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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"center and periphery"”.
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Defining the line between center and periphery: the foreign criminal as symbol of sovereignty in contemporary China
… I argue that this dichotomy parallels the Mainland government’s position towards Taiwan and Hong Kong, where de jure sovereignty is prioritized over de facto control. In explaining how some foreign criminals like Shaikh are moved from the periphery to the center of the government’s attention, I …
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Engaging the Center: On Being Indonesian Citizens in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia
Beyond the study of hegemony, center and periphery, this study explores narratives of hopes. These narratives present how Indonesia's islanders seek to participate in a democratic and plural civil society. They seek social justice and an end to corruption. Through looking at their narratives as …
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Affirming ‘civilization’ in exile: Chŏng Yagyong (1762-1836)
… question how Tasan’s long years of exile and the anti-Western socio-intellectual atmosphere of the times led him to reformulate his later thought on multiple levels, including the way he perceived his contemporary society and identified himself. Exile to remote areas was among the most …
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Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
<p>This dissertation focuses on the landscape art produced by artists of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement, active ca. 1890-1914. This period of art-making coincides with the condition of non-sovereignty. Poland as a nation-state ceased to exist from 1795 to 1918, partitioned by imperial …
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Marooning The Caribbean: Vitalistic Imaginaries In Virgilio Piñera, Héctor Rojas Herazo And Alejo Carpentier
… the two traditional variants of imagining and studying its literature and culture: as an anthropologically-based picture of mixtures and blends (transculturation, creolization, hybridity, etc.), and as a representation of the convoluted processes of founding nations and building identities. …
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«That Land Became Mine» Baktria, Northeastern Central Asia, the Teispid- Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-327 BCE)
… who lived in the vast territories of the north and the east. The dynamic between these two concepts manifested in the imperial border zones that developed within the tension between these two competing concepts, which are contradictory only at first glance». - R. Rollinger, The Persian Empire in …