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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Caribbean studies"”.
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Negotiating Identity in the Transnational Imaginary of Julia Alvarez's and Edwidge Danticat's Literature
… negotiate these points of contact. New World and Caribbean Studies envision the cross-cultural and transnational encounters between indigenous, European, and African peoples as important contributors to a paradigm within which identity in relation offers an alternative to identities rooted in …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
… research across Theatre and Performance Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Caribbean Studies, Women Gender and Sexuality Studies, English, Memory Studies, and Disability Studies. I explore how storytelling impacts people’s lives, realities, and experiences, and unpack the ways in which story …
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‘The Power of Three Will Set Us Free': Witchy Womanist Readings of Toni Morrison’s Sula, Opal Palmer Adisa’s It Begins With Tears, and Migdalia Cruz’s The Have-Little and Miriam’s Flowers
… knowledge. Born at the intersections of Black Studies, BIPOC Queer and Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies, English, Hip-Hop Studies and Latinx Studies, “‘The Power of Three Will Set Us Free’: Witchy Womanist Readings of Toni Morrison's <em>Sula</em>, Opal Palmer Adisa's <em>It Begins With …
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Practices of Rooting & Spaces of Performative Becoming: An Exploration of British Caribbean Diasporic Identities through Dance
… identity forms within the movement of British Caribbean Diasporic artists. The study focuses on how this occurs within the work of H Patten, Greta Mendez, Jamila Johnson-Small, and Akeim Toussaint Buck. Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, the thesis offers the notion practices of …
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Abyssal Ideology and the Amerindians of Guyana: An Eco-Crimes Analysis of Power, Discourse and Cognitive Injustice
Cognitive injustice- that is, the failure to recognize the plurality of epistemologies and the manner in which people across the globe provide meaning to their existence- should be the subject of critical criminological inquiry because it is directly linked to both environmental and social …
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Geographical Indications and Development in the Third World: Towards a Strategic Approach of Intellectual Property Rights in Jamaica - The Case of Blue Mountain Coffee
… indications and development in Jamaica and the Caribbeans intellectual property landscape. A net importer of intellectual property, Jamaica has yet to fully claim intellectual property as its own. The dissertation proposes that geographical indication schemes should be envisaged, and practically …
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
… the music and history of Grenada and the African Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. This research includes four original musical compositions, tailored …
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Calypso, Masquerade Performance and Post National Identities
… achieve the goal of a multiperspectival Cultural Studies. Three cases are at the core of this study: Anthony ""The Mighty Gabby"" Carter, Alison Hinds, and Ricardo ""Lil' Rick"" Reid. By analyzing these Calypso/Soca artists performances utilizing the methodological resonances of the metaphor of …
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No sovereign remedy: distress, madness, and mental health care in Guyana
This dissertation is an ethnographic examination of how mental distress is read and understood in Guyana. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews, site observations, media analysis, and document analysis (primary, secondary, tertiary, and grey literature), this research investigates (i) …
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
… and a Black feminist lens, I engage in Caribbean-inflected participatory research-creation to develop a counter-archive of Jamaican Canadians in Ontario, Canada. The research creation methodology integrates traditional archival research, interviews informed by Caribbean “liming and ole …
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Tracing Black Radical Thought: Colonialism, Race, Class, Women and Gender in the Life and Works of C.L.R. James and Aime Cesaire
… Césaire, two twentieth century thinkers from the Caribbean, lies a critical, internationalist, anti-oppressive framework aligned towards the betterment of humanity.
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Towards a Decolonial Caribbean Reparations Movement
… seeks to establish a decolonial framework for Caribbean reparations that is located in the Black radical tradition. It critically examines the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) reparations campaign and proposes an alternative approach that embodies, explores, and revolves around everyday …
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"Maybe home is an uneasy place": Dionne Brand's uneasy home-spaces
When contemporary Caribbean-Canadian writer Dionne Brand encounters home, she is confronted by social norms - domestic and national - that may exclude her based on race, gender, sexuality and birthplace, or that may include her on the conditional denial of any one of these identifications. Reading …
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Sustaining Tourism in Cuba : A Qualitative Examination of Perceived Entrepreneurial Climate Elements among Tourism Industry Professionals
As the Cuban government seeks to develop a strong private sector and alleviate stress to provide employment for its citizens, creating a climate conducive to private enterprise formation warrants immediate attention. Because tourism is Cuba's biggest industry, many residents may seek to create …
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From Gwoka Modénn to Jazz Ka: Music, Nationalism, and Creolization in Guadeloupe
… use of creolization theories in globalization studies, this dissertation brings creolization home to the Caribbean to reveal its particular significance as a post-nationalist strategy.
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Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in the US Virgin Islands
<p><italic>Virgin Capital</italic> explores the impact of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) program in the US Virgin Islands and asks, "How do contemporary circulations of capital and people alternately build upon and complicate long-present hierarchies?" This dissertation approaches the …
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DOMINICAN SPANISH IN CONTACT WITH ST. THOMAS ENGLISH CREOLE: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF SPEECH VARIATION ON ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.
This dissertation will demonstrate that a variety of Dominican Spanish in contact with St. Thomas English Creole (STTEC) revealed many features which are consistent with Dominican Spanish in other contact environments and some new features which are emerging as the result of uniquely STTEC …
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