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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Identity Politics"”.
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Beyond Minority Identity Politics: Rethinking Progressive Islam through Food
… of speaking about religion, ethics, and politics as a Muslim in America beyond the language of minority identity. I investigated the different ways Muslims negotiate the demands of Islamic dietary laws in their everyday lives by collecting primary data gathered through interviews with …
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Identity politics and intellectual trajectories in Bukhara, 1917-1924
This analysis of the intellectual trajectories and changing political identities of liberal proponents of reform in Bukhara in the early communist period is concerned primarily with three questions: First, what can a close study of the Bukharan intelligentsia reveal about their intellectual lineage …
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Khwaja Sira: Culture, Identity Politics, and "Transgender" Activism in Pakistan
… fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork on the identity politics of khwaja siras in Karachi, this dissertation seeks to understand the ways in which gender ambiguous people constructed, negotiated and represented themselves both within their social networks and in the wider society, as well as …
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Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration
Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean literature, usually when a character chooses to celebrate and emphasize her/his freedom from the physical, emotional, and societal constraints that normally keep the body in check. This study examines how a character's political consciousness often …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
This thesis compares the identity politics of Frantz Fanon and ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy. After framing an interpretative paradigm through which the core ideas of Fanon could be deciphered, an interpretation of Fanon as a rigorous critic of identity politics is arrived at. Exploring Fanon’s strained …
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Identity politics in Canadian artwriting : C Magazine and Parachute, 1983-1996
… within international developments of theories on identity. Focussing on the period 1983-1996, the study analyzes articles published in these magazines and contextualizes them within theoretical and critical art discourse. Chapter One presents a history of "new art history" and explores the …
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Black and Yellow Power: The Intersections of Identity Politics and Literary Study
… specificity, leaving this counter-hegemonic identity open to cooptation."
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MAKING AUSTRIAN: CULTURAL MEMORY, NATIONALISM, AND PERFORMING IDENTITY POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL VIENNA
Since Carl Schorske’s seminal Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, an explosion of scholarship has focused on the capital city’s years leading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s collapse. While the veritable Petrie dish of nationalism in the city has been commonly addressed in scholarship, the interplay between …
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Identity Politics, Indigene-Settler Dynamics and their Implications for Democracy in Jos, Nigeria
This thesis examines the politics of identity construction in contemporary Jos, Nigeria, over a 30-year period (1991-2021). It focuses on the narratives surrounding the Jos City conflict, which primarily revolve around identity issues. While previous literature mainly explores the conflict along …
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The local identity politics of world heritage : lessons from Galle Fort in Sri Lanka
… serves as a global stage for broadcasting geopolitics, national agendas, and subnational motives. Given these hidden functions driving the World Heritage List, I interrogate what the implications of listing really are through the living heritage site of 'Old Town of Galle and its …
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How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics
… operating at different intersections of black identity and how their practices exemplify different possibilities for disidentification in creative practice. Using the framework of queer cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz' Disidentifications (1984) as a theoretical base, I endeavor to explore …
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Custodianship on the periphery: archives, power and identity politics in post-apartheid Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal
… those related to custodianship, archives and identity, and they shape socio-political relations, with amongst others, the Zulu royal family and the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal. The thesis advances the argument that in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal the terms, and the act, of consignation of …
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The making of folk identity : politics, consumption, tradition, and rebellion in the folk music revival movement
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… issues of women’s history, fandom, and social identity (gender, cultural, and national). Taking a musicological, ethnographic, and historical approach, I examine gender performativity as it pertains to those women performers who play the leading male role-type (the wenwusheng) in Cantonese …
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Ideology and righteousness in Matt 5.20: a study in identity politics from the Sermon on the Mount
… Mount (SM) depict an ethical, eschatological and identity formation function, as it is popularly conceived by scholars, but it is also reflective of reconstruction, legitimation and the negotiation of the cultural identity of the community of Matthew in the city of Antioch, in Syria in the late …
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A Case Study of Identity Politics in America: President George W. Bush and Nationalist Victimization Strategies towards Iraq
This thesis engages literature in the field of nationalism in order to explore the discursive construction of a Self-Other relationship in American foreign policy as it has been projected by President George W. Bush between September 11, 2001 and March 19, 2003. Political theorists advance numerous …
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Building the 'Sri Lankan nation' through education: The identity politics of teaching history in a multicultural post-war society
… building and the establishment of a Sri Lankan identity through the promotion of social cohesion and the recognition of cultural diversity in Sri Lanka’s plural society. Within education, history teaching in secondary school acts as the main focus of the research, due to the relevance of this …
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Curriculum reform and identity politics in Iranian school textbooks : national and global representations of "race", ethnicity, social class and gender
… school textbooks by analyzing how issues of identity politics, diversity, “citizenship” and development inform the construction of Iranian national identity since the introduction of various curriculum reforms (i.e.: global education) after the Revolution of 1978-79. I draw upon antiracism …
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Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography
<p>This thesis seeks to interrogate the intricacies governing the intra-racial\ intra-gendered relationship of an Afro-Trinidadian woman as she commandeers professional spaces in North America. The intent is to challenge the instrument of Black sisterhood deeming it as an incomplete, social …
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