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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"cultural activism"”.
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Complicating Youth in Contemporary Turkey: Cultural Activism and a New Muslim Youth Identity
The topic of youth and being young in modern Turkey are frequently expressed in narratives that are either fragmented or totalizing, and frequently reductionist. In a time of resurgent youth politics globally, and in the Middle East-North Africa region and Turkey especially, the ways youth and …
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The Afro-Pampas: Black consciousness, cultural activism and queer subjectivity at Brazil's southern frontier
… it. In “The Afro-Pampas: Black Consciousness, Cultural Activism and Queer Subjectivity at Brazil’s Southern Frontier,” I use Critical Race Theory, Border and Frontier Studies and Black Feminist and Queer to situate Blackness as central to and transformative of the construction of the real and …
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Viral visions : art, activism, and epidemiology in the global AIDS pandemic
Most histories of HIV/AIDS, art, and cultural activism pivot around New York and are confined to the American context. Instead, this dissertation maps out a more expansive transnational Anglophone network of individuals, projects, and coalitions that conceived of the virus as a global problem …
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Putting Cajuns on the Map: Music's Role in Popularizing Louisiana's Bayou Culture
… Louisiana witnessed a grassroots Cajun cultural revival whose most active years stretched across three decades in the latter half of the twentieth century. While important local and world events created conditions favorable to its development, actors and events within the Cajun musical …
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Styles Make Fights: Fashioning the Male Boxing Body in Contemporary British Boxing Ring Dress
This study is an anthropological and cultural exploration of professional male boxers and their boxing ring dress. In boxing, once fighters have debuted and become professional boxers, they have complete creative expression in the ring and the economic means to hire a designer who will create their …
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La Villa de las Tres Cuturas: A Study of a New Tourist Festival in Frigiliana, al-Ándalus
… is more than a symbolic gesture. It is a form of cultural activism that counters a dominant monocultural narrative in a somatic manner. Festival Frigiliana 3 Culturas playfully conjures up the past during a tourist event. Yet in doing so, it is playing with new myths and legends in the present. …
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
… movement that sees literature as a form of cultural activism. Migritude literatures traces the connections between contemporary globalization and colonial processes of the past and sheds light on how the functioning and expansion of capitalism relies on forced displacement and forced labor …
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From Liberation Theology to Teología India: The Progressive Catholic Church in Southern Mexico, 1954-1994
… how activists built a Catholic multiculturalism from the ground up (1960s-1990s), and how the Vatican recognized their decades of work by accepting Náhuatl as an official liturgical language in 2015. This history is inseparable from the Latin American experiences of Liberation …
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Instituting Dissensus: The Democratisation of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
… explores different modes of engagement with cultural institutions, focusing specifically on instituting practices as a model for the reinvention of democratic politics. Building on contemporary political philosophy, post-structuralist theory, and cultural studies, it begins by analysing both …