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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Postcolonial-feminist"”.
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Bounds of Righteous Agency: The gendered subject of minority rights in contemporary India
… contribution to comparative political theory and postcolonial feminist theory, based upon ethnographic fieldwork of a social movement for gender justice led by Muslim women and its networks with state and non-state actors in contemporary India, a liberal democracy where Muslims are a minority. …
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Investigating Kurdish Women’s Experiences With Education in Kurdistan With Respect to Oppression
… to oppression? The study was framed within a postcolonial feminist framework to investigate Kurdish women’s lived experiences within education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The study used feminist research methods to collect and analyze data. Through purposeful sampling, 5 Kurdish …
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Herstory, subjectivity and the public sphere in female narratives of the liberation struggle in Namibia: The case of Ndeshi Namhila, Lydia Shaketange, Libertine Amathila and Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu
… women’s personal history, analysed from the postcolonial-feminist perspective; subjectivity depicts how these women represented themselves as makers of history, taking cognisance of the fact that each individual is unique. Though they all participated in the liberation struggle, they …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… black women in a global present. From a postcolonial feminist and cultural trauma viewpoint, I reflect on the manifestations of slavery and colonial trauma on black women characters and explore the ways in which they navigate the historical limitations of collective trauma in their …
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“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities
<p>This studies utilizes a critical, postcolonial feminist lens when analyzing the ways in which Asian-American women are (re)negotiating their gender and sexual identities within the contemporary United States. Through the use of empirical research, as well historical content and discourse …
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Four Chords to Freedom - Human Rights Education through Music Performance
… combines music performance with decolonizing, postcolonial feminist human rights education to serve as a space for transformative praxis in formal and non-formal educational settings. This field project includes observations from the activity, as well as recommendations for educators who are …
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"On our way": identities and representations of African women seeking asylum in Ireland
This thesis provides the first explicit Postcolonial study of asylum in the Irish context that integrates Black Feminist analyses of intersectional identity with Postcolonial Feminist theories of representation. African women seeking asylum in the Republic of Ireland were key political instruments …
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Action Sport for development in the Philippines: Exploring the Surfing, Well-Being and Environment Nexus
… (NGO), in Siargao, Philippines. Drawing on postcolonial feminist political ecology (PFPE), this participatory action research project (PAR) utilized visual methods, semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and reflexive journals to investigate how the Siargaonon NGO participants, …
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The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia
… for the rest of their lives. Grounded in Black feminist and postcolonial feminist theories and framework, I argue that the gendered nature of the violence experienced by women inspired them to be at the forefront of activism and resistance, thereby ending Jammeh’s brutal regime in the nation’s …
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"Somos Parte de la Solución": Women Activists' Knowledge of Gendered Risk and Their Educational Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Peruvian Amazon
… I deployed a combination of gender relations and postcolonial feminist theories to pursue two lines of inquiry. First, I investigated HIV positive women and sex worker women activists' own understandings of gender relations and gender-related risk factors for HIV. Second, I explored the varied …
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White feminist stories : locating race in the narratives of British feminism
This thesis examines dominant feminist discourses emerging from liberal media, the academy, and activist networks in contemporary Britain. In particular, it traces stories and representations of feminism’s recent past (from the 1960s onwards) which are constructed and reproduced through these …
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From surviving to thriving: strategies to navigate postgraduate education for academic womxn of colour in the design field in South Africa
… studies. The study draws on decolonial and Black feminist theories, including critical race theory, hydrofeminism, and postcolonial feminist theory. It also considers key concepts, such as respectability politics and Black rage, to explore how colonial and patriarchal influences in universities …
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The Literary Representations And Interpretations Of La Matanza
… accounts. This study draws upon subaltern, postcolonial, feminist and other theories, in order to highlight the particular position of each author. Moreover, in this dissertation I argue that, the colonial, racist and patriarchal discourse that was used to justify the massacre was also used …
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Frames and cuts : post-millennial representations of West Asian female identities
… identities, and intersects with the fields of postcolonial feminist literary studies, cultural visual studies, and studies in affect theory. More specifically, I examine representations of Afghan and Iranian women in the post-millennial period, against a background of a continually shifting …
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Breaking the wall, preserving the barrier: gender, space, and power in contemporary mosque architecture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… internalized through societal life. Guided by postcolonial feminist theory and poststructuralist visual theory, it further questions not only how gender conceptions permeate the architectural space of the mosque but also how architectural space helps to shape the larger landscape of gender …
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A discursive analysis of women’s femininities within the context of Tunisian tourism
… norms and discourses. Therefore utilising a postcolonial feminist frame, the primary focus of this thesis is to critically explore both the discursive role of tourism and its influence in (re)constructing feminine identities in Tunisia. Informed by the works of Michel Foucault, and …
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
… Island has two sides: Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation.” In it I will argue that many postcolonial narratives either consciously or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. Through an examination of …
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Belonging in the Segregated City: Gender, community and urban citizenship in Mumbai, India
… across urban studies, political geography and postcolonial feminist geography, providing an intersectional investigation of emerging gendered social relations in the context of urban segregation.
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The integration strategies and social networks of Somali women in Cape Town
… migration and resettlement in gendered ways. Postcolonial feminist theory and the gendered geographies of power framework are used as tools to analyse how gender operates in the new migratory context. Social network theory is used to gain insight into the functions and features of networks …
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Travelling hair pains of the past: The continued impact of colonialism on the construction of black women's hair
… Black women today. This dissertation used the postcolonial feminist research method. It included an in-depth discourse analysis of existing academic literature on Black women's hair discourses. It also analyzed the work of post-colonial (feminist) theorists in the areas of Black Feminist …
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