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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"colonial history"”.
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… and of religion were fundamentally altered by colonial power. In particular, I suggest that the construction of Islam as inessential and external to the idea of Gujarat is a legacy bequeathed by colonialism and its forms of knowledge. The transmutation of Gujarati Muslims into strangers, in …
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Yellow over black: the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, 1883-1945
… and other deeply held notions of race in precolonial and colonial Korea (1883-1945) were pivotal in how Koreans made sense of their vulnerability and, later, subjection to colonization and of their supposed ""temporary"" backwardness on the path to civilization as well as independence. First, …
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The cult of Rodin : words, photographs, and colonial history in the spread of Auguste Rodin's reputation in northeast Asia
… political, and cultural turmoil caused by colonial intrusions of the West, and became established largely through pictures and textual accounts before actual works by the sculptor were exhibited. By carefully examining printed materials circulated in the three countries from the early 1900s …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… Analysing these institutions through a decolonial lens, I consider: the extent to which Ainu ontologies have shaped displays; how colonial history is presented; and current levels of Ainu-museum collaboration. Investigation based on these parameters is important because the content and …
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THE MATERIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
… aims to draw on the theoretical legacy of postcolonial critique, which includes the assumption of a fundamental continuity between colonial history and our postcolonial world, in order to rethink the current configuration of the relationship between capital and knowledge (usually analysed in …
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… hauntings can refer to a troubling national and colonial history that goes beyond original conceptions of the haunted home in the Gothic genre. I look at the tradition of the Gothic genre in U.S. literary history, acknowledging its significance to first-wave feminist discussions of madness as a …
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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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Das Schmunzeln im Spiegel (kolonialer) Erinnerung:parodierte nationale Selbstbilder in Christian Krachts Imperium und Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt
… against the backdrop of aspects of German colonial history. In my thesis, I argue that with their satirical representations of the German Self in the encounter with the (colonial) Other, the authors reflect critically on the contemporary multicultural moment in Germany. My study maps …
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To Settle the Settler: Pathologies of Colonialism in New Zealand History Films 1925 - 2005
… pathologies are thoroughly intertwined with colonial history. From the colonial project‘s drive to categorise and treat indigenous disorders, to postcolonial theorists‘ attempts to understand the psychological effects of (de)colonisation, psychology has provided a lens through which to …
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The salience and visibility of toponymic changes in Makhanda & Gqeberha: A social semiotic perspective
Due to South Africa’s colonial history, an excessive number of colonial toponyms (place names) can be found across the country. The democratic government of South Africa has taken the somewhat controversial step of correcting these colonial names through the process of renaming places and street …
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The Iroquois Influence Thesis and the "Great Debate".
… Influence Thesis. The author researches the history of the thesis origin and its historiography, plus historical facts, which contribute to the Iroquois Influence Thesis existence. Related statements by the Founding Fathers, an examination of the Cornell Conference on the issue, and points of …
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The White Women's Protection Ordinance : a study in the history of Papua 1926-1934
… of Murray's rule and its effect on Papuans, no history of pre-war Papua can be complete without an explanation of it. The White Women's Protection Ordinance was a significant expression of one aspect of the relations between black and white, the fear of sexual attack by black men on white women …
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The White Women's Protection Ordinance : a study in the history of Papua 1926-1934
… of Murray's rule and its effect on Papuans, no history of pre-war Papua can be complete without an explanation of it. The White Women's Protection Ordinance was a significant expression of one aspect of the relations between black and white, the fear of sexual attack by black men on white women …
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Towards a local community: colonial politics and postwar Hong Kong cinema
… our understanding of postwar Hong Kong and the colonial history of community building. The 1950s and 1960s was a period of social turmoil and enormous uncertainty for the colony; it is however, also a period little understood in relation to Hong Kong’s development from a remote British colony …
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These Are The Rules
… traditional Latin American folklore and colonial history with moments written from the point of view of inanimate objects. Existing within the literary speculative fiction and magical realism genres, the narrative's eclectic framework and use of language combines prose and poetry and the …
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The Role of public television in social development communication in a post-colonial developing country: a case study of the public televison service in the Republic of Ghana.
Ghana Television shares many of the post-colonial historical features that public broadcasting systems in African countries inherited at independence. The television producers’ perceptions of role and job function, politics and organisational structures impact the role of Ghana Television and its …
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Poësie en die politiek van die postmodernisme : 'n ondersoek na die postmodernistiese poësie van Wilma Stockenström
… which are an interrogation of the way in which history is represented, as well as an interrogation of the ways in which each literary text can be read as a rewriting of existing, or precursor texts. It is further argued that the interrogation of historical representations opens up links between …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… in New York as part of the global turn in art history.</p><p>Citing their different language and colonial history, Brazilian artists and critics have tended to view their art production as distinct from that of the rest of the continent. This dissertation, by contrast, recognizes Brazil as a …
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Unsettling graduate social work education at DePaul university
… have been historically complacent in settler colonialism and, many times, perpetrated acts of settler violence against Native peoples. Thus, it is incumbent on graduate social work education to include curricula related to this topic. This is a master's thesis in Women's and Gender Studies …
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Challenging identity hierarchies in Julie Taymor’s Tempest
… Hounsou as Caliban forces an examination of colonial history in Shakespeare. Dialogue is trimmed and condensed, even added in very extreme circumstances as Taymor changes the dynamic to lessen misogynist stereotypes. Editing provides her with a weapon to accent her other moves with lighting …
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