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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Transnational community"”.
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community
… representations prove the existence of a transnational and transcultural community, which still today is traumatized by the postcolonial vicissitudes. Chapter One focuses on the deportation of the settlers ‘children from Libya to the mainland boarding schools opened by Mussolini, as …
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Empowering cooperation : Dominican hometown associations and the politics of transnational community development
… (HTAs) define, negotiate and practice transnational community development, by carefully analyzing the processes through which state, migrants and non-migrant actors engage in "messy" local projects. I identify two interrelated factors that explain the differences and commonalities in …
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City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world
As an exploration of the Dominican immigrant community in Lawrence, Massachusetts, this thesis seeks to understand how the continuing motives for migration, as well as the barriers and opportunities facing Dominicans in Lawrence, depend on a complex intersection of political, economic, cultural, …
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Toe Laumeanuti o le Fa'aaloalo i Agatausili a Samoa i Atualuluga = Notions of respect and politeness in a Transnational Community
O agatausili a Sāmoa e fa’amemelo loto ma manatu ona o le fa’avae o tū ma aga a Sāmoa o le fa’aaloalo. O le ‘ava o le feiloa’iga o le aganu’u sili ona tāua e fa’atino ai le fa’aaloalo a Sāmoa. O le Saofa’iga a matai o le nu’u talimālō ua atagia ai lo latou fa’aaloalo i a latou mālō asiasi atu i …
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Russian German identity: transnationalism negotiated through culture, the hybrid and the spatial
Transnational theories of migration have come to the fore in social science research as scholars have sought to account for the effect of globalization upon the practice of migration. The formulation of transnationalism has not been uncontested and its boundaries are still subject to redefinition. …
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DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE KOREAN DIASPORA: A JOURNEY OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
… the Korean diaspora not as an exclusive community limited to specific local individuals, but rather as a transnational community on a global level. Hence, Korean diasporic members’ self-identification is often based on such an understanding of the Korean diaspora.
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… establishing the value of music in maintaining a transnational community within the African diaspora. In the first chapter, I argue that Ralph Ellison incorporates the transnational fusion of Afro-Cuban jazz both thematically and structurally in his landmark novel Invisible Man. By integrating the …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… establishing the value of music in maintaining a transnational community within the African diaspora. In the first chapter, I argue that Ralph Ellison incorporates the transnational fusion of Afro-Cuban jazz both thematically and structurally in his landmark novel Invisible Man. By integrating the …
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Dialectic of Disillusionment: The Political Thought of Ex-Communists, c. 1929 - c. 1939
… a practical level, the network in question was transnational, communicating across Western Europe and, occasionally, beyond into North America and the USSR, reflecting something of Marxism as a transnational community. I argue that interwar ex-communist Marxists were torn between the apparent …
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Towards the ethnography of filmic places: video-based research and found footage filmmaking in the anthropological investigation of Mexican migrant event video
… creation and consumption of event videos in a transnational community. It is intended as a contribution to the development of conceptual and methodological frameworks, which will allow anthropological engagements with vernacular audiovisual media that take into account their phenomenological …
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Reforming The Cold War State: Economic Thought, Internationalization, And The Politics Of Soviet Reform, 1955-1985.
… scientists from East, West, and South created a transnational community gathered around institutions such as the United Nations, the Club of Rome, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to adapt the institutions of the postwar state to the conditions of nascent …
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eRadio : empowerment through community Web radio
… can contribute to a participatory process of community self-discovery, identification, and assimilation by voicing their concerns and views as well as by expressing aesthetic and cultural ways of rejoicing. eRadio participators can trigger processes that may lead to the sustainability and …
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Forging the Ideological Atlantic: West German-American Fête Diplomacy, 1945-1953
… and for reifying “the ideological Atlantic,” a transnational community based on the ideology and shared heritage associated with Western civilization, and claiming a place for West Germans within that community. Fêtes were held simultaneously with and in support of international attempts to …
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… how visuality and countervisuality influence the transnational urban space of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Based on Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) concepts of visuality and countervisuality, and by incorporating perspectives of globalization, specifically treatment of cities under globalization, the study …