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91	Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching as a Performance of Embodied Resistance in Jamaican Dancehall Culture Harris, Treviene A 14 January 2014 (has links) This thesis examines how skin bleaching can be understood within the cultural context of Jamaican dancehall. I argue that as a cultural practice, skin bleaching can be viewed as a critique of the concomitant structural inequalities precipitated by colorism, which is a by-product of racism. In proposing skin bleaching as a queer performance of color, I attempt to illustrate the manner in which the lightening of the skin exposes the instability of racism and colorism as socially constructed, discursive regimes. If race and skin color are biological and embodied facts dictated by social reality, then bodies, which are racially marked and colored subjects, can be used to project counter discourses that challenge these specific regimes. The space of discursive limit imposed on the racialized or colored body-subject is a space from which critiques of dominant discourses can be projected, and bleaching does precisely that. I conclude therefore, that skin bleaching is performed resistance which challenges the dominating discourses on race by first destabilizing the notion that skin color is an immutable biological fact, and second by contesting subsequent discourses that are contingent on the “facts” of color and race. English Cultural Studies Skin Bleaching Jamaica Reggae Studies Reggae Dancehall Colorism Queer Postcolonial Colonial Performance Culture Community-Based Research Critical and Cultural Studies Dance Esthetics Ethnomusicology Inequality and Stratification Other English Language and Literature Other International and Area Studies Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Performance Studies Politics and Social Change Social and Cultural Anthropology
92	The British North Sea: The Importance Of And Factors Affecting Tax Revenue From Oil Production Hill, Mark 10 February 2004 (has links) (PDF) The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power. Management of this resource and the tax revenue it generates are of serious strategic importance, both domestically and internationally. Understanding the results of taxation for this important commodity is important to international relations as well. The tax system affects tax revenue, government actions, oil company actions, and the oil supply itself. Each of these is important to international relations. North Sea British tax taxation government policy oil gas crude crude oil natural resources United Kingdom United Kingdom Continental Shelf UK UKCS Great Britain Scotland Norway petroleum economic rent OPEC Middle East Piper Alpha mineral mineral taxation tax regime tax revenue fiscal system David Ricardo Johnston royalties PRT SPD Special Petroleum Duty Rig count take government take corporation tax econometric Other International and Area Studies
93	Contribution as Method: A Book Talk for Foreign-Born American Patriots: Sixteen Volunteer Leaders in the Revolutionary War Lyons, Renee' C. 13 June 2014 (has links) Constituting a proposal for a book talk associated with the scholarly title Foreign-Born American Patriots: Sixteen Volunteer Leaders of the Revolutionary War, the presenter of this session (and author of the book) will introduce the scholarly work to participants for the purpose of highlighting research based in contribution, rather than interpretation. The author will detail the means by which the investigation of human experience and work product, storylines/patterns, and social cause may provide the context for creative scholarly works. The author will also reveal the unique contribution of Foreign Born American Patriots to historical and Southern Studies discourse, the book serving, up through the date of this proposal, as the only collective work regarding those foreigners who helped the newly formed United States defeat the British Army (many battles fought in the Southern States). Historical analysis American studies Southern studies Methodology Social cause Social psychology Volunteerism Altruism Military history American revolution Leadership Profiles Personality Applied Behavior Analysis Cultural History Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Educational Methods Higher Education and Teaching International Relations Leadership Studies Military History Other American Studies Other International and Area Studies Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Personality and Social Contexts Social History Social Psychology Social Psychology and Interaction United States History
94	The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the European Union: A Case Study of Germany and Hungary Schelb, Simone-Ariane 13 November 2017 (has links) This thesis explores the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on the Common European Asylum System. It evaluates the extent to which the European Union was able to implement a common asylum system, identifies discrepancies between different European countries, primarily Germany and Hungary, and briefly examines the roots of these differences. To this end, the structure of the international refugee protection regime and the German and Hungarian asylum systems are analyzed. Furthermore, the thesis explores how the governments of the two countries perceive the rights of refugees and how their views have affected their handling of the crisis. The case studies of Germany and Hungary have revealed that the treatment of Syrian refugees varies enormously within the EU. Hence, the implementation of the Common European Asylum System has not been achieved, which can be attributed to the deficiencies within the system and the growing ideological rifts within the EU. Syrian refugee crisis international refugee protection regime Common European Asylum System European refugee crisis German asylum system Hungarian asylum system Comparative Politics Eastern European Studies European Languages and Societies European Law Human Rights Law Immigration Law International and Area Studies International Humanitarian Law International Law International Relations Language Interpretation and Translation Law and Politics Legal Studies Near and Middle Eastern Studies Other International and Area Studies Political Science
95	Comparative Analysis of Maori of Aotearoa and James Bay Cree of Eeyou Istechee Cultural Heritage Values and Political Histories of Land Tenure Systems Schaeffer, Erin 01 January 2012 (has links) (PDF) This thesis relies on an interdisciplinary framework to conduct an investigation of seminal national policies and planning processes in New Zealand and Quebec Province, Canada related to sovereignty, indigenous land rights, and customary land tenure systems. Theoretical frameworks for this research include a comparative analysis of European legislative systems and traditional planning frameworks in relation to indigenous governance systems and land tenure systems for the Maori (NZ) and James Bay Cree (QC). Through interviews and experiential knowledge I will document tools and techniques that these indigenous communities use to navigate complex cross-cultural policy and planning processes for their own advocacy of cultural heritage values. From the Maori perspective, cultural heritage values include the concept and principles of kaitikatanga. James Bay Cree cultural heritage values include the concept and guiding principles embedded in Eeyou Iyihtiwin. These cultural heritage values represent abstract concepts and guiding principles that are embedded in and gain meaning from local context, cultural knowledge and customary traditions. The Maori and James Bay Cree share a similar orientation to the meaning and importance of land. Together these indigenous communities view land as the foundation for collective and individual identity and cultural traditions. From this perspective and meaning of land, the Maori and James Bay Cree recognize that people are a part of a greater interconnected system that spans across physical and metaphysical spaces. In practice, native or customary land tenure systems are based on cultural heritage values that support a spirit of reciprocity with an underlying expectation that a balanced system will provide for all life. This analysis may provide a new cross-cultural framework for policy and planning processes to provide opportunities for fair negotiation of sustainable land tenure systems and natural resource management. Indigenous Land Rights Land Tenure Systems Cultural Heritage Values James Bay Cree Maori Biological and Physical Anthropology Civic and Community Engagement Common Law Environmental Law Folklore Human Geography Law and Politics Linguistic Anthropology Other International and Area Studies Physical and Environmental Geography Place and Environment Politics and Social Change Science and Technology Law Social and Cultural Anthropology Urban, Community and Regional Planning Urban Studies and Planning

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