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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"politics of knowledge"”.
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Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
The politics of knowledge in the age of the internet is concerned with many overlapping elements. From the reimagining of research in relation to the new infrastructures to the development of new technologies and their social, cultural, ontological, and epistemological implications, here the …
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Farmer knowledge in alternative agriculture: Community learning and the politics of knowledge
… agroecological farmers as they seek out farming knowledge in Canada and how this contributes to the shaping of farmer subjectivities. Canada is facing a looming farm and food crisis; the barriers of accessing land and capital are becoming more significant for new entrants as well as disrupting …
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Waves of Change? Politics of Knowledge and Participation in Marine Protected Areas
… over whether they should emphasize the role of expert knowledge or local participation. This debate occurs among an international network of scientists and conservation professionals as well as in relation to particular places and MPAs. This dissertation contributes to an understanding of …
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Spirituality in the Laboratory: Negotiating the politics of knowledge in the psychedelic sciences
… I conduct a feminist discourse analysis of the politics of knowledge enacted in this unique intersection of spirituality and science in the psychedelic sciences. I draw on feminist theories of science and knowledge which conceptualize science as a dominant knowledge constituted through …
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Design and the Politics of Knowledge in America, 1937-1967: Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes
Using the American careers of Walter Gropius and Gyorgy Kepes as case studies, this dissertation addresses the intersection of art and architecture with the reciprocal politics of knowledge production and state formation in the mid-twentieth century United States. Inasmuch as the careers of Gropius …
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Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
… not only promotes justice but is good for knowledge. One such claim that I focus on is that increasing the social location diversity of research communities increases that communitys capacity for critically evaluating knowledge claims. I investigate existing arguments defending this …
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The Scientist and the Jaguar: Sacred Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the northwestern Amazon, 1849 - 2023
This dissertation examines the history of psychedelics in the Americas by focusing on ayahuasca, a plant derivative native to the Amazonian lowlands that I describe as a “plant-being.” The project traces how a transnational network life and human scientists sought to transform ayahuasca from a …
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Knowledge in the making : embodying transdisciplinary moments on organic agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… little interest in organic agriculture, the turn of the 21st century saw the rapid involvement of the Indonesian government in supporting, regulating and, arguably, commodifying organic agriculture. Institutionalization triggered diverse responses from competing organic actors, reflecting their …
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Mural visions: viewing histories in the works of Michael Ondaatje
… thesis seeks to challenge traditional notions of literary interpretation by examining the interaction between visual and verbal representation in literature. To this end, I critically examine several elements of visual culture in the literary works of poet/novelist Michael Ondaatje and seek to …
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The Politics of Information: Libraries and Librarianship in the Western Cape, South Africa, 1930s--1960s
This study of libraries, literacy, and literature in the Western Cape addresses questions about the production, consumption, and politics of knowledge in South Africa from the 1930s through the 1960s. It argues that a culture of reading, which existed among blacks in the Western Cape since the …
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No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Making of a New Queer Identity
For reasons of necessity, urgency, and sometimes choice, queer Africans cross borders and find their lives unfolding in diasporic spaces. Refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity persecution make up 12% of all refugee cases in Canada, with queer African refugees constituting …
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So That All Shall Know: Memory Activism & Epistemic Authority in Guatemala
… dissertation examines historical memory and the politics of knowledge in Guatemala. Memory activists and Maya intellectuals demand recognition of the truth of their historical narratives. Their practices of knowledge production are rooted in uncovering perspectives that were previously silenced, …
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Men Working as Midwives: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… studies into the phenomenon. The purpose of this work is to address this gap in knowledge. The overarching argument in this thesis is that men who become midwives are entering a contested space which has hitherto been fiercely maintained as woman-only via political, social, and cultural …
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An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil
… production, a biodiverse cultural landscape of African oil palms in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia has for centuries supplied local alimentary and spiritual demands for palm oil—an essential resource in Afro-Brazilian cultures. Drawing on fieldwork, ethnography, archives, …
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Painful Discourses: Borders, Regions, and Representations of Female Circumcision from Africa to America
This project considers issues of representation and how literature, personal testimony, popular culture, and African film script a narrative of change and/or participate in change in the female circumcision debate. Texts that currently shape the female circumcision debate are increasingly focused …
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Saving our Sisters: Critical inquiry into sex trafficking discourses and interventions in the Philippines
… Philippine anti-trafficking sector’s conflation of sex work with victimhood and shows that this conflation is inconsistent with the lived realities of many sex workers. It examines the politics of knowledge production in the anti-trafficking sector and posits that the exclusion of sex workers …
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Practices of pastness, postwars of the dead, and the power of heritage: museums, monuments and sites in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-2010
… examines the meanings, significances, and roles of heritage across the colonial and postcolonial eras in Zimbabwe. The study traces dominant ideas about heritage at particular periods in Zimbabwean history, illustrating how heritage has been deployed in ways that challenge common or essentialised …
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Contesting Risk, Expertise, and Environmental Justice on the Fenceline: The Cases of the Navajo Nation, Radford Arsenal, and Camp Minden
… dissertation examines the contestations over the politics of knowledge, risk, and environmental justice in three fenceline sites. Mobilizing the fenceline standpoint to study risk strengthens our objective understanding of the social situatedness of risk. To illustrate how a fenceline standpoint …
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Decolonisation, Africanisation, and Epistemic Citizenship in post-Rhodes Must Fall South African Universities
… African university are not new and are often inscribed within multiple genealogies and intellectual traditions that examine the relationship between colonial formations and the politics of knowledge production. Given this historicity, there is often a rich inheritance of diverse …
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Searching for the ideal river? New directions in geographical geomorphology
… enacted. Building on and extending traditions of geographical geomorphology as the study of relations between people and landscape, this thesis draws attention to the politics of knowledge production in fluvial geomorphology and river management. Drawing on case studies from western China and …
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