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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Subjecthood"”.
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Norms and Reasons: Modernity and subjecthood inside (and outside) a Chinese school
This dissertation has three intertwined aims. First, to elucidate (and defend) Weberian modernity as drastic transformations in peoples’ conceptions of normativity, which radically breaks with the past (Chapter 1), thereby illuminating how contemporary moral educational focuses in China function as …
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The Subjecthood of Slime Mould: modelling single-celled intelligence through living systems art
… ongoing multifaceted enquiry examining nonhuman subjecthood, producing outputs in the form of artworks, methods for co-enquiry, and critical texts. Selected published works, produced predominantly between 2015 and 2019, are discussed in the context of theories, histories, and cultural frameworks …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
This thesis, titled ‘Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690-1705’, offers a reconceptualisation of European piracy in the Indian Ocean through an exploration of piracy’s relationship with sovereignty and subjecthood. Traditionally interpreted …
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Subjects And Subjecthood In Nepali: An Analysis Of Nepali Clause Structure And Its Challenges To Relational Grammar And Government & Binding
Both Early and Modern Nepali use a variety of nonbasic clause structures, including dative-subject (inversion) clauses, obligational (gerundive) clauses, passive clauses, and, in Early Nepali, ergative clauses. The properties of basic clause subjects are split in these clauses between two NPs--the …
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Rights without law: The role of privileges in convict rehabilitation in early colonial New South Wales (1788-1819)
… were both underwritten by the concept of subjecthood. I build on Muller’s insights by analysing the role of privileges as a source of customary and legal rights in the early Colony. I do this by examining the basis on which privileges were claimed and granted and how those processes were …
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Subject to reading : literacy and belief in the work of Jacques Lacan and Paulo Freire
… It argues for a reconceptualisation of subjecthood such that it might once again (subsequent to postmodernism and poststructuralism) become a basis of a system of ethics. The project examines the ways in which Lacan and Freire innovatively chart the dialectic between being and meaning …
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Voice, Case and the External Argument: The perspective from Urdu
… investigate the effect of case on the notion of subjecthood. I show that the behaviour of an argument with respect to some subject properties is conditioned by its case; however, this connection is only indirect, and reflects the relationship or lack thereof between the argument and T. This …
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Η ΕΝΝΟΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΜΑΤΟΣ. ΘΕΩΡΗΤΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΣΤΑ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΑ
… TO FRENCH SPEAKERS. WE DISTINGUISH DEGREES OF SUBJECTHOOD AND DEGREES OF THEMATISATION. SUBJECT IS NOT A UNITARY NATION, BUT RATHER A CLUSTER OF PROPERTIES; THE NOUN PHRASE TYPE WITH THE MOST SUCH PROPERTIES MAY BE CALLED A SUBJECT. THE NOTION OF THEME IS ALSO A MATTER OF DEGREE OF INFORMATION, …
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Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776
… autonomous citizenship, as opposed to a passive subjecthood that deferred to social and political authority. Within their law court culture, colonial American jurors acted as powerful, independent decision makers, representatives of their communities judging matters of law as well as fact. Jurors …
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Columbus' imaginary: A critique of post-colonial identity
… of a particular formation of post-colonial subjecthood within the metropolitan location of the United States. The study thus seeks to intervene in contemporary debates on the status of 'local' discourses (of, for example, identity and experience) in the constitution of global subjectivities. …
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Curiosity: philosophy and the politics of difference
… are to predicate our political ethos on shared subjecthood. Finally, drawing on archival material from Foucault's prison activism and Derrida's death penalty abolition seminars, I take punishment as a case study in curiosity, demonstrating curiosity's centrality not only to juridical trials and …
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“If it’s in the game, it’s in the game” : Sondra Perry and technological likeness
… about likeness in relation to the abstraction of subjecthood comes to the fore. She works primarily in video, installation, and performance, and has frequently described her disenchantment with a politics prioritizing representation and visibility in interviews and talks. Building on a long …
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Religious objects and performance : testing the role of materiality
… co-relational being through encounters. Here, 'subjecthood' is achieved through relationships and relational encounters, and a multiplicity of ontological possibilities emerge which challenge commonly accepted modem dualisms, i.e. subject/object, mind/matter.
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Tracing Black Radical Thought: Colonialism, Race, Class, Women and Gender in the Life and Works of C.L.R. James and Aime Cesaire
… development and conception of revolutionary subjecthood. To meet these objectives, I first interrogate the early life influences of the philosophers in the respective colonies they were born into, including their educational and familial backgrounds, then delve into their engagements with …
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Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago
… and then the innovation of African diasporic subjecthood and its labels. Then Black is examined, along with several corollary social movements and Black music. Finally the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Great Black Music is brought forward as a healing descriptor, introducing the goal of healing as …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
… and spiritual alienation associated with modern subjecthood. Through the lens of Caribbean critical theory, including work by Édouard Glissant, Fernando Ortiz, and C. L. R. James, I examine Richard Wright’s postplantation perspective in his little studied Haitian manuscript, transculturation in …
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Colonial taxation and taxpayers in Sierra Leone, c. 1890-1937.
… underpinned different experiences of fiscal subjecthood, which in turn informed how taxes were perceived by those paying it. The internal fiscal structure of colonies was complex and multi-layered, and the colonial state was only sometimes the taxing institution. For some, taxes implied a …
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Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
… of ideas of politically-entitled British subjecthood over this period. Beginning with the first elections under a system of representative government in New South Wales and the Cape, and the early elections of the post-emancipation period in Jamaica, it questions how residents within these …
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