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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"colonial legacy"”.
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Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism.
… with the modern nation-state, and by the legacy of the empirical and organic traditions of metropolitan criticism. It is argued that in the situation of neo-colonial social stratification, anglophone African criticism faces a crisis of legitimacy. In the third to fifth chapters I attempt …
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Is English Language Causing a Dichotomy between Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth in India?
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity has given English language a prominent role in the country. This research, through a historical analysis, first understands the factors behind the persistent prevalence of the language in India. The reasons go beyond colonial legacy and …
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Escalation and resolution of border disputes and interstate conflicts in Africa the Malawi--Tanzania Case
… of inaction and poor leadership, rather than 'colonial legacy.' Using game theory, this thesis demonstrates that partial sum games produce the best path for resolving this border dispute through communication and cooperation. Furthermore, the thesis argues that the establishment of democracy …
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"""&Iquest;que Va a Pasar Con Los Indios Cuando Todos Seamos Indios?"" Ethnic Rights and Reindianization in Southwestern Colombian Amazonia"
… indigenous as well as that of mestizo . Color, a colonial legacy used to measure the degree of the racial-ethnic mixing, proved to still be alive. Color supported the claims of reethnized colonos who could not display the cultural diacritics of their ethnic identity, and puts a limit on the …
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U.S. Press Representation of the Southern Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005
… However, the theory of representation and postcolonial theory served as the principal theoretical frames for the study. Employing critical discourse analysis, with framing as a strategy, the study focused on five U.S. print news media outlets (three national newspapers and two national …
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Peace Corps culture and the language of violence: A Feminist discursive analysis
… culture with a heteropatriarchal, settler colonial legacy. In recent years, this has manifested in Peace Corps’ mishandling of cases of sexual violence against Peace Corps Volunteers. The agency has undertaken many reforms in response to public pressure, including changes at the level of …
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Ethics and Responsibility of Post-Colonial Allyness
… past few centuries is the history of European colonialism. Colonialism was the conquest and control of geographies and populations through the structuration of capitalist economies and violent relationships with the colonized. Since decolonization, there have been many remnants of colonial …
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Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco
… in identity formation including Morocco's colonial legacy, globalization and environmental change in order to illustrate the shortcomings of the discursive practices we use to explain the world.</p>
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Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies
… these groups were homogenous. Moreover, the colonial legacy, legislative and regulatory environments create a unique context for the study. It concludes that the nature of the problem may best be understood as a “wicked problem” and that collaborative approaches are likely the most suited to …
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The Malayan Dilemma: Race, Power and State Formation in Malaya
… categories – Malay, Chinese, and Indian – as the legacy of a series of power struggles dating back to the British and Japanese colonial eras. This study departs from prior studies that have not systematically scrutinised race as a dynamic and historically contingent social category. Instead, by …
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Anthropomorphism and social issues in selected Namibian children’s literature
… of the social issues are the consequences of the colonial legacy, the mismanagement of the country’s resources and a disregard for culture. Moreover, the analysis appeared to suggest that possible solutions to the problems could be an inclusion of traditional methods as well as the revival of the …
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Crafting counter-hegemony: using porcelain to interrogate ideological whiteness as anti-racist praxis
… practice-based PhD responds to the colonial legacy and ongoing crisis of white supremacy. It asks whether porcelain – so physically white and so historically and symbolically laden with preciousness, power and prestige – can be reimagined as a tool of radical anti-racism. Through a …
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THREE ESSAYS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
… design to study the long-run effect of British colonial rule on the state building in Africa. British colonial legacy is featured with ethnic segregation and stronger executive constraints, which may have undermined state centralisation. Using micro-data from anglophone and francophone countries …
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Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
Coloniality can be understood in part as the construction and deployment of hierarchical notions of difference in order to eradicate all peoples and practices defined as different from the colonizing self, norm, community, nation, or race. It is a way of thinking, a way of being, and a way of …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… its diasporic communities, in the aftermath of colonialism and in the contemporary context of transnationalism. Writers examined span the colonial period to the twenty-first century and are drawn from a broad geographical range; their texts inform an understanding of dressing patterns as …
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The blame game : how colonial legacies in Hong Kong shape street vendor and public space policies
… which in turn bears the imprint of Hong Kong's colonial heritage. I seek to identify contradictions between the ways society currently uses space and the original intent of the regulations, and establish if these can explain current frictions over public space expressed as protests. In turn, I …
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Damming the Nation: How Engineers Transformed Rivers into Water Tanks for Modern South Korea
… in the developing nation that stood between the colonial legacy on the one side and American hegemony on the other. By utilizing both colonial data and Western development models, hydrological engineers quantified rivers, a process that compressed complex understandings of and interactions with …
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The neoliberal state and multiculturalism : the need for democratic accountability
… fiscal capacity and have been hampered by colonialism in the development of the political capacity necessary to fully meet the requirements entailed by the devolution. At the same time, this practice releases the formerly responsible jurisdiction from the political burden of the policy …
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Le Jardin des Pamplemousses: A case study into the role of botanical gardens in post-colonial Africa
… confronted by the challenges that arise from its colonial identity in post-colonial Africa. The 'botanical' and 'post-colonial' can therefore be understood as the 2 main identities of the garden - ones that should be interrogated symbiotically in order to uncover the garden's development and …
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