Dissertations / Theses: 'Indian agents'

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Brownlie, Robin. "A fatherly eye, two Indian agents on Georgian Bay, 1918-1939." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ27779.pdf.

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Kent, Eddy. "The company man: colonial agents and the idea of the virtuous empire, 1786-1901." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/411.

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The Company Man argues that corporate ways of organising communities permeated British imperial culture. My point of departure is the obsession shared between Anglo-Indian writers and imperial policymakers with the threat of unmanageable agency, the employee who will not follow orders. By taking up Giambattista Vico's claim that human subjects and human institutions condition each other reciprocally, I argue that Anglo-Indian literature is properly understood as one of a series of disciplinary apparatuses which were developed in response to that persistent logistical problem: how best to convince plenipotentiary agents to work in the interest of a mercantile employer, the East India Company. The Company Man reconsiders the way we think and write about Victorian imperial culture by taking this institutional approach. For one thing, the dominant position of the Company highlights the limitation of our continuing dependence on the nation as a critical hermeneutic. Additionally, I show how the prevalence of ideas like duty, service, and sacrifice in colonial literature is more than simply the natural output of a nation looking to sacralise everyday practice in the wake of their famous "Victorian loss of faith." Rather, I place these ideas among a structure of feeling, which I call aristocratic virtue, that was developed by imperial policymakers looking to militate against the threat of rogue agents. The subject material under consideration includes novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, personal correspondence, and parliamentary speeches. These texts span a century but are clustered around four nodal points, which illustrate moments of innovation in the technologies of regulation and control. My opening chapter examines how the idea of an overseas empire first acquired virtue in the minds of the British public. The second explores how the Company grafted this virtue onto its corporate structure in its training colleges and competition exams. The third shows how Anglo-Indian literature continued to disseminate the rhetoric of self-sacrifice and noble suffering long after the Company ceded control to the Crown. The final chapter shows how this corporate culture reflects in that most canonical of imperial novels, Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901).

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Musk, Stephen Rolin Robert. "Defective responses of a simian virus 40-transformed Indian muntjac cell line to DNA damaging agents." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329256.

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Esnault, Olivier. "Diversité des agents pathogènes de l’abeille dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Océan Indien dans un contexte d’invasion récente de Varroa destructor et mortalités associées." Thesis, La Réunion, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LARE0044/document.

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L’abeille mellifère (Apis mellifera) est une espèce clé dans son aire d’origine tant pour les services écosystémiques rendus que pour les productions apicoles. Toutefois, ses populations sont soumises à différents facteurs de stress biotiques responsables de mortalités importantes. Dans les îles du Sud- Ouest de l’Océan Indien (SOOI) la sous-espèce d’abeille endémique est A. m. unicolor. Toutefois, aucune étude n’avait été réalisée sur sa pathosphère et ce n’est que depuis 2010 où l’ectoparasite Varroa destructor a envahi certaines de ces îles, menaçant cette sous-espèce, que de premières études ont été conduites. Dans ce travail de thèse, nous avons réalisé un état des lieux général de la santé des cheptels d’abeilles grâce à des enquêtes épidémiologiques descriptives dans la majorité des îles : La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues, Madagascar et les Seychelles. Nous avons pu montrer des faciès épidémiologiques assez similaires entre les îles, marqués par une dominance de Nosema ceranae particulièrement dans les petites îles (80-100%) et la présence de 3 virus : BQCV (4-89%), CBPV (2-51% excepté à Rodrigues) et DWV (4-40% excepté à La Réunion). D’autres agents pathogènes n’ont été retrouvés que sur certains territoires comme Aethina tumida, Braula pretoriensis, Acarapis sp. ou Melissococcus plutonius. L’analyse de la diversité génétique réalisée sur les 3 virus a montré une proximité des souches virales au sein du SOOI. Les enquêtes réalisées dans un contexte sans varroa ont montré une bonne santé des colonies avec une absence de signes cliniques. Les mortalités constatées n’ont concernées que les territoires envahis par varroa : Madagascar, Maurice, La Réunion. Varroa semble donc être le principal responsable des mortalités aiguës de colonies dans la zone bien avant les autres agents pathogènes ou les causes environnementales. Son impact sur les populations d’abeilles et in fine sur les écosystèmes indigènes sera à évaluer dans les années futures
The honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a key species in its native range for both ecosystem services offerred and for bee products. However, its populations are subject to various biotic stressors responsible for significant mortalities. In the South-West Indian Ocean region the endemic bee subspecies is A. m.unicolor. However, no studies had been carried out on its pathosphere and it is only since 2010 where the ectoparasite Varroa destructor invaded some of these islands, threatening this subspecies, that first studies were conducted. In this thesis work, we carried out a general inventory of the health of honeybee herds through descriptive epidemiological surveys in the majority of islands: Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Madagascar and Seychelles. We were able to show quite similar epidemiological facies between islands, characterized by a dominance of Nosema ceranae especially in small islands (80-100%) and the presence of 3 viruses: BQCV (4-89%), CBPV (2- 51% except in Rodrigues) and DWV (4-40% except in Reunion). Other pathogens have only been found in certain territories such as Aethinatumida, Braula pretoriensis, Acarapis sp. or Melissococcus plutonius. The analysis of the genetic diversity carried out on the 3 viruses showed a proximity of viral strains within the SOOI. Surveys conducted in a context without varroa showed good colony health with no clinical signs. The observed mortalities concerned only the territories invaded by varroa: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion. Varroa therefore appears to be the main cause of acute colony mortality in the area long before other pathogens or environmental causes. Its impact on bee populations and ultimately on native ecosystems will be evaluated in future years

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Manore, Jean. "Power and performance the Indian agent and the agency, 1877-1897 : two western case studies." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4881.

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Girier, Jean-Philippe. "De la déconstruction du mythe de la femme soumise à la construction de la femme agent dans la littérature et le cinéma indiens contemporains." Thesis, Antilles, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ANTI0382.

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La littérature et le cinéma Indiens contemporains s’inscrivent dans une dynamique qui va de pair avec les profondes mutations socio-économiques qui touchent l’Inde depuis la fin des années mille neuf cent quatre vingt. En effet, de nombreux romans et films se caractérisent par une liberté d’expression qui aborde de nombreux sujets autrefois considérés comme tabous. Le vent du renouveau qui balaie l’Inde est également marqué par l’augmentation du nombre d’auteures et de réalisatrices qui placent la femme au coeur de leurs récits et de leurs intrigues. Ainsi, l’objectif de cette étude est de montrer d’une part, comment l’image de la femme Indienne passive et soumise a été construite pendant le long processus de colonisation, d’autre part, comment la littérature et le cinéma contemporains tentent de réhabiliter la place de la femme dans l’histoire afin de construire une représentation nouvelle et dynamique qui symbolise la femme Indienne des années deux mille. Les romans respectifs d’Anita Nair et de Githa Hariharan, Compartiment pour dames et Les Mille visages de la nuit, tout comme les films Fire, Water de Deepa Mehta ainsi que Le Mariage des moussons de Mira Nair s’inscrivent dans un mouvement de résistance où l’agentivité des héroïnes témoigne de la volonté et de la difficulté de s’affranchir de trois siècles de mise à la marge. Dans une première partie, nous proposons de parcourir l'histoire, celle qui a attribué à l'homme des capacités supérieures à celles de la femme, lui conférant par extension une autorité, un pouvoir de domination. Cette approche historique et sociologique permet de comprendre comment ont été construits les liens qui unissent l'humain et le divin en Inde. Notre regard se posera également sur les bouleversements conséquents engendrés par la colonisation britannique. Cette période de l'histoire de l’Inde sera analysée afin de mettre en évidence les modes opératoires par lesquels l’empire britannique est parvenu à imposer un mode de vie fidèle à sa vision du monde tout en excluant les femmes des sphères décisionnelles afin de les « consigner » dans l'espace domestique. La seconde partie de la thèse analyse l'espace familial, devenu le lieu par excellence de reproduction des postulats androcentriques. Cet espace privé sera observé de près et nous nous engagerons dans une démarche qui combine psychanalyse et sociologie afin de démontrer l’importance de la construction du féminin dans le processus de déconstruction identitaire. Nous porterons une attention particulière au rôle jouer par la mère dans le processus de reproduction. La position ambivalente qu’elle occupe conduit souvent à une fragmentation entre l’être physique, l’être social et l’être psychique. La psyché devient alors un espace habité par le doute et la peur tout en étant l'ultime refuge de réconfort. Ce décentrement entre le corps et l'esprit nous emmènera dans le domaine de la psychosomatique, là où le rêve est le lieu privilégié de la reconstruction psychique. Nous observerons également les stratégies utilisées par les romancières et les cinéastes afin d’entamer le processus de reconstruction identitaire de leurs héroïnes. La troisième partie s'intéresse au cinéma et à la littérature à travers leur complémentarité. Dans un premier temps, nous retracerons l’histoire du cinéma de la marge et nous soulignerons son caractère engagé qui le différencie de certains cinémas populaires tels que bollywood. Par la suite, nous effectuons un rapprochement entre le roman et son adaptation au cinéma afin de mettre en évidence la complémentarité des oeuvres ainsi que la notion de solidarité qui représente un point essentiel dans ce travail collaboratif. En effet, les cinéastes de la diaspora que sont Deepa Mehta et Mira Nair, ont développé une approche militante et solidaire que l’on retrouve aussi bien dans l’écriture du script que dans le choix des acteurs et des actrices
Contemporary Indian literature and cinema are part of a dynamic that goes hand in hand with the profound socio-economic changes that have affected India since the end of the nineteen eighties. Indeed, many novels and films are characterized by a freedom of expression that touches on many subjects that were once considered taboo. The wind of renewal sweeping India is also marked by the increase in the number of writers and directors who place women at the heart of their stories and intrigues. Thus, the objective of this study is to show, on the one hand, how the image of the passive and submissive Indian woman was constructed during the long process of colonization, on the other hand, how contemporary literature and cinema attempt to rehabilitate the place of women in history in order to build a new and dynamic representation which symbolizes the Indian woman of the 2000s. The respective novels of Anita Nair and Githa Hariharan, Ladies' Compartment and The Thousand Faces of the Night, as well as the films Fire, Water by Deepa Mehta as well as The Marriage of the monsoons by Mira Nair are part of a resistance movement. where the agency of the heroines testifies to the will and the difficulty of freeing oneself from three centuries of marginalization.In the first part, we propose to walk through the history, that which attributed to the man capacities superior to those of the woman, conferring upon him by extension an authority, a power of domination. This historical and sociological approach allows us to understand how the links which unite the human and the divine in India were built. Our gaze will also focus on the consequent upheavals engendered by British colonization. This period of Indian history will be analyzed in order to highlight the modus operandi by which the British Empire succeeded in imposing a lifestyle faithful to its vision of the world while excluding women from decision-making spheres in order to "consign" them in the domestic space.The second part of the thesis analyzes the family space, which has become the place par excellence for the reproduction of androcentric postulates. This private space will be closely observed and we will engage in an approach that combines psychoanalysis and sociology in order to demonstrate the importance of the construction of the feminine in the process of identity deconstruction. We will pay particular attention to the role played by the mother in the reproductive process. The ambivalent position it occupies often leads to a fragmentation between the physical being, the social being and the psychic being. The psyche then becomes a space inhabited by doubt and fear while being the ultimate refuge of comfort. This shift between body and mind will take us to the field of psychosomatics, where dreams are the privileged place for psychic reconstruction. We will also observe the strategies used by novelists and filmmakers to begin the process of rebuilding the identity of their heroines.The third part focuses on cinema and literature through their complementarity. First, we will retrace the history of cinema from the sidelines and highlight its committed character that sets it apart from some popular cinemas such as Bollywood. Subsequently, we make a connection between the novel and its adaptation to the cinema in order to highlight the complementarity of the works as well as the notion of solidarity which represents an essential point in this collaborative work. Indeed, diaspora filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair have developed an activist and united approach that can be found both in the writing of the script and in the choice of actors and actresses. This activism will be illustrated by examples that highlight the many instances of agency staged in order to build a dynamic image of women in India

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Galeane, Mariana Cristina [UNESP]. "Prospecção fitoquímica de ativos em extratos e frações originados de folhas de Azadirachta indica A. JUSS. visando atividade antimicrobiana." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134011.

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Galeane, Mariana Cristina. "Prospecção fitoquímica de ativos em extratos e frações originados de folhas de Azadirachta indica A. JUSS. visando atividade antimicrobiana /." Araraquara, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134011.

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McCoy, Leila M. (Leila Melanie). "Agenda-Setting by Minority Political Groups: A Case Study of American Indian Tribes." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331286/.

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This study tested theoretical propositions concerning agenda-setting by minority political groups in the United States to see if they had the scope to be applicable to American Indian tribes or if there were alternative explanations for how this group places its agenda items on the formal agenda and resolves them. Indian tribes were chosen as the case study because they are of significantly different legal and political status than other minority groups upon which much of the previous research has been done. The study showed that many of the theoretical propositions regarding agenda-setting by minority groups were explanatory for agenda-setting by Indian tribes. The analyses seemed to demonstrate that Indian tribes use a closed policy subsystem to place tribal agenda items on the formal agenda. The analyses demonstrated that most tribal agenda items resolved by Congress involve no major policy changes but rather incremental changes in existing policies. The analyses also demonstrated that most federal court decisions involving Indian tribes have no broad impact or significance to all Indian tribes. The analyses showed that both Congress and the federal courts significantly influence the tribal agenda but the relationship between the courts and Congress in agenda-setting in this area of policy are unclear. Another finding of the study was that tribal leaders have no significant influence in setting the formal agendas of either Congress or the federal courts. However, they do have some success in the resolution of significant tribal agenda items as a result of their unique legal and political status. This study also contributed to the literature concerning agenda-setting by Indian tribes and tribal politics and study results have many practical implications for tribal leaders.

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Rocha, Esron Soares Carvalho. "Uma etnografia das práticas sanitárias no Distrito Sanitário especial indígena do Rio Negro - Noroeste do Amazonas." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2008. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/2280.

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This study is characterised as ethnography of the sanitary practices developed at the Rio Negro Indian Sanitary Special District (DSEI), highlighting the work organization of nursing professionals, such as, nurses, nursing technicians and the Indian health-care agent. Its aims comprise the sanitary practices employed by the Indian Health-Care Multidisciplinary Team (EMSI) nursing corps regarding the provision of differentiated attention to health-care as it interacts with the Baniwa Indian health-care agent (AIS), his forming process and sociodemographic profile; social representations and sanitary practices, seeking to grasp his compatibility and/or incompatibility with the policy of differentiated attention to the Indian health-care subsystem. The present research entails a prospective, descriptive, qualitative type study, directed by the interpretative model of the social representation theory and health evaluative survey. The findings here obtained show that the Baniwa AIS, faces problems regarding his low schooling, along with the fact that his professional forming process has advanced very little since the DSEI was implemented six years ago. The EMSI acting profile is marked by the care treatment model to the spontaneous demand, even though the professionals provide care for diseases of the infectious, chronic-degenerative type to specific population groups (mother-child group), with detriment to health surveillance components presupposed on the design of the National health programs. Among the set of essential activities developed in the DSEI, the travelling logistics consumes a large part of the EMSI time and energy, with negative implications on the health-care agent overseeing and followup as well as on the implementation of the differentiated attention principle presupposed by the National Indian Health-Care Policy. The areas are still greatly patched and the differentiated attention gets mixed up with the extension of the coverage provided by the DSEI Implantation.
O estudo se caracteriza como uma etnografia das práticas sanitárias desenvolvidas no DSEI Rio Negro, com ênfase na organização do trabalho dos profissionais de enfermagem, aí compreendidos o enfermeiro, o técnico de enfermagem e o agente indígena de saúde. Os objetivos compreendem a análise das práticas sanitárias do corpo de enfermagem da Equipe Multidisciplinar de Saúde na oferta de atenção diferenciada à saúde e em interação com o agente indígena de saúde; do perfil-sócio-demográfico e o processo de formação dos Agentes Indígenas de Saúde (AIS) Baniwa; das representações sociais e práticas sanitárias dos AIS, buscando apreender sua compatibilidade e/ou incompatibilidade com a política de atenção diferenciada do subsistema de saúde indígena. A pesquisa é um estudo exploratório, descritivo, do tipo qualitativo, orientado pelo modelo interpretativo da teoria das representações sociais e da pesquisa avaliativa em saúde. Os resultados obtidos mostram que os AIS Baniwa enfrentam problemas ligados à baixa escolaridade, e que seu processo de formação profissional pouco avançou após 6 anos de implantação do DSEI. O perfil de atuação da EMSI é marcado pelo modelo assistencial curativo à demanda espontânea, ainda que os profissionais efetuem assistência a agravos de tipo infeccioso, crônico-degenerativo e de grupos populacionais específicos (grupo materno-infantil), com prejuízo dos componentes de vigilância a saúde previstos na organização dos programas nacionais de saúde. Dentre o conjunto de atividades essenciais desenvolvidas no DSEI, a logística de deslocamento consome grande parte do tempo e energia da EMSI, com implicações negativas na supervisão e acompanhamento dos agentes de saúde e na implementação do princípio da atenção diferenciada previsto na Política Nacional de Saúde Indígena. As áreas são ainda bastante fragmentadas e a atenção diferenciada se confunde com a extensão de cobertura provida pela implantação do DSEI.

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Messara, Dahia. "Discours puritain et voix indienne dans les récits de captivité nord-américains des dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MULH4475/document.

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Cette thèse examine le discours puritain ainsi que les différentes manifestations de la présence indienne et de la voix indienne (Indian agency) dans la littérature Puritaine des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles en général et dans les récits de captivité indienne en particulier. Les récits de captivité manquent évidemment d’objectivité en ceci qu’ils présentent une version unique des faits (celle des auteurs puritains des récits). Le problème de la subjectivité se pose d’autant plus lorsque l’on examine les paroles censées avoir été prononcées par les Indiens (les paroles que leur attribuent leurs anciens captifs). Ce constat nous a amené à poser la question suivante : par-delà la définition du récit de captivité au sens concret du terme (otages puritains entre les mains des Indiens dans le contexte précis de l’Amérique du Nord coloniale), n’y aurait-il pas lieu de postuler l’existence, au sein de ces récits (« en filigrane ») d’autres formes, plus abstraites, de captivité, comme celle que constituerait l’« l’emprisonnement » de la « voix » indienne dans des récits écrits par des blancs ? Cette voix indienne, comment se manifeste-t-elle dans les récits du corpus? Quels discours les auteurs attribuent-ils à leurs anciens ravisseurs ?
This study is dedicated to the analysis of seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century Puritan discourse and the way in which the agency of Indian appears in writings penned by the Puritans, a prominent subsection of which falls under the genre known as Indian Captivity Narrative. My main intention was to go beyond the initial characterization of captivity narratives and claim that these texts are not only about the actual physical and moral experience of the white Christian captives among the Indians, but also deal with more abstract and less often addressed forms of captivity. One such (less immediately obvious) form of captivity is, metaphorically speaking, that of the Indian “voice” in white narratives. This study therefore addresses the following questions: How does the Indian voice come across in such prose? What kinds of discourse do Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Swarton, and other former captives attribute to their former abductors? How do these former captives render and reconstruct dialogues that purportedly occurred between them and their Indian captors? This presentation of the Indian voice is not only conditioned by the former captive’s attitude (i.e., by the author’s voice), but it is also altered by the specific bias of those in charge of controlling the contents of the narrative, i.e., the editors and the publishers, such as Cotton and Increase Mather, who were the most influential representatives of the political and religious establishment of the time

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Brewer, Joseph. "Agriculture and Natural Resources Management for American Indian Tribes: Extension Agent's View." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195224.

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Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNA) are concerns on reservations across the entire United States. Issues related to the practice and accessibility ofthe natural environment is important for the future of individuals, tribal governments, and the US government. On the forefront to maintain tribalauthority and sovereignty over AGNA is tribal/state/federal programs designed to address certain economically based AGNA on reservations. With limited funding and resources much needs to be done in the field of tribal AGNA. In the middle of the struggle is the Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program Agent,attempting to analyze, think critically about AGNA issues, and develop culturallysensitive AGNA recommendations to the tribe and individual tribal members.A study was conducted using a survey instrument to describe the unique experiences and knowledge of FRTEP agents, and apply that knowledge to structuring a culturally sensitive tribal AGNA department. The following literature and survey instrument was developed to extract the FRTEP agents understanding and experiences in the world of tribal agricultural and natural resources. How would they (FRTEP agents) design an adequate AGNA program for tribes? How would they assist tribes in administering their own form ofAGNA, within an already designed and formatted AGNA departmental structure?This research was designed to give tribes resources that assist them in the development and management of AGNA. FRTEP agents are utilized for their knowledge of tribal AGNA and their experience working with tribal cultures on AGNA.

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Perez, Kimberlee. "1-800-(Re)Colonize: A Feminist Postcolonial and Performance Analysis of Call Center Agents in India Performing U.S. Cultural Identity." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/PerezK2005.pdf.

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Saraswati, Jvoti. "The development of the Indian It industry : A linkage-agency approach." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497277.

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Afonso, Mendes-Yahiaoui Noura. "Épidémiologie moléculaire du complexe d’espèces Ralstonia solanacearum, agent du flétrissement bactérien, dans les îles du Sud-Ouest de l’océan Indien." Thesis, La Réunion, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LARE0014.

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Dans les îles du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien (SOOI) (Comores, Maurice, Mayotte, Réunion, Rodrigues et Seychelles), le flétrissement bactérien causé par le complexe d'espèces Ralstonia solanacearum (ceRs) est une phytobactériose considérée comme l'une des plus nuisibles pour les productions vivrières ou d'exportation. Les travaux de thèse présentés dans ce manuscrit avaient pour principal objectif l'exploration du niveau et de la distribution de la diversité génétique du ce Rs et de la structure génétique de ses populations dans le SOOI. Nous avons mené de vastes campagnes d'échantillonnage qui ont permis de constituer une large collection de 1704 isolats, principalement à partir de Solanacées (tomate, pomme de terre, piment, aubergine, poivron) et de géranium rosat. L'assignation phylogénétique des isolats a montré une très forte prévalence du phylotype I (88 %), qui est distribué dans chaque île du SOOI, tandis que les phylotypes II (9 %) et III (3 %) ne sont trouvés qu'à La Réunion. Deux souches de phylotype IV ont par ailleurs été signalées à l'île Maurice, représentant le premier rapport de ce groupe phylogénétique dans le SOOI. Une approche phylogénétique et de génotypage (MLSA/MLST) basée sur l'analyse de séquences de 6 gènes de ménage et 1 gène associé à la virulence (egl) a permis de révéler les relations génétiques entre 145 souches représentatives (diversité géographique + hôte d'isolement) du SOOI et 90 souches mondiales de référence. Le développement et l'application d'un schéma MLVA basé sur 17 séquences répétées en tandem (VNTR) sur près de 1300 souches a permis de révéler que les populations de phylotype I sont organisées en complexes clonaux dans le SOOI et que le niveau de diversité génétique est très contrasté selon les îles, Maurice présentant la plus forte diversité génétique. Un résultat majeur de cette thèse est la mise en évidence du déploiement d’une lignée génétique (sequevar I-31 ; STI-13 ; MT-035), surreprésentée dans les îles du SOOI, qui pourrait avoir été introduite via du matériel végétal contaminé depuis l'Afrique de Sud ou l’Afrique de l'Ouest. Nos études préliminaires montrent que l'haplotype majoritaire MT-035 (i) est le probable haplotype fondateur du complexe clonal le plus prévalent dans le SOOI, (ii) présente un pouvoir pathogène élevé (large gamme d'hôtes comprenant des plantes cultivées et des adventices, et forte agressivité sur Solanacées) et (iii) possède une forte aptitude à la compétition dans l'environnement via la production de bactériocines. Ces travaux permettront in fine de renforcer l'épidémiosurveillance et orienter les stratégies de lutte vis-à-vis de cet agent phytopathogène, notamment via le déploiement de cultivars résistants
In the southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO) islands (Comoros, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, Rodrigues and Seychelles), bacterial wilt caused by the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (Rssc) is considered one of the most harmful plant disease for food crops or export. The main objective of this work presented in this manuscript was to explore the level and the distribution of the genetic diversity of Rssc and the genetic structure of its populations in SWIO. We conducted extensive sampling campaigns that resulted in a large collection of 1704 isolates, mainly from Solanaceae (tomato, potato, chilli, eggplant, pepper) and geranium rosat. The phylogenetic assignment of the isolates showed a very high prevalence of phylotype I (88 %), which is distributed in each island of the SWIO, while phylotypes II (9 %) and III (3 %) are found only in Réunion. Two phylotype IV strains have also been reported in Mauritius, representing the first report of this phylogenetic group in SWIO. A phylogenetic and genotyping approach (MLSA/MLST) based on sequence analysis of 6 housekeeping genes and 1 gene associated with virulence (egl) revealed the genetic relationships between 145 representative SWIO strains (geographic diversity + host) and 90 global reference strains. The development and application of MLVA scheme based on 17 variable number of tandem repeat sequences (VNTR) on nearly 1300 strains revealed that phylotype I populations are organized into clonal complexes in SWIO and that the level of genetic diversity is highly contrasted according to the islands, with Mauritius having the highest genetic diversity. This work highlights the deployment of a genetic lineage (Sequevar I-31, STI-13, MT-035), overrepresented in SWIO islands, which could have been introduced via contaminated plant material from South Africa or West Africa. Our preliminary studies show that the main haplotype MT-035 (i) is the probable founding haplotype of the most prevalent clonal complex in SWIO, (ii) has high pathogenicity (wide range of hosts including cultivated plants and weeds, and high aggressiveness on Solanaceae) and (iii) has a strong ability to compete in the environment via the production of bacteriocins. This work will ultimately strengthen epidemiosurveillance and guide control strategies of this plant pathogen, including the deployment of resistant cultivars

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Paterok, Katharina. "The Race for Waste - The Evolution and Implementation of India’s Municipal Solid Waste Management Agenda over the past Three Decades until 2016." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21370.

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Die stetig wachsende Abfallerzeugung und -bewirtschaftung stellt insbesondere Städte in aufstrebenden und schnell wachsenden Volkswirtschaften wie Indien, die sich dynamischen Transformationen gegenübersehen, vor große Herausforderungen. Dies gilt auch für die städtische Behörde in Delhi, da der Mangel an finanziellen Mitteln und technischem Wissen zu einer stark eingeschränkten Infrastruktur und begrenzten Kapazitäten in den betroffenen Gemeinden führt. Das Siedlungsabfallmanagement bietet traditionell Einkommensmöglichkeiten für Stadtbewohner, die informell arbeiten und wesentliche Dienstleistungen für die Stadt Delhi erbringen. Über viele Jahre hinweg haben die Entwicklungen im institutionalisierten Rahmen den Wettbewerb zwischen den informellen und formellen Abfallwirtschaftsakteuren um den Zugang zu Siedlungsabfällen verschärft. Dies hat die Grundlage für das Konfliktverhältnis zwischen den formellen Akteuren des Privatsektors und dem öffentlichen Sektor einerseits sowie den informellen Akteuren andererseits geschaffen. Das zentrale Ziel dieser Doktorarbeit ist es, zum einen die in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten veröffentlichten Strategien, Programme und Richtlinien für die Abfallbewirtschaftung in Indien und zum anderen die Akteure der Siedlungsabfallwirtschaft in Delhi zu analysieren. Auf diese Weise soll herausgearbeitet werden, welche Akteure oder Elemente Veränderungen im Kontext der Siedlungsabfallwirtschaft antreiben oder verhindern. Zentrale Annahme der Dissertation ist, dass die Entwicklungen in der Siedlungsabfallbewirtschaftung Indiens, die maßgeblich von einem investitionsintensiven und technologiebasierten Ansatz angetrieben werden, erhebliche Lücken zwischen Politik und Umsetzung aufzeigen. Die Analyse findet vor dem Hintergrund statt, dass der im Übermaß vorhandene Abfall sowohl eine Managementherausforderung für die Kommunen in Delhi, als auch eine wirtschaftliche Chance für die städtischen Armen sowie für Akteure des Privatsektors darstellt.
The continually increasing generation of waste and its management pose one of the biggest challenges for cities across the world, which is especially true for emerging and fast growing economies like India that are facing dynamic transformations. The growing generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) and the management thereof are an increased challenge particularly for urban authorities, as is the case in Delhi, since the lack of financial means, skills and knowledge leads to a severely constrained infrastructure and limited capacities of the municipalities involved. Traditionally, MSW management provides income opportunities for the urban poor working in informality. Waste workers provide essential services to the city of Delhi. However, over many years, developments in the institutionalised framework have increased the competition for access to waste between the informal and formal economies in the city. This has laid the ground for a conflicted relationship between formal private sector actors and the public sector on the one hand and informal private actors on the other. The two central objectives of this PhD research are, first, to analyse Indian MSW management policies, programmes and guidelines that were published over the past three decades, and, second, to analyse Delhi’s MSWM stakeholders to identify underlying actors’ dynamics, and who and what drives, shapes or prevents change in the context of MSWM. At the centre of the overarching argument lies the assumption that the developments of India’s MSWM over the last thirty years, which are driven by an investment-heavy and technology-based approach, reveal major gaps between policy and implementation. The research attempts to move between two poles: At one end, waste as something excessive and expandable is a management challenge for Delhi’s municipalities; at the other end, waste as something productive and profitable is an economic opportunity for informal as well as formal private sector actors.

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Schwartz, Tracy. "Shaping Whiteclay: Agency and Desire in the Preservation of American Indian Sites." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18381.

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Historic preservationists have struggled with how to best interpret the diverse history of the United States. This is especially true when faced with sites that represent the continued colonization of American Indian populations. While preservationists are continually striving to provide a more inclusive history, historic sites remain where preservationists are omitting Native voice, perpetuating stereotypes, and telling history with an emphasis on damage within communities. Whiteclay, Nebraska offers a case study of a site with a complex history where multiple cultures have embedded the same place with different meaning. This thesis argues that through the incorporation of agency, the challenging of stereotypes, and the addition of desire-based research into the historic preservation field, a re-interpretation of Whiteclay, as well as other sites with multifaceted pasts, can emerge and places of colonization can become places of healing.

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Sá, Luiza Vieira. "Rondon: o agente público e político." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-22102009-160459/.

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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo demonstrar que um agente público no exercício de suas atribuições, por força das circunstâncias operacionais, algumas vezes atua como um agente político, conforme conceitos estabelecidos pela doutrina do Direito Administrativo. Esse agente público é Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, engenheiro militar; as circunstâncias são os trabalhos realizados no âmbito das Comissões Construtoras de Linhas Telegráficas nos estados de Mato Grosso, Amazonas e no Território do Acre; o agente político é o idealizador e executor de um serviço de proteção aos índios, pioneiro espaço público de discussão em torno das relações sociais com os povos indígenas.
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that a public agent in order to accomplish assignments, due to operational circumstances, sometimes acts like a political agent, as the concepts established by Administrative law doctrine. This public agent is Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, military engineer; the circumstances are the services performed by the Telegraphic Commissions in the states of Mato Grosso, Amazonas and in Acre Territory; the political agent is the creator and executor of an indian protective service, pioneer public space for discussion of social relations with the Indian nations.

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Irving, Ryan Powell. "Distribution and prevalence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, in Indiana and Ohio." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1129630.

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Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is a tick-borne infectious disease caused by the bacterium Ehrlichia chaffeensis and transmitted by the ixodid tick Amblyomma americanum. The first confirmed case of HME in Indiana occurred in 1994. Since then, there have been an additional 17 confirmed cases reported from 11 counties.A total of 498 A. americanum and 25 Dermacentor variabilis ticks were collected from counties in southern Indiana during May and June 1998, pooled, and examined for the presence of E. chaffeensis using nested PCR with primers HE 1 and HE3, which are specific for the 16S rRNA gene of E. chaffeensis. Ten pools of adult A. americanum specimens tested positive for E. chaffeensis DNA. This represented a minimum infection rate (MIR) of 3.82%. None of the A. americanum nymphs or adult D. variabilis ticks tested positive.In addition, 325 white-tailed deer blood samples from Indiana and 327 from Ohio were collected during November, 1998 and tested for the presence of E. chaffeensisreactive antibodies using an indirect immunofluoescence assay (IFA). Evidence of such antibodies was found in deer killed in six Indiana counties where infection rates ranged from 43% - 64% and four Ohio counties where infection rates ranged from 4% - 25%.The results from this study support the view that the distribution of E. chaffeensis closely follows that of A. americanum in the North Central United States. This is the first report of E. chaffeensis-reactive antibodies in white-tailed deer from Ohio.
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Jackisch, Conrad. "Towards applied modeling of the human-eco-system an approach of hydrology based integrated modeling of a semi-arid sub-catchment in rural north-west India." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2007/1351/.

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The development of rural areas concerning food security, sustainability and social-economic stability is key issue to the globalized community. Regarding the current state of climatic change, especially semi-arid regions in uenced by monsoon or El Niño are prone to extreme weather events. Droughts, ooding, erosion, degradation of soils and water quality and deserti cation are some of the common impacts. State of the art in hydrologic environmental modeling is generally operating under a reductionist paradigm (Sivapalan 2005). Even an enormous quantity of process-oriented models exists, we fail in due reproduction of complexly interacting processes in their effective scale in the space-time-continuum, as they are described through deterministic small-scale process theories (e.g. Beven 2002). Yet large amounts of parameters - with partly doubtful physical expression - and input data are needed. In contradiction to that most soft information about patterns and organizing principles cannot be employed (Seibert and McDonnell 2002). For an analysis of possible strategies on the one hand towards integrated hydrologic modeling as decision support and on the other hand for sustainable land use development the 512 km2 large catchment of the Mod river in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India has been chosen. It is characterized by a setting of common problems of peripheral rural semi-arid human-eco-systems with intensive agriculture, deforestation, droughts and general hardship for the people. Scarce data and missing gauges are adding to the requirements of data acquisition and process description. The study at hand presents a methodical framework to combine eld scale data analysis and remote sensing for the setup of a database focusing plausibility over strict data accuracy. The catena-based hydrologic model WASA (Güntner 2002) employes this database. It is expanded by a routine for crop development simulation after the de Wit approach (e.g. in Bouman et al. 1996). For its application as decision support system an agentbased land use algorithm is developed which decides on base of site speci cations and certain constraints (like maximum pro t or best local adaptation) about the cropping. The new model is employed to analyze (some) land use strategies. Not anticipated and a priori de ned scenarios will account for the realization of the model but the interactions within the system. This study points out possible approaches to enhance the situation in the catchment. It also approaches central questions of ways towards due integrated hydrological modeling on catchment scale for ungauged conditions and to overcome current paradigms.
Die Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen hinsichtlich von Ernährungssicherheit, Nachhaltigkeit und sozio-ökonomischer Stabilität ist eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben unserer globalisierten Gemeinschaft. In Hinblick auf den Klimawandel sind insbesondere semi-aride Gebiete im Einfluss von Monsun oder El Niño von extremen Wetterereignissen betroffen. Tockenheiten, Überschwemmungen, Erosion, Bodendegradation, Verschlechterung der Wasserqualität und Versteppung sind nur einige, oft beobachtete Folgen. Der Stand der Forschung in Sachen hydrologischer Umweltmodellierung ist insbesondere einem reduktionistischen Paradigma verhaftet (Sivapalan 2005). Obwohl eine enorme Menge verschiedenster Prozessmodelle existiert können auf Grundlage kleinskaliger Prozessapproximationen die komplex interagierenden Prozesse in ihren wirkenden Skalen im Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum nur begrenzt beschreiben werden (z.B. Beven 2002). Während die verwendeten Modelle große Mengen an Parametern und Daten benötigen, können wichtige Informationen über Muster und Organisationsprinzipien nicht in die Simulationen einfließen. Für eine Analyse möglicher Wege und Restriktionen der integrierten hydrologischen Modellierung als Mittel in der Entscheidungsunterstützung wurde das 512 km² große Einzugsgebiet des Mod Flusses in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, Indien ausgewählt. Es ist gekennzeichnet von charakteristischen Problemen der Neuen Peripherie (z.B. Scholz 2004) (im human-geographischen Kontext) und intensiv anthropogen beeinflusster Agrar-Öko-Systeme der semi-ariden Tropen. Die dünne Datengrundlage des nicht-bepegelten Einzugsgebiets stellt dabei eine besondere Anforderung an die Datenakquise. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein methodischer Ansatz vorgestellt, der Feld- und Fernerkundungstechniken zur Landschaftsanalyse verbindet. Mit dem Fokus auf Plausibilität statt strenger "Datengenauigkeit" wird eine Datenbank zur hydrologischen Modellierung des Gebiets entwickelt. Das Catena-basierte hydrologische Prozessmodell WASA (Güntner 2002) wird um eine Routine zur Simulation der Entwicklung von Nutzpflanzen nach de Wit (z.B. in Bouman et al. 1996) erweitert. Zur Anwendung des Modells als Entscheidungsunterstützungssystem ist ein agentenbasierter Landnutzungsalgorithmus entwickelt worden, welcher auf Grundlage von Standorteigenschaften und politischen Vorgaben wie Profitmaximierung oder Standortanpassung über die Landnutzung entscheidet. Das neue Modellsystem wird zur Untersuchung von einigen Landnutzungstrategien so verwendet, dass nicht antizipierte Szenarien sondern die Wechselwirkung des Systems selbst die Realisation des Modells bestimmen. Die Umsetzung zeigt einerseits mögliche Ansätze zur Verbesserung der Situation im Untersuchungsgebiet auf. Anderseits gibt sie konkrete Vorschläge zu zentralen Fragen hydrologischer Umweltmodellierung und zur Überwindung bestehender Paradigmen.

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Tov??as, de Plaisted Blanca History &amp Philosophy Faculty of Arts &amp Social Sciences UNSW. "Resistance and cultural revitalisation: reading Blackfoot agency in the texts of cultural transformation 18701920." Publisher:University of New South Wales. History & Philosophy, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43907.

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The radical transformations attendant upon the imposition of colonial rule on the Siksikaitsitapi or Blackfoot of northern Alberta and southern Montana are examined in this dissertation in order to emphasise the threads of continuity within a tapestry of cultural change c.1870-1920. The dissertation traces cultural persistence through the analysis of texts of history and literature that constructed Blackfoot subjectivity in the half-century following the end of traditional lifeways and settlement on three reserves in Canada and one reservation in the United States of America. This interdisciplinary thesis has been undertaken jointly in the School of History and Philosophy, and the School of English, Media and Performance Studies. It combines the tools of historical research and literary criticism to analyse the discourses and counter-discourses that served to construct Blackfoot subjectivity in colonial texts. It engages with the ways in which the Blackfoot navigated colonisation and resisted forced acculturation while adopting strategies of accommodation to ensure social reproduction and even physical survival in this period. To this end, it presents four case studies, each focusing on a discrete process of Blackfoot cultural transformation: a) the resistance to acculturation and cultural revitalisation as it relates to the practice of Ookaan (Sun Dance); b) the power shifts ushered in by European contact and the intersection between power and Blackfoot dress practices; c) the participation of Blackfoot "organic intellectuals" in the construction of Blackfoot history through the transformation of oral stories into text via the ethnographic encounter; and d) the continuing links between Blackfoot history and literature, and contemporary fictional representations of Blackfoot subjectivity by First Nations authors. This thesis acknowledges that Blackfoot history and literature have been constructed through a complex matrix of textual representations from their earliest contacts with Europeans. This dissertation is a study of the intersection between textual representations of the Blackfoot, and resistance, persistence and cultural revitalisation 1870-1920. It seeks to contribute to debates on the capacity of the colonised Other to exercise agency. It engages with views articulated by organic intellectuals, and Blackfoot and other First Nations scholars, in order to foster a dialogue between Blackfoot and non-Blackfoot scholarship.

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Narain, Nigmendra. "Canada's India policy, 1947-1997, the emerging policy agenda." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22259.pdf.

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Buzza, Renuha. "Agency, animacy and personification in `A Passage to India'." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624927.

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Burns, Emily K. "Selling Sex To Survive: Prostitution, Trafficking And Agency Within The Indian Sex Industry." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1391174022.

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Rault, Chodankar Yves-Marie. "Les petites entreprises pharmaceutiques indiennes, agents d'une globalisation alternative." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UNIP7021.

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Comment de petites entreprises pharmaceutiques basées en Inde trouvent-elles leur place sur un marché mondial dominé par de grandes firmes multinationales ? Pour répondre à cette question, cette thèse mobilise les outils théoriques de la géographie du développement, de la sociologie économique, et de l’économie institutionnelle. Elle s’appuie sur des sources et méthodologies diverses : des entretiens semi-directifs menés à Ahmedabad et à Mumbai auprès de directeurs d’entreprises pharmaceutiques de taille micro, petite, et moyenne (n = 99), des entretiens non-directifs auprès d’acteurs du secteur en Inde (n = 61), et des données quantitatives issues de bases de données publiques et privées. L’analyse montre que ces petites entreprises s’inscrivent dans des champs pharmaceutiques hiérarchisés par des normes spécifiques, au sein desquels elles occupent des positions diverses, meilleures sur le segment des médicaments génériques et des marchés émergents. Fortement spécialisées, capitalisant sur un important savoir-faire commercial, elles innovent de manière marginale mais originale, motivées par des rationalités entrepreneuriales variées dans lesquelles les désirs de reconnaissance sociale jouent un rôle aussi important que les aspects matériels. Agissant dans des environnements politiques, économiques, et juridiques défavorables, à de nombreuses échelles, leurs stratégies s’appuient de manière flexible sur des ressources encastrées dans des milieux d’affaires construits autour d’appartenances territoriales et communautaires, mieux dotés lorsqu’ils sont métropolitains et globalisés. Cette thèse montre comment, avec leurs approches particulières de l’économie et de la santé, ces agents participent de manière alternative à la globalisation du marché pharmaceutique
How could small pharmaceutical companies based in India gain a foothold in a global market dominated by large multinational firms? To address the issue, this doctoral thesis borrows from development geography, economic sociology, and institutional economics. It draws on various sources and methodologies, including semi-structured interviews conducted with directors of micro, small and medium companies in Ahmedabad and Mumbai (n = 99), interviews with the actors of India’s pharmaceutical industry (n = 61), and quantitative data from public and private databases. The analysis shows that these small companies compete in various pharmaceutical fields with specific norms and hierarchies, in which they occupy diverse positions, better in generic and emerging markets. Highly specialized, capitalizing on their commercial know-how, they innovate in marginal but idiosyncratic ways, driven by various entrepreneurial rationalities in which needs for achievement are as important as material motivations. Operating in adverse political, economic, and legal environments, at many scales, their strategies are embedded in flexible territorial and community ties, better resource-endowed when they are metropolitan and globalized. With their particular approach to economy and health, these agents participate in the globalization of the pharmaceutical market in alternate ways

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Kokomoor, Kevin D. "Indian agent Gad Humphreys and the politics of slave claims on the Florida frontier, 1822-1830." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002473.

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Lenoir, Séverine. "Complexes neurotoxiques impliqués dans la contamination des produits de la mer de l'Océan Indien : caractérisation toxinique et contribution des toxines de Gambierdiscus toxicus et Ostreopsis mascarenensis." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006MNHN0006.

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La Ciguatera est un ichtyosarcotoxisme provoqué par l'ingestion de poissons tropicaux, susceptibles d'accumuler les toxines de dinoflagellés dans leurs chairs et leurs viscères. Dans la première partie des travaux, l'étude de plusieurs souches locales de l'espèce benthique toxinoproductrice de la Ciguatera, G. Toxicus (producteur de gambiertoxines) associée à l'étude de plusieurs poissons vecteurs des toxines, les ciguatoxines a contribué à l'amélioration des connaissances sur le déterminisme régional de cette forme d'ichtyosarcotoxisme. Une production toxinique basale des écosystèmes récifaux de la Réunion et d'Europa a été confirmée. Neuf gambiertoxines distinctes ont été isolées. L'étude des profils toxiniques de 2 espèces de poissons toxicophores, Lutjanus bohar et Sphyraena barracuda a mis en évidence une diversité des ciguatoxines du Sud-Ouest de l'Océan Indien, confirmant la présence des I-CTXs majeures, I-CTX-1 et I-CTX-2 chez l'espèce L. Bohar, la mise en évidence de nouvelles molécules de type CTX et la détermination d'un profil toxinique différent chez S. Barracuda et la présence supposée de toxines à action rapide chez cette espèce. La palytoxine est connue comme l'une des toxines d'origine marine des plus puissantes qui existe. La forte toxicité de la palytoxine et la mise en évidence d'analogues dans diverses matrices environnementales revêtent un caractère d'importance du fait que la présence de ces toxines n'est aujourd'hui plus restreinte aux zones tropicales. Dans la seconde partie de ce travail, nous avons caractérisé les profils toxinique et toxicologique d'un bloom d'Ostreopsis mascarenensis, espèce benthique et endémique du Sud-Ouest de l'Océan Indien. Deux analogues de la palytoxine ont été isolés, les mascarenotoxines. En l'absence de méthodes analytiques sensibles pour cette famille de toxines et la mise en évidence d'une fragmentation particulière de la molécule de palytoxine, nous avons développé une méthode analytique spécifique, basée sur le couplage de la µLC/MS/MS. Afin d'améliorer l'efficacité de la procédure analytique, une étape de préconcentration en ligne, sur un type de support d'extraction sur phase solide constitué de copolymère a été réalisé
Ciguatera fish poisoning is a food-borne illness endemic to tropical waters where numerous fish are susceptible to accumulate benthic dinoflagellates toxins in their flesh and viscera. In the first part of the work, a study of several regional strains of G. Toxicus associated with a study of several fish vectors of toxins, ciguatoxins have contributed to the improvement of the knowledge on the regional determinism of this ichtyosarcotoxism. The toxinic production by G. Toxicus strain has been confirmed in this area and 9 molecules of gambiertoxins have been detected. The analyse of toxinic profiles of 2 ciguateric species, Lutjanus bohar and Sphyraena barracuda have shown the existence of a variety of ciguatoxins in the south-western Indian Ocean, i) confiming the presence of the major I-CTXs, I-CTX-1 and I-CTX-2 in L. Bohar, ii) revealing the presence of new CTX congeners and iii) a different toxinic profile for S. Barracuda with the supposed presence of Fast Acting Toxins with MW < 900. Palytoxin is one of most potent marine natural product primary isolated from Zoanthids species and is the causative agent of clupeotoxism, severe human seafood poisoning. The multiplicity of severe or fatal human intoxications and emergence of new sources of palytoxin poisoning (fish, crabs, and algae) revealed the complexity of phenomenon of palytoxin poisoning. In the second part, we have characterised toxinic and toxicological profiles of benthic and endemic dinoflagellate from SW Indian Ocean, Ostreopsis mascarenensis. Two analogues of palytoxin have been isolated from this species, the mascarenotoxins. In the absence of sensitive analytical methods for this family of toxin and the revealing of a particular fragmentation of reference palytoxin molecule, a specific analytical method, based on the coupling of the µLC/MS/MS for the detection of palytoxin and palytoxinlike molecules has been developed. To improve, a on-line preconcentration step has been realised

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Bernabei, Matilde. "Born on tongue, education, identity and agency of Tibetan youth in the Indian diaspora." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61532.pdf.

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Spencer, Patricia Annamaria. "Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463.

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The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were taken to Malaya, initially, as indentured servants. When indenture was abolished, they were engaged as contract workers. Inferiority and backwardness were common colonial perceptions that were held against them. These laborers were exploited by the British as they had no bargaining power or the ability to demand more than a meager wage. World War II redefined the way these laborers started to view the British. Having suffered defeat in the hands of the Japanese, the colonial power retreated meekly. This was a significant development as it removed the veil of British dominance in the eyes of a formerly docile people. When the British returned to Malaya after the war, it was a more defiant Indian labor community who greeted them. These wanted more concessions. They wanted citizenship, better wages and living conditions. They wanted a future that did not retain them on the rubber estates but one where they could finally shed their subaltern roots and achieve upward mobility. This new defiance was met with antagonism by the colonial power whose main concern was to get the lucrative but stalled rubber industry up and running again. The destitution and impoverishment suffered by the Indians during the war was ignored as they were rounded up like cattle to be put to work again on the estates. When their demands were not met, Indian laborers joined forces with the heavily Communist influenced Chinese migrant community to go on strikes, the strongest weapon they had at their disposal. The creation of the All Malayan Rubber Workers' Council, a predominantly Indian trade union, is essential in showing how Indian labor became a threat to the British that they eventually had to retaliate with draconian military suppression through the imposition of the Emergency in 1948. Archival material from the Malaysian National Archives, The National Archives of the United Kingdom, the Labor History and Archive Study Center at the People's History Museum in the United Kingdom, and the Hull History Center in the United Kingdom, were analyzed to present an alternate narrative as opposed to the colonial narrative, in recognizing and attributing a modern spirit and agency amongst this formerly docile labor diaspora. This work presents the events of 1945-1948 as a time when Indians rejected the colonial perception of them as an inferior people, and challenged the colonial power. However, their efforts were subverted by the British and by doing so, the British ensured the maintenance of a labor diaspora that would continue to be exploited by those who ruled over them.

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Griffith, G. "Village women cooperators : An Indian women's village producer co-operative as educator and agent of social change." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380520.

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Menezes, Dwayne Ryan. "Identity, agency and the Catholics of South Kanara, 1870-1950." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708227.

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Campbell, William J. Weaver John C. "Land and diplomacy on the fringes of empire: Indians, agents, speculators, and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix." *McMaster only, 2007.

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Qureshi, Hanif. "A Study of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and its Antecedents in an Indian Police Agency." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1445342158.

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Nolan, Raymond Anthony. "Clean my land: American Indians, tribal sovereignty, and the Environmental Protection Agency." Diss., Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20509.

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Doctor of Philosophy
History
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
This dissertation is a case study of the Isleta Pueblos of central New Mexico, the Quapaw tribe of northeast Oklahoma, and the Osage Nation of northcentral Oklahoma, and their relationship with the federal government, and specifically the Environmental Protection Agency. As one of the youngest federal agencies, operating during the Self-Determination Era, it seems the EPA would be open to new approaches in federal Indian policy. In reality, the EPA has not reacted much differently than any other historical agency of the federal government. The EPA has rarely recognized the ability of Indians to take care of their own environmental problems. The EPA’s unwillingness to recognize tribal sovereignty was no where clearer than in 2005, when Republican Senator James Inhof of Oklahoma added a rider to his transportation bill that made it illegal in Oklahoma for tribes to gain primary control over their environmental protection programs without first negotiating with, and gaining permission of, the state government of Oklahoma. The rider was an erosion of the federal trust relationship with American Indian tribes (as tribes do not need to heed state laws over federal laws) and an attack on native ability to judge tribal affairs. Oklahoma’s tribes, and Indian leaders from around the nation, worked to get the new law overturned, but the EPA decided to help tribes work within the confines of the new law. Despite the EPA’s stance on the new law, the tribes continued to try to fight back, as they had in the past when challenged by paternalistic federal policy. The EPA treated the Quapaws and Isletas in a similar fashion. Thus, the thesis of this study is that the EPA failed to respect the abilities of American Indian nations, as did federal agencies of years before, to manage their own affairs. Historians have largely neglected the role the EPA has played in recent Indian history and are just now beginning to document how deliberate efforts at self-determination have been employed by tribes for centuries in America.

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Spiess, Clemens. "One-party-dominance in changing societies the African National Congress and Indian National Congress in comparative perspective ; a study in party systems and agency in post-colonial India and post-apartheid South Africa /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=97250981X.

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Silva, Marcelle Ivie da Costa 1980. "Raposa Serra do Sol = agentes políticos, conflitos e interesses." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280961.

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Orientador: Shiguenoli Miyamoto
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A proposta deste trabalho é realizar um mapeamento dos múltiplos agentes políticos envolvidos em torno da demarcação da Terra Indígena Raposa Serra do Sol, contemplando suas respectivas argumentações, e analisar os conflitos políticos engendrados pela questão. Ao estudar esse processo demarcatório que durou três décadas, buscamos relacionar satisfatoriamente os aspectos políticos internos que culminaram na demarcação contínua da TIRSS com processos políticos mais amplos, ou seja, compreender a questão a partir de três níveis de análise: o local (estado de Roraima), o nacional (República Federativa do Brasil) e internacional (mundo)
Abstract: The aim of this work is to map the multiple political actors involved in the demarcation of the Indian region named Raposa Serra do Sol (TIRSS), contemplating each actor's arguments, and to analyze the political conflicts generated by this issue. By studying this demarcation process that lasted three decades, we tried to successfully relate the domestic political aspects, that resulted in the continuous demarcation of TIRSS, with wider political processes. Thus, this research approaches the understanding of the issue from three levels of analysis: local (state of Roraima), national (Federative Republic of Brazil) and international (world)
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Vaughan, Rosie Peppin. "Gender equality in education : India's responses to international agendas." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611736.

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Dupuis-Rossi, Riel. "Modernizing colonialism : an examination of the political agenda of the First Nations Governance Act (2002)." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112335.

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In this thesis, I argue that the First Nations Governance Act (FNGA) shares the colonial aspirations of other pieces of historical legislation in the Canadian context. The FNGA attempted to have First Nations' local governing structures mirror those of the Canadian state. As a result, this piece of legislation fails to recognize and respect the jurisdictional authority of First Nations over their own internal socio-political structures and systems. The FNGA is therefore a colonial assault on First Nations' jurisdiction in the realm of governance undermining the right to self-government and self-determination of First Nations.
I demonstrate this by examining three major issues dealt with in the FNGA: the status of historical and modern Canada-First Nations treaties, the jurisdiction of First Nations governance authority as well as control over band membership and Indian status classification systems.

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Doyle, Shane Michael. "Surveying the community of Crow Agency, MT for interest in a community radio station." Thesis, Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/doyle/DoyleS0805.pdf.

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List, Christina D. "All in the PR family : a comparison of levels of professionalism among corporate public relations personnel and public relations agency practitioners in the state of Indiana." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845923.

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This study compared the levels of professionalism among Indiana corporate and agency public relations practitioners. The entire population, 339 individuals, was contacted via telephone and administered McLeod and Hawley's professional orientation instrument, yielding 183 usable responses.Respondents rated the importance of 24 items on a 5point Likert scale, and provided information on age, education, undergraduate major, salary, and length of time with current organization, in public relations, and in the workforce.Professionalism scores were calculated by subtracting the sum of answers to the non-professional items from the sum of answers to the professional items. Scores were ranked, then divided at the median. "Professionals" fell at or above the median; "semi-professionals" fell below the median,following McLeod/Hawley methodology.A multiple regression analysis determined the only significant relationship between level of professionalism and demographics occurred with undergraduate major--a slight negative correlation. Frequency distribution showed journalism/public relations majors had higher percentages of professionals than either English or other majors.
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Santra, Jagat Ranjan. "Conversion and communication : Christian communication and indigenous agents of conversion among the Kui people of Orissa, India, 1835-1970." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30720.

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This thesis argues that the study of large-scale conversions to Christianity among the many tribal and Dalit communities in India needs to be done from a communication perspective. My research attempts this with special reference to the conversions among the Kui people of Orissa in the Kondh Hills. Christian service, proclamation and institutions as modes of Christian communication and their impact on people are examined. The Kui converts’ role as agents was vital in the process of communication and conversion. The period covered is from the campaign against Kondh human sacrifice in the 1830s to the conversion movement of the 1960-70s. Evidence is gathered from personal and group interviews conducted among first-generation converts using the qualitative research method, and also from the archival, library and Mission sources. Significantly, many tribal and Dalit communities embraced Christianity and led large-scale indigenous conversion movements at a time when all or most missionaries had left. Yet many critics in India view these conversions as western missionary products or achieved through force or inducements. They regard the non-literate tribals as passive recipients, and their initiative in conversion is ignored. These explanations fundamentally lack the voice of the very participants of conversion. I argue that in accounting for religious conversion the indigenous perspective is the primary reality and the converts are the true agents; that the motivation and meaning of the conversions need to be found first of all in the converts’ witness and in the role and impact of Christian communication, which influenced the decision for conversion. The five major means of communication which I have studied in the Baptist Mission and the Kui Church are: first, the person or message-bearer, the western missionary or Kui Christian him/herself, who was a medium of the message, both consciously and inadvertently. Secondly, the spoken word, in preaching and otherwise, which was a principal form used in direct evangelism. Thirdly, the written word which was no less important as a major medium, despite very low literacy. The printed Bible in the mother-tongue mediated the gospel in depth and became a prized possession. Fourthly, education which was a vehicle of Christianisation and modernisation and facilitated the important indigenous Christian leadership development. Fifthly, the medical mission work which visibly communicated God’s care and sent out a message of the power and credibility of the Christian gospel. The sustained mission work, from a basis in the gospel and the message it communicated, made a considerable impact on the Kui. The conclusions demonstrate that each of these five major means of Christian communication has played a vital part and has had considerable impact in conversion. These conversions have come about in time and terms preferred and acted on by the converts, and they have developed a distinctive way of being a church which may even be at odds with, and differ from, the expectations of the missionaries.

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Perusset, Macarena. "Thinking indigenous agency: contexts, actors and changing processes between guarani Indians (XVIIth. C.)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/80648.

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En el espacio multiétnico y pluricultural del Paraguay colonial, cobraron un papel relevante ciertos individuos que actuaron como intermediarios entre las distintas tradiciones culturales y los intereses de los diferentes actores en juego. En el contexto de las reducciones, donde se generaron disputas por las presiones suscitadas a causa de las obligaciones y demandas coloniales, diversos actores apelaron a estrategias de acción en defensa de los indígenas, así como en beneficio propio. Entre estos se encontraban los líderes guaraníes, quienes por la posición que ocuparon, desempeñaron el papel no solo de puentes culturales sino también el de agentes políticos y económicos. Estos sujetos, por sus prácticas cotidianas, contribuyeron a conectar elementos de universos diferentes, desdibujando así la rigidez de los límites que el Estado colonial intentaba aplicar en algunos casos entre grupos de diverso origen socioétnico.
At the multiethnic and multicultural colonial Paraguay’s space, some people played a central role as intermediaries between different cultural traditions. Within this context, in the reducciones de indios emerged a new kind of actors who displayed a diversity of strategies in order to preserve indigenous welfare as self-profit. These were the guaraní leaders, a kind of cultural bridges as well as political and economic agents because of the daily practices they play in thecolonial society.

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Sohn, Suk Joo. "Strategic Transgressions and Agency in Postcolonial Indian Literature in English: Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9760.

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Transgression as a mode of resistance and transformation is significant yet largely untheorized in postcolonial literature. This dissertation is concerned with theoretical and textual practices by which transgression can be studied as a locus of agency and difference toward the possibility of fostering moments and spaces of transformation. To that end, it explores various enabling counter-hegemonic modes of strategy and tactic with a focus on the body in the texts of Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie. Transgression does not simply give rise to the capacity of resistance to transform the dominant structure. Rather than dwelling on a mere sequence or repeat of events, this dissertation focuses on critical points of grounding for a new beginning as well as powerful metaphorical effects of practice, which defy essentialist discourses and raise possibilities of an alternative discursive space. Drawing upon a range of textual examples, the study critically examines not only the workings of prevailing norms but also the ways in which transgressive desire and practice enable marginalized characters to become ‘bodies that matter’ rather than being banished to the ‘abject zone.’ This dissertation reflects a complex intertwining of postcolonial, sexuality and gender, feminist, and cultural studies vis-à-vis transgression and agency. Therefore, the arguments made in this study represent an array of ideas drawn from various disciplines and discourses, especially from theorists such as Michel Foucault, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Bill Ashcroft, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jacques Lacan. This hybrid approach puts essentialist discourses—mediated by colonial history and postcolonial reality—under scrutiny to rethink the question of power and agency in exploring the possibility of subaltern others’ transformation into subjects of their own history and experience in specific contexts. By arguing the importance of the strategic use of essentialism based on everyday practice, I also emphasize the need to problematize the hegemonic concept of history so as to trace reterritorialization and repossession on the part of the silenced or invisible who live on borrowed time in minimal space. The highlight of this research is to explore how the established boundaries are expanded, redefined and redrawn in the circulatory, recursive structure of transgression and protest, opening the way for transforming oppression or abjection into agency. With this critical lens in mind, I heed the dynamics of similarity and difference in the narrative as a framework of postcolonial critique to provide a new reading of postcolonial texts.

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Nilsson, Altafi Sofia. "Evaluations as Mirrors and Co-constructors : An Empirical Investigation of a Microfinance Rating Agency and its Rating Practices from 1999–2014." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Marknadsföring och strategi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2328.

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Microfinance has been hailed as a “magic bullet” for poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment, and many believe that microfinance organizations (MFOs) can help the world’s poor move up the socioeconomic ladder. However, MFOs are also under increasing pressure to demonstrate high levels of organizational efficiency, economies of scale, and strong financials. The expectations facing these organizations are thus inherently contradictory: MFOs must do good and at the same time do well. In this dissertation, I focus on the expectations and demands imposed on MFOs by external evaluators. More specifically, I investigate how rating practices and the idealized organizational images that these project were constructed and worked in the Indian microfinance sector from 1999-2014. Through their credit recommendations, rating agencies not only direct the flow of resources in the market; their assessments also constitute a type of normative guidance for MFOs, signaling a set of criteria and ideals for how organizations should act and be structured, as well as which goals should be prioritized and pursued. In my analysis, I identify three sequential and distinct idealized images which are encoded in the rating reports during the study period. This means that ratings lead to the reinforcement of one particular model of conducting microfinance. I also find that prominent raters play a dual role. First, they inform MFOs about the idealized image by codifying what “is out there”, thus explicating institutional pressures. At the same time, they also actively contribute to the construction of idealized images, thereby suggesting which organizations and organizational features should be bestowed with legitimacy. The construction of the idealized image is found to be more noticeable during the early years of the study period, when the field was newly emerging.

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Al-Anzi, Jomah H. "Advocates and press agents : a Q-study of the perceived roles of public relations practioners in Indiana institutions of higher education." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864899.

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This study examined how the public relations function was perceived by top administrators as viewed by public relations directors (Phase 1), and how that perception compares with the "ideal" or preferred function as indicated by public relations within Indiana colleges and universities (Phase 2). Out of 46 possible subjects, 32 participated in a survey which represented a 70% response rate.After Q-Sorts have been tabulated, the researcher concluded that respondents from phase 1 were divided in their responses into two equal groups with no clear majority of response being represented consistently. On the other hand, phase 2 respondents showed strong conviction with a dominant majority of respondents showing consistency in their selection.
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Harrington-Watt, Kathleen. "Vernacular Photographs as Privileged Objects:The Social Relationships of Photographs in the Homes of Gujarati/New Zealanders." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6208.

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Photographs traverse the world in many forms and for many purposes. They follow and trace movements and networks of people, and have become essential objects in linking the past, present, and future of migrating communities. Vernacular photographs found in the home, encompass a substantial field of neglected knowledge and should be accorded greater attention and analysis in social science research. Vernacular images in academic research are often described as ordinary and mundane, their representational aspects are perceived to be repetitive and unremarkable (portraits, family snapshots etc.). However, this thesis argues that vernacular photographs are privileged objects and it is their universality and social embeddedness that elevates their significance in social science research. Unlike public or institutionalised photographic archives, vernacular archives operate within active social contexts and are alive with social agency. In this thesis, I use Alfred Gell’s anthropological theory of Art and Agency as the framework for conceptualising the social agency of photographs. To support these claims, this research examines the personal photographs found in the vernacular archives of a Gujarati migrant group in Christchurch, New Zealand. The photographs presented by members of this group are found at the centre of their social lives, mirroring their experiences and relationships in visual form. I use the Chakra Wheel as a visual metaphor to symbolise the nature of this group and their photographs. This metaphor speaks directly to the phenomenon of transnationalism and acknowledges that, for migrant communities, these transitioning processes are complex and elaborate, where the foundations of kinship and homemaking are constantly shifting. Vernacular photographs are at the centre of these transnational exchanges and networks, shifting from place to place, creating tangible and virtual threads between individuals, families, villages, and communities. They anchor these relationships at various sites, such as the wall in the family home, in albums, wallets, and on the internet. Vernacular photographs mirror these complex processes, and silently record and embody the social lives of people in a visual way. The mirrored reflection of the vernacular photograph can be both objective and subjective. By using the vernacular photograph as a research medium, in ethnographic research, we can get closer to the lived reality of people’s social lives. To emphasise the privileged position of vernacular photographs, I have chosen to use the methodology of photo-elicitation to position the photograph at the centre of enquiry. The methodology used in this thesis borrows some essential concepts from the discipline of phototherapy. Phototherapy claims that photographs can open up an exploration of us and others and, when the participant has primary agency, the affective force of the photograph is powerful and insightful. This thesis strongly supports these assumptions. Phototherapy uses photographs to explore the thoughts and unconscious processes of individuals. I argue that, in social research, photographs can also be used to explore and ‘open up’ the social world, by positioning the participant as the prime authority of their images, and their images as the vehicle of engagement and communication. By using vernacular photographs in this way, I look at both ‘on the surface’ and ‘below the surface’ of the image, making links with Barthes’ photographic theory and his concepts of ‘studium’ and ‘punctum’. In this thesis, the participants are the curators of their own personal archives. Their photographs give an emic view of their world, emphasising the importance of their migrant history, ancestors, village home, community, and cultural identity. Their photographs mediate agency between persons and places: keeping alive personal and spiritual relationships in the here and now; reinforcing essential familial knowledge systems; and assisting in creating and maintaining community identity and belonging.

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Luksaite, Eva. "The intimate state : female sterilisation, reproductive agency and operable bodies in rural North India." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13511.

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Female sterilisation or tubal ligation remains the most promoted and prevalent method of contraception in India today, especially among the rural and urban poor. This thesis provides an ethnographic account of poor women’s experiences of the sterilisation procedure in order to investigate the intricate relationship between the state, biomedicine and poor women in rural North India. The thesis draws on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a mixed-caste village in Southern Rajasthan. Besides engaging with women in their daily lives in the village, participant observation was also carried out in regularly organised sterilisation camps, which were run by Marie Stopes India in two nearby towns. The thesis aims to explore how women experience the female sterilisation procedure, how this procedure relates to concerns beyond the sterilisation camp and how various forms and sources of authority influence reproductive decisions. The female sterilisation procedure encapsulates not only people’s engagements and negotiations with the power, practices and discourses of the state, but also with other forms of authority, such as biomedicine, and intersecting structures of gender, caste and class. The thesis approaches the main research theme – the relationship between the state, biomedicine and poor women in rural North India – by examining various relationships and power struggles within these domains as much as between them. The chapters focussing on the history of family planning in India, on local articulations of the state in the village and on local health workers who are an integral part of “motivating” women for the female sterilisation procedure reflect an effort to problematise “the state” and to investigate how local embodiments and discourses of the state contribute to women’s decisions to stop childbearing by undergoing the tubal ligation procedure. The ethnography of a sterilisation camp provides a look into processes of biomedical examinations conducted in the camp before the procedure, and shows how biomedical tools of knowing, seeing and acting are negotiated and contested by various biomedical personnel, bureaucrats, as well as by women seeking the procedure. In such a way, I problematise the category of “biomedicine” and highlight its contested nature. Finally, chapters on reproductive agency and operable bodies examine how women themselves make sense of tubal ligation, how they negotiate conditions under which to undergo the procedure, and how female sterilisation becomes a site to negotiate one’s social status. An ethnographic investigation of the state, biomedicine and poor women as categories which are not homogenous but rather are constituted through multiple internal and external contestations allows a deeper and more complex understanding of how increasing medicalisation of women’s lives in rural North India is experienced in various different ways. Furthermore, acknowledging the multiplicity of agendas, discourses and experiences within the categories of “the state”, “biomedicine” and “poor women” provides an insight into how power is contested and articulated on multiple levels and by multiple actors, resulting in theoretical contributions to the existing theories on power, governmentality and biopolitics.

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Yadav, Smita. "Informal labour and livelihood diversification : dignity and agency among the Gonds in central India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61911/.

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In India, the efforts by the welfare state to aid the poor and improve their lives focus on formal, quantifiable, and bureaucratic policies in the form of housing, education, and employment. Yet, little is known about the less formal and experiential aspects of their lives and livelihoods. The Gonds, living in a Central Indian district of Panna in the state of Madhya Pradesh, are one group that has rarely partaken of the above welfare state policies designed to aid them, yet are surviving in the face of continuous threats to their traditional ways of forest-based livelihoods. The Gonds are an indigenous group of people, also known as adivasis, that are categorized as a scheduled tribes (STs). They lack basic literacy and possess no material assets like land. How then are Gonds creating their own forms of social welfare and economic security? Having worked on the Gonds' lives in their labouring roles as majdoors (labourers), and having understood how they experienced hardships has lead me to reflect on how they aspire to live dignified lives and exercise agency within the informal economy. A life-course perspective of Gonds' livelihood practices show that the informal economy works for Gonds because they exercise their agency in various ways, including by demanding desired wages and forms of work that are unavailable through formal welfare state schemes. The Gonds in fact experience dignity as they use the informal economy to stay debt-free, avoid starvation, and create formidable and reliable forms of care for their families. Thus, the thesis contributes to the literature on informal and precarious forms of work in India by showing, through the example of the Gonds, how even though the poor may feel vulnerable and disconnected from formal welfare schemes, they may still experience dignity through livelihood diversification and their exercise of agency and access to social capital. The thesis also presents empirical findings on labour contracts, the informal economy, and poverty.

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Kasper, Eric Calvin. "Nurturing emergent agency : networks and dynamics of complex social change processes in Raipur, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66943/.

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This thesis takes up the question, how can agency for people living in informal settlements be strengthened? To address this question, I carried out systemic action research with two NGO partners and residents from seven informal settlements in Raipur, India. This involved organizing ‘slum improvement committees' (SICs) in each of the seven settlements and carrying out joint actions in support of housing rights and implementation of the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) housing policy. The data on which my analysis is based includes over one hundred conversations between myself and the project participants (both from the settlements as well as the partner NGOs), records of two public events, a social network survey of 46 people living in the participating settlements, a separate set of 9 participatory social network maps (NetMaps), and over two hundred pages of my own field notes based on my observations and participation in the research activities. My thesis makes an original contribution to the study of community agency by analysing it through the lens of complex systems theories and utilising the tools of social network analysis. My thesis also makes an original contribution to research methodology by making the technical analysis participatory, accessible, and useful for the participants. This allowed me to combine analysis of relational structures (social networks) with relational dynamics to show how significant social change happened over the course of the project. My thesis suggests that agency can be strengthened through an organizing practice that brings NGOs, academic researchers, and residents of informal settlements together to build relational power, take collective action, and create social change.

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Efstathopoulos, Charalampos. "Middle power diplomacy in the WTO : India, South Africa and the Doha development agenda." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51625/.

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The emergence of Southern powers constitutes a defining feature of contemporary global governance. Their rising impact has been particularly evident in the Doha round of WTO negotiations where leading developing countries have come to play an increasingly important role in the negotiating process. India and South Africa are two Southern powers that played a central role in WTO negotiations during 2001-5. Acting as representatives of the global South, the two countries determined to a considerable extent the positions of developing countries in conceding to the agenda being negotiated or blocking different stages of negotiations. They also projected, however, different strategies, interests and world-views, and ultimately achieved, with varying degrees of success, their relocation within the WTO. The experience of India and South Africa in the first four years of the Doha round constitutes a framework for understanding the conditions under which Southern powers are repositioning in the global trading system and in the international political economy. To understand the role of India and South Africa in the Doha round, this thesis will deploy a synthesis of middle power approaches as the theoretical prism for analysing the trade diplomacy of the two countries. Middle power approaches offer an ensemble of conceptual categories which allow for theorising the rise of Southern powers, delineating both the nature of their influence and their broader systemic role. The middle power roles of India and South Africa will be assessed through a detailed analysis of documents and public statements in the period under examination. It will be demonstrated that during the Doha round, both countries emerged as middle powers projecting a reformist world-view of multilateral trade negotiations. Their ability to effect change was severely conditioned by the leadership provided by the two major trading powers, the US and the EU, and their own capacity to sustain broad bases of followership in the global South.

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