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Conclusion: The Mediaverse Toolkit
Contemporary media technologies and affordances are indicative of the constantly transforming landscape of television media. In examining the mediaverses of the various texts in this study, the complexities of...
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Foreword
German Structural Pacifism, Cultural Trauma and German Security Policy Since Reunification, is a seminal work, with significant implications for the understanding of contemporary German public policy, far beyond ...
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Guiding Questions, Hypotheses, Scope and Methodology
The political science approach Lilly Gardner Feldman combined with Leiner’s Jenaer approach as well as the conflicting dichotomies of transitional justice (TJ) provide a theoretical and analytical framework fo...
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Conclusion
If the adage holds true that states and militaries are generally preparing for the last war, then German security policy is designed to prevent the last war. More specifically, it is designed to prevent German...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the factory as the main field site of this research. It presents the research questions, the contributions, and the structure of the book.
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Conclusions
This concluding chapter offers a comprehensive summary of the different theoretical and analytical steps taken in the preceding chapters. Furthermore, it raises potential questions and themes for further resea...
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Introduction
“In the last two centuries, more and more people have come to see history in terms of relentless, often painful movement away from the past and toward an uncertain future.” There are precious few countries for...
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Background: Structures, Historical Numbers, Maps
This chapter provides an overview of Greek local politics and its structure, it presents numbers relevant to WWII and the Occupation while offering a unique detailed mapping of all 124 martyr communities.
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Introduction
Water is the source of life. In many religions it is portrayed as something sacred—a gift from God. Water is required for almost all a society’s activities, such as the very visible ones of washing and cooking...
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“Small Places, Large Issues”—The Cases
The Greek martyr villages serve as paradigms for policy analysis to examine the effect of international issues on the local level and vice versa. The title of this chapter is borrowed from Eriksen’s book on so...
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Introduction
This first chapter introduces the general context of the study: it starts by pointing out the transnational powers of an organisation such as the European Union, which have been used to tackle the global finan...
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Europeanisation and Soft Law
This chapter starts by introducing the notion of Europeanisation research of hard law. This strand of literature might be one of the largest in comparative policy research as it still offers a large bouquet of...
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Conclusion: Paradoxes of Nationality in Theory and Practice
The point of departure of this study is the experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa, namely the challenges they face in the foreign context and which tend to throw them back upon recourse to their na...
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Background: Social Movements, Climate Justice, & Extinction Rebellion
Social movements play an imperative role in the world today. From engaging in democracies to addressing crucial issues, they serve many purposes. The communication of collective opinions in such present and di...
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Methodology
This study entails an investigation of various narratives on the decision-making process of joining XR. Through narrative interviews, it aims to explore how people experience different factors that influence t...
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Discussion
The results present a wide variety of findings, which further support the relevance of additional research in the environmental activist realm. The following chapter aims to bring these extensive results into ...
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Introduction
In the U.S. vice presidential debate in 2004, Dick Cheney attempted to defend himself against allegations made by his opponent John Edwards regarding his alleged misconduct as former CEO of Halliburton by refe...
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Introduction
The climate crisis is a collective issue and therefore requires collective solutions. Environmental activism is one manifestation of humans working together in an attempt to communicate the gravity of the cris...
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Discussion
Political fact-checking has experienced remarkable growth, rapidly expanding worldwide and taking various forms in diverse societies. At its core, monitoring the public discourse and verifying the integrity or...
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Conclusion
This thesis utilized social identity models on collective action to initiate an investigation into what motivates participation in environmental activism groups—specifically analyzing the case of the local XR ...