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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Colonial Past"”.
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The uncomfortable chair of the colonial past and racist present an effective approach to white discomfort in the Netherlands
… strong unease when topics like racism or the colonial past are addressed, resulting in defensiveness and avoidance of important conversations – hence, obstructing the anti-racism struggle. In order to tackle this problem, it is important to understand where white discomfort is rooted and how …
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Between Here and There: Navigating the Danish Colonial Past and United States Imperial Present through Public Sculpture in the Virgin Islands
… do commemorative practices challenge or uphold colonial perspectives and epistemes? This study will utilize iconographic analysis, document and archival research, informal interviews and field research throughout Denmark and the Virgin Islands to compare commemoration practices and how they …
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The French Conundrum: The Unsettled Relationship between the Colonial Past, Identity Construction, and Immigration in the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration
… focuses on the intersection of identity, the colonial past, and immigration in France through the lens of the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration. The museum, which opened in 2007 and is currently redesigning its permanent exhibition, has struggled to come to terms with France’s …
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A CADMEAN VICTORY: LIBYA'S INTRACTABLE STRUGGLE FOR GOVERNANCE
… of the civil war in Libya. Libya’s tribal and colonial past, the Arab Spring upheaval, and the more recent injection of outside forces are examined to identify the factors most salient to explain the civil war’s continuance. It places the war in an international context by examining the role of …
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Histoire à travers identité et mémoire dans Ce que le jour doit à la nuit de Yasmina Khadra
… of the novelists who wrote on the troubled past of France and Algeria. Fictional literature has been a way to lift the veil on France's colonial past in Algeria and has given a voice to those whose lives have been impacted by the war. By combining historical research and literary analysis, I …
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Islam and public health : French management of the Hajj from colonial Senegal and Muslim responses beginning in 1895
… authorities implemented to monitor the Hajj from colonial Senegal beginning in 1895. I focus mainly on the clash between the Hajj institution and the mechanisms of the colonial state. I also emphasize the consequences of that encounter in colonial context to shed light on the relationships between …
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Differentiation in higher education : a case study of Lesotho
… a relatively small African country with a colonial past that has left a lasting imprint, both enabling and constraining, on many aspects of its education system. The aim of this explanatory case study was to identify differentiating trends within Lesotho's higher education system, focusing …
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Early Learning Experiences of Post-Secondary Bangladeshi Students with a Study Permit Participating in an Online Indigenous Learning Event
… comprised of a video that explores issues of colonially imposed ideas around Indigenous identity and other colonial injustices. In this community-based mixed-method study that drew on principles of action research, I explored participants’ early learning experiences vis-a-vis Indigenous …
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National Mythology and Colonial Trauma in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
… process aimed at laying the foundations of a postcolonial nation through the establishment of the truth about the past, the acknowledgment of the injustices inflicted on the natives, and the development of appropriate forms of justice. Hidden facts about dispossession and genocide were divulged …
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The socio-economic legacy of French colonialism in Morocco: The lasting impact of the French protectorate on Morrocan trade, agriculture and education
… with a wide range of people who lived through colonialism and came after it. I use these interviews alongside documents of the time and the findings of contemporary commentators to chart the establishment of the Protectorate's social and economic policies in Morocco and how they destroyed the …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution: National Identity in the context of History, Race, and Language
Building upon a variety of approaches in postcolonial discourse, this project performs a rhetorical analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution through the features of race and written Standard English. It contends that neither race nor written Standard English are suitable and reliable constructs …
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The Agikuyu, the bible and colonial constructs: towards an ordinary African readers’ hermeneutics
… in the development of biblical interpretation in colonial Kenya. It seeks to understand whether the semi-illiterate and illiterate can engage the Bible as capable hermeneuts. The study uses postcolonial criticism to recover and reconstruct the historical encounters of the Agĩkũyũ with the Bible. …
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Writing Resistance in the Three Punjabs: Critical Engagements with Literary Tradition
This dissertation analyses post-colonial Punjabi writing on the left as a critical engagement with literary tradition that re-interprets tropes of resistance embedded in popular, oral genres to articulate political critique in the contemporary. Drawing on Punjabi texts from India, Pakistan, and …
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Essays on economic crises and institutions
… more "extractive" institutions from their colonial past were more likely to experience high volatility and economic crises during the postwar period. More specifically, societies where European colonists faced high mortality rates more than 100 years ago are much more volatile and prone to …
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The making of Thailand's foreign policy towards Vietnam : the era of reconciliation and regionalism (1988-1995)
… Thailand was lucky to be able to avoid Western colonialism while Vietnam had had a tortured colonial past with French occupation since the mid-19th century followed by the prolonged Cold War conflict between North and South in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the late 1980s, however, the lure of …
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Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan
Almost every country on the planet has a colonial past as colonizer or colonized. Yet scholars still do not fully understand how differential experiences of colonialism affect social and economic processes in the long-term. In this dissertation, I focus on the impacts of colonialism on two linked …
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Functions of Gender in Soca: An Historical and Lyrical Analysis of St. Lucian Soca
… female that traces its roots to slavery and our colonial past.
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Group violence and planning: State and grassroots processes, politics, & outcomes for the Hazara in Quetta
… policy debates surrounding violence in the postcolonial city. I focus on how violence shapes the city and lived experiences of Hazara residents in Quetta, Pakistan. I place the ethnicized creation of violence in its historical context, relating it to legal structures and state processes which …
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Le Temps des Copains: Youth and the Making of Modern France in the Era of Decolonization, 1958-1968
… serving to obscure France's recent colonial past and the dubious legacy of imperialism. To contextualize yé-yé, this thesis begins by examining the blousons noirs (black jackets) and the societal anxieties that surrounded them in the early Fifth Republic (1958-1962). By tracking the …
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