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de, Silva Purnaka Lohendra. "Political violence and its cultural constructions representations & narrations in times of war /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2000. http://dare.uva.nl/document/83697.
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Alchalabi, Hayfaa. "Refugees Welcome? : A study of Structural Apathy towards refugees in Sweden- How can illustrative storytelling challenge the socio-political restrictions of independent refugee narrations in Sweden?" Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7413.
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This thesis aims to explore the tool of illustrative storytelling to challenge governmental restrictions faced by refugee narratives in Sweden. This exploration will be done through the study of stereotypes that stigmatise the refugee’s identity. The figure of the refugee is often shaped by the visual representation one consumes via mass media and the words one hears in political debates and social discourse. Refugees are often portrayed as immigrants and nothing but immigrants, faceless victims on news, and often de-named suffering people drowning in some ocean. This portrayal makes the humanity of the refugee invisible. A human who has a face, a name, a past, a story beyond his/her refugee story, and most importantly an identity and rights. I have always witnessed the portrayal of refugees – and myself as one of them- in the media as an act of dehumanization, a misuse of terminology describing me and my situation in political and social discourse, and the effects of these factors on refugees. I have always struggled with the entitlement this invisibility and misrepresentation gives to people. I sense this every time people talk to me, talk about me, and/or talk on my behalf. This misrepresentation always portrayed me as a ‘’problem’’. The refugee has always been a crisis, ‘’A global refugee crisis’’, ‘’An integration crisis’’, and a ‘’European migrant crisis’’. This use of terminology results in a lot of feelings that become politicised and socialised such as fear, apathy, empathy and sometimes hate. This study will present an exploration of such feelings and their significance to the refugee situation. I will present a critical analysis on the representation of the refugee through a research on Swedish media, political discourse, and the design executed by the Migration Board’s office in Stockholm. The research will be supported by a visual outcome in the form of a graphic novel that narrates two parallel stories. One story is my own experience as an asylum seeker, and the other is a narration of the overall refugee situation in Sweden. The two stories will be treated on two different levels, a personal one and a journalistic one. Illustration as a tool here serves an aim beyond its practical aspect of depicting a narration. It is a resistance against the restrictions of filming, recording, and photographing whatever happens inside the Migration Board’s offices in Sweden. It is a significant tool that educates, interprets, and re-contextualises the right of refugees to tell their own stories as well as document and expose a history told by our oppressors. Illustration here serves an aim of narrating a story that is not institutionalised but provides the reader with cultural understanding and access to a world only the refugee can depict.
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Beaudoin, Maria-Cecilia. "Des origines intellectuelles de la pensée péroniste." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Pau, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PAUU1122.
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Existe-t-il une unité dans la multiplicité péroniste ? Qu'est-ce qui a fait que des personnes provenant d'univers si différents se retrouvent toutes à brandir le drapeau de Perón ? La réponse est probablement à chercher dans les histoires que les péronistes racontent (et se racontent). En effet, dès les années 1940, Juan Perón reconfigure des récits qui avaient été façonnés dans les milieux intellectuels et politiques argentins des décennies précédentes. Ce travail montre comment l'étude des origines intellectuelles du péronisme permet de retracer des emprunts à trois narrations politiques élaborées avant l'arrivée de Perón au pouvoir. Le « Revisionismo Histórico », la FORJA, dans les années 1930, imposent une nouvelle lecture de l'histoire nationale, anti-oligarchique et anti-impérialiste. Les tenants de la « Mission latino-américaine » prônent le rôle essentiel à jouer par l'Amérique latine face à l'Europe et les États-Unis. La recherche menée dans cette thèse a trouvé que le péronisme s'approprie ces trois narrations, mais produit en revanche quelque chose de différent. Ces réappropriations discursives sont visibles dans les interventions de Perón, qui, dans des conjonctures bien précises, fait appel à des éléments de ces trois récits politiques, tels que l'oligarchie, l'impérialisme, la bourgeoisie nationale, pour créer ses propres narrations, chacune avec son propre représentant général, autour du travail, des travailleurs, de la jeunesse, dans la construction de la nation.Mots clés : narration politique - discours - péronisme - histoire - oligarchie - anti-impérialisme -Can we weave a single thread through the diverse branches of Peronism? What brings people together from such different backgrounds and ideologies to wave the Peronist flag? The answer is most likely lying in the stories that Peronists tell. Indeed, as from the 1940's, Juan Perón was reshaping texts that had already been going round Argentinian intellectual and political circles. The work presented here shows that the study of the intellectual origins of Peronism reveals three political narratives constructed before Peron arrived in power. “Historical Revisionism” and FORJA in the 1930's both rewrote the national history books, whereas those adhering to the “Latin-American Mission” promoted the Latin-American cause in the face of European and American dominance. The research conducted for this thesis has found that Peronism draws on these three narratives to do something somewhat different. Peron has in fact reappropriated elements of each of these narratives at different key moments - with themes such as the oligarchy, imperialism and the national bourgeoisie visible in his speeches and writings - to create his own discourse around work, workers and the youth in order to rebuild a nation.Key words : political narration - discourse - Peronism - history - oligarchy - anti-imperialism
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Queiroz, Daniela de Almeida. "A influência das narrativas cotidianas como (des)estímulo para a participação política." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-28012014-091841/.
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A questão da prática democrática e da efetiva participação política ainda é uma temática bastante polêmica na sociedade brasileira. Mesmo com uma constituição democrática e com uma série de instrumentos participativos instituídos, o Brasil ainda parece bastante distante de atingir uma democracia consolidada. Há muitas teorias que versam a respeito dos fatores que podem motivar ou desmotivar o envolvimento e a participação política, tais como a cultura, a confiança, o capital social e o reconhecimento. Na presente dissertação, busca-se entender quais os reais motivos que levam um cidadão a escolher se envolver ou não na política, adotando uma posição ativa e participante ou uma posição passiva em relação a estas questões. A proposta consistiu em realizar uma revisão das teorias sobre a motivação para participar, um levantamento da situação democrática do país, estudando o papel da história política e da memória coletiva no contexto da participação, bem como a influência das narrativas circulantes no mundo da política, com especial destaque para as narrativas cotidianas, que nada mais são do que aquelas que ocorrem na esfera íntima dos indivíduos, no seu dia a dia, com familiares, amigos e conhecidos. É neste contexto que a presente dissertação pretende acrescentar, introduzindo no debate da participação a questão do contexto de vida dos indivíduos, das experiências vividas por ele ou para ele passadas por meio de narrativas e sua influência como estímulo ou desestímulo na motivação dos cidadãos a envolver-se com assuntos políticos. Para tanto, além da revisão bibliográfica, foi realizada uma pesquisa empírica baseada em entrevistas em profundidade com cidadãos atuantes e não atuantes no cenário político do município de São Paulo, buscando entender seu comportamento político e suas motivações para tal.The democratic practice and effective political participation is still a theme very polemic in Brazilian society. Even with a democratic constitution and series of participatory tools, Brazil still seems quite far from reaching a consolidated democracy. There are many theories that talk about the factors that may motivate or discourage involvement and political participation, such as culture, trust, social capital and recognition. In this dissertation, we seek to understand the real reasons that lead a citizen to choose to get involved or not in politics, taking an active role or a passive position in relation to these issues. The proposal was to conduct a review of the theories on motivation to participate, a study of the democratic situation in the country, studying the role of political history and public memory in the context of participation, as well as the influence of narratives that circulates in the world of politics, with special emphasis on daily narratives, which are nothing more than those that occur in the private sphere of individuals in their daily lives, with family, friends and acquaintances. It is in this context that this dissertation intends to add, introducing in the participation discussion the question of the life context of individuals, the experiences that they live or they have known through narratives and their influence as stimulus or discourage on the motivation of citizens to engage with political issues. Therefore, in addition to the literature review, we conducted an empirical research based on interviews with active and not active citizens in the political scene in São Paulo, seeking to understand political behavior and their motivations for doing so.
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Mēktrairat, Nakharin. "A cultural explanation of the 1932 political change in Siam : power of narration and national identity in Thai politics /." Electronic version of summary Electronic version of examination, 2004. http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/gakui/gaiyo/3857.pdf.
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Larry, Sarit. "Trigger-Narratives: A Perspective on Radical Political Transformations." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104988.
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Thesis advisor: Richard KearneyThis work addresses an important phenomenon in the contemporary philosophy of narrative and coins it as a term. Trigger-narratives denote myth-like stories that ignite certain mass social participation. Juxtapose to five well-established philosophical concepts of narrative this work demonstrates that while trigger-narratives share formal characteristics with all, they fail to be meaningfully and comprehensively subsumed under any. I use three protagonists as comparative case studies to illustrate trigger-narratives: Rosa Parks (US), Mouhammed Bouazizi (Tunisia) and Daphne Leef (Israel). The sociopolitical reaction to trigger-narratives exceeds them in content and in size. Yet, these protagonists continue to serve as catalysts and perennial symbols of the transformative events that follow their protesting acts. Trigger-narratives are not lived-narratives. They do not disclose what Arendt’s refers to as a unique who or MacIntyre’s unity of a human life. They do not answer the ownmost rhythm of Heidegger’s Being-toward-death or operate like Ricoeur’s or Kearney’s concepts of testimony. The protagonist perspective is rarely heard or seriously considered. Unlike historical narratives trigger-narratives are not the product of research. They form quickly and in their aftermath they resist change. Trigger-narrative protagonists draw their power from being portrayed as context-less, weak and uncalculated while historical leaders draw power from descriptions of authority, skill, and deliberation. Trigger-narratives have the effect and/or aspiration of metanarratives. They aim at a new order. However, they spring from articulated singular accounts rather than form an all-encompassing tacit sub-current narrative. Adding a sixth sociological concept of narrative I refer to issue-narratives. Trigger-narratives congeal around an issue. But they instill a far greater expectation for change. I conclude that: 1. trigger narratives are closest to fiction 2. They operate through a condensation of Ricoeur’s mimetic cycle configuring and refiguring reality in a rapid rotation that ossifies them into a mobilizing form, and that 3. Interpreting trigger-narratives through the perspective of world-creating myths illuminates many of their typical characteristics in a unifying, comprehensive manner. The study points to two new research directions: 1. trigger-narratives’ aftermath operations (specifically rituals and newly erected institutions).2. Further interdisciplinary cooperation between contemporary political philosophy of narrative and the sociological methodology of frame-analysis
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
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Karlsson, Axel, and Alexander Kores. "Forging a narrative : Political narratives in Swedish parties." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-9704.
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The following thesis is an analysis of the self-narratives of the parties in the Swedish Riksdag and how these are used to construct the identities of the parties. For this purpose, we studied narrative theory and theories about identity in order to build a framework which would allow us to investigate the narratives of these parties. To identify the core narratives of the parties, we chose to focus on their respective party programs. Based on the results of our quantitative investigation, we chose four parties (Socialdemokraterna, Liberalerna, Miljöpartiet, and Sverigedemokraterna) to study in a more in-depth manner. Having selected these four parties, we utilized theories about narrative and identity in order to identify the constituent parts of the various parties' narratives contained in their party programs. The parties were found to adhere to our theoretical assumptions about how parties ought to construct narratives, albeit in different ways from party to party.
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White, Holly. "Westminster's narration of neoliberal crisis : rationalising the irrational?" Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2017. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/9949/.
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The thesis draws upon the work of Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, and Norman Fairclough to analyse Westminster narration of the neoliberal capitalist crisis from 2010-2015. It is argued that Westminster parties sought to ‘resolve’ the crisis by intensifying the neoliberal conditions that caused it. This served the interests of private capital whilst inflicting harm and injustice on the less powerful and less wealthy. The thesis centres on Westminster definers’ discursive strategies of crisis narration, which sought to rationalise their ‘resolution’ and maintain hegemony. This thesis addresses lacunae in the existing literature of elite narration of the crisis in a British context in a number of ways. It is concerned with the comparatively broad scope of Westminster definers’ narration of ‘causes’, responses and proposed responses to the crisis, and the discursive strategies for countering challenges presented by oppositional movements. It contributes an analysis of Westminster’s narration of challenges that began to emerge over the period. This thesis provides a longitudinal study examining the development of Westminster narratives between 2010 and 2015, contributing a detailed analysis of three ‘intense narration moments’: the General Election 2010, the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, and the General Election 2015. Utilising Fairclough’s framework of critical discourse analysis, it critically analyses a comprehensive data set of 185 texts disseminated by Westminster definers. Texts include televised election debates, radio interviews, manifestos, budget statements, speeches, and posters. The thesis evidences that false, inaccurate, and misleading representations were central, systematic, and ubiquitous to Westminster’s narration of the crisis. It is argued that Westminster: restricted debate within narrow boundaries that excluded non-neoliberal alternatives and reinforced the ‘necessity’ of neoliberal responses. They identified ideologically advantageous but false ‘causes’ of crisis that had concomitant neoliberal responses and favourably structured Britain’s political agenda and shifted debate onto more neoliberal terrain. They operated to generate misunderstanding of Britain’s fiscal position to justify austerity, and constructed neoliberal responses as moral imperatives. Westminster definers countered challenges by representing parties inaccurately, constructing alternatives as unviable and immoral, and reinforcing an element of a challenge’s narrative but adopting a different framing to redirect Britain towards Westminster’s ‘resolution’.
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Forssell, Anna. "Skolan som politiskt narrativ : En studie av den skolpolitiska debatten i Sveriges riksdag 1991 - 2002." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61806.
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How do politician talk about the role of school in society, in an era of changing demands and challenges represented by the knowledge society and globalization? The material underlying the study consists of protocols from the Swedish parliament during a decade characterized by many reforms and with both a conservative government and a social democratic. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the contemporary debate on school policy in the Swedish Parliament between 1991 and 2002. My research questions are: Which are the dominating narratives about schooling that emerge in the debate? What are the influences from contemporary policies and from educational research? What kind of rhetorical resources underpin the arguments in the plenary debate and are there any shifts, inconsistencies and contradictions that can be heard in the debates? Inspired by Margaret Somers four dimensions of narratives: ontological narrative, public narrative, metanarrative and conceptual narrative and I am using them to interpret different aspects of school as a political narrative. Methodologically, I worked initially with a content analysis gradually moving to narrative analysis. The educational debates held during the three terms in office are characterised by different political initiatives and different kind of issues. I construct a number of dominating narratives with different plots, problems, solutions and promises of a better future for both the school and the nation. Key concepts seems to “float” depending on who uses them and in what context they are used. Important parts in the narratives are the rhetorical resources that politicians are using to get legitimacy and credibility. Perceptions of schools presented in the debate, may be seen as stories about what is desirable and possible, but also what is unwanted, threatening the progress of school and society. I have highlighted four public narratives in these debates and they are: A School for All, School on the Market, School in the Knowledge Society and A School in Crisis.
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Yidana, Richard J. J. "Controlling narratives, controlling histories political discourses of anticolonial nationalism /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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Waliaula, Kennedy Athanasias. "The Incarcerated Self: Narratives of Political Confinement in Kenya." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243912226.
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Paschal, Lori L. (Lori Lynne). "The Differences in the Media Constructions of the Narratives of Male and Female Political Candidates." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278704/.
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This study views the media as a powerful agent which constructs the narratives of political candidates. In order to determine whether the media constructs the narratives of male and female political candidates differently, newspaper articles were analyzed for two 1994 Congressional races, each involving a male and a female candidate (Thurman versus Garlits and Byrne versus Davis). The first research question posed the following question: Does the media devote more coverage to male or female candidates? The next question concerned media endorsements of the candidates. Third, the settings in which the media portrayed the male and female candidates were compared. Finally, differences in the media's attitude toward male and female candidates were analyzed.
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Bruno, Luca Paolo <1989>. "(Grand) Narratives blossom still: bishōjo, character database and political narratives in the Muv Luv franchise." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11668.
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Japanese pop-culture, especially moekyara-based culture such as anime/manga/videogames, has been described as being not driven by overarching narratives, but rather by the appeal of characters constituted by elements which engender affection in the audience (Azuma 2007, 2009, Kacsuk 2016). These elements constitute a database, an ensemble of unordered items which reference their host culture and which can be (apparently) freely aggregated, producing new characters which are capable of exerting fascination and empathy in the audience. While Azuma has written about the disappearance of narrative, what can be observed is that narrative has not, in fact disappeared because, as the character are placed in various contexts, their constitutive database elements undergo a process of re-contextualization that highlights their employment of characters as agents of mediation between their audience and what is beyond them, as they constitute an interface of objects and spaces that relays signs between other semiotic actants (Nozawa 2013) as what lies in the background (the narrative world) is re-articulated through the database elements. This potentiality can be employed to communicate themes and concepts (which can range from commercial slogans to political statements) that are not codified into the database. The Muv Luv franchise, as a case study, shows this process in effect, as political statements are articulated through a character’s constitutive elements.
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Buckley, Ian M. M. "Rescripting the political romance : narratives of kingship, tyranny, and community." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2003. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/rescripting-the-political-romance(b6d18460-be63-4e95-9b04-4f2c2ef5a8e0).html.
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Without seeking to reify a category of 'political romances', this study explores the participation of five Middle English poems (Havelok, The Tale of Gamelyn, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther, Robert of cisyle), normally classed among the romances, in the cultural process of constructing and regulating contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in this discourse these romances cross generic boundaries, interacting with textual traditions (including historiography, hagiography, folk tale, and the literature of complaint), inscribing ideologies contesting romance's world-view. This study attempts to trace the ideological impact of these generic interactions on romance models of rule, investigating whether these romances cross generic boundaries in search of an idiom in which to critique dominant models of power relations, or whether, in attempting to appropriate the discourse of other genres, they seek to bolster dominant ideology by containing the subversive energies of its textual opponents. If these romances are identified as cultural products of a dominant ideology striving to perpetuate its own ascendancy, then it is a dominant ideology in the process of adapting itself in response to changing pressures, the nature of which I attempt to recover by attending to these texts' constructions and reconstructions of the hero's identity. I approach these romances not so much as the expression of the ideology of the dominant stratum, but part of the production of that ideology, called forth in a continuing dynamic response to contending discourses. I conclude that the energies of the genres with which these romances interact refuse appropriation, challenging the monologism of romance and continuing in their new narrative environment to propose their own political solutions. The resulting dialogization of romance indicates romance's diminishing ability to provide convincing resolutions to the contradictions of a changing society and to address the aspirations of a changing audience, In the ideological adjustments made by these romances in the process of interacting with other genres can be glimpsed the end of romance's insistence on heroic, and hence kingly, autonomy, and the replacement of heroic autonomy by community as the subject of romance.
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Porroche-Escudero, Ana. "Listening to women : political narratives of breast cancer in Spain." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/36135/.
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The thesis examines the complex relationship between individual experiences of breast cancer and the wider social, political and discursive context in which they are located. It focuses on how Spanish women living with breast cancer define their own health priorities by exploring their experiences and their dissatisfactions, which appear to have been excluded from public and biomedical discourses. The data was collected in a provincial city in Western Spain and focused on the lived experiences of 32 women living and surviving breast cancer. Interviews were mainly conducted in the headquarters of the Spanish Association against Cancer of that region, but also at women's homes and in other public spaces. Based upon a framework of narratives of resistance, grounded in feminist theory, critical medical anthropology and sociology, an ethnographic approach allowed a focus on breast cancer patients and survivors as âexperts' of their own health, addressing fundamental concerns in the production of knowledge. The thesis discusses the relationship between breast cancer and social inequality. It examines the dramatic ways that structures of power such as class, age, gender, and disability, intersect and âconspireâ through a web of social beliefs, practices, norms and expectations to shape, and exacerbate, women's experiences of illness, in particular, of those women who need health care the most. The research also highlights the ways in which the experiential symptoms of breast cancer are portrayed and perceived in public and medical discourses in sexual terms or physiological terms, which ignores the wider social and embodied contexts of women's experiences. By answering the call made by feminist writers such as Wilkinson (2001) and Broom (2000) to listening to the narratives of resistance of these Spanish women, this study therefore offers both a particular cultural account of their collaboration with a range of institutions such as health professionals, charities, the family and the social care system, but also valuable lay experiences which are more generally relevant to wider healthcare practice and policy.
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da, Silva Raquel Beleza Pereira. "Giving them a voice : narratives of political violence in Portugal." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7023/.
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This dissertation examines the lives and experiences of former political violent activists in Portugal, who acted in three distinct periods surrounding the Carnation Revolution of April 25th (1974), which overthrew Estado Novo’s dictatorship and established democracy: a pre-revolution period (1964-1974), a counter-revolution period (1975-1976) and a post-revolution period (1980-1987). This research aims to explore the dynamics of engagement with, life within, and disengagement from, a political violent organisation from the point of view of the actors of the violence themselves, whose voices are traditionally silenced. This study is theoretically framed by the research produced by Critical Terrorism Studies’ scholars and underpinned by narrative inquiry as the paradigm that guides the entire research process. This is, thus, the first in-depth qualitative investigation of the phenomenon in Portugal, which employed life history interviews to collect first-hand accounts about their subjective experiences, meanings and perspectives. The findings suggest that there are robust connections between the stories people tell about their lives and the social, cultural, political, historical and human contexts that frame these same stories. The showcase of the empirical, theoretical and methodological implications of the research concludes this thesis, emphasizing what this study adds to knowledge in the field of political violence.
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Cate, Sarah Diane 1986. "Untangling Prison Expansion in Oregon: Political Narratives and Policy Outcomes." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10623.
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xii, 101 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This thesis examines the significant expansion of prisons in Oregon in the last fifteen years. In order to explain the evolution of Oregon's prison growth, the thesis analyzes the ways discourses and representations of crime have justified and explained voter approval for punitive policies in Oregon. Drawing from multi-disciplinary literature that documents the central role played by issue framing and discourse construction in political conflicts, I use the case of the 1994 campaign in which key crime initiatives were passed by Oregon voters. The thesis argues that policy decisions and election outcomes are closely related to long-standing perceptions of"insiders" and "outsiders" as a way to view societal problems. Utilizing an extensive media analysis, this thesis considers how political narratives have influenced the passage of ballot measures committed to a punitive direction in crime policy.
Committee in Charge: Professor Daniel HoSang, Chair; Professor Daniel Tichenor; Professor Joseph Lowndes
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Price, Linda 1966. "Making sense of political activism : life narratives of political activists from the South African liberation movement." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9750.
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Bibliography: leaves 229-258.This is a study of the personal and social construction of meaning that political activists who have been involved in the South African liberation movement attribute to their lives. It examines the lives of a group of activists who were situated at the heart of the anti- apartheid movement for more than four decades. Their resistance to the wide-ranging laws and non-legal devices that the state employed to maintain white, Afrikaner Nationalist rule became the benchmark against which they lived their lives. 1960 saw an intensity of state oppression and brutality from which some activists escaped with their lives, while others were killed or jailed for life. The struggle to create a society where humanity and justice would triumph over cruelty and racial division was setback a generation. It took nearly three decades of defiance and unrest before Nelson Mandela was released from prison and South Africans sat down to negotiate the Interim Constitution that would guide the country towards its first democratic elections. ANC members in exile received indemnity so that they could return to the country and participate in the negotiations and four years later a new South Africa based on majority rule was won. Since these 1994 elections, South Africa has continued to undergo fundamental change from the old apartheid order to a new democratic dispensation. Oral stories are essential to this process as they contain memories of recent history that contribute significantly to contemporary political and social life, which in tum shape the future. The stories of the activists who comprise this study illustrate how their commitment to their cause and to themselves has shaped their lives, as well as those around them, and how meaningful engagement with the challenges of daily life can strengthen us as individuals.
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Yousaf, Nahem. "Writing and resistance : Alex La Guma's aparteid narratives." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245405.
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Blaize, Lindy-Ann. "Personal and political narratives of survival : postmodern autobiography : a Trinidadian perspective." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440915.
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Saechao, Laiseng. "Untold Narratives: Refugee Experiences from Laos to Richmond, California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/722.
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Untold Narratives: A Refugee Experience from Laos to Richmond, California is focused on the Mien refugee experience from Laos to Richmond, California. This thesis highlights the ways Cold War politics, the Secret War, and heavy industrialization have impacted Mien communities who have been displaced from their homelands into refugee camps, and again through sponsorship into the United States. This thesis looks at political theories that discuss inequalities that exist, particularly through environmental degradation and negative health impacts that Mien refugees are experiencing in their resettlement into Richmond, California. Due to the limited scholarly articles and documented narratives that are available in regards to Mien experiences, interviews were conducted to highlight the stories and experiences of Mien refugees paired with a historical background of their journey from China, to Laos, and to Richmond. Even in the face of so much struggle and hardship, many Mien people have been resilient and been successful in building community and fighting for justice.
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Hafeda, M. "Bordering practices : negotiating and narrating political-sectarian conflict in contemporary Beirut." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1460232/.
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Following the shift from borders to bordering practices in the field of borders studies (Parker & Vaughan-Williams, 2009; Diener & Hagen, 2012; Meier, 2013), this thesis proposes bordering practices as specific kinds of spatial practice which occur through processes of narrating and negotiating, and are situated in relation to concepts of everyday life and spatial practices (Lefebvre ([1974] 1991 and de Certeau ([1984] 1989), and critical spatial practice (Rendell, 2006). The thesis examines the im/materiality, spatiality, and temporality of bordering practices through the negotiation of spaces of political-sectarian conflict – since their resurfacing in Beirut in 2005, practised by a triad of residents, politicians, and militias. It is a site-specific and practice-led research project that employs art, design and urban research tools to work with residents, located between the two adjacent areas of Tarik al-Jdide and Mazraa – both situated within the Mazraa district, and of different political affiliations divided across Sunni/Shiite lines. Through negotiation and narrative the thesis explores a series of modes of bordering practices: those produced by conflict mechanisms, negotiated and narrated by residents; those negotiated and narrated through my engagements with the residents during this doctoral research; and those negotiated and narrated through the art installations I produced in response as forms of critical spatial practice. The thesis is structured into four projects, each of which develops first by identifying strategic division conditions practised by political parties through the borders of: Surveillance, Sound, Displacement and Administration; second, by investigating residents’ spatial practices that exist as responses and negotiations to those strategic divisions; third, and finally, the four projects produce four new bordering practices that transform borders into multiple shifting practices and representations that divide and connect through acts of negotiating and narrating: in particular, in project 1, crossing the border of surveillance between two women at their balconies; in project 2, translating the border of sound between taxi and walking journeys; in project 3, matching the border of displacement between twin sisters and their husbands; and in project 4, hiding behind the border of administration between an elected district’s representative and his fictional TV character.
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Du, Plessis Irma. "Narrating the "nation" : cultural production, political community and young Afrikaans readers." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28861.
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This study explores the relationship between literature and society against the background of the emergence in the 1930s and 1940s in South Africa of a form of Afrikaner nationalism that was spearheaded by members of the Afrikaner petty bourgeoisie and intelligentsia and a subsequent expansion in Afrikaans literary production. It addresses problems of explanation in Afrikaner nationalism by focusing attention on the question of culture, the field of imagination and the domain of everyday life. In particular, the study examines the Keurboslaan series - a series of schoolboy stories aimed at juvenile readers - by Stella Blakemore, and traces the production, circulation and critical reception of the twenty titles in the series. The first title in this series was published in 1941 and the series has been reprinted several times over a number of decades and as recently as 1997. Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson, this study illuminates the link between the emergence of print capitalism and the production of popular fiction on the one hand and nationalism on the other. Whilst this is a link that is not often explored, an analysis of the Keurboslaan series illustrates that the study of popular fiction can illuminate the practices through which nationalism gains popular support. It is argued that the Keurboslaan series produced a narrative of the Afrikaner ‘nation’ in popular fiction, but that this narrative was not authenticated by the intelligentsia and petty bourgeoisie who were the driving forces behind Afrikaner nationalism and its contents. It is further argued that this ‘narrative of nation’ circulated alongside more official narratives of the ‘nation’ espoused in discourses of religion, science and literature published in Afrikaans. The narrative of ‘nation’ in Keurboslaan – whilst sharing many similarities with official narratives in other discourses – but also differs from those discourses in important respects. It is argued that the popular series was influential precisely because it imagined the Afrikaner ‘nation’ in very different ways and on different terms from those discourses. Moreover, the form in which this narrative was produced, that is popular youth literature, appealed to readers of Afrikaans who were in search of escapist fiction. For these readers, the Keurboslaan series helped to give shape to and created new possibilities for interpreting the world that they inhabited. Reading the school as a corollary of the ‘nation’, it is argued that the narrative of the nation in Keurboslaan series explores the boundaries between the self and the other and posits the self as a danger to the self, resulting in an emphasis on the need to discipline the self. This kind of analysis also creates the space for examining in what ways ideas and identities about ‘race’, gender, sexuality, class and ‘nation’ are constructed in the texts. Yet, the study maintains that whilst the Keurboslaan series contributed to creating a space in which a particular understanding of the self and the world becomes possible, and whereas the reader is not conceived of as a completely free agent that can derive simply any meaning from the text, the study and its theoretical underpinnings do not fully account for individual readers’ engagement with popular texts and the ways in which reading strategies and habits can generate different, ambiguous or inconclusive meanings for readers. It is suggested that a study of popular texts and Afrikaner nationalism employing theories of reading and the reader will complement this analysis.Thesis (DLitt (Literary Theory))--University of Pretoria, 2004.
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Matzner, Sissela Hannah. "Politics of intervention : political parties' national roles conceptions in foreign policy narratives on military intervention in ongoing conflict - France, Germany and Libya 2011." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33279.
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This doctoral thesis asks what ideational factors underlie parties' national role conceptions in narratives on violent conflict and crises abroad. It explores French and German parties' national role statements in the case of the 2011 military intervention in Libya. The thesis lies at the intersection of Foreign Policy Analysis research focused on domestic foreign policy actors, International Relations studies on ideas in international relations and Party Politics scholarship looking at international issues in party campaigns and competition. It develops a theoretical framework using role theory and combines it with scholarship on international norms and ideologies. It contributes to role research on domestic role contestation and role socialisation. It adds a study of parties' national roles to this scholarship. It also advances the conceptual development of the role theory approach through an exploration of the responsibility concept within national roles. The main finding of the thesis is that parties often agree on the national role but sometimes interpret the same role differently. Moreover, sometimes parties can propose alternative national roles. The theoretical framework permits to trace variation in role interpretation to foreign policy traditions, international norms and ideologies. The central argument is that parties do not necessarily agree on the national role and its interpretation even when confronted with the same situation and events. It suggests that variation in national role interpretation can matter because parties contest the national role and, thereby, may point to role conflicts and dilemmas that may have an effect on future role selection and performance.
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Hutchinson, Alexandra. "Experts by experience : 'madness' narratives, language, and politics." Thesis, University of Chester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620314.
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This thesis demonstrates that the historic silencing of those labelled ‘mad’ is – paradoxically – inextricable from language. Stigma is a semantic issue. The focus of my first chapter is to establish how and when the language available to discuss ‘madness’ became so problematic. Chapter one establishes a dual language problem: first, the language which surrounds ‘madness’ is limited and limiting; second, this language imposes social ‘otherness’, often permanently. I approach the politics of the language of ‘madness’ using Saussure’s hypothesis of signification, Lacan’s theory of the nom du père, and narrative theory, in order to investigate who is to blame when language and narratives fail. In chapter two, I examine the reality of these semantic and narrative politics. This chapter covers a variety of ‘madness’ narratives salvaged from psychiatric textbooks, for example those of influential psychiatrists Emil Kraepelin, Eugen Bleuler and Sigmund Freud. Such texts have been essential to the development of psychiatry, but how have these discourses about ‘madness’ functioned to establish stigma? I retrieve personal accounts from these hegemonic publications, establishing how the presence of paratexts and psychiatric ‘authority’ manipulate the receipt of such narratives. This will demonstrate how the historic silencing of ‘madness’ began. Chapter three focuses on how a cross section of nineteenth-century fiction portrays ‘madness’, in order to explore the potential for fiction to offer ‘madness’ an accessible narrative platform. Initially, I examine literature as a continuation of psychiatric discourse, including Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’; Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Maud’; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; and Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. As a point of comparison, I examine literary representations which go beyond psychiatric discourse to articulate ‘madness’, exploring Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper; Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether’; and texts which explore other selves and other worlds (Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’; and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass). Chapter four examines the merits of visual art as a platform for ‘madness’ narratives, as it is divorced from many of the issues which are latent in language use. I explore the oeuvres of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century artists Richard Dadd, Vincent Van Gogh, Louis Wain, Adolf Wölfli, August Klett, and Hyacinth Freiherr von Wieser. Despite the theoretical assumption that visual art is universal and accessible, the social reception of art, necessary for this communication to be heard and validated, proves that the practice is far removed from this hypothesis. The stereotype of the ‘mad’ artist is, in itself, an oxymoron: in the realm of social engagement, either the artistic identity of the individual is compromised and eventually disparaged, or ‘madness’ is obscured and censored. Chapter five shows how the nineteenth-century model for (mis)understanding ‘madness’ is the foundation for our twenty-first-century discourse. This chapter examines narratives of ‘madness’ in popular culture, to understand how these discourses echo or challenge psychiatric representations of ‘madness’, and how a mainstream social audience is encouraged to feel about such depictions, including episodes The Simpsons, House and Peep Show, to explore how psychiatric discourse has shaped these narratives. This chapter also scrutinises the language employed by the media and other mainstream agencies in order to establish what these popular discourses reveal about entrenched societal prejudices and fear. This thesis addresses the question: can we truly ever speak of ‘madness’ without simultaneously silencing it?
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Lake, Crystal B. Looser Devoney. "Ruin nation antiquarian objects and political narratives in the long eighteenth century /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6694.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Devoney Looser. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Boyd, James Patrick 1971. "States of the nations : nationalism, narratives and normative change in Postwar Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77824.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation evaluates claims that nationalism is rising in post-Cold War Japan by first noting the disconnect between existent social science conceptions of nationalism and those needed to examine how nationalism might change in contemporary, peaceful, wealthy, and stable democracies such as postwar Japan. This study defines nationalism as a discourse that constructs and reconstructs points of identification and differentiation that define both a political community (i.e. "nation") and the form of its domain over a modern territorial state. It argues nationalism is best understood as reoccurring "nation-state narratives" that tell the story of how the nation's putative qualities or past experiences define the present nature of its territorial state. Change in nationalism is evaluated through content and discourse analysis of five narratives expressing the relationship between the Japanese people and their state in a sample of elite discourse drawn from the period 1952-2007. The analysis reveals that references to all five narratives peak in the immediate postwar period and again in the 1980s before declining to lows in the post-Cold War period, which also saw the highest level of contestation over these narratives in the nearly sixty years of the study. In particular, the narrative depicting Japan as an anti-militarist/pacifist nation-state as well as the narrative emphasizing Japan as an ethnically homogeneous nation-state proved the most contested during this period, while the narrative affirming Japan as a democratic nation-state went uncontested. Political struggles over reforming institutions associated with the narratives were found to be the major drivers behind these changes, although characteristics of the narratives, especially the specificity of their normative claims, also shaped this process. The post-Cold War period is thus one of transition in nationalist discourse in Japan, although the scale of change is somewhat limited. For example, while the anti-militarist/pacifist narrative saw exceptions attached to many of its normative claims, its anti-nuclear components and cognitive claims remained unchallenged. Finally, Japanese nationalist discourse continued to legitimate democracy and was found to shape important electoral reforms, even as it shifted away from more insular and exclusionary forms, which may create space for more open immigration policies moving forward.
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Conceição, Josefa da. "As tramas das politicas educacionais locais : entre silencios, as vozes das professoras : estudo de caso de um municipio alagoano." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251673.
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Orientador: Corinta Maria Grisolia GeraldiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Estudo de caso dos percalços envolvidos nas implementações de políticas públicas municipais de educação, com ênfase às de formação continuada de professores das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental no município de Paripueira - Al, no período de 2001 a 2007. A idéia desta investigação surgiu de experiências pessoais e profissionais da pesquisadora ao atuar como coordenadora pedagógica, professora das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental e sobretudo, como dirigente sindical. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizados documentos oficiais do Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Alagoas, do Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Educação de Alagoas - SINTEAL, Diário Oficial do Estado, entre outras fontes denominadas como documentado por Expeleta & Rockwell (1986). A essas se somaram não somente fontes não-documentadas expressas em 13 entrevistas semi-estruturadas áudio-gravadas com professoras, funcionárias/os, coordenação pedagógica e direção da rede de ensino do referido município, mas também anotações de campo e o resgate da própria experiência da professora-pesquisadora. O material empírico foi organizado e codificado através de Inventário de dados, submetido a triangulações após análise descritiva e, finalmente, analisado a partir de categorias mais amplas. Contextualizados nas políticas neoliberais que marcaram o momento analisado, mas buscando compreendê-las nas condições específicas da educação pública brasileira no Estado de Alagoas, os dados levantados possibilitaram analisar a política presente nas ações formuladas por essa rede pública municipal de ensino no período considerado. Também foi possível compreender como vêm sendo vivenciadas/caracterizadas as políticas públicas que estão presentes no cotidiano das/os profissionais da educação. As vozes contidas na pesquisa revelam que a implementação das políticas públicas do período investigado não atende aos interesses das/os trabalhadoras/es da educação nem da população que dela necessita. Para tal análise, foi fundamental compreender como se desenvolvem as políticas públicas mantidas através da força do poder local e fundamentadas nas velhas relações políticas oligárquicas e coronelísticas ainda presentes na organização do aparelho de Estado em Alagoas nesse período. Esta pesquisa foi realizada no Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Continuada - GEPEC e financiada pelo Programa Internacional de Bolsas de Pós-Graduação da Fundação Ford.
Abstract: Case study of mishaps involved in the implementation of municipal policies on education, with emphasis on continuous training of teachers in the initial grades of elementary school in the municipality of Paripueira - Al, in the period from 2001 to 2007. The idea of this research came from the personal experiences and professional researcher to act as educational coordinator, teacher from the initial series of elementary school and above, as union leader. For data collection were used official documents of the Court of Accounts of the State of Alagoas, the Union of Education Workers of Alagoas - SINTEAL, Official Gazette of the State, among other sources referred to as documented by Expeleta & Rockwell (1986). To these are added not only non-documented sources expressed in 13 semi-structured audio-recorded with teachers, staff / os, coordination and direction of the educational system of the school council, but the field notes and redemption of own experience of teacher-researcher. The empirical material was organized and codified through inventory data, submitted to triangulations after descriptive analysis, and finally examined from a broader categories. Contextualized in the neoliberal policies that marked the moment analysis, but trying to sort them in the specific conditions of public education in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, the data collected to analyze the possible actions in this policy formulated by the municipal public education over the period. It was also possible to understand and are being experienced / characterized the public policies that are present in the daily / education professionals. The voices in the research show that the implementation of public policies of the period investigated does not meet the interests of / the worker / s or education of the population that needs it. For this analysis, it was essential to understand how to develop public policies maintained through force of local and political relations based on old oligarchic and coronelísticas still present in the organization of the State apparatus in Alagoas in that period. This research was conducted in the Group of Studies and Research in Continuing Education - GEPEC and financed by the International Program for post-graduate scholarships from the Ford Foundation.
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Weaver, Kristina N. "Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1512/.
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"Sayling, Stories from the Mothership" is a collection of ethnographic fictions ? short stories ? adapted from notes, archival materials, and interviews compiled over a year of geographic fieldwork in southwestern Nigeria. Touching on a wide range of themes, from domesticity to internet fraud, the stories explore the interface of occult violence and youth politics in the contemporary period. They are connected through overlapping characters and through their relationships to a central geography: the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria?s oldest and most prestigious institute of higher education and the site of origin for the nation?s first campus ?cult?: the Pyrates Confraternity. The collection is, in essence, a character study of Nigerian campus cultism, itself. The stories are organized into three sections that can be mapped onto a ritual landscape: the stages of initiation, participation, and renunciation serve to link diverse voices and life stories. The dissertation is framed by a Preface and Epilogue that explore issues of race, representation, and reflexivity, themes that are important to a project engaging with living memories of contemporary violence. A critical prologue and footnotes throughout serve to connect the creative core of this work to larger academic, literary, and ethnographic contexts. An appendix features maps that highlight spaces and dates important to the stories as well as four original interview ?transcripts?, semi-fictionalised records that provide both additional ethnographic detail and evidence of methodology.
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Chan, Ching-shing. "Rearticulating a politics of recognition : praxis, theory and narration of three Hong Kong intellectuals in public writing /." View abstract or full-text, 2004. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202004%20CHAN.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 268-276). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
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Lazarević, Dragana. "The politics of heritage in the West Balkans : the evolution of nation-building and the invention of national narratives as a consequence of political changes." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/88421/.
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The growth of a nation-state in the 19th century led to the protection of heritage as a distinct discipline. Initially, the prime objective was physical protection and conservation of archaeological and architectural monuments valued for their aesthetic and historic importance. However, the 20th century practice of imposing nationalist ideas onto communities and cultures which share the same territory, but not religion and/or language, brought into prominence a discipline of heritage management. One of the main characteristics of heritage management is its interpretation in national terms which, when used for nation-building purposes, often becomes the subject of contested grand narratives; i.e. ethnically, religiously and socially divisive tool in the hands of political elites interested in securing and maintaining their powers. Historical changes of political systems and state ideologies, however, witnessed the lasting impact on the interpretation of heritage over la longue durée, almost always with negative outcomes. The Wars of Yugoslav Succession during the 1990s resulted not only in the creation of new nation-states, but also their own new national narratives and languages, often rooted in flagrant revisionism of the interpretation of historical sources and surviving heritage. This thesis examines the evolution of national narratives in five ex- Yugoslav republics and Albania from the time of their individual inception until the present. It employs chronologically juxtaposed nation-building processes in the observed states and points to the differences in interpretation which usually coincided with changes of political systems. It also highlights the contemporary interpretations of the heritage as understood by both local and international researchers and publicists, affected by the surrounding political atmosphere. It explores the destruction, vandalism, and “culturcide” and their condemnations and justifications by the media and biased scholarship. The thesis also points to the negative influence of the external political factors in heritage management through the extensive production of poorly and/or partially researched publications. Finally, it concludes that the (re)interpretation of heritage is a recurring process, which will be employed every time when the balance of power in Europe changes and almost always with detrimental consequences for the local population.
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Abbott, Clive. "The Irish Boundary Commission episode : northern nationalist narratives and political culture 1924-1939." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601328.
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This research examines the significance of the Irish Boundary Commission 'episode' (July 1924 to December 1925) for Northern Ireland's nationalists. It tests the thesis that the inter-governmental agreement following the Commission's collapse in late 1925 - the agreement which cemented the 1920 border - was 'the key foundational moment' for the northern minority between December 1925 and 1939. Some writers view the episode as an important development in a larger story about partition generally: others recognise its deep significance for northern nationalists. But the literature says little about the construction and development of (often competing) nationalist narratives which flowed from it. There is no in-depth analysis of how it came to be remembered and shaped mind sets. The research interrogates, integrates and deploys archival material to produce a finer-grained reading of the period; and shows how arrangement of memories underpins narrative development. The dissertation considers how narratives about 1924/25 subsequently featured in political and popular discourse. In explaining the political culture which developed, it explores the relationships between the principal nationalist influences in the north and the two main political parties in the Irish Free State. The later chapters devote particular attention to the increasingly troubled relationship between border nationalists (especially in Fermanagh and Tyrone) and the• early Fianna Fail governments, led by de Valera. The research comments on clerical influence and engagement; and underscores the strength of the press in reinforcing cultural messages and values, and in fostering a sense of community. It offers an interpretation of why and how narratives about late 1925 so powerfully shaped the northern minority's attitudes and responses in later years. The dissertation concludes that, for northern nationalists, the episode, culminating in the December 1925 pact, had remained the organising principle in their political culture.
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Murphy, Kathleen. "Critical Consciousness, Community Resistance & Resilience| Narratives of Irish Republican Women Political Prisoners." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3683725.
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Colonial legacies affect neocolonial experiences of conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries. A critical and comprehensive appreciation of the global "war on terror" reveals terrorism "from above'" (state-sponsored terrorism) as a growing issue in the international community. Further, women's varied experiences within communities of resistance are often undermined, ignored, or maligned within formal research on conflict and peace. Liberation psychologists are called to align with oppressed, marginalized, and suffering communities. To this end, this work explores the experience of women political prisoners of the Irish conflict for independence from Great Britain. A qualitative critical psychosocial analysis was used to understand the phenomenology of women's political imprisonment through the firsthand narratives of Republican women imprisoned during the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland. The intention of this study was to 1) provide an analysis of power and its connection to social conditions, 2) to provide a psychological analysis of how oppression may breed resistance in communities struggling for liberation, and 3) to explore the gendered experience of Irish women political prisoners. The results indicated that political imprisonment may be understood as a microcosm of oppression and liberation, and the subjective experience of political prisoners may glean insights into how communities develop critical consciousness, organize politically, resist oppression, and meaningfully participate in recognizing their human rights. Additionally, this research challenged the exclusion of women's voices as members of resistance movements and active agents in both conflict and peace building and challenged the failure to investigate state-sponsored terrorism, or terrorism from above.
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Rogobete, Ileana Carmen. "Reconstructing trauma and recovery: life narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10884.
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The central aim of this study was to examine the narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid and their complex ways of reconstructing trauma and recovery, almost twenty years after the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. The traumatic events experienced by victims occurred during 1960 - 1993. This retrospective study involved victims of both sides of the conflict. The sample comprised twenty survivors of gross human rights violations who suffered: detention, torture, police harassment, displacement, shootings, or the loss of a significant other. Interviews were conducted between late 2009 and early 2010, involving participants from a diversity of race groups, ages, gender and socio-economic status. General areas of exploration were: (hi)story of suffering under apartheid, impact of traumatic events, ways of coping with negative effects, helpful and hindering aspects of their journey after trauma, present situation and views about the future. Interviews were recorded and transcribed for analysis.
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Pettis, John P. Jr. "Interrogating the Myth of Modernity: Cultural and Political Narratives in Robert Coover’s Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4221.
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This thesis explore the use of Cultural and Politcal narratives in Roberts Coover’s fiction. Coover’s writing questions the validity of the monolithic grand narratives within our society, and complicates the grand narrative by subverting its conventions with the comic and the erotic. The tone of the narrative, while often absurd or grotesque, offers distinctive insight into modern culture. In Coover’s work these themes meld with society’s libidinal urge for the absurd, the sexual, and the ritualized archaic. His characters are often faced with overt savagery and violence, but are also surrounded by high culture and idealism. In examining these notable works of Coover, spanning over fifteen years, patterns emerge throughout his oeuvre. The shifting of Cold War politics, the carnivalesque, theatrics, history, politics, and the exploration of metanarratives are present throughout these works. In navigating these cultural and political structures, Coover’s writing deconstructs these ideological concepts, and in turn both affirms and subverts them.
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Jones, Jennifer A. "Aboriginal women's autobiographical narratives and the politics of collaboration /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phj7761.pdf.
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Jenssen, Mark (Mark Peter). "Broadcast news and abortion : the effects of conservative narratives on the reproductive health debate." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84848.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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How have changes in the elite discussion of reproductive health narratives affected the debate on abortion and influenced state legislation and popular opinion? Using analysis of broadcast transcripts from CNN and FOX News, I examine the arguments articulated by politicians, activists, and members of the media on issues concerning reproductive health. I argue that, beginning in 1996, conservatives used the venue provided by broadcast media to seize on changes to the political climate and frame debate to their advantage. Continually, conservatives forced liberals into reactionary positions through discussion of "partial-birth abortion," expansion of narratives, and-most recently-misinformation. By dictating the terms of the discussion, conservatives lessened the impact of liberal narratives and saw gains in state legislation and public opinion as a result.
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Fortuna, Claudia Regina Alves Prado. "Fios de historias e memorias dos africanos e afro-descendentes : por uma educação politica dos sentidos." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251851.
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Orientador: Maria Carolina Boverio GalzeraniTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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González, Andrés Emil. "Horror Without End: Narratives of Fear Under Modern Capitalism." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1525201674240955.
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Downey, H. R. "Removing Homosexuality from Sodom: Contextualizing Genesis 19 with Other Biblical Rape Narratives." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1494073944347884.
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Yellen, Bailey. "Using Words to Break the Chains of Bondage: Examining the Political Narratives of American Slaves." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1397.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of five formerly enslaved men and women in order to understand how they used this literary form to insert their voices into the anti-slavery discourse. These slave narratives were important for the advancement of the anti-slavery movement, both because they provided glimpse into the realities of the system of slavery from individuals who experienced it, and because these texts questioned the very ideologies they were meant to uphold by highlighting their inherent racial prejudices. Ultimately, the slave narrative allowed these formerly enslaved authors to demonstrate their autonomy through the act of authorship.
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Warburton, Terry. "Political cartoons and education in the UK press : the visual representation of education narratives." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286977.
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McGuire, Megan Ryan. "The judgement of the Symbionese Liberation Army : displaced narratives of 1970s American political violence." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11381.
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This thesis outlines the perception of homegrown political violence in The United States during the 1970s, as personified by the Symbionese Liberation Army, through a reconstruction and analysis of the critical narratives used to ascribe meaning to them contemporaneously. Scholarship thus far has failed to recognize the importance of this group, dismissing their ineffectual actions and ideology rather than recognizing the broader importance of their cultural permeation. Although the SLA was informed by juvenile political awareness and characterized by largely ineffective revolutionary actions, the failure by most historians of the period to address the form and function of their ubiquitous public image has contributed to the groundless historical assumption that the political violence of the early 1970s was no more than the inevitable result of the personal and political self-indulgences of the 1960s. This misconception has thus far preempted meaningful analysis of this chapter of unprecedented American political violence and the American public's first interaction with political extremism, articulated through civilian casualties, bombings, kidnapping, and the co-option of print and broadcast media. This experience, and particularly the way in which the SLA was portrayed at that time, contributed to the construction of simplistic dichotomies and vague explanations for political violence that were used contemporaneously to delegitimize protest by the left and justify the governmental abuse of civil liberties and have carried through largely unchanged to public discourse today. A careful analysis of the construction and reception of the SLA's meaning is therefore essential to a more lucid understanding of the times. Accordingly, the goal of this thesis is to reconstruct and analyze the narratives of the SLA in order to understand their role in American culture and 1970s political violence and ultimately to chart their loss of agency and the devaluation of their meaning in both history and public memory.
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Wynn, Natalie. "Jews, antisemitism and irish politics : A tale of two narratives." Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/6151/.
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Im Artikel wird eine der größten Schwächen der Historiographie der irischen Judenheiten betrachtet: die fehlende Bestimmung des wahren Ausmaßes des Antisemitismus und dessen Auswirkungen auf die jüdische Gemeinschaft in Irland. Hierfür wird ein kurzer Überblick über einen Ausschnitt des irisch-jüdischen Narrativs gegeben: das jüdische Verhältnis zur nationalistischen Politik in Irland. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Notwendigkeit für einen neuartigen Umgang mit den Quellen und den vorliegenden Sachverhalten, um eine ganzheitliche, objektivere und inklusive Geschichte der irischen Judenheiten zu schreiben.This article considers one of the major weaknesses in the existing historiography of Irish Jewry, the failure to consider the true extent and impact of antisemitism on Ireland’s Jewish community. This is illustrated through a brief survey of one small area of the Irish-Jewish narrative, the Jewish relationship with Irish nationalist politics. Throughout, the focus remains on the need for a fresh approach to the sources and the issues at hand, in order to create a more holistic, objective and inclusive history of the Jewish experience in Ireland.
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Moore, Niamh. "The ecofeminist politics of Clayoquot Sound, Canada : theorising activist narratives." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272048.
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Ackleson, Jason MacGregor. "Narrating identity and territoriality : the cases of the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borderlands." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1615/.
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Analysing the processes and relationships of political territoriality and collective identity in the American borderlands, this thesis examines the narrative and material dimensions of policies increasingly favouring securitised border 'control'. This 'reterritorialisation' contrasts markedly with concurrent moves to increase economic integration under the North American Free Trade Agreement and with long patterns of transnational socio-cultural interaction, emblematic of larger relational, transnational 'mobilities' fostered by globalisation. Through a historical and transdisciplinary survey, borders are examined as representations and socio-political constructs: a unique, contingent, political cartography connected to a precise, early modern notion of space and identity. Borders are in a continual process of being reproduced through both material means and supportive state-produced 'texts' or narratives. The analysis is part of a larger project in International Relations: the development of the 'identities/borders/orders' heuristic triad, designed to narrow and produce new theoretical and empirical insights by coupling three key concepts and exploring the co-constitutive relationships. Focussing on the identity-border link within the triad, the first case study analyses 'Operation Hold the Line' and related events in the securitisation of the southern borderlands against undocumented migration. The second case study provides an account of major official documentation and public debate framing current developments on the northern border, including a reading of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Border policy is understood as an example of reflexive territoriality, suggesting continual, ever speedier revision, monitoring, and reproduction of a state's constructed strategy responding to control defined 'risks', such as migration. These regulations are fed and actualised by new information flows and technologies, as the state's attempt to 'control' its borders by making them political realities of difference with particular material and normative outcomes. Here, the politics of representation involves an image of border 'security' which effects the socio-spatialisation of collective identity, specifically the reinforcement of difference and a secure nationalism narrative. The securitisation also reflects a modern understanding of knowledge as regulation and order.
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Rattazzi, Erin Alexis. "Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14273.
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Includes bibliographical references.The seven women who shared their stories of rape at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these testimonies of rape were affected by explicit and implicit underlying narrative frameworks associated with the language of the TRC, and that of rape. In particular, this project analyses the extent to which the juxtaposition of these two frameworks at the TRC may have either enabled or constrained the seven women's narratives.
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Roth, Clémentine [Verfasser]. "Why Narratives of History Matter : Serbian and Croatian Political Discourses on European Integration / Clémentine Roth." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1169989292/34.
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Fisher, Ruth. "Resistance and survival : deconstructing the narratives of women political prisoners after the Spanish Civil War." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22106/.
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This thesis offers a comparative reading of life writing by female political prisoners who were imprisoned after the Spanish Civil War, studying six texts in particular: the two volumes of Cárcel de mujeres by Tomasa Cuevas; Desde la noche y la niebla by Juana Doña; Réquiem por la libertad by Ángeles García Madrid; Abajo las dictaduras by Josefa García Segret; and Aquello sucedió así by Ángeles Malonda. The representation of women’s imprisonment in Spain has been dominated by Communist narratives, while texts by non-Communist women have largely been ignored. Situating these life writing accounts during the Transition when they were published allows us to analyse them as responses to the process of democratisation and as constructions, rather than as simple factual representations of life under the dictatorship. A comparative reading of Communist texts demonstrates the high degree of similarity between them, highlighting that they offer ideologically-driven depictions of imprisonment as a collective experience. Reading them alongside non-Communist life writing shows that the Communist narrative foregrounds resistance at the expense of exploring the individual, emotional, and intellectual struggle for survival that many women faced as political prisoners in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
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Whigham, Stuart. "Scotland's future and 2014 : political narratives of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the independence referendum." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/24015.
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This thesis critically examines the predominant narratives which emanated from political discourse in relation to two significant events in Scotland in 2014 the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the independence referendum. In particular, the thesis scrutinises the extent to which the staging of the Games in Scotland was exploited politically in relation to debates about Scotland s constitutional future. Given the importance of the referendum and its proximity to the Games, it is unsurprising that the event became intertwined with political positioning from parties on both sides of the constitutional debate. Utilising a novel methodological approach which synthesises analytical frameworks from the field of narrative analysis (Somers, 1994) and political discourse analysis (Fairclough and Fairclough, 2014), this thesis critically examines a range of political discourse sources produced by the five political parties represented in the Scottish Parliament, such as parliamentary speeches, press releases, manifestos and policy documents. Furthermore, the analysis of political discourse is complemented by analysis of nine interviews with MSPs from the respective political parties, namely the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Labour Party, the Scottish Conservatives, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Green Party. The findings of these complementary analyses are further interrogated through reference to existing academic literature on the relationship between nationalism, politics, sport and international sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games. The thesis identifies a number of emergent findings which make an original contribution to the study of the interconnection between sport, political nationalism and the Commonwealth Games, demonstrating the nuanced and contrasting narratives of the respective pro-independence and pro-union parties with respect to Scotland s constitutional future and the political ramifications of the Games for the independence referendum. These nuanced positions are demonstrated through consideration of: a) the contrasting narratives of the parties on the Games sporting and economic legacy; b) the political symbolism of the Games for Scotland s constitutional status; c) discourse asserting that the Games should remain an apolitical event; d) the nature of cross-party consensus supporting the Games; and, e) the role of the Games and sport in contemporary political communication. Given the emergence of numerous examples within this thesis whereby the Games became embroiled with political considerations, it is hoped that the prevailing political perceptions regarding the apolitical nature of sport can be challenged, thus allowing for a more diverse array of ideological approaches to the politics of sport.