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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"borderlands"”.
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Landscape, culture, and identity : redefining the borderlands
The proposal seeks to develop and foster new understandings of this border through using built form as a vehicle for re-orienting, disorienting our physical and psychological understandings of borders. The physical intervention creates a release from the current condition which the fence embodies, …
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National Socialism in Contested German Borderlands, 1922-1933
… special conditions of Weimar Germany's contested borderlands shaped the activities and evolution in them of the ascendant Nazi movement. For this comparative project, it draws on material from five regions – Upper Silesia, the Border Province Posen-West Prussia, Masuria, eastern Pomerania, and …
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Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua
… Gloria Anzaldua's theoretical framework of Borderlands theory as a set of processes that seek to attain the de-colonization of the inner self. The historical and spatial dynamics of the geographical border between Mexico and United States, largely shaped by the U.S. expansionist agenda, …
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Tales for the Borderlands - a triptych Home: Exile: Return
… a structure which is readily recognised in the Borderlands of Eastern Europe. It owes much to the oral tradition, since most of us recall and return to, the past in terms of tales told one to another; as fragments, bursts, giving meaning to a continuous existence, in limited, yet intimate …
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Wild Music: Ideologies of Exoticism in Two Ukrainian Borderlands
This dissertation presents case studies of two distinct Ukrainian borderland groups: the Crimean Tatars of Crimea, and the Hutsuls of the Carpathian Mountains – two human collectivities that are both, today, Ukrainian by citizenship. Both of these groups also embody dominant stereotypes of …
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Choreographing borderlands : Chicanas/os, dance, and the performance of identities
“Choreographing Borderlands: Chicanas/os, Dance, and the Performance of Identities” examines the unexplored work of barrio-based dancemakers who choreograph and rehearse the diverse political, cultural and emotional contours of Chicana/o life, thought, and borderlands worldviews. As creative …
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Borderlands, Translingualism, and Latinx Students in a Monolingual Community College
Typical research regarding Latinx students often begin with demographic data demonstrating the “browning” of America and how the emerging Latinx student population either affects higher education or how higher education still misunderstands Latinx, especially first- and second-generation migrants …
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Language, gender, and identity construction: sociolinguistic dynamics in the borderlands
This dissertation research analyzes the construction of identity through language in a variety of three social networks of young Mexican women on the U.S.-Mexico border of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. My results show stylistic variation through the use of different, specific discourse …
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Perpetual Strangers: Buriyad Citizenship in the Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1822-1939
… and early-twentieth-century Russia-Mongolia borderlands through the experiences of the Buriyads, a Mongolic, pastoral nomadic people. It traces transformations in the relationship between the individual, the collective, and the state in an age of imperial standardization, new conceptions of …
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Wessex and the origins of the Danelaw: Borders, frontiers, and borderlands
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Lefebvrean analyses of the South Africa-Botswana international border and borderlands
International borders and borderlands are geographically organized political spaces which are primary objects of geographical research. This cluster of geographic border spaces embody the territorial dimensions of Lefebvre's scholarship which are critically under advanced and not readily …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
In Borderlands/La Frontera Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience undergoing a dental procedure as a battle between her wild tongue and the dentist. Beginning with a discussion of Anzaldúa’s concept of the wild tongue, this project asks how writers across the US South depict unruly tongues and …
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Desire Lines: Chicanx Artists' Engagement With Environmental Justice In The Borderlands
… engage in models of Indigenous ecology in the Borderlands. The artists examined here are the collaborative Desert ArtLAB and the duo rafa esparza and Rebeca Hernandez. Section three is focused on the uplifting of human lift in the Borderlands, a space where ecological devestation reflects the …
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Okinawan borderlands: the history of the U.S. occupation of Okinawa, 1945-1972
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Cariño in the Borderlands: Pedagogical Relationships in a Community-Based Education Support Program
This dissertation examines the development of pedagogical relationships between tutor mentors and students, parents, and staff in a tutoring and mentoring program dedicated to decreasing the push-out rates among students of Spanish- and/or Portuguese-speaking descent in the Toronto public school …
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Cree (Nêhiyawak) Mobility, Diplomacy, and Resistance in the Canada-US Borderlands, 1885 - 1917
This thesis examines the borderlands history of the Cree (nêhiyawak; primarily under Chief Little Bear) from 1885 to 1917. It combines archival research, digital mapping (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track Indigenous movements and to analyze how the Cree navigated their status as …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… the idealized society. In the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, no single political entity could claim sovereignty, so the Cherokee Nation, federal government, and state of Georgia each sought to impose its own laws over the territory. Instead of a peaceful settlement, Georgia’s leaders had to …
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(Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture
<p>The dominant cartography of post-Revolutionary Mexico has relied upon strategic constructions of a unified and homogenized national and cultural consciousness (mexicanidad), in order to invent and map a coherent image of imagined community. These strategic boundaries of mexicanidad have also …
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