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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Colonialist"”.
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The postcolonial lesbian text: readings of four novels by Renée
… four novels by Renée has been characterised by a colonialist discourse which manifests as the vestiges of a colonialist literary aesthetic operating in a contemporary culture sphere. Part One also outlines the strategy I have developed for reading the four novels by Renée. This strategy was …
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Archaeology and post-colonialism in South Africa : the theory, practice and politics of archaeology after apartheid
… into three modes or forms of archaeology: a colonialist archaeology, a nationalist archaeology and an imperialist archaeology. He goes on to suggest (1990) that South African archaeology is the most colonialist archaeology of all. Trigger was writing at a point before the current political …
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Repatriation claims on cultural material from former British colonies in museums in Britain and Ireland: using experiences to effect change
… whose cultural heritage they hold. Rooted in colonialist structures, museums maintain hierarchies and assumptions of authority that conflict with Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Their repatriation policies remain grounded in Western frameworks of ownership and knowledge transmission, …
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Disharmony of empire: Race and the making of modern musicology in colonial North Africa
… North Africa were not only a lens into broader colonialist and nationalist processes, they also revealed the ongoing formulation of racialized sound worlds that impacted the political and social realms. The dissertation is split into two parts. Part One focuses on “Colonial Musicology,” and …
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Colonial shorthand: Swift, the ascendancy, and internal Colonialism
… contemporary critical picture of Swift as anti- colonialist. Combining historical research with discursive and rhetorical analyses of heretofore neglected primary sources, I focus on the colonial assumptions underlying Swift's tracts, sermons, and correspondence. Though Swift often opposed …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… progressive, celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflicting tropes for representing people of African American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. New Negro imagery, this …
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Applying ecofeminist theory to Christian mission work in Honduras: Building theoretical bridges for real change
… lives. This thesis first articulates why the colonialist patriarchy within Christianity must be abandoned in favor of unconditional love of all creation before a Christian ecofeminist mission work can be realized. Second, this thesis invites Christian ecofeminist political activism by …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… authority they use to challenge the imperialist, colonialist, and nativist projects of the twentieth-century U.S. In rebranding the Bible as politically radical, these writers are not denying the authority of the Bible, but are re-appropriating it for their socially dynamic purposes, suggesting …
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Debating 'Islamic Feminism': Between Turkish Secular Feminist and North American Academic Critiques
… Pazartesi on religion in order to ask whether a colonialist/orientalist discourse underpins the refusal to acknowledge Islamic feminism as a feminist endeavour for gender equality from within Islam for both the western academic community and secular feminist circles in Turkey.
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The Fantasy of an Anglo-Indian Man: Imperialism and Colonialism in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books
… in British literature, most notably for being a colonialist. As an Anglo-Indian man, Kipling travelled between the two nations of Britain and India, and his difference from the native Indians shaped his opinions on the colonisation of India. He expressed his views on colonisation in many of his …
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An Examination of Settler-Colonial Genocide in Canada at the Microlevel of Reserves
… genocide verse genocide period. Settler-colonialist mode of socioeconomic and political operation continues genocide via attrition, particularly via the healthcare disparity faced by Indigenous peoples. Issues: residential schools, overincarceration, obesity, inaccessibility of safe …
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La reflexividad en las ciencias sociales: Hacia un ensamblaje ontológico, epistemológico y metodológico para la generación de un conocimiento situado
… decolonials understand as a capitalist, colonialist and patriarcal world-system.The main objective of this research is to configure an ontological and epistemological basis of the searching of an alternative model for the social sciences. This research has been developed considerating the …
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Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues
… music" on the other. By wresting the blues from colonialist and racist logics, this dissertation contends that the space that produces the blues can be recovered as a viable resource for reimagining a theology of revelation.</p>
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The Broad, Toiling Masses in all the Continents: Anticolonial Activists and the Atlantic Charter
… between either dismissing the Charter as colonialist hypocrisy, necessitating the rejection of political dialogue for more radical options, or using the Charter as a tool to extract concessions from European and American colonial regimes.</p>
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Political Mavens: Ruth Underhill, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Gene Weltfish, Ella Deloria, and the Politics of Culture
… their scholarly attempts to critique the colonialist state or defend Native American communities. Inspired by the work of Catherine Lavender and Frederick Hoxie, my thesis investigates both the process of editorial translation that occurs during the development of ethnographic publications …
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Encountering the Other Through Study Abroad
… it operates, such as a mediascape riddled with colonialist fantasies and a neoliberal capitalist economy in which both educational institutions and tourism brokers must compete for ""customers."" Students' narratives are explored with reference to the modes in which they chose to consume the …
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El Discurso De Respuesta en La Obra Primigenia De Ruben Dario (1888-1898)
… that responds to the hegemonic center--any colonialist source of culture--by replacing it by a new, alternative center: Spanish America. Based on this premise, I examine several of Dario's well known texts, such as the ""Palabras liminares"" from Prosas profanas, short stories published in …
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Fur, fangs and feathers: colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature
… his time with the Cullen family, perpetuate colonialist narratives. By contrast, Leitich Smith and Bruchac write against these stereotypes. Bruchac focuses directly on Abenaki characters, writing from an insider perspective that allows him to create a nuanced, non-stereotypical portrayal of a …
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Maori stereotypes, governmental policies and Maori art in museums today : a case study of the museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
… The Europeans settled in New Zealand with a colonialist attitude, leading to the notion that the Maori people would soon be extinct. This promoted the vigorous collection of various samples of Maori material culture. Museums were then established to store these artefacts. Governmental …
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