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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"colonial violence"”.
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Presencing Settler Colonialism: White Settler Girls’ Engagement with Colonial Violence
… settler girls maintain and resist systems of colonial injustice. Everything that is known about white, North American girlhood is, therefore, predicated on a foundation of settler colonialism that has never been interrogated. The current research disrupts the colonial fixation on Indigenous …
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
… significance as it transformed from a trophy of colonial conquest to a political tool of colonial governance to a relic and symbol of anticolonial resistance. I map these changes over the long twentieth century (1898 to 2019) in order to historically contextualise the head’s various meanings …
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Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
… (ID) systems in modern Japan. I focus on colonial techniques of the ID systems in Northeast China under Japanese occupation in 1931-1945. Colonial ID techniques paid particular attention to identifying individuals and tracking their movements. Most prominently, fingerprinting, the …
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A Peaceful Death?: Kamilaroi French ‘family’ and ‘relative autonomy’ for ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’
… are the root causes of Aboriginal experiences of violence in Australia today? Second, what cultural resources can be drawn upon to promote ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’ in response to this violence? This thesis provides new insights into the extent and types of violence Aboriginal peoples are facing …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… and psychoanalytic critique of settler colonialism. Focusing on the television series Reservation Dogs, I argue that gallows humor, which is defined as comedy engaging death, trauma, and suffering, functions as a distinctly Native rhetorical practice that reveals and resists ongoing …
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Frontlines of crisis, forefront of change : climate justice as an intervention into (neo)colonial climate action narratives and practices
… in this thesis I highlight the on-going colonial violence involved in both extractive industry and the mainstream climate action movements of the Global North. I look at the stories we tell about climate change and how they legitimize a colonial structuring of power: from mainstream media …
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Coloniality, Violence, and Intergenerational Trauma among Displaced Syrians
… outcome of situations of mass trauma involving violence, such as the Syrian displacement crisis. One pathway for the transmission of intergenerational trauma is through violence against children. A decolonial lens has been used to understand intergenerational transmission of trauma in Indigenous …
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Towards a black poetics: alternative modes of visibility in representations of post-apartheid black trauma
… groupsthat have been disregarded by legacies of colonial violence. Conscious of the genealogy of Black women poets who have contributed to South Africa's literary landscape, I make a case for poetry's restorative function with the aim of offering an intervention in the fields of post-colonial …
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ETD: "We still have to unlearn. We are programmed, you know? analyzing black South African's violence against foreign black Africans Previous title: race and the "infernal circle" of dehumanization: an analysis of South Africa's negrophobia
… commonly used to refer to Black South Africans' violence against foreign Black Africans - is often primarily connected to economic competition, which might silence any racial dynamics at play. Yet, given how western colonialism and White supremacy have shaped South Africa's trajectory, exploring …
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The lived experiences of black managers in accessing top management positions within the Namibian private corporate sector
This PhD study draws from anticolonial and decolonial thought systems to explore how multi-level factors; macro-level (social-contextual contextual histories, economic, legal and religious), meso-level (organisational cultures, structures, processes and procedures), and micro-level (interpersonal …
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Crossing Borders, Crossing Genders: Queer Approaches to Popular Culture
… collapsing temporalities, allowing the legacy of colonial violence to connect with contemporary inequality. The popular, being the form most associated with everyday national subjects, offers complex and conflicting insight into queerness’s role in critiquing media’s complicity in conservative …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… the entanglement of environmental degradation, colonial violence, and cultural memory. While ecocriticism has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab literature as a vital contributor to global environmental humanities, challenging anthropocentric and …
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'A Moment of Magic': Coyote, Tricksterism, and the Role of the Shaman in Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca Novels
… Raven, a mysterious figure whose acts of violence threaten the social fabric of Albuquerque, the American Southwest, and the entire world. In battling Raven, Sonny comes to realize that both he and his foe have the ability to access a spiritual power that takes root in the myths and belief …
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Haunting visions: The refusal of settler-colonial containment in C. Ree’s Dark Water and annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings
… that figure in contemporary Indigenous or anti- colonial thought. By focusing on acts of settler-colonial violence embedded in surroundings that have been rendered neutral, Ree and ross utilize a hauntology. They alter their audiences’ perception of the spaces they work in, making them aware of …
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National Mythology and Colonial Trauma in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
… process aimed at laying the foundations of a postcolonial nation through the establishment of the truth about the past, the acknowledgment of the injustices inflicted on the natives, and the development of appropriate forms of justice. Hidden facts about dispossession and genocide were divulged …
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Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature
… similar if distinct concerns about the nature of colonial violence and its legacies, and their similar understandings of and strategies for cultural continuity that bypass settler colonial definition. I examine their approaches to representing and navigating the violence of enforced absence and …
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… is more at stake than the fantasies of German colonial rule that Zantop called our attention to a decade ago. My dissertation targets precisely the equivocal nature of the German colonial imagination around 1800 and suggests a different reading strategy.</p> <p>Postcolonial scholarship has …
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Colonial Policing in Nigeria: British Tactics of Economic Control and the Hypocrisy of Order, 1900-1930
<p>The British colonial government, after the conquest of Nigerian societies, effectively utilized colonial policing to maintain its authority and exploit Nigeria. As a pivotal administrative apparatus, the police provided coercive support for colonial rule in Nigeria and Africa. Scholars have …
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NGOs Embodying Decoloniality: Towards Emanticipatory Psychological Practice and Pedagogy in Palestine
… are serving populations with much experience of violence and oppression. One goal of this qualitative research is to learn how mental health workers position themselves with respect to basic aspects of psychological colonialism (body, the other, language, imagination, etc.). </p> <p>The aims are …
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The Relationship Between Historical Trauma, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being in Sikh Emerging Adults
… endured significant historical trauma, including colonial violence, displacement, and an unrecognized genocide (Tatla, 1999). Research suggests that a strong ethnic identity can mitigate the negative effects of historical trauma (Phinney, 1990; Phinney & Ong, 2007), particularly during emerging …
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