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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Colonial governance"”.
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The Commission for the Protection of the Natives and Belgian Colonialism (1908-1957)
… of the Natives, 1908-1957], a largely overlooked colonial advice and ‘watch dog’ organ in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960). It is seen as a formal institution, acting as an intermediary between the Congolese population and the Belgian colonisers; between colonial practitioners on the ground and …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… in the context of imperial rivalries, colonial governance, and liberal internationalism. In doing so, this project explores the internationalization of a "Lost Generation" of German ethnologists, exemplified by the renowned scholar Richard Thurnwald (1869-1954), from *fin de siècle* …
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ÍY SĆȺ (Good Work): A Study of Introspective Leadership Emerging From W̱SÁNEĆ
… elected official within British Columbia’s Crown governance systems, and a subsequent role in W̱ JOȽEȽP village administration, this inquiry investigated how personal, cultural, and political experiences have shaped the author’s evolving self-reflective leadership practice. Grounded in a W̱ SÁNEĆ …
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The making of a kholwa intellectual : a discursive biography of Magema Magwaza Fuze
… the problem of the introduction of writing in a colonial context and, more specifically, in the context of extensive missionary activity. The relative 'success' of this missionary endeavour appeared not only in the small but growing number of converts to Christianity, but perhaps even more …
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Browning the archive: troubling normative formations of South African *Indian Identity
… archival material is largely owed to the colonial governance of the immigration of Indians as indentured labourers and passengers. Accordingly, *Indian women were sidelined and defined by colonial and patriarchal structures that constructed them as chaste and subservient wives and …
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Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
… Work of Filipina Women Under Spanish and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1870-1948,” is a history of colonial medicine from the perspective of women who had a range of health encounters with colonial officials. It makes three claims. First, I argue that modern medicine in the Philippines was produced …
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Negotiating the state at its margins: Colonial authority in Condominium Darfur 1916-1956
The period of British colonial rule in Darfur is prominent in current debates about the roots of recent conflict. It has been argued that the colonial policy of ‘Native Administration’, and the ethnicisation of land rights that it imposed, made large scale violence almost inevitable. In this view, …
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Hunters and After Riders: A History of Hunting and the Making of Race in the Waterberg, 1840s-Present
… is one of the key spaces in which a white colonial imaginary was created. This was, and remains, an imaginary of heroism, superiority, and the ‘civilizing mission’, to which the narrative and imagery of hunting made a substantial contribution. Additionally, hunting serves as a barometer of …
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Occupation and resistance in southern Iraq: a study of Great Britain’s civil administration in the Middle Euphrates and the Great Rebellion, 1917-1920
… aims to reveal the complexities of British colonial governance and the lasting contradictions characteristic to the emergence of modern nation states. </p>
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Arctic Circles: the Franklin family, networks of knowledge, and early nineteenth century Arctic exploration, 1818-1859
… of imperial knowledge across a series of colonial, metropolitan and extra-imperial sites. These included, but were not limited to, the changing circuits of scientific sociability, and trans-imperial networks of imperial humanitarianism, settlers, colonial governance and science. In the …
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
… significance as it transformed from a trophy of colonial conquest to a political tool of colonial governance to a relic and symbol of anticolonial resistance. I map these changes over the long twentieth century (1898 to 2019) in order to historically contextualise the head’s various meanings …
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The Many States of Excess: Everyday Statecraft and Imperial Entanglement of Iraqi Exiles in Amman
… past whose reverberations continue to trouble governance in Iraq and an omnipresent U.S. imperial statecraft. Furthermore, this dissertation contributes to anthropological literature on exile by moving away from familiar terrains of loss, estrangement, and ightirab, and towards what comes to be …
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Towards universal health coverage: mapping the development of the faith-based non-profit sector in the Ghanaian health system
… located in rural and remote areas beyond colonial governance control (or boundaries), and many of these facilities still exist, demonstrating resilience to change over time. However, this service footprint has changed and today, public and private health facilities are located in similar …
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A discursive historical approach (DHA) to understanding South Africa's leadership aspirations in Africa: state exceptionalism and foreign policy under Mandela and Mbeki
… of its' geography and in the manner it exercised colonial governance over its' African subjects. Secondly, several post-apartheid discourses of exceptionalism are identified, traced back to the workmanship of new right-intellectuals of the 1990s and their ideas of a multicultural new South Africa. …
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A comparative analysis of off-grid photovoltaic (PV) systems & businesses performance in The Gambia and Kenya
… This analysis uncovers the persistent impact of colonialism, post-colonial governance failures, and regulatory inefficiencies on the success of renewable energy (RE)initiatives. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated these challenges, threatening progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 7 …
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Colonial taxation and taxpayers in Sierra Leone, c. 1890-1937.
This dissertation examines the history of colonial taxation and taxpayers in Sierra Leone during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is concerned with the interaction between tax systems and inequality: how existing inequalities feed into the design of tax systems, and in turn, how …
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Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge
… which involves escaping the logic of slavery and coloniality that are pervasive in UK HEIs. This mode of marronage is necessitated by the racialised and gendered discrimination present with Oxbridge (Bledsoe, 2018). Marronage facilitates the creation of a community through which we can refuse to …
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Remediating empire: constituting, documenting and re-mediating U.S. citizenship in Puerto Rico (1898-1941)
… through three forms of media for the U.S. colonial possessions acquired in 1898. More precisely, through critical discourse analysis this research looks at interplays of U.S. government produced documentary media, and cultural representations of U.S. citizenship as governmental technology …