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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Postcolony"”.
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Remembering in the postcolony : refiguring the past with theatre
This thesis is a study of remembering in the postcolony. A remembering that is less about the need to forestall forgetting than it is about a putting back together of the fractured body. It suggests that while the postcolony demands remembering, its particularities render remembering highly …
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The Visual Syntax of a Postcolony: Photographs in Zambia, 1930s – 1980s
This dissertation investigates how photographs and photographic practices have both shaped and have been shaped by the political, cultural and performative demands of the project of postcolonial nation building in Zambia. Drawing on both visual and textual materials from the 1930s to the 1980s, …
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Chains of memory in the postcolony: performing and remembering the Namibian genocide
… and remembered through performance in the postcolony.
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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
The present study investigates the field of theatre practice that I have chosen to call alternative Zimbabwean theatre through a detailed study of four plays and reference to several others all first performed and written between 1980 and 1996. The study interrogates the interweaving and …
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The necropolitical crisis of racial subjectivity in the South African postcolony: black consciousness as a technology of the self and the limits to transformation
… governmentality in the South African colony and postcolony. Centrally, I argue that Foucault's revolutionary reading of ancient Greek notions of parrhesia and political spirituality can be found in Biko's work on Black Theology and the reconstruction of Black subjectivity through several rational …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
… a psychoanalytic anthropology of the city in the postcolony. It is located in Europe's most fragile settler colony in the South of Africa, and set within Apartheid's most privileged multi–culture, the Oriental Ghetto of Bo– Kaap, Cape Town. The project introduces the theoretical formulation of …
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POSTCOLONIAL TRAGEDY: JAMAICA AND SOUTH AFRICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
… foundations, democratic political tragedy in the postcolony is shown to be a telling disjunction between the pursuit of the imperatives of economic growth and immersion in the global economy on the one hand, and the abiding quest for meaningful distributive social justice and national sovereignty …
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Modelling human wellbeing for fisheries management: Science, extraction and a politics of nature in the Walvis Bay, Namibia
… and the rise of fish as national resource in the postcolony. It investigates the relations at risk in everyday life in Walvis Bay and re-imagines the framing of humans and nature for transformative practices of environmental and economic justice.
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Beyond the "Baartman Trope": representations of black women's bodies from early South African proto-nationalisms to postapartheid nationalisms
… race, gender and sexuality in the South African postcolony.
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Imagining Modernity in the Uganda Prisons Service, 1945-1979
… continent, rejecting generic depictions of the postcolony as a site of chaos and disorder.
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Fourth Dimension
… state of emerging time, used to describe the postcolony by Mbembe as an “interlocking of presents, pasts, and futures”, one can only contend with this thick density of data through fragmentary encounters. As the German Federal Ministry assesses lost revenue to the mass repatriation, …
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Nyau Philosophy: Contemporary Art and the Problematic of the Gift – a Panegyric
… which Achille Mbembe has described as the ‘postcolony’, and how it has impacted on the development of my work as an artist. My research is reflexive and practice-led. The specific praxis considered has included a body of work – published novels, films, installations, multimedia artwork and …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… converge to create a deficit of meaning in the postcolony. The effects of these developments also spill into Africa's 'new' diaspora in Europe, where African-led churches represent an intriguing test-case for a Lacanian reading of 'multiple modernities'. A central point emerging from this …