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Showing 1 to 20 of 178 for “"Colonial Studies"”.
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Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals
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Nature Unsettled: the making of the wilderness imaginary and the Canadian settler state
… contextualized within the structure of settler colonialism, I attempt a fuller understanding of these landscapes. Paying particular attention to how settler colonial difference has historically intersected with the cultural framing of nature in Canada, this thesis aims to bring to light …
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Jewish past and colonial Shanghai: trade, treaty-port, and transitive modernity
This dissertation explores the transnational and colonial encounters of Sephardic Jews and Chinese in treaty-port Shanghai by examining 1) the Jewish networks of capital, goods, and market; 2) Jewish elites and their political activism; 3) transnational legal and political status of Sephardic …
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
'Post-colonial Dislocation and Amnesia: A Cure from Molefi Kete Asante's An Afrocentric Manifesto' aims at investigating the epistemological problems and theoretical inconsistencies in contemporary post-colonial studies. Capitalizing Molefi Kete Asante's theorizations on agency, location, identity, …
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The Asianadian, 1978-1985: Hybridity and Resistance in Theory and Practice
… insights of Critical Race Theory, Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, postcolonial theory, and the political philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology to develop a multi-layered and overlapping reading of The Asianadian, I argue for the ways in which Canadas first Asian …
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Here we can behold the great machine in motion : the Belfast Monthly Magazine, 1808-1814
… experience is of great significance to wider colonial studies. Similarities exist between settler societies such as Australia, Canada and Ireland in terms of economic structures and demographic tensions; however the colonial experience of Ireland is unique as it was England’s first colonial …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
This dissertation research focuses on post-colonial storytelling practice, theorizing a framework I call Narrative Justice Playmaking which addresses the research question: How can and do theatre practitioners tell stories of ongoing traumatic subject matter in ways that are not just trauma- …
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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698
… of the Baltic Sea, was an unlikely candidate for colonial expansion. Yet, in the mid- to late seventeenth century, the ambitions of the dukes, in particular Duke Jakob Kettler (reigned 1642-1682), provided it with a brief colonial presence in Tobago and The Gambia. The Duchy is an extreme example …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… men's multilingualism are examined using post-colonial studies of race, 'whiteness' and hybridity (Bhabha, 1994; Frankenberg, 1993; Hall, 1992a). The study was undertaken using Life History methodology (Hatch & Wisniewsky, 1995) and biographic interviewing methods developed within the Social …
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The Post-Colonial Christ Paradox: Literary Transfigurations of a Trickster God
Within English post-colonial literary studies, Christianity has often been characterized as principally a colonial imposition and, therefore, only modestly theorized as a post-colonial religion that lends itself to complex post-colonial literary renderings. However, the literary implications of …
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A map of this place: Memory and the afterlives of removal
… in transnational and transcultural memory studies. To that end, I develop a connective study of how memories of dispossession and removal travel across time, generations, and geographies. I do so through a contrapuntal study of contemporary Armenian American, Palestinian American, and …
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A historical geography of Halley research station, Antarctica, 1956 – present
… Geophysical Year legacy, lived infrastructure, colonial settlement, and geophysical observatory. In doing so, the thesis also draws on different theoretical frameworks: assemblage, scientific boundary work, settler colonial studies, and history of science. Overall, this thesis contributes an …
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Marriage, the Family, and Security in Israel: The Paradox of the Liberal State
… liberalism, biopolitics, nationalism, and post-colonial studies. Part one traces the history of Israel from the late Ottoman period through the founding of the State in 1948, with consideration paid both to Israel's founders (and the political Zionisms they espoused) and to political Zionism's …
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Assembling Zibi: How Profits, Property, and Policing Undermined Algonquin Urban Land Reclamation at Asinabka in Canada’s National Capital Region
… Region, this dissertation examines how settler colonialism’s urban strategies are (re)organizing in response to the material and discursive demands of urban Indigenous land reclamations. A collection of islands and waterfalls in the Kitchissippi (Ottawa River), located between downtown Ottawa, …
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"She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction...": the influence of a religio-spiritual epistemology on the academic knowledge, pedagogy, and theorizing of Black women university teachers
… the Theory of the Black Church, and Post-colonial Studies were employed in order to facilitate this inquiry. Every woman was reared in a predominantly Black congregation (PBC), and many still practice their faith in a PBC. The primary focus of this study was to consider the influence a …
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Neo-Latin America: the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic. Studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)
… present emergent zone of inquiry within Iberian colonial studies which until now has been developing almost completely without reference to the Latin-language portion of the corpus.
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Tracing the Invisible Borders of Canadian Citizenship: Critical Analysis of Social Work with Noncitizens
… border scholarship, Indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies, affect theories, and Foucaults notion of powerI consider both the historical and contemporary contexts in which social work with noncitizens has become invested in Canadian citizenship. My …
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(Re) Presenting Study Abroad through the 'Colonial Library'
… on the continent of Africa, most of which have colonial histories. Relying on scholarship from postcolonial studies, critical tourism studies, and higher education, this analysis addresses the social imaginary that anchors study abroad programs in such host countries on the African Continent. …
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'Like Ice Floes': Iñupiaq Sovereignty and Settler Migration on Alaska's North Slope
… theoretical frameworks concerning settler colonialism. I draw on political, economic, and environmental literatures in sociocultural anthropology, as well as Native American and Indigenous studies and interdisciplinary settler colonial studies, to show how Iñupiat and non-Iñupiat village …
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Three essays on Self-Government Accounting Practices under Settler Colonialism: A Case study from Palestine.
… entities in the context of settler colonial studies. It adopts settler colonialism theory (SCT) as a theoretical framework and was initially introduced by Denoon (1979), subsequently developed by Wolfe (1994, 1999, 2001, 2006), and theoretically extended by Veracini (2010, 2012, …
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