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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fugitivity"”.
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Testimonios of fugitivity from secondary mathematics teachers
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Fugitivity and Carceral Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Mediterranean, c. 1876-1916
This thesis explores the evolution of Ottoman humanitarianism as a legal, moral, and political enterprise. It is a critical inquiry into the rhetoric of humanity: how it shapes law and the jurisdiction thereof. Building on the settlement of immigrants – *Muhajirs* – in the Ottoman Mediterranean …
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Bonded: Legacies of Captivity and Fugitivity from Enslavement to Incarceration in the Cape
… This study uses theorisations of marronage, fugitivity, and hauntology to posit novel understandings of the links between runaway slaves (‘droster1 gangs') and the contemporary ‘Coloured' criminal figure. This dissertation approaches the latter as engaged in traditions of opacity-making, …
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To be Black in this Skin: Anti-Black Racism and How Heterosexual Black Men Engage with HIV Vulnerability in Toronto
… In doing so, I expand on the concept of fugitivity—the notion that Black life represents a ceaseless act of ontological disobedience (Moten 2008). Fugitivity is employed as a productive lens to understand straight Black men’s attitudes about their own vulnerability to HIV, and the …
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Contingent camps: An ethnographic study of contested encampment in the northern French and northern Moroccan borderlands
… non-representational theory and writing on Black fugitivity to capture their dynamic ontology. Through interview extracts, field notes and visual materials, this thesis bears witness to a punitive contemporary geography of ruination, drawing on microlevel evidence to discuss the human, …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… the mass-entertainment industry’s erasure of fugitivity in pop versions of the gangsta-rap subgenre of trap music—a contemporary version of the sleight-of-hand necessary to reproduce slavery, as Harriet Jacobs showed in <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</em> (1861).</p> <p>Weaving …
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
… hope and despair, optimism and pessimism, fugitivity and enclosure. At its core, abolition is about sustaining the capacity to imagine an otherwise, despite and in spite of violence, captivity, and coercion. With this in mind, this dissertation asks: what is the role of radical imagination …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… in my study use the poem to dramatize the fugitivity of speech, emphasizing it as a disruptive counterpoint to the technologies of capture. Where critics such as Houston Baker interpret the vernacular strictly in terms of resistance, I take a cue from the poets and argue that the …