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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Subaltern"”.
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The Subaltern Clinic
<p>The Subaltern Clinic explores a certain legacy of unreason that Sigmund Freud identified throughout the course of his writings as the "death drive," or the compulsion to repeat. In Freud's work, the death drive is often thought as the opposite of the pleasure principle, which situates the …
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Intersectional subaltern counterpublics: UndocuQueer online activism and testimonios
… and their use of social media as one type of subaltern counterpublic. Subaltern counterpublics are spaces marginalized communities forge to center their voices and experiences. These counterpublics represent aggregations of emancipatory agency and stand as responses to their exclusion or …
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False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern
… with how Fanon's language reinforces the female subaltern through silencing, effacement, and stereotypical language. The second chapter concerns the similarities between racial and gendered power relations within his books. In the third chapter, I discuss hierarchies of power and their …
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Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio
… hagiographic poems in the light of modern subaltern studies: the anonymous Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, and Gonzalo de Berceo’s Martirio de San Lorenzo, Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, and Vida de Santa Oria. Observing the numerous similarities between …
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Community self-determination in South Sudan: A return to the subaltern
… third chapter presents the argument for using Subaltern Studies as the theoretical framework for this study. I outline the limitations of prevalent frameworks, primarily the use of rigid binaries to understand citizens and communities, as well as the assumption that communities lack …
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Limited possibilities: agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
… are able to offer black women as female gendered subalterns the space to negotiate subjectivity and to assert agency. Given the history of sexism, racism and imperialism in South Africa, the politics of place impact crucially on the practice of writing literature, so that the tensions between the …
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Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
… are able to offer black women as female gendered subalterns the space to negotiate subjectivity and to assert agency. Given the history of sexism, racism and imperialism in South Africa, the politics of place impact crucially on the practice of writing literature, so that the tensions between the …
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Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas
… suggests that it is in these city-borders that subaltern women with multiple cultural affiliations can syncretize with other women on a psychic and political level to produce new and liberated ways of being and of forming (de)territorialized alliances.</p>
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Pinnip pinainthu kidakkum oorangattthalkalai kattudaiththal: Reimagining social activism with intersectional subaltern activist consciousness
… seedling. Driven by the desire to theorise with subaltern activist journeys, this thesis explores the textures and contours of social activism organised by young trans, intersex and women activists from the margins who seek social justice in post-war Northern Sri Lanka. It searches for voices and …
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Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
… how digital technologies both enable and disrupt subaltern voices, narratives and bodies in Indian cyberspaces. The comparative study of digital gender movements uncovers how digital platforms empower subaltern gendered voices, enable the construction of digital identities, and facilitate the …
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STAKING SPACE : planning, public space, and visions of the subaltern in the context of Kabul
… itself to define its own superiority in the subaltern nature of the Other. Kabul Jadid, the plan for urban development in Kabul commissioned by King Amanullah Khan in 1923, followed by the Three Master Plans for Kabul made in the 1960s-1970s are examined in relation to its trajectory for how …
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Towards an Articulation of Architecture as a Verb; Learning from Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities and Textual Values.
… anthropology, post-colonial theory and subaltern theory. 5 In summary, this thesis explores aspects of Henri Lefebvre's and Doreen Massey's urban and spatial theory through a close textual reading of key texts from their respective discourses. This methodology provides a layered analysis …
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Subaltern Spaces in the Ancient City: Cultural Identity, Spatial Memory, and Networks of Meaning in Roman Pompeii
This thesis is about subaltern spaces and identities in the Roman colony of Pompeii—an ancient city notably destroyed and preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE; one that has been widely studied for its preservation of a Roman urban environment that was ‘frozen in time’. The excellent …
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Humayun Ahmed and Archival Hauntings: The Subaltern Experience of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh as Portrayed in Debi
… they further subjugate and silence the country’s subalterns.</p>
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Restoring the history of the subaltern: a corpus-informed study of ‘The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave’
… method of examining the language used by the subaltern to talk about their experiences. First, I discuss how the linguistic theories outlined above might be used to explicate key concepts in postcolonial studies relating to the voice of the subaltern subject. Second, I use corpus methods to …
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"""Who speaks for me, with and to me?"" Subalternity and representation in the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar"
… for, with and to Me?” study how the gendered subaltern subjects of the global South are represented in the fictional works of three writers: Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar. Devi, Head, and Djebar write about disenfranchised groups of people whose ontological existences are …
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Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947
This dissertation examines the history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal and successor states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The study relies on Indian and British sources including private papers, memoirs, …
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
<p>Subaltern studies has overwhelmingly privileged subaltern resistance as a means for the subaltern to attain autonomy. While the group's project has made breakthroughs in rewriting Indian subaltern history, their emphasis on resistance to oppression has also essentialized what it means to create …
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Struggle and solidarity in transforming urban futures: The fisher fight for Ennore wetlands in Tamil Nadu, India
… addresses these biases and the neglect of subaltern agency by examining environmental justice struggles as forces of sustainability transformation. It focuses on the ongoing fisher struggle for the tidal wetlands of Ennore in Tamil Nadu, India. Stretching from the northern edge of Chennai, …
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