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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Decolonisation"”.
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Shakespeare, Decolonisation, and the Cold War
… British interests during the Cold War and decolonisation. Focusing on a selection of British Council supported tours during the period the relationship between Shakespeare in Britain and Shakespeare abroad is examined. The evolution of touring Shakespeare’s use in cultural diplomacy is …
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Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation
It has been more than five decades since the wave of decolonization swept across Africa. For people on the continent, the rise to power by the former liberation movements brought hope for a better future in the post-colonial state. However later developments showed that independence would, in fact, …
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Malaysian worldmakers in the age of decolonisation, 1950s-1970
… Second, it foregrounds distinct visions of decolonisation embedded in varying international organisations, recovering inventive means through which smaller ex-colonies like Malaysia exercised sovereignty. Third, by scrutinising underappreciated Malaysian initiatives in a range of …
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Contextualised Fashion Design Curriculum and Pedagogy in Ghana; Contributions to Decolonisation
… frameworks, thereby contributing to the broader decolonisation discourse within tertiary Creative Education. Fashion education represents a compelling ambition for many young people in developing countries. This thesis examines the appropriateness of this ambition, considering the specific …
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Anglicanism, the Mau Mau Conflict, and Decolonisation in Kenya, 1952 - 1963
… study of Anglicanism, the Mau Mau conflict, and decolonisation in Kenya advances the limited literature on Christianity during the late imperial period in East Africa. Using new Christian and government sources, I detail how Anglicans navigated the complex and violent Mau Mau insurgency. I argue …
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Exploring the interface between the decolonisation of higher education and open access
… aims to investigate the similarities between decolonisation in higher education and Open Access (OA). This study was motivated by South African students united under the #FMF (#FeesMustFall) movement who revolted against colonised higher education system, restricted access to higher education, …
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Lecturers and students’ perceptions of decolonisation at a selected rural university in Limpopo
The prospect of decolonisation has gained importance and emphasis worldwide. Decolonisation aims to give voice and respect to people of non-European decent. In higher education institutions the concern is that identities and the lived world experiences of the majority of people in South Africa is …
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Decolonisation Through ‘Development Films’: Constructing and Re-Constructing the Zairian Spirit on Film
… critically contributes to the understanding of decolonisation in postcolonial Africa through documentary films by investigating a decolonial moment, a bold attempt to disentangle an ex‐colonised part of the world from coloniality by infusing the indigenous Zairian spirit into national film. This …
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Essays on the political economy of 20th century colonisation and decolonisation in Africa
… of this dissertation is on colonisation and decolonisation as cornerstones in the development of sub-Saharan Africa's current institutions and how these historical institutions affect current economic growth outcomes. The dissertation consists of three main chapters besides the introductory …
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Decolonisation, Africanisation, and Epistemic Citizenship in post-Rhodes Must Fall South African Universities
… the South African higher education landscape, decolonisation, as an intellectual project, remains a popular emancipatory framework within universities, disciplinary communities, scholarly networks globally and in South African higher education. In South Africa, demands for a decolonised African …
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Transitional Justice, Decolonisation, and the Legitimation of Political Change in Contemporary South Africa
In this project, I explore the residual impact of transitional justice discourse in contemporary South Africa. I argue specifically that even though transitional justice in South Africa became successful in terms of political justice, it failed to fulfill its promise of sociocultural and economic …
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Decolonisation and the Imperial Cricket Conference, 1947-1965: A Study in Transnational Commonwealth History?
… men’s cricket to developments related to decolonisation of the British Empire between 1947 and 1965. This was a period of intense political flux and paradigmatic shifts. This study draws on primary sources in the form of records of ICC and MCC meetings and newspaper archives, and a …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… relationship between subjectivity and historic decolonisation. Amidst social, political and economic obstacles in the 1950s–80s, a pioneering generation of novels and films emerged. Although they were in many ways “literatures of disillusionment”, they also exposed neocolonialism to ask if, and …
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Locating Malangatana: decolonisation, aesthetics and the roles of an artist in a changing society
… art. Building on recent scholarship that applies decolonisation as an epistemic framework, it argues that a productive decolonial discourse needs to consider concurrent forms of nationalism and cultural agency in both the anti/colonial and postcolonial periods. Central to this approach is an …
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Exploring the decolonisation of the Environmental Management Curriculum in a Rural Historically Disadvantaged Institution of Higher Education
… its curriculum. This has led to calls for the decolonisation of academic disciplines like Geography, among others. Against this backdrop, this study analyses the decolonisation of the Environmental Management curriculum in a rural historically disadvantaged institution of higher education. The …
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The Art of Decolonisation: On the Possibility of Socially Engaged Art in the Postcolonial Context of East Asia
Through a new idea of ‘the art of decolonisation’, this thesis explores the possibility of socially engaged art in the postcolonial context of East Asia. Japan, throughout its national history as an expanding empire from the late 19th century to the Second World War, has left a large number of …
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Evaluating the decolonisation of the Humanities curriculum at the University of Cape Town: Khanyisa courses as a case study
… sought to bring the conversation around the decolonisation of the curriculum to the fore by evaluating the decolonial work that the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town has attempted to do with regard to the undergraduate degree programme through the introduction of a new suite …
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