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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"British Colonialism"”.
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
… rationality, contextualizing that subject in British colonialism and Western modernity. Using Scott Lash's description of academic characterizations of modernity, I explore the “high" modernity of the social sciences represented in the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll …
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Indian and American Demography, Expertise, and the Family Planning Consensus: 1930-1970
… concerns about population growth, legacies of British colonialism, and American foreign aid. This blend of influences resulted in the first national family planning program in the world.
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An examination of classroom practices for the development of writing in English as a second language in a Malawian primary school
… s language in education policy from the era of British colonialism to the present multilingual era. English is given a high status in schools despite the fact that many more teachers and pupils speak local languages. Malawi's new language in education model stipulates that "English should be …
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The Dark Underbellies of the Littles: A History of the Indo-Guyanese Diaspora, Race and Identity
… Guyana is the result of the fraught history of British colonialism, slavery, and indentured servitude and the sociocultural resilience of the Indo-Guyanese people. Using Little Guyana as a window onto the Indo-Guyanese American experience this thesis explores the ways in which racial tensions in …
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Confrontation, comparison and reconstruction of the walled city of Shahjahanabad
… initially due to the conscious neglect by the British colonialism and later due to endless problems generated by human immigration. Although, the walled city is known for its historical significance due to numerous architectural monuments, the indigenous settlement is tabooed as "Old Delhi" due …
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Afrikaner and French Canadian nationalism : a comparative study
… and rebellion coincides with the advent of British colonialism as French Canadian and Afrikaner segments find their previously dominant positions reversed. Their rural, agrarianist, peripheral culture evolves in isolation from the increasingly metropolitan British core culture. Demographics …
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Putting Forts in their Place: The Politics of Defense in Antigua, 1670-1785
… 1670 and 1785, the plantation elite on the British island of Antigua built and maintained at least fifty-four fortifications to protect the island from other European competitors. Rather than being commissioned, engineered, and defended by the metropolitan government in London, the defense …
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The Political Entanglements of Recognition: Aboriginal Title, Crown Sovereignty, and Indigenous Self Determination
… Indigenous peoples were self-governing prior to British occupation, however, there has yet to be a comprehensive and adequate articulation of the ongoing sovereignty of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Indigenous Nations across Turtle Island have questioned to what degree Canada "owns" their lands, …
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Kwasuka Sukela: re-imagined bodies of a (South African) 1990s born woman
… confronted with monuments erected to celebrate British colonialism and Afrikaner nationalism, I focus on the paucity of iconic black women in history and mythology. I perform figures who I construct from existing histories and look to the women in my own family archive to memorialise them. For …
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Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India
… The most significant effect of the encounter of British Colonialism and India was to precipitate an unprecedented master-dichotomy of singular and absolute form of self and other, as colonizer and the colonized. This had three consequences. (a) India was itself seen as singular and served as the …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
… Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist mentality. The main argument of …
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Exploring The Influence of Burkean Aesthetics on Late Eighteenth-Century British Representations of India and North America
This dissertation examines how several British novelists--Elizabeth Hamilton, Phebe Gibbes, Sydney Owenson, Frances Brooke, Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charlotte Smith, and Robert Bage--were actively redeveloping a political aesthetic theory for the late eighteenth-century by using the landscape of India …
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The History Of The System Of Music Education In Jamaica: Emancipation In 1838 To The 21st Century
… with particular focus on such influences as British colonialism, the African Diaspora, Jamaican folk music and Jamaican popular music. A secondary goal of the study is to examine the parallels between Jamaica and more affluent countries like England and other British influenced countries in …
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The emergence and development of the accountancy profession in Cyprus: the case of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC)
… differently in different contexts. Many former British colonies, for instance Nigeria, Australia and India, have adopted the British model of accountancy profession as it is shown in the extant accounting literature. However, little is known about the accounting profession in Cyprus; an island …
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The social history of music development in the Greek Cypriot population during 1878-1945
… history of the island from the beginning of British colonialism in 1878 to the end of the Second World War in 1945. In particular, it examines the ways in which folk, church, and European art music were practised, promoted and interpreted in the different social strata of Greek Cypriot …
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A Study and Critical Analysis of Orin Idaraya Choruses in the Yoruba Baptist Hymnal (2000) of the Nigerian Baptist Convention
… history of the Nigerian Baptist churches from British colonialism through the present. In the chapter, the rise of Yoruba hymnody in the church and the use of indigenous Yoruba indigenous Christian songs in worship were examined. Chapter 4 explores the history and organization of YBH 2000. In …
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Affective belongings and remediating practices: visualising Imperial formations and unlearning Whiteness in relation to British immigration in so-called Australia.
In so-called Australia, the legacies of British colonialism remain unsettled and unresolved, socially, politically and culturally. This thesis consists of a written and practice element that together explore whiteness and photography, and the ways they create and sustain affective atmospheres of …
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再现/见南洋 : 香港电影与新加坡(1950-65) = Filming Nanyang : Hong Kong - Singapore Connection (1950-65)
… Kong and Singapore-Malaya under the umbrella of British colonialism in the context of Cold War. In the thesis I also examine the ¿nation building¿ political discourse in Singapore-Malaya out of which grew a Malayanized Chinese cultural movement. Diasporic ties and cultural diplomacy played a …
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The Hybrid Spirit Animating Chinese Pentecostals in Malaysia
… through an analysis of the historical legacy of British colonialism that has structured the country's current socio-political configuration along bounded categories of identification. The <em>habitus</em> constrains church members to accept certain Chinese ethnic markers as "givens." Although …
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
… history of materiality to studies of German and British colonialism, postcolonial legitimacy, and transnational repatriation movements. Mkwawa’s head was a symbolic object, severed under systems of violence implicit in empire making. The transition of human remains from a trophy head to a …
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