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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Colonial histories"”.
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Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return
<p>In this thesis, I trace how colonial powers fragment and silence Palestinian knowledge practices as another mode of genocide. And locate silences (Trouillot 1995) by analyzing how colonial powers confiscate land, farming tools, and criminalizes Palestinians from foraging in an aim to disrupt any …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
… sociopolitical resistance and survival against colonial histories of oppression and erasure, I theorize ?tha art of makin? do? as a method employing tactics able to re-imagine, re-purpose, and re-deploy the material and immaterial in accordance to immediate and long-term needs. Hiphop Studies …
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Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age
… is its continuous demonstration of a pre-colonial hub of cosmopolitanisms on a scale never imagined in colonial histories of 'indigenous' communities – thought of as the ultimate 'other' of global modernity. This study focuses on the visualisation of four settlements, namely: Mapungubwe, …
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Writing Native Pasts in the Nineteenth Century
… to the disciplinary emergence of settler-colonial history by challenging the belief that writing afforded exclusive access to the past. As the study of history developed in the nineteenth century, the supposed illiteracy of indigenous communities positioned them outside of historical time. …
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Poétique(s) de la révolution: construction d’identité au travers des littératures Algérienne et Haïtienne
… Ocean, and rethinks the concept of (post)colonialism in a francophone context as a field that is not fixed but constantly evolving. I show how, in these literatures written in French from Haiti and Algeria, revolution becomes an embedded trait of identity and a way of thinking despite …
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'This subject will not go away': Memorialising frontier conflict in South Australia
The history and memory of colonial violence is, in the words of one resident of Elliston in South Australia, a ‘subject [that] will not go away’ until it is addressed. Memories of frontier conflict have long been present in local communities and have only become more visible and more contentious as …
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Indians on the Line: Everyday Histories of Race, Class and Empire in the Telegraph Service, 1920-1950
… knowledge transfer, and its application within a colonial economy, society, and polity. This thesis challenges prevailing assumptions about telegraphy's impact in India between 1920 and 1950 by arguing that telegraphy was an inadequate tool of governance, technological advancement, and social …
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Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography
… societies, are grappling with relevance as their colonial histories are contested. Within this context, performance art has emerged as a powerful tool for challenging dominant narratives and analysing oppressive systems within cultural institutions. Guided by concepts of decoloniality and …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… the Americas have often reclaimed their pre-colonial histories. "Aztec Nation" examines the impact of Chicano cultural nationalist revisions of Mexican indigenismo (politics and aesthetics of the post-1910 indigenous movement) upon race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Chicano …
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Building Urban Palestine: Jaffa and Nablus 1870-1930
… of cities and urban change under imperial and colonial rule from the perspective of dominating powers, this dissertation emphasises the role of the local Palestinian population in conceiving, planning, and shaping their urban environments and spaces within, against, and parallel to the …
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eBhish' - articulations of Black Oceanic presence eThekwini
The legacies of colonialism and apartheid echo in many forms of social practice in contemporary South Africa. Ibhish' laseThekwini (the Durban beachfront), a seaside public space, is imbued with a racialized tension that stems from these colonial histories. Historically, the beach was the nation's …
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Attacking cities: terrorism in Paris, London, and Manchester (2015-2020)
… unique context of Western Europe, as Europe’s colonial histories and demographically diverse yet dense urban areas complicate the recent experience of Islamist and right-wing terrorism. Studying the period of terrorism which began in 2015 and ended abruptly in 2020 with the onset of the …
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Exploring feminist notions of peacebuilding: experiences of women activists in Northern Uganda
… This study conceptualised gender from a decolonial, intersectional framing of femininities which considered lineage, age, class, and geographic location of women who founded peace groups during and just after some of the most volatile periods of the war in Northern Uganda. The researcher …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… post-COVID-19 and systemic inequities rooted in colonial legacies and shifting immigration policies. By combining reflective autoethnography, digital storytelling, and netnography, the study bridges personal, communal, and digital narratives to explore how South Asian individuals navigate …
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Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan
This dissertation examines embodied histories in the production of Okinawa at the intersection of colonialism, gender, and the body in modern Japan. By combining archival research with ethnographic methods, I problematize standard approaches for researching, writing, and performing histories, …
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The lived experiences of black managers in accessing top management positions within the Namibian private corporate sector
This PhD study draws from anticolonial and decolonial thought systems to explore how multi-level factors; macro-level (social-contextual contextual histories, economic, legal and religious), meso-level (organisational cultures, structures, processes and procedures), and micro-level (interpersonal …
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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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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
Concerned with the ongoing coloniality within the form and interactions of international relations, this project examines the legacy of colonial mapping practices on contemporary geopolitics. Specifically, I investigate Sri Lankan tourist maps as subversive examples of the politics of vision …
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Changing values in heritage: shifts from the tangible to intangible in urban historic environments bo-kaap as case study
… as a residential quarter of the early Cape colonial settlement, through the mid twentieth century when Bo-Kaap became largely fashioned and formed into an ethnically defined 'Malay' quarter, conforming to essentialised notions of race and ethnicity dominant in nationalist ideology, through …
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A guiding model for decolonizing environmental science research and restoring relational accountability with Indigenous communities
… and researchers have yet to directly address colonial-rooted legacies, including centuries of oppression, ethical violations, and lack of accountability towards the communities who maintain these knowledge systems. My dissertation research draws from theoretical developments in Indigenous …
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