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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Politics and Aesthetics"”.
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Participating in Radical Visual Sociology: Supporting housing activism through gentrification and displacement research
… without getting co-opted into that change and, instead, help to resist its uneven aspects. It presents a participatory arts and research project which responds to the politics and aesthetics of 21st century state-led gentrification, with a specific focus on Deptford, south-east London (UK). …
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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
Travelers' experiences in Cyprus and the texts they produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, …
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On Cinema and Revolutions: Tricontinental Militancy and the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution
This thesis explores and analyses the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution as an expression of Third Cinema, a political and aesthetic project created and sustained by filmmakers throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the 1970s. The research is an attempt to place the Cinema of the …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… to answer one central question: How can the life and work of Ernst Jünger help illuminate the development of fascist ideas, culture, politics, and power across Europe from 1920-1945? The components of that question are: what were the core elements of Jünger’s aesthetics, morality, and politics? …
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Towards a Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics: Gender, Race, and Empire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s <i>Dictee</i>
… is constituted by clashes in differently written and conceived realities—hinged on the creation and realization of multiple liberatory fictions. Liberation then requires us to attend to creating new myths and conceptions of freedom which can free us from the current structures of domination that …
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RuPaul's Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
… show RuPaul’s Drag Race (Barbato, Bailey, and Charles) in 2009 marked the start of a new drag boom. The program’s commercial success throughout the 2010s brought drag performance into the mainstream cultural arena, prompting a host of effects on the historically grassroots culture of drag. …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… a generation by recuperating the history and mythology of the pre-conquest Aztecs as strategies of political resistance. Claiming themselves la Raza de Bronce the Bronze race) in their art, literature, and political discourse, Chicano activists and intellectuals distinguished themselves …
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Fragmented Memory, Incomplete History: Women and Nation in War Films of Bangladesh
The most important and celebrated chapter in the history of Bangladesh is its nine-month long Liberation War (Muktijuddho in Bengali) of 1971. My research explores the ways in which memories and histories of the war are shaped by the gender dynamics of nationalism in different periods through …
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Avant-Garde and Socialist Dreamworlds in Latin America: Global and Local Designs, 1919-1939
… economic areas in the world like Russia and Latin America. Movements such as Dada and Cubism conveyed the necessity for art to break from the autonomous status attributed to it by the bourgeoisie; but ultimately, these aesthetic projects did not address an essential component of the …
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Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry
… study starts by uncovering how work, workers, and working-class political movements of the first half of the twentieth century forged the literary and political sensibilities of two of modernism's most influential poets, T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg. For Eliot, the study argues that his …
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
The transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile have been critiqued by numerous artists and analysts alike, both because of the social and economic continuity from dictatorship to democracy, and because of the democratic states’ occlusion of the violence of the preceding dictatorships. Yet …
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Echoes of the Russian Revolution In Greek Wartime, Resistance, and Post-War Music
… or eventually, provoked social, political, and cultural transformations beyond the geographic and political borders of the Soviet Union. Anchored in the egalitarian ideals and aspirations of the Revolution, Soviet cultural politics and aesthetics inspired artists across the world—beyond just …
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… throughout the general oeuvre of his writings and speeches. My objective is to advance the study of Burke by offering a critical account of his religious thought, as a critical imprint in his literature. In addition to situating Burke’s writing in the context of Enlightenment thought and …
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La vanguardia y sus retornos: confabulaciones del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos
… escritores latinoamericanos [The Avant-garde and its Returns: Confabulating the Present in Four Latin American Writers] When reading contemporary Latin American writers from different countries and distinct cultural backgrounds, the relevance of the avant-garde in their work becomes apparent. …