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Published: 24 March 2011
...This chapter focuses on the tensions within the political community, on those fissures that broke apart the consensus that made government possible. It observes that ideas about resistance, implacable religious divisions and a legacy of weak government and civil war that fed the worst attributes...
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Published: 19 August 2010
... pleasures. It studies how the stage capitalized on the visceral appeal of physical resistance and forced conversions, and reveals how the threat of conversion was framed by a culture of domestic religious unrest. It discusses the historical backdrop of increased English awareness of the Ottoman Empire...
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Published: 19 August 2010
... martyrdom and the strategies for resisting Islam, which is presented in Thomas Dekker's The Virgin Martyr. It then shows how the early modern stage called upon histories of previous pagan persecution to portray the threat of persecution from the Muslims. The chapter also takes a look...
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Published: 22 June 2005
... relationality, unlike intrinsicality, is existentially committed. It explores Nietzsche's bundle theory of objects and the role of resistance in bringing powers into relations and suggests that Nietzsche believed that powers do not logically imply other powers on which they are existentially dependent. efficacy...
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Published: 31 January 2013
... Cows Julio Medem 1992 Basque cinema Oteagi Pedro Revueltas Paco Rivera Mamen Aizpuru Itziar Argoitia José Ramón Eguileor Zorion Pagoaga Mariasun family comedy coming out exploitation oppression resistance visibility This chapter looks back through the earlier 1990s in Spain and the mini...
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Published: 05 July 2010
...This chapter examines the crucial role played by resistance, which is enacted and expressed by the ‘essayistic’, and looks at Woolf's call for participation, critical thinking and activity, as well as the increase in the use of the new media. It highlights the impact of Woolf's Three...
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Published: 31 December 2019
... of colonial resistance. Afterwards she examines the elaboration of a culture centre which involved in the 1990’s the representatives of a dozen Aboriginal languages and organisations based in the coastal town of Broome; this initiative reflected an attempt to control the representation given of their cultures...
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Published: 30 November 2022
... protests and other acts of resistance. However, it argues that the framework of international protection does not recognise these acts as political, and so reinforces the loss of political agency for the displaced. Finally, the chapter discusses Agency, and the absence of political agency for the displaced...
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Published: 31 August 2020
...This chapter investigates how narratives of oppression and the resistance postures that Kurds adopt play into notions of identity. For Kurds day-to-day and political life is infused with instances of ‘resistance’. The chapter highlights three threads that emerge from the Kurds’ experience in Turkey...
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Published: 25 August 2020
... commerce Smith A Marx K Polanyi K Habermas J Parsons T Streeck W autonomy commodity contract debt empowerment guilt resistance social bonds Today, individuals, households and states have accumulated enormous amounts of debt. Their indebtedness has significant social and political...
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Published: 01 July 2019
...The conclusion returns to the politics of prefiguration and political coalition. There are certain dangers involved in practices of resistance which set themselves in opposition to coherent and stable enemies, and which seek to build hegemonic coalitions. Such practices often struggle to contend...
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Published: 01 November 2017
... but indeed the resistances of psychoanalysis itself. Adler Alfred Freud Sigmund lupus phobia Deleuze Gilles Europe love Oedipus Oedipal repression wolf Agamben Giorgio deconstruction Derrida Jacques Jung Carl sovereignty Vienna Circle object anxiety Arendt Hannah complex...
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Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 01 November 2017
...As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outside of the psychoanalytic tradition, the question...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... Subasri Muslims ‘Not in My Name’ coalition political activism Roy Rahul sectarian violence surveillance censorship exhibition March March March 2017 mutualistic relations New Delhi artistic autonomy Cinema of Resistance COR crowdfunding The Factory 2015 An Insignificant Man 2016 trade...
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Published: 30 June 2019
... oratory public speech Peterloo rhetoric coercion resistance civil unrest violence Daniel O’Connell, the Irish barrister who emerged in the late 1810s as a leading agitator for Catholic Emancipation, described the Peterloo massacre as ‘the most portentous event in modern history’. 1...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... resistance to the peripheralisation of both Arabic and the Arabs. On the other hand, it kept alive, in the context of continuing peripheralisation, the Arabs’ aspiration for self-empowerment and their vision of a more equilibrial and balanced international order than the order found at present...
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Published: 30 May 2022
... of having to act, but from refraining from action, from the weakness or impotency ‘that turns back on itself’ and becomes a ‘pure act’ in another sense altogether from that which defines traditional forms of sovereign and divine power. As a form of resistance, this alternative power is captured...
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Published: 22 October 2021
...Ute Holl examines Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy in terms of historiography, using genealogical procedures. Taking the cue from Nietzsche and Foucault, she argues that memory is a matter of constant translation, negotiating power relations as well as individual forms of resistance...
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Published: 01 November 2021
... subculture Culture and Society 1958 modern day myths Policing the Crisis 1978 resistance Resistance Through Rituals 1975 subcultures Subculture The Meaning of Style 1979 The Politics of Thatcherism 1983 agitprop videos and Sunni supremacism Directorate of Communications Islamism Kemalism...
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Published: 01 November 2021
... in the Greater Istanbul Area. It focuses primarily on the activities of the Northern Forests Defense (NFD), an ecological activist group. The chapter confronts the reader about both the practical and theoretical means and possibilities of resistance. Ultimately, it poses two questions: how is this group using...