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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Colonial Modernity"”.
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Contested colonial modernity: the controversy and political struggles surrounding the Kanan Taishū irrigation system, 1922-1937
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Mapping the Assembly of Muslim Exceptionality and Exceptional Muslims in Colonial Modernity. Ismaili Muslim Encounters through Discourses, Bodies and Space in the Canadian Colonial Nation
… with specific “modern Muslims” in the Canadian colonial nation state? In the last decade in Canada there have been efforts to engage in a demarcation between Muslims and other racialized groups in order to define some bodies as part of the nation whilst others outside of the national imaginary. …
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Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India
… on how orthodox theologians survived colonial modernity by deploying sociological, discursive, psychic, and hermeneutical strategies. This dissertation is organized around Ashraf `Ali Thanvi (1863-1943), a leading Muslim theologian, mystic, and jurist of colonial India. Thanvi authored …
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THE MATERIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
… aims to draw on the theoretical legacy of postcolonial critique, which includes the assumption of a fundamental continuity between colonial history and our postcolonial world, in order to rethink the current configuration of the relationship between capital and knowledge (usually analysed in …
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Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space
… scales. Re-commoning in the voids produced by colonial modernity, I argue, can provide material and theoretical footing for ongoing struggles against manufactured scarcity, ecological devastation, and quotidian alienation. By tracing the grassroots reclamation of discards across speculative, …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… knowledge outside the disciplinary borders of colonial modernity. I explore such themes by linking literary archives normatively separated by approaches that focus on discrete national and linguistic traditions or comparative approaches that exclude questions of coloniality, in each case …
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Imperial designs: fashion, cosmetics, and cultural identity in Japan, 1931-1943
… constituted through a singular process of colonial modernity. I examine debates on the “national uniform” and ethnic costumes to demonstrate how women functioned as objects in the quest to define Japanese cultural identity, which I argue was shaped through both Japan’s semi-colonial …
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The early years of black radio broadcasting in South Africa : a critical reflection on the making of Ukhozi FM
… radio in South Africa demonstrates the legacy of colonialism, but also exhibits the performance of novel identities in the 'modem' state. In this dissertation I look at the early years of black radio in South Africa circa 1940-1944, focussing primarily on the Zulu language service. The service was …
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
… past and their turbulent relationship with the colonial state. This thesis considers multiple forms of art – wall paintings, sacrificial geometry, musical instruments, marriage articles, paper paintings and shields used in war and dance – to understand the aesthetic eco-system of the Santals. …
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A Socioeconomic History of Electrification in Southern Nigeria, 1898-1972
… makes three main contributions to the history of colonial infrastructure and the global historiography of electrification. First, it argues that the desire to improve the efficiency of resource extraction, as well as the need to promote socioeconomic development and colonial modernity in Southern …
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Tempered Tempos: The Politics of Waiting for Public Services in Contemporary Cape Town
… into conversation the connections between postcolonial infrastructural crises, socially fractured temporal experiences, and the everyday culture of interaction with the state. By tracing the history of how infrastructures and systems of delivery were designed to support first the project of …
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The making of 'Modern' Assam, 1826-1935
… of Assam through an examination of changing colonial and indigenous representations of its land and people. It considers the emergence of regional identity, the demarcation of ‘tribal’ and ‘lower caste’ groups and Assam's relationship with Indic ‘high culture’. The dissertation examines these …
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The house in South Asian Muslim women’s early anglophone life-writing and novels
… contradistinction to the harem fantasy inflected colonial spatial discourse prevalent at the time in order to describe the representational practice of these twentieth century Muslim women authors, who by virtue of writing in English are compelled to serve as cultural translators. I argue that …
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"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
… a strong learning identity associated with colonial modernity. These two groups, however, have to contend with the social stereotype associated with their non-Mandarin speaking status. Under a Mandarin-only ideology that links Mandarin with modernity, discourses that have actively mobilized …
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Abode of Peace: Islam, empire, and the Khoja diaspora (1866 - 1972)
… their texts, during the formative periods of colonialism, nationalism, and decolonisation around the Indian Ocean, ca. 1866 – 1972. A trading community originally from western India, the Khojas were defined in the colonial imaginary as a permanent “minority” regardless of the vantage point: …
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Renaissance and revenants in an emerging global city: discourses of heritage and urban design in Cape Town's District One and District Six, 2002-2014
… a series of insights into the links between colonial modernity, on the one hand, and the origins of contemporary heritage and urban-design discourses in Cape Town, on the other. It examines the function of official discourse concerning the design of the city, as well as the sudden eruptions …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… political valences of religious conversion in colonial India and explains how religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial India in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
This thesis is a decolonial feminist exploration of the representation, materials, and histories of Korean women told through Korean patchwork, theorising patchwork as a radical form to reimagine (material) histories of Korean women and women of the Korean diaspora. As an amalgam of different …