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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"modernities"”.
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Making the Maasai Schoolgirl: Developing Modernities on the Margins
In 2000, the United Nations hosted the Millennium Summit, billed as the “largest gathering of world leaders in history” (UN Millennium Project). This delegation defined The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the primary set of metrics that serve as benchmarks against which development, the …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
This dissertation examines the development and the regulation of Chinese ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates …
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The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935
… Communities</em>, “The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935” contrasts the idea of homogeneous national ideals with depictions in literature of stratified geopolitical regions deeply divided by issues of race, ethnicity, …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
<p>This dissertation is an historical archaeological examination of the "poor whites" or "Redlegs" of Barbados. Excavations were undertaken from October 2012 to July 2013 in an abandoned tenantry, Below Cliff, on the east coast of the island, once inhabited by dozens of families locally referred to …
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
Beginning in 1922, under the auspices of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran, the tombs of selected historical figures were systematically destroyed to make way for modern mausoleums erected as metaphors for an "Aryan" nation in its process of modem revival. Initiated during the reign of Reza Shah who …
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Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896)
<p>The late-nineteenth-century realist canon in Spain is filled with male characters who are physically weak, effeminate, ineffectual, infantilized, or impotent, and, thus, decidedly "unmanly," which indicates a collective societal anxiety about masculinity in Spain at the end of the nineteenth …
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At the Intersections of Nations, Diasporas, and Modernities: North American Finns in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
… within a larger, global contest of alternative modernities, that is between competing notions of what the new subject of the modern nation-state should look like. What follows is a multi-sited ethnographic analysis of the way immigrants’ ethnic identities were forged, and contested in different …
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State, religion, and the public good: An examination of Nurcholish Madjid in constructing civil religious pluralism as political philosophy
… the religious moral order as a part of multiple modernities, and the religious pluralism made possible by civil society can support a strong and just state. In this way, public religious goods can inform the articulation of political goods, which in turn informs the state’s administration of …
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Party Politics in Intercivilisational Encounters : The Modernity Cleavage
… analysis, particularly the concept of multiple modernities as devised by Shmuel Eisenstadt, to describe the emergence of anti-Western fundamental movements in Russia and Egypt at the start of the 20th century. The introductory chapter discusses the existing literature and recent trends in …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… response to the challenges of 'multiple modernities', is compared to the theories of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. In Part Two, the findings from this comparison are applied to reflect on contemporary issues in Christianity in and out of Africa. The notion of the social imaginary …
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‘The Most Wonderful Wonderful Parties’ Gossip and anecdote as feminist epistemology in women’s oral histories of the creative community in postwar St Ives
… creative community, and reveal hidden feminine modernities and modernisms. The history of the post-war art colony in St Ives has largely been considered through a masculine, modernist lens that focuses on a small number of artists and a mostly formalist reading of St Ives through their work. …
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Transatlantic transactions: writing hispanism at the centennial of 1892
… an alternative to the Anglo-Saxon and French modernities from which they were excluded as peripheral not-yet-modern nations. Both Latin American and Spanish authors implemented the myth of Hispanic anti-materialist spirituality to paradoxically reinforce transatlantic commercial exchange. …
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The paradox of "indigenous modernity" : a case study of the construction of identity among the ‡Khomani San
… values, which creates them into 'indigenous modernities'.
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Picturing the peasant : nation and modernity in 20th century Bulgaria
… and later Soviet-style modernity. However, these modernities were based upon ideas of industrialization and urbanization. In the middle of the 20th century, however, Bulgaria's economy was still overwhelmingly agricultural. This represented a problem for Bulgaria's nation builders. Confronted with …
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Modesty, Dress-codes and ‘Local Taste’: Examining Abaya-led Fashion Practices in The United Arab Emirates
… reflect ‘local taste’ and fashion’s multiple modernities. By considering the abaya from a design and designer’s point of view my research offers new insights into fashion and design practices originating from an emergent market outside the ‘West’. Furthermore, this thesis contributes to areas …
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Pedagogy of integrity
… Durchführung des Masterstudiengangs Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture” befasst sich mit kolonialen Mustern in der Hochschulbildungspraxis, arbeitet einen theoretisch-fundierten Rahmen für Dekolonisierung akademischer Lehr-/Lernpraxis auf den mikro- und mesodidaktischen …
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