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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"national identities"”.
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Calypso, Masquerade Performance and Post National Identities
… of gendered, classed, raced and sexualized national identities."
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National Identities Versus Cultural Identities: Beta Israel Community
This study focuses on the structure of the national and cultural identities of the Beta Israel community. It primarily focuses on people over thirty-five who were born and lived in Ethiopia at least until the age of twelve and then left for Israel, which is the first generation. Beta Israel, the …
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Negotiating Thainess : Religious and National Identities in Thailand's Southern Conflict
… to investigate how people express religious and national identities in the conflict-ridden Patani region of southern Thailand. In a historical framework of disputes over territory and political legitimacy, where identities have developed in response to an emerging Thai nation, it is of relevance …
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THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES
… is to investigate the impact of globalisation on national identities in post-Soviet societies. Contrary to previous scholarship studying identity narratives enhanced and produced by political and economic elites within the space of the former USSR, this thesis focuses its analysis on how the wider …
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Song Cultures and National Identities in Eighteenth-Century Britain, c.1707-c.1800
… a fresh perspective on English and Scottish national identities in the eighteenth century. Across five chapters it tracks and describes the reproduction and reinterpretation of various forms of ‘Englishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ through songs and through writings about songs. It is argued that …
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South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969
… film music theory/analysis/history, and national film music studies outside the Hollywood context. Chapter 2 provides an analysis of nationalist trends in South African silent film and the transition to sound film. The subsequent two chapters analyse the filmic use of rural and urban …
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Thai popular music: The representation of national identities and ideologies within a culture in transition
Thai popular music always reflects and reproduces the concerns of Thai people in changing times especially in regard to issues relating to identity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the preservation of Thai identity and the ideologies surrounding it and the …
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Engendering loyalties: the construction of masculinities, feminities and national identities in South Australian secondary schools, 1880-1919
… the period 1880-1919. The ideals of gender and national identity of the various schools are investigated through an analysis of archival records relating to their rhetoric, organisation and curricula.
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National Identities in the Context of the USSR's Westward Expansion: Visions of Poles and Ukrainians in Soviet Cinema, 1925-1941
… films made in both the Soviet centre and the national republics, I examine cinematic depictions of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians and the Hutsul highlanders of the Carpathian mountains, exploring Soviet models of appropriation and ‘othering’ in cultural discourse. My thesis highlights the role …
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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities
… with non-normative sexualities, perplexing national identities, and Cross-Strait geopolitics between “two Chinas.” Answering <em>how</em>, <em>why</em>, <em>and</em> <em>who</em> about the compressed modernity of legalizing gay marriage in Taiwan, I argue <em>tongzhi</em> groups shrewdly …
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The Search for Stability in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
… to build their political systems, economies, and national identities from the ground up. Despite that both Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan had similar political and economic statuses as Soviet Republics, the political, economic, and cultural trajectories of the two countries began to diverge once the …
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'Of the holy londe of Irlande': A reconsideration of some Middle English Texts in late medieval Ireland
… post-medieval conceptions of cultural and national identities.<br/>Whilst the paucity of extant material is undoubtedly a significant factor in the comparative scholarly neglect of Middle English literary texts of medieval Irish provenance, it is not, it is suggested, the only issue at …
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Modern mimesis: encounters between British and Greek poetry, 1922-1952
… thesis considers the crisis in the portrayal of national spaces and national identities, insecure in the multiplicity of their cultural roots and thus diasporic and hybrid, from 1922, a year marked for its importance in the disintegration of imperial Britain and in the positioning of Greece on …
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Moving Forward Into the Past: The Role of the Belvedere Museum in the Construction and Representation of Austrian Identity
Overall, the national museum uses cultural representations to produce a selective view of the country's history and alters a community's historical consciousness. Yet in the long-term development of pluralistic, national identities, an easily recognizable heritage product is unsatisfactory for …
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Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies
… binaries that limit both individual and national identities. Part of the Canadian conscious is an anxiety that questions not only the way difference impacts their culture, but also how these differences speak to a lack of a homogenized national identity. This study focuses on …
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Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies
… binaries that limit both individual and national identities. Part of the Canadian conscious is an anxiety that questions not only the way difference impacts their culture, but also how these differences speak to a lack of a homogenized national identity. This study focuses on …
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Democracy and Nation Formation: National Identity Change and Dual Identity in Taiwan, 1991-2011
Using the data collected from various national poll surveys conducted after the transition to democracy in the late 1980's, this study analyzes the trend of national identity change among the general populace in Taiwan. Counter to the popular view that the nascent Taiwanese national identity rose …
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French taste: food and national identity in post-colonial France
… debates—and how these helped to redefine French national identity in the last third of the twentieth century. Focusing on how the global context shapes national identities, it tracks France’s transformation from an imperial exporter of modern civilization to a nation seemingly besieged by …
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