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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"post-colonialism"”.
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CULTURE, POWER AND RESISTANCE: POST-COLONIALISM, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MALAYSIAN INDEPENDENCE
… for a critique of the dominant discourse of the post-independence political elites. In particular, the emergence of autobiographical fragments has enabled exploration of mundane but abiding resistance. While some notable differences are found in the character of resistance, there remains a …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
<p>Post-colonial scholarship on Tabletop RPGs observes a clear problem with Dungeons & Dragons; that its system, setting, and rules utilize and reinforce colonial frameworks, primarily race and civilization, for the purpose of entertainment and storytelling. Developing fields of scholarship on …
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Queerly as the Night: Towards Post-Post-Colonialism, a Theory of Rhizomic Intelligence
… Night</em> is a personal and mythic denial of post-colonialism. The manuscript works to deliver accounts of contemporary colonialism between an American daughter and her Indian, immigrant father, demonstrating the ways in which colonialism assigned to the prefix, “post,” meaning <em>after</em> …
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Globalization, Critical Post-colonialism and Career and Technical Education in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities.
… was to use critical education theory and post-colonial insights to explore the macro and micro challenges SSA TVET systems are facing in a global context. Indeed, in the era of economic and cultural globalization, the African continent has the opportunity to make its way toward …
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Archaeology and post-colonialism in South Africa : the theory, practice and politics of archaeology after apartheid
… a Third World archaeologist, I ask: What would a post-colonial archaeology look like? In particular, what would it look like from the point of view of South Africa in the late 1990s?
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A post-colonial ecocritical analysis of selected African texts: A case of lessing's the grass is singing and Mungoshi's waiting for the rain
… for the Rain (1975) by Charles Mungoshi from a post-colonial ecocritical perspective. Ecocriticism unifies humanity and nature, whilst post-colonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, religion and culture, with regards to humanity. The research aimed at elucidating on the remarkable …
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Arthur John Arberry(1905-1969): A Critical Evaluation of an Orientalist
… by examining his works and translations from a post-colonial perspective. After having provided a background to A. J. Arberry, this PhD thesis focuses on discussing and defining the concept of Orientalism as understood by its critics, especially Edward Said. We analyse the influence of empire …
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Economic Partership Agreeements and Regional Integration: A Case Study of the Southern Africa Customs Union and the Southern African Development Community
… borders that had been imposed, and thus became a post-colonialism mantra. The belief in the importance of integration and its' consequent pursuit has continued, despite its admittedly limited success on the continent, amidst what has been referred to as a 'puzzling web of overlapping, …
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Multiculturalism and planning : lessons from Vancouver
… processes from which it emerged (migration, post- colonialism, and the rise of civil society), are urban manifestations that bear important implications for the city and urban life. Planners today, in policy and practice, must learn new ways to accommodate difference in the city. The purpose …
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
'Post-colonial Dislocation and Amnesia: A Cure from Molefi Kete Asante's An Afrocentric Manifesto' aims at investigating the epistemological problems and theoretical inconsistencies in contemporary post-colonial studies. Capitalizing Molefi Kete Asante's theorizations on agency, location, identity, …
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… of orientalism, I draw on Marxist and post-colonial theory in an inter-disciplinary analysis of several fields. These include Area Studies work on the Mao and 'reform' eras, from the Great Leap Forward famine to the 1989 Tiananmen event and beyond; the reception of new Chinese cinema …
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Expressions of exile and homecoming: A critical analysis of the selected Namibian poetry in English
… The study is guided by new historicism and post colonialism theories. The study adopted a qualitative approach and data was analysed using a thematic analysis. The study found that Namibians gained independence yet they are facing factors such as disillusionment, poverty, high rate of …
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The response of art teachers in Ghana to Ghana's cultural policy
… The theoretical frameworks were mainly based on post-colonialism and multicultural education, with a focus on the concepts of ambivalence, hybridity, globalization, and identity formation. The study involved a qualitative inquiry approach with some descriptive statistics to illustrate the context …
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Poétique(s) de la révolution: construction d’identité au travers des littératures Algérienne et Haïtienne
… the Atlantic Ocean, and rethinks the concept of (post)colonialism in a francophone context as a field that is not fixed but constantly evolving. I show how, in these literatures written in French from Haiti and Algeria, revolution becomes an embedded trait of identity and a way of thinking despite …
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Butoh-Ballet
… performance processes of ballet. Theories of Post colonialism and Performance have been interrogated and applied to distill a theme, Butoh-Ballet. A qualitative research approach was undertaken for this study following a short series of dance workshops in butoh carried out on four members of …
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Social Reproductive Labour: Exploring Experiences of Women in the Taxi Industry
… in South Africa is informed by the history of colonialism which ensued in the forced removal of black peoples from city vicinities, to the peripheries of the city which subsequently created transportation needs to and from work. Nonetheless, post-colonialism, the nationalist elite government …
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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
… and was informed by theoretical work around colonialism and post-colonialism/post-nationalism. Results of this study revealed that these teachers saw their worldviews as evolving constructs, shaped by upbringing, cross-cultural interactions, travel experiences, media influences, and …
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The Village on the Stage: Dramaturgies of Modernity in African Concert Dance
… serves as a platform on which Pan-Africanism, colonialism, post-colonialism, and anti- and de- coloniality can be witnessed and explored. Through a dramaturgical methodology that attends to the processes that transform ideas and cultural and political imperatives into theatrical practice and …
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La honte et la culpabilité: destins de femmes dans les récits algeriens du xxe et xxie siécle
… socio-criticism, psychoanalysis, Film Studies, post-colonialism, and feminism. The Algerian society before and after the Independence is portrayed through the eyes of women authors and includes the analysis of shame and guilt, using cultural and psychological criteria specific to Islam. This …
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