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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"colonizer"”.
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IMMORTALIZING THE SPIRIT OF THE COLONIZER
"European colonial expansion has institutionalized and simultaneously normalized, at the global level, the supremacy of a class, of an ethno-racial group, of a particular type of state organization, spirituality, an epistemology, a particular kind of institutionalization, a production of knowledge, …
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Interactions between influenza A virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in nasal colonization and middle ear infection
… it is both a nearly ubiquitous nasopharyngeal colonizer and also a leading cause of otitis media, one of the most common diseases of childhood. Despite this, the factors underlying its transition from colonizer to otopathogen are incompletely understood and are of great interest. …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
… of the complicated relationship between the colonizer and the colonized identities. It is argued that Bhabha’s views regarding the hybridity of the colonial subject, and also the inherent complexity and ambiguity in the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized can provide us with …
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Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
… public/private, colonizer/colonized--that have underwritten their neglect to date."
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"Sophie" reigns over dominant display practices : negotiating power in Mary Sibande's installations
… and dominance, it immediately recalls the colonizer/colonized dialectic between the early British Victorian colonizer and many Black African peoples whom the Victorians consigned to subordination, particularly in South Africa. Sophie is seemingly fixed within this binary power system: her …
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Rulers, Rhetoric, and Ray-Guns: A Post Colonial Look at 90's Alien Invasion Media
… the "other" but rather the U.S. itself being the colonizer or conqueror looking to expand its sphere of influence. Furthermore, it discusses how Presidential rhetoric in the films play a role in this postcolonial reading. Specific works studied are: Independence Day (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), …
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Assembly and Display of Surface Proteins In Actinomyces Oris
… adhere to host tissue. As an important primary colonizer of the oral biofilm, the actinobacterium <em>Actinomyces oris</em> utilizes cell wall anchored proteins and glycoconjugates to initiate adherence to host surfaces, recruit additional bacterial species that could not bind otherwise, and …
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The Natural Embroidery of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko
… on the way these bodies—both white and black, colonizer and colonized—are framed by 18th century gardening rhetoric. This rhetoric provided naturally conceived tools for nurturing these bodies. I plan to argue that the language of the natural world used in the play demonstrates the role of …
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Writing as a cultural negotiation: a study of Mariama Bâ, Marie NDiaye and Ama Ata Aidoo
… are discussed specifically in relation to the colonizer/colonized binary model. Through this binary, displacement of authority is engendered by means of a series of mimetic identifications with the colonizer by the colonized in an ambivalent hybridized cultural space. We discuss interracial and …
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Arthropod successionin Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and compared development of protophormia terraenovae (R. -D.) from Beringia and the Great Lakes Region
… species is not considered dominant or a primary colonizer in more southern regions. Development rates of P. terraenovae were determined for both fluctuating and two constant temperatures. Under natural fluctuating conditions, there was no significant difference in growth rate between studied …
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Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
… human and non-human, the colonized and the colonizer. This thesis unfolds this global history of architecture as activated through continuous cultural translations of the chili pepper across discontinuous geographies. In the process this thesis suggests of the tacit ways in which food and …
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Cyborgs in the Studio: Transhuman Vocal Approaches in Gender Nonconforming Recording Artists
… Merrill Garbus (she/her), “Now as Then” and “Colonizer,” which use the post-production techniques of spatial positioning, layering, and reverb to critique white femininity. I close with a brief epilogue in which I address propose a model for viewing transness through the lens of transhumanism.
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The ecology and demography of the introduced macroalga Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
… Undaria pinnatifida is an opportunistic colonizer capable of high rates of reproduction and fast growth rates producing high density populations. It is the dominant macroalgal species at the site of invasion during winter and spring and has the potential for further spread from its …
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Youth…Power…Egypt: The Development of Youth as a Sociopolitical Concept and Force in Egypt, 1805-1923
… culture formation between the colonized and colonizer, as well as between generations within this era of modernization and dramatic Social transformation.</p>
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa
… is invoked/ produced by both the colonized and colonizer. I then proceed to explore such contests of power to produce the sacred in Frantz Fanon's On National Culture and the indigenous authorities in post-apartheid South Africa. In doing so, I draw upon the resources of postcolonial theory, …
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"Projections of the Not-Me": Redemptive Possibilities of the Gothic within Wuthering Heights and Beloved
… vision, or the distance between civilized colonizer and racial Other. Though critics often read these traditions as separate entities, I propose here a transatlantic study of Victorian Gothic versus Southern Gothic conventions, considering the ways that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and …
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Muddy points of entanglements: transglocal fictions in Africa and the diaspora
… framework beyond binary formulations such as the colonizer/the colonized, the national/the transnational and the local/the global."
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The Colonization Strategies of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae - Bacterial Colonization Factors and Vaccine Development
… influenzae (NTHi) is a remarkably proficient colonizer of the human respiratory tract. The aim of this thesis has been to characterize currently known, and identify novel, bacterial factors involved in the key processes of colonization and pathogenesis, namely adherence to host tissue and …
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The Biopolitics of Famine: British Means of Colonial Control
… layers of analysis outside of the standard colonizer/colonized approach of analyzing colonial famines. William Carleton’s <em>The Black Prophet</em> and Bhabani Bhattacharya’s <em>So Many Hungers </em>are perfect subjects for this type of analysis. These novels show us the important role …
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Writings From the Borderzone: Tales of Recuperation and Transgression in the Works of Malika Mokeddem, Calixthe Beyala, and Evelyne Accad
… questions extending well beyond the colonizer/colonized dichotomy that focus on the role of women in society before, during and especially after independence. These writers' socio-political and discursive locations within the cultural borderzone allows each of them to give new …
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