécessaire à canaliser et orienter la circulation des individus. Plus précisément, la thèse analyse l’histoire du livret ouvrier en tant que révélateur administratif des tensions qui accompagnent la configuration, la crise et la reformulation du contrat civil classique en France. Par cette technologie d’identification on retrace aussi la genèse globale des notions historiques de travail libre, esclavage et domesticité, dont on suit les métamorphoses à la lumière des politiques de la mobilité après l’abolition de l’esclavage. Les derniers chapitres considèrent la naissance de l’État Providence et des nouvelles pratiques d’identification, telles que l’anthropométrie et les empreintes digitales, en tant que reformulations historiques du problème à la base de notre recherche : comment contrôler la force de travail sans insérer une coercition illégitime sur les corps qui en sont les porteurs? La généalogie du régime de mobilité montre la nécessité paradoxale du libéralisme de cycliquement relancer un projet universel (la généralisation de la personne juridique) afin de pouvoir définir des hiérarchies en son sein (multipliant les statuts par lesquelles l’accès à l’usage de la liberté est filtré). À partir de cette complication on peut repenser le rapport entre souveraineté, État et marché mondial
In this research, we genealogically trace the emergence of modern rationality in the government of the mobility of labor in France and its colonies in the XIX century. Governing mobility does not imply a purely coercive power, but rather a certain degree of freedom, necessary to channel and orient the circulation of individuals. More precisely, this PhD thesis analyses the history of the livret ouvrier as administrative markers of the tensions characterizing the configuration, the crisis, and the reformulation of classic civil contract in France. This technology of identification also allows us to trace the global genesis of the historical notions of free labor, slavery, and domesticity, following their evolution through the politics of mobility after the abolition of slavery. The last chapters survey the birth of the welfare state and of new forms of identification, such as anthropometry and fingerprinting, as historical reconfigurations of the underlying question of our investigation: how to control labor power without introducing an illegitimate coercion on the bodies carrying it? The genealogy of mobility regime shows the paradoxical necessity of liberalism to periodically reformulate a universal project (the generalization of the juridical person) in order to organize internal hierarchies (by multiplying the statutes through which the effective access to freedom is filtered). Through the lens of this co-implication we can rethink the relationship between sovereignty, State and world market
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Williams, Emma Peyton. "Dreaming of Abolitionist Futures, Reconceptualizing Child Welfare: Keeping Kids Safe in the Age of Abolition." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1592141173476542.

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陸慧冰 and Wai-bing Wanda Luk. "Abolition of the Municipal Councils: an examination to the policy making process." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31966925.

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Luk, Wai-bing Wanda. "Abolition of the Municipal Councils : an examination to the policy making process /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25138741.

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Morris, Margaret M. "Analysis of the Anti-uranium Movements' response to the abolition of the Three Named Uranium Mine policy /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envm8768.pdf.

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Ohba, Asayo. "Policy intention and its consequences : who gains access from the abolition of secondary school fees in Kenya?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508972.

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Strauss, Catherine. "Mapping the carnival: conceptions of public safety in conservative prison policy and in the work of prison abolition." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106251.

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In this thesis I examine a punitive moment in Canadian corrections policy and practice that began in 2006 with the Conservative Party's election to office. I consider this moment through its founding policy document, A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety. The Roadmap's key punitive arguments are based in its construction of a Changing Offender Profile, a term that draws upon the archetypal colonial constructions of the lawless Native offender and the law-abiding Canadian national. These constructions still inform dominant notions of 'prisoner' and 'public' today. In contrast, the political theatre piece Parole Sans Parole rejects the neoliberal citizen-making project of both the Roadmap and parole policies. It reverses positions of power through techniques of the carnival, linking the physical and political safety of the non-incarcerated to the safety of the incarcerated. This performance strategy radically alters the position of the public in relation to the lives of prisoners and parolees and the issues they face in the current state of Canadian imprisonment.
Dans ce mémoire j'examine une période punitive de la politique correctionnelle Canadienne qui a débuté en 2006 lorsque le Parti Conservateur a été porté au pouvoir. J'étudie cette période par le biais de son document politique fondateur, La Feuille de route pour une sécurité publique accrue. Les argumentspunitifs clé de la Feuille de route sont basés sur sa construction du concept de « profil de contrevenant en pleine évolution », une idée qui tire ses sources des archétypes colonialistes du contrevenant amérindien hors-la-loi et du citoyen canadien profondément respectueux de la loi. Aujourd'hui, ces constructionscontinuent à influencer les notions dominantes de ce qu'est un « prisonnier » ou un « public ». En opposition avec cette vision, la pièce de théâtre politique Parole Sans Parole rejette le projet néo-libéral de créer le citoyen idéal, projet qui sous-tend la Feuille de route et les politiques de mise en libération conditionnelle. La pièce utilise des techniques du carnavalèsque pour renverser les positions de pouvoir et montre que la sécurité physique et politique des personnes en liberté est étroitement liée à la sécurité des personnes incarcérées. Cette stratégie théâtrale transforme radicalement la position du public en rapport avec la vie des personnes détenues et placées en libération conditionnelle et les enjeux auxquels elles sont confrontées dans l'état actuel du système carcéral canadien.
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Basuki, Hardo. "The impact of the 1997 abolition of the tax credit on dividends in the UK and corporate dividend policy." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424251.

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Sato, Midori. "Exploring health facilities' experiences in implementing the free health care policy in Nepal : which organisational factors influence the implementation of the user-fee abolition policy?" Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590542.

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Radford, Alan. "An enquiry into the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority (1964-1988) : with particular reference to politics and policy making." Thesis, University of Bath, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512371.

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The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) (1964 – 1990) was abolished by the Education Reform Act, 1988. This ended an unitary system of education that had existed in inner London for over a hundred years. This thesis examines the question of the political reasons and motivations for the ILEA’s abolition, considering both the move to the right by the Conservative party which abolished it, and the move to the left by the Labour party. In effect the polarisation of politics left little room for the form of pragmatic politics and policies which had enabled the ILEA to develop under previous Conservative and Labour administrations. Under these conditions the radical step to abolish the ILEA became possible. Given this political climate the question is asked as to whether there were good grounds for the abolition of the ILEA, over and above ideological considerations. Two strategies are adopted to answer this question. The first examines the history and processes of policy making with reference to the support for Special Educational Needs and Adult, Further and Higher Education. These may be considered ‘success stories’ while a third case, that of William Tyndale, considers whether there were also weaknesses in the ILEA’s policy processes. The second examines the claims that the ILEA tolerated low standards in education and failed to give value for money. It is concluded that the evidence does not sustain the claims made against the ILEA and that therefore, its demise can better be explained by the polarisation of politics at the time.
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White, Alexis. "An Analysis of U.S. Drug Policy: Its Effect on Communities of Color and a Path to End the War on Drugs." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23806.

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This thesis examines the history of legal and illegal narcotics in the United States. This thesis explores the impact criminalizing drug use has on communities of color. The current criminal justice system seeks to correct behavior society and the law deems deviant but has not proven to be effective as shown by rates of recidivism. The present research uses a literature review to investigate how alternative dispute resolution practices and prison abolition meet the needs of the criminal justice system. The purpose of this thesis is to examine two proposed reforms: one that would abolish prison sentences except in cases where offenders pose a high risk to public safety, and another that would employ conflict resolution techniques to serve the retributive, and rehabilitative purposes of the criminal sanction. This thesis will suggest that these proposed reforms, if undertaken concurrently, will likely shrink the US prison population while advancing penal goals.
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Reynolds, Kate. "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner? : a policy journey through the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority and the introduction of local management of schools in inner London." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.uk/18858/.

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The measures contained in the 1988 Education Reform Act have transformed the educational landscape of state schooling. This thesis examines two policies contained in the Reform Act, that of the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority and the introduction of local management of schools in inner London from a perspective founded in anti-racist, feminist and social justice approaches. Using case study as a research tool, the thesis builds on an analysis of data collected from a variety of sources. In particular, the thesis uses data collected from interviews with a sample of local government officers, governors, and headteachers in the inner London boroughs, statistical evidence and content analysis of policy documents. The analysis places these two policies within the wider context of the restructuring of the welfare state and the changes in the relationships between national and local government. In particular, it argues that the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority represented the clearest example of the Conservative Government's philosophy to local government, education and schools. Drawing on the analysis from the interviews and documentary evidence, it examines the rationale behind the abolition of ILEA and the introduction of local management in inner London schools. It argues that both the abolition and the introduction of local management of schools were critical to the introduction and implementation of a market in education. Furthermore, it examines the impact of local management on the management of schools with a particular emphasis on issues of gender and 'race' and discusses some of the implications local management has had for developing strategies to address inequalities in education. As a postscript, the thesis identities some of the key elements of local management that are likely to continue under the new Labour Government.
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Reynolds, Kate. "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner? : a policy journey through the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority and the introduction of local management of schools in inner London." n.p, 1998. http://oro.open.ac.uk/18858.

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Sheaffer, Anne Auburn. "Taking a Knee to "Whiteness" in Teacher Education: An Abolitionist Stance." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1610484537076832.

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Chou, Tsung-Chang, and 周宗璋. "A Study Of Police Attitude Toward The Abolition Of The Capital Punishment - An Example Of One Northern Taiwan Police Department." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96235267107945661037.

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碩士
國立臺北大學
犯罪學研究所
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Police attitude toward the abolition of the Capital Punishment is the specific reaction in Crime Policy if police have the correct concept – Because it’s the most controversial! Police attitude toward the abolition of the Capital Punishment involves the rights of people; this had never been done in-depth discussions in the past. Arrest and interrogate suspects by the police-led in fact was ruled in Taiwan’s statutory provisions. Promotion, performance appraisal, rewards and punishments of the police is directly associated with the amount of report, proportion of the detection and the severity of the case. Cause that the police have an incentive to fraud, enough to affect the cases of investigation, important for the human rights impact. Through researching police attitude toward the abolition of the Capital Punishment to view the impact of the Criminal Justice System as a reference of Policing and Criminal Justice reform. In addition, the gradual abolition of the Capital Punishment as a Crime Policy is taking in Taiwan now. Toward the gap between the direction of judicial reform and police concept of Capital Punishment needs to be explored by researching police and the general public of the Capital Punishment attitude differences. In this study, object of study is one northern Taiwan police department with the establishment of the appointing qualified police. The main reference for the design of the questionnaire was the Capital Punishment attitudes of "Social Image Survey in Taiwan: the Initial Regular Survey of 2006" and the Judges' version of the questionnaire in "The Study of Capital Punishment retention or abolition", which Ministry of Justice Crime Research Center made in 1993. The questionnaire of this study was completed by expert scholars’ suggestions. To identify the key factors affecting the Police attitude toward the abolition of the Capital Punishment and finding out police and the general public of the Capital Punishment attitude differences as a reference for relevant policies, this study used factor analysis, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis and other statistical methods. The results showed the following : The police who tended to use the Capital Punishment system was the field work of the non-serving, had a negative view of the legal function, accepted a higher degree of torture, supported the social contract concept, agreed not to reduce Capital Punishment use, put emphasis on the offenders being subject to legal sanctions or the victims receiving a reasonable compensation rather than suspects interests, agreed that the Capital Punishment for deterrence of the general preventive function, adopted more stringent crime policy stance, agreed with the imposition of the Capital Punishment to help deter serious crime, miscarriage of justice will continue to support the Capital Punishment, agreed that the Capital Punishment help in the social order. Friends and relatives for committing a capital offense or a serious crime victims had a 13% -35% of the police, will change the Capital Punishment attitude., Many of the public and the police in the issues of the Capital Punishment were significantly different. But "against the Capital Punishment Judges unanimously decided instead", "opposed to the Ministry of Justice temporarily stop the Executive conducted the Capital Punishment", "opposed to the abolition of the Capital Punishment", "guilty of kidnapping cases but no murder should not be sentenced to Capital Punishment", "trafficking in a large number of drugs but no murder should not be sentenced to Capital Punishment", the police and the public had a high degree of consensus. Research suggestions: Education and training to strengthen the non-serving field workers; the implementation of Restorative Justice and enhance victim protection; to enhance police’ human rights education; appropriate to develop the Criminal Speedy Trial Act supporting measures.
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HUNG, LIANG-TE, and 洪良德. "A Study on Policy of Abolition of the Death Penalty in Taiwan." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/532reh.

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碩士
南華大學
國際事務與企業學系公共政策研究碩士班
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Death Penalty, which also called capital punishment,is the punishment that deprives offenders’right to live and separate them from society.Since declaring martial law ended in 1987,Scholars,lawyers and NGO (non-governmental organization) come up for discussion about Death Penalty, even ask to abolish the death penalty; thus we can know that the issue has been gradually emphasized by the countries of the world.   The ones for abolishing of the death penalty considers that no one can deprive any other’s right to live, even state apparatus, abolition of the death penalty is the ultimate concern of Humanism.However, the ones who against thinks that in order to achieve justice, those worst criminal should be carried out death penalty; it is also the way to appeased the victims and their bereaved family.   Abolition of the death penalty legally is our country’s goal. In this article, we would discuss that should the death penalty be abolished or not in six different way including International, Humanism, Case, Society, Religion and Law and hope to outline the vision of abolition of the death penalty and to make the suggestion.   The research discover is as follows: 1.Death penalty only blames on criminal but ignores the responsibility of society,family and school:   Most criminal comes from Underprivileged Groups. They are deeply influenced by social environment and have no enough rational ability to choose to obey the law. 2.To administrate the death penalty should adopt a cautious attitude:   Prosecutor’s consideration based on law, they don’t need to consider the human rights conventions for criminal; however, Ministry of Justice needs to consider comprehensively, including the criminal’s right. 3.Crime and penalty are in two different concepts:   Penalty can be commuted; however, the dead can't be brought back to life. To abolish the death penalty doesn’t mean not to hold the criminal liable for their crime. It means to get rid of the thinking of life for life, and punish the criminal with other heavy penalty. 4.Miscarriage of justice may cause the innocent person to be executed or Die:   Though, there’s no direct relationship between miscarriage of justice and death penalty, but it can’t be deny that there might be the mistake in the judge’s trail and prosecutor’s investigation.
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Lin, Pei-Hui, and 林佩慧. "The Study of the EU policy towards China on the Death Penalty Abolition." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60122530329637350304.

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碩士
國立臺灣大學
政治學研究所
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The EU and all member states consider the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights. Hence, all of the EU member states have not only abolished the death penalty, but also taken the abolition of the death penalty as the EU’s international pursuit since 1990’s. By contrast, with the highest execution numbers in the world, PRC uses capital punishment pervasively. At the same time, it has been criticized that keeping the concrete number and situation of capital punishment as secrets in China. As a result, promoting the value of abolishing the death penalty has been one of the main issues in the EU foreign policy toward China. Ian Manners constructed the conception of ”Normative Power Europe” to illustrate why and how the EU exercises its power through promoting its values and norms globally. As a power with the ability to shape or change what pass for normal in international society, the EU has identified its international role as a normative power, which urges it to serve to promote the norms and values such as rule of law, democracy, fundamental freedoms, human rights and liberty worldwide. In the mean time, Kenneth Thompson suggested that values and norms play an important role in policy making process. The values and norms that the actor holds determine the goals and the means of its policy. However, whether the objective state accepts the norms largely depends on the circumstance and the situation. Following this argument, it can be realized how values and norms function in the practice of the normative power EU. With the argument of Ian Manners and Kenneth Thompson, this study aims to examine the abolition of the death policy effectiveness that the EU has devoted in China. At first, the thesis analyzes the values embedded in the EU foreign policy, which is associated with the objectives and the means of the EU policy. Secondly, it discusses the approach that the EU used to deliver its values and norms. At the same time, this study takes the interests and the situation and interest of PRC into consideration so that we can learn what kind of factor affects the result of the policy. Finally, according to the conclusion of this study, we can realize how much influence the Normative Power Europe has on the death penalty issue in China.
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Hsu, Wen-hung, and 徐文宏. "A study on the abolition of the payroll tax exemption policy ofYunlin Country Elementary School Teachers ̓Job Satisfaction." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49623598397576215552.

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國立雲林科技大學
全球運籌管理研究所碩士班
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the Yunlin County education staff job satisfaction cancel military personnel and teachers earned income exemption. The research method is based on questionnaire-based, as the target, the official teachers of the public elementary schools in Yunlin County and stratified proportional sampling. Formal questionnaire of 215 copies, 208 were returned, 198 valid questionnaires were valid questionnaires was 95.19%. The resulting data to SPSS for Window 19.0 version of the software using descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA analysis of statistical methods dealt. According to the statistical results, summarized in the following conclusions: 1.Yunlin County elementary school teachers in the Teachers'' Job Satisfaction Scale overall job satisfaction is "moderately satisfied". Each dimension, "teaching" and "school administration" are "highly satisfied"; "compensation and benefits", "school environment" and "policy communication" moderate. 2.Different background variables, Yunlin County elementary school teachers in the Teachers'' Job Satisfaction Scale overall job satisfaction variance analysis, personal background variables "gender", "education", "years of service", "office"variables with the school environment background "to show the existence of significant differences in the number of school classes" and "school area.In "marital status" and "age" there was no significant difference exists in the personal background. 3.Yunlin County elementary school teachers earned income tax policy before the cancellation of military personnel and teachers job satisfaction was significantly higher than the overall job satisfaction in the abolition of the military personnel and teachers earned income tax policy.
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HSU, YU-LING, and 許鈺鈴. "after the Abolition of Martial Law the Compulsory Education Policy in Taiwan: Small Class Size and Small School Size." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57355697190495838906.

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國立臺北教育大學
社會科教育學系碩士班
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The purpose of this research is to probe into some questions of the optimal scale in school, through the historical statement, to discuss the development and change of the national school scale in Taiwan, and to survey the execution and achievement of the small class size and small school size after the abolition of martial law. In short, the main purposes of this research are four: 1. To understand the development and tendency of the compulsory education in Taiwan. 2. To discuss the meanings, reasons, characteristics and types about the business scale in school. 3. To understand the development of our laws and regulations which is the business scale in the elementary school, and the difficult that is to carry out the policy of the small class size and small school size. 4. To discuss the executable situation, achievement and other related problems of the small class size and small school size policy, to provide the educational organizations take as the reference of educational decision. On the research methods, to use documents analysis, to compare the class and school scale in Taipei county, Taoyuan county and Yilan county at 1994 and 2003 school year, to infer the executable situation of the small class size and small size school policy, and utilizing the change of the grade 1 student numbers in elementary schools to propose the educational authorities ponder over the regulation of the class and school scale again. The main research conclusions and discovery are following: 1. The compulsory education in Taiwan is foundation laying during the Japanese Colonial period and fast development after the national government moving to Taiwan. 2. According to the current regulation, the business scale in the elementary school should be one school 48 class, one class 35 people as the principle now. 3. The school scale isn’t the bigger the better or the smaller the better, but there should be the optimal scale. 4. The past 10 years, the government makes great efforts to pursue the policy of small class teaching, to such an extent that small school executes not smoothly.
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Hamilton, Julia. "Political Songs in Polite Society: Singing about Africans in the Time of the British Abolition Movement, 1787 to 1807." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-16hc-gm90.

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This dissertation asks how the British anti-slave-trade movement permeated musical culture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how musical activities, in turn, were used to support the cause. It examines a group of newly discovered musical scores—described here as “serious antislavery songs”—that were published in the years between the founding of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787) and the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Highlighting the inclusion of such scores in extant personal music collections of contemporary British women, the study explores both who used the scores and how they used them. The dissertation thus paints a detailed picture of musical abolitionism and argues that composing, collecting, practicing, and performing serious antislavery songs enabled female amateur musicians to promote opposition to human trafficking from their homes. The study joins close readings of ideas—found in letters, poems, and musical content—with analyses of activities, such as private musical practice and polite shopping. The first chapter discusses the music of Ignatius Sancho, who died before the start of widespread mobilization against the slave trade but who nevertheless used his music to make a powerful, if subtle, antislavery statement. The second chapter moves to the beginning of the British abolition movement, examining two politically charged poems written in 1788 that became popular songs among female amateur musicians. The next three chapters explore the varied ways that these women incorporated serious antislavery songs into their everyday lives. Chapter 3 maps out the London musical marketplace for scores where women could purchase a variety of songs, including abolitionist and anti-abolitionist songs alike. The fourth chapter explores the activity of music-making and argues that practicing from musical scores and singing through them among friends was a form of conversation. It therefore introduces the term “sociable abolitionism,” of which “musical abolitionism” was one key component. Finally, Chapter 5 uses extant music collections that were once owned by British women to unpack the ethical tensions involved in white Britons’ practice of singing serious, sympathetic songs whose lyrics were written from the imagined perspective of enslaved Africans. The chapter argues that singing these songs was a kind of “musical masquerade”—one where singers could indulge in identity play while encouraging abolitionism from their listeners. The dissertation addresses a major gap in the literature on abolitionism: while literary, theatrical, and visual contributions to the movement have been received ample scholarly treatment, musical scores have remained virtually absent from discussions of antislavery activism. Scores are presented here as key sources for understanding the ways women enacted their opposition to human trafficking and bondage. Problematic but politically useful, scores incorporated easily into the activities of British women’s everyday lives and contributed to the widespread culture of abolitionism.
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