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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Politics of Memory"”.
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Uncanny Homelands: Disability, Race, and the Politics of Memory
… is an interdisciplinary and comparative study of German and Italian memory culture after 1945. It examines how the interaction between memorials, litera-ture, historiography, and popular culture shapes a society's memory and identity. I focus on two marginalized aspects of the memory of the …
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Wokiksuye : the politics of memory in Indigenous art, monuments, and public space
The powers of creativity and symbolism that art draws upon have been used in the public realm to uplift and also to oppress. Within this context, art, from Indigenous perspectives, can positively influence the collective imaginations and wokiksuye (memory) of society. Indigenous intervention into …
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… used these inscriptions to establish meanings of Confucian classics, verify recorded historical events, and reconstruct lost sites of cultural legacy. This methodological trend, known as kaozheng, or Evidential Scholarship, stresses the importance of textual analysis to the attainment of …
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A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s–Present
A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s to the Present examines Ghanaians’ enduring attentiveness to fashion and proposes a critical rethinking of fashion photography by considering the genre through African aesthetics within a global context. …
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Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
This thesis examines and critiques the memory politics of the Francoist regime and the post-Franco era, looking specifically at the flooding and displacement of Faió, a village in a region called la Franja in South Aragon at the border with Catalonia. Academic literature emphasises the Pact of …
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Rethinking critical theory between Rancière and the Frankfurt School
This thesis argues that Rancière’s conception of ‘aesthetic emancipation’ is a productive and neglected way of thinking about three political practices: a politics of memory, struggles for recognition and emancipatory education. I argue it can offer either a supplement or an alternative to recent …
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Problematización de la memoria histórica: intertextualidades y transiciones políticas en Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya y La dimensión desconocida de Nona Fernández
… novel within its respective historical context of political transition following years of violent national conflict, the politics of memory and the concomitant concern for human rights directly informs the argument. The theoretical framework which directs the analysis of each work centers on the …
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Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
… has been studied and in relation to the broader politics of memory. What follows this is an analysis of ZK�s political and educational writings, as a new way of thinking about his intellectual contributions to nationalist thought. Chapter one of this thesis will raise questions about the legacy …
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The Good Italian, the Bad German, and the Survivor: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the Shoah in Italy
<p>The study herein explores the history and memory of the Shoah in Italy through the eyes, primarily, of survivors themselves. Pairing witness testimonies (memoirs and oral interviews) with government records, I show how Italy’s Jewish survivors, for many decades after World War II and the Shoah, …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… ten chapters. In Chapter 2,1 provide an overview of the theoretical background of my research, outlining the key developments, figures, academic works and trends in the conceptual fields of collective/social memory and the politics of memory. Here, I also discuss methods and ethical issues related …
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Film matters: Historical and material considerations of colour, movement and sound in film
… seem to ignore the essential material components of analogue film stock. Film matters focuses on material components of the film image – specifically colour, movement and sound – with the aim of telling a material history in a contemporary, ‘post-digital’ environment. The aim of this history is to …
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Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
<p>Rapid growth in cities of the Global South has precipitated urban inequalities, particularly the urban and social exclusion of low-income city residents. Right to the city scholars have investigated claims to urban space but have not fully considered the role of museums and the politics of …
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
This dissertation examines the artistic practices of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroué, Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, Lebanese artists of the so-called jil al-harb, or the war generation, whose work is characterised by a conspicuous engagement with questions of history writing, …
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Dealing with Conflicting Visions of the Past: The Case of European Memory
The aim of my dissertation is to understand and critically evaluate how the idea of European memory has been conceptualised by different actors at the European level and to develop a novel, pluralist conception. Attempting to ground European integration and the attachment to Europe in historical …
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Re-Negotiating Czechoslovakia. The State and the Jews in Communist Central Europe: The Czech Lands, 1945-1989
… citizens called Czechoslovakia home in 1945, out of a prewar population of 315,000. More than half chose to emigrate. Others attempted to conceal their roots. Still others hoped to rebuild the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. Before they could establish a new modus vivendi, before …
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Contextualizing the 2019 “Chile Despertó” Movement: The Impact of Historical Relational Processes on Mobilization and Repression
… our theoretical and empirical understanding of mobilization and repression in Latin America, this thesis asks three critical questions. Are economic indicators sufficient predictors of social movement emergence in Latin America? What other factors contribute to large-scale mobilization in …