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Rethinking anti-racism
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Chris Gilligan
Published: 30 August 2017
... their roots in capitalism as a social system. Both are integral to, and arise out of, the contradiction between the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and a system of production that limits the realisation of these ideals in practice. When we look at the issue of racism and antiracism in this way...
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The novel
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Eileen Fauset
Published: 01 March 2009
...This chapter examines the cultural attitudes towards women novelists during Kavanagh's lifetime. It shows Kavanagh's importance as a novelist who drew on the cultural contradictions of the period, and suggests that her insights into gender and class differences were essential to her writing...
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Published: 31 July 2013
... to affirm that the racial hierarchy of empire accorded to the dictates of nature. imperial contradictions civilising mission assimilation Greater Britain separate development black peril In 1837, the year of Queen victoria’s accession, a group of abolitionists led by members of the Society of Friends...
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Socio-ideological Fantasy and the Northern Ireland Conflict: The Other Side
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Adrian Millar
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 31 December 2006
...Conducting an analysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and loyalists in Northern Ireland, this book demonstrates through a psychoanalysis of slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions...
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British Military Service Tribunals, 1916–18: A Very Much Abused Body of Men
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James McDermott
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 12 May 2011
.... Wielding unprecedented power yet acutely sensitive to the contradictions inherent in their task, they were obliged, often at a conveyer belt's pace, to make decisions that often determined the fate of men, their families, and ultimately, their communities. That some of these decisions were capricious...
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Conclusion: impossible reanimations
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William McEvoy
Published: 30 July 2024
... need we have to find creative forms to express our response to death. The conclusion then offers thoughts on grief’s dynamics, volatility, contradictions and disruptive qualities. bereavement coffin father grave Larkin Philip Navvy Boots On voice animacy fiction as concept ghosts guilt...
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Tribe, (caste) and nation in the Balkans: contradiction and change in Yugoslavia and Croatia
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Mary Kay Gilliland
Published: 07 June 2022
...Bailey’s models for describing and analyzing sociocultural conflict and contradiction in Tribe, Caste and Nation (1960) influenced work in Yugoslavia and Croatia during two distinct periods of research. The chapter first describes family, gender, and household life in Yugoslavia in the years...
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A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies
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Eileen Fauset
Published: 01 March 2009
... in the Two Sicilies , in which she uses a domestic approach and comments on the gender politics and cultural contradictions of life in the two Sicilies. The chapter then refers to women travellers, and observes that Kavanagh presents a prominent voice as she draws on the context of cultural...