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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Postcolonial Politics"”.
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Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria
… intersections of language, settler-colonial and postcolonial politics, and urbanism in North Africa (Algeria). It is an urban and linguistic ethnography of Oran, Algeria’s second-largest city, based on sixteen months of ethnographic, linguistic anthropological, and archival research conducted in …
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It's My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial, Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
… in order to develop. I use an African feminist postcolonial urbanism theoretical framing to suggest that understanding the lived reality and politics of urban space from the viewpoint of women living in Ibadan provides a more nuanced and multidimensional understanding of Ibadan that eschews a …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
… in their narratives of migration to Britain from postcolonial spaces. Employing a feminist postcolonial approach to works by Buchi Emecheta, Monica Ali, Andrea Levy, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Leila Aboulela, this thesis challenges dominant readings of migration fiction that have been shaped by …
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The Family As the New Collectivity of Belonging In the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri
… the fiction of these writers as reflecting the postcolonial predicament of India, in which the concept of the family has been discursively reconstructed as a signifier of national identity. Such an identity seems to have become a necessity at a time of global movements that keep shifting the …
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Tourism Media Dynamics: Narratives of the Nation-State
… as deeply-grounded in the complexity of postcolonial politics. Furthermore, in a dialectic view, such finding consolidates the nature of “China, Forever” as a cultural product that actively exists as a component in the overall social fabric, co-creating a wider circle of culture politics …
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Chaotic Schooling: State schools and the making of (un)freedom in contemporary Brazil
… based premise: the idea that Brazil, as a postcolonial state, has historically oriented its action toward fulfilling the interests of dominant groups, and of the dominant structures of power that sustain them. I argue that such a rationale orients the somehow necropolitical state’s …