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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"colonial contexts"”.
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Imperial recollections: The colonial contexts and postcolonial predicaments of exhibiting Native American cultures and histories in the contemporary United States
… Importantly, I theorize this reconfiguration of colonialism and culture in the contemporary United States as the emergence of postcoloniality, a condition marked not only by the breakdown of metanarratives which position EuroAmerican history and culture as History and Culture, but also the …
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Adoption: From Reproductive Exploitation to Reproductive Justice
… adoption systems in domestic, transnational and colonial contexts, addresses the exclusion of the institution of adoption within the project of feminism, reproductive justice scholarship and movements, and examines the institution of adoption through a reproductive justice framework. This work …
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Der Umgang mit sensiblen Objekten kolonialer Kontexte in der DDR 1973-1985
… of sensitive objects, coming from imperial and colonial contexts. After summarizing the institutional conditions, (that are the Ministry of Culture (MfK), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA)) as well as the general opinions and dealing with colonial history in Marxism-Leninism and in the GDR …
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Unpicking a Feeling: Interrogating the role of heritage in indigenous collective identity formation on the Caribbean island of Bonaire
… and heritage interface with each other in the colonial context of Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean. By exploring common understandings of how identity and heritage interact, this work applies theories of Indianness, a felt identity based on the adaptation of indigenous populations to a dominant …
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Zakes Mda’s other arts: an intermedial study
… and racial upheavals within pre- and post-colonial contexts. It endeavours to illustrate how meaning emerges from the interaction between literary texts and various media, highlighting Mda’s intermedial creativity as a disruptor of traditional reader-text interactions. Through this …
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The politics of English : a study of classroom discourses in a township school
… to analyse English language practices in colonial and post-colonial contexts without a consideration of the history and national politics of English in that country. But, as all these writers emphasise, politics also extends to the contemporary local context in which the learning takes …
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Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these languages. At present, few parents opt to put their children in African language …
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From missionary to merino: Identity, economy and material culture in the Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa, 1800 - ca. 1870
… Cape, South Africa. Over this period different colonialisms of varying power and effect were introduced. The first was to local Khoe, San and Griqua communities in the form of one of the first London Missionary Society stations in the early 19th century. A second phase between 1830 and 1860 was …
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… has – with the exception of recent work on the colonial contexts of the Burney family as a whole – centred on the standard gendered contexts of elite social spaces and marriage markets. Frances Burney, however, was the Anglican daughter of a Catholic mother, counted Burke, Garrick, Johnson, and …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
… characters in novels about four different "post-colonial" contexts--Native American, Jamaican, Irish and Mexican American. These novels reflect both the unique historical circumstances of each context and common themes that occur due to colonization and transcend the specific cultures such as the …
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"The dream ends there": transnational feminist negotiations in Pauline E. Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… wrote at the same time, inhabited settler-colonial contexts (the United States and South Africa) that can in many respects be seen as similar, and shared an investment in gender and race activism, they are rarely associated with each other. This thesis examines the connections between them, …
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Cultural Encounters in Medicine: (Re)Constituting Traditional Medicine in Taiwan under Colonization, Modernity, and Exchange
… two conceptions, I focus herein on Japanese colonial Taiwan (1895–1945), where modern medicine became dominant while traditional medicine also flourished. My research finds that the historical realities of colonial Taiwan were not reflected in the progressive narrative of medicine. According …
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ICT organisations' minimal compliance with affirmative actions regulations: case of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) ICT sector code in South Africa
… aspects of the socio-political context in post-colonial contexts such as South Africa. Methodology: This is a qualitative inquiry guided by a critical research paradigm. Data was collected through interviews, observations, and document analysis in various touchpoints of the B-BBEE ICT Sector …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
… of literary history, but within cultural, postcolonial, and Asian American studies, it has served as an important term that designates sites of resistance within cross-cultural contexts of uneven power dynamics. This discrepancy in uses of the term hybrid serves as the basis for my critical …
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The Dark Duo: Exploring Change and Tokenism in Colonial Ideologies
… coloniser and Indigenous groups in settler colonial contexts is reinforced by two colonial ideologies—historical negation, which relegates the responsibility to address colonial injustices to the past, and symbolic exclusion, which marginalises the Indigenous culture from the mainstream …
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Language, politics and the Halpulaar'en of Mauritania
… and their language, in the context of French colonialism and the subsequent Moor-led regimes, including French-only and then Arabic-only language policies, and the alienating linguistic ideologies that accompany them. The Pulaar language only recently is in the written form, and grass-roots …
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L2 Investment in African languages: a multiple case study of successful white learners of African languages in post-apartheid South Africa
… by settler-descendants occurring in other post-colonial contexts like New Zealand and Kenya, among others. As an overall framing device, an investment metaphor was reconceptualised for the purposes of this study as the ‘L2 Investment’ framework – inspired, but divergent, from Norton’s (1995) …
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An investigation into the use of digital media to promote indigeneous African Languages: the case of digital terrestrial television on SABC
… African languages, particularly in post-colonial contexts such as South Africa. Underpinned by the public sphere model and Jurgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, this qualitative study examined the role of digital media in promoting African indigenous languages on the South …
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Counter-discursive strategies in first-world migrant writing
… between" from anthropological, linguistic, post-colonial and feminist perspectives. The thesis examines different textual paradigms of countering dominant discourses as found in ten representative texts from Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States which have been chosen to cover a range …
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‘Heathenism’ in the Protestant Atlantic World, c. 1558 - c. 1700
… in historical, polemical, devotional, and colonial contexts in order to reinforce and reconfigure the relationship between the predestinarian framework of salvation, the postlapsarian condition of human beings, and the boundaries of the true church. Imbued with interconnected theological, …
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