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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Settler society"”.
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“Going native”: a case study of cultural appropriation in a settler society, with particular reference to the activities of Johannes Andersen in New Zealand during the first half of the twentieth century
One mode of ‘indigenization’ in settler societies is cultural appropriation. This involves the utilisation of elements of the culture of the indigenous peoples by incorporating these elements in the signifying systems of the settler society, without the authorisation of the indigenes. The present …
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“Caughnawaga Indians were taking part in one of the most dramatic episodes of history…”: Manufacturing Mohawk Nationalism on the Nile Expedition of 1884 – 1885
… relations between the Mohawks and white settler society. This was done through the development of Mohawk nationalism, which strived for a distinct Mohawk identity, culture and political autonomy. The perspective of two Mohawks, Louis Jackson and James Deer, demonstrate their Indigenous …
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Māori men's positive and interconnected sense of self, being and place
… sense of self, relationships and a place in our society, which is awash with negative characterisations of Māori men. I document how Māori men's identities are pluralistic and on-going projects. These identities are negotiated within the settler society through interactions with other people and …
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Wildness in Doris Lessing's African stories
… era and they give a vivid picture of the settler society and the African terrain. Settler society, in the stories, is made up of various subgroups defined by age, culture and gender. My study analyses the way in which members of these subgroups react to wildness in the environment. Recent …
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Dirty Ears: Hearing And Hearings In The Canadian Liberal Settler Colony
… explores the ways the Canadian government and settler society use hearing as a silencing technique, mobilizing the field of aurality to place limits on the expression of indigenous dissent. The research is based on two years of ethnographic work among activists fighting oil and gas development …
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Building Society and Governing Intimacy: Gender, Law, and Constructions of Sexuality and Courtship in Late-Nineteenth Century British Columbia
… governance in late-Victorian British Columbian society, we can have a more in-depth understanding of the province’s regional history. The conclusions of this thesis point to the need for more social histories of nineteenth-century British Columbia in order to better understand the province’s …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… as a rhetorical and psychoanalytic critique of settler colonialism. Focusing on the television series Reservation Dogs, I argue that gallows humor, which is defined as comedy engaging death, trauma, and suffering, functions as a distinctly Native rhetorical practice that reveals and resists …
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The Political Entanglements of Recognition: Aboriginal Title, Crown Sovereignty, and Indigenous Self Determination
… British colonialism. I argue that the project of settler-colonialism, as a form of governmentality, is an unfinished project that constantly seeks the erasure of Indigenous peoples and polities in favour of white-settler society.
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Walking the line of fire: violence, society, and the war for the Kentucky and Trans-Appalachian Frontier, 1774-1795
… by a bloody war that came to involve the new settler population, numerous Indian tribes, the British, and the American government. More than a border war, the battle for Kentucky and the trans-Appalachian west came to define the communities which grew up in its midst, altering world views, …
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Constructing identity : collecting Oceanic art/artefacts in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Museum Studies at Massey University
… local context of New Zealand as a post colonial settler society. The objective of the study is to use qualitative methodology to interview a small sample of five case study collectors. These collectors can be positioned in an art/artefact continuum. One dealer, identified by three of the case …
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“TO THOSE WHO SAY WE ARE ASSIMILATED, I SAY HOGWASH!”: A HISTORY OF THE WYANDOT OF ANDERDON DAY SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, 1790 TO 1915
… 1800s, acknowledging their place in a growing settler society, the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation requested western-style schools. For the Wendat/Wandat, adopting western-style education was not an act of conciliation or defeat; it was deft political maneuvering and a way to help maintain …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
… annexation, giving rise to a hegemonic white settler society with missionaries and their descendants at its core. On the other hand, there were no Protestants in the Philippines until after American annexation due to prohibition by Spanish Catholic rulers, and as such missionaries rode the …
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Negotiated spaces : work, home and relationships in the Dene diamond economy
… and business. However, relationships with the settler government and with Treaty mining companies are constrained. Many of the limitations identified relate to the assumption by settler society of the universality of their particular values, practices and culture. The thesis argues that Treaty …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… the deceptive self-image of a peaceful 'settler society', in control of a social and pastoral geography cleared of Aboriginal occupation or claims to alienated Country, the thesis identifies a deformed socius and disordered understanding of the nation's culture, society and history long …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… the deceptive self-image of a peaceful 'settler society', in control of a social and pastoral geography cleared of Aboriginal occupation or claims to alienated Country, the thesis identifies a deformed socius and disordered understanding of the nation's culture, society and history long …
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Teachers' League of South Africa 1913-40
… elite, the coloured people and South African society. The origins of the T.L.S.A. was rooted in the subordination of peoples of colour in Cape settler society and the development through the 19th century of a segregated education system at the Cape. More immediately, as a result of the social …
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Cultivations on the frontiers of modernity : power, welfare and belonging on commercial farms before and after "fast-track land reform" in Zimbabwe
… wives" within Rhodesian/Zimbabwean white settler society. I show that this "maternalistic" role was not only important in the colonial civilising and modernising endeavours of white farmers as they "cultivated" African fields, African workers and their own identities, but also became an …
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Chamier the Epicurean : the life and works of George Chamier (1842-1915)
… work through the problem of how an “unsettled settler” such as he might get settled in the settler colonies. Philosopher Dick (1890) and A South-Sea Siren (1895) are set in the eighteen-sixties in North Canterbury, New Zealand on a back country station and in a small town respectively; The …
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The development of community orchestras in the Waikato
… evolution within the context of a developing settler society that valued community music making as both a form of community cohesion and a valuable means of local fund raising and entertainment. In considering the development of orchestral music in the Waikato, the thesis is divided into two …
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The social environment and Indigenous student success in a Canadian post-secondary institution
A qualitative case study was used to explore emerging changes in social relations at a regional university in British Columbia, Canada, following implementation of a government policy on the indigenization of public institutions. My research probed intercultural social relations using a social …