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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"sites of memory"”.
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
… film and fiction certainly stage the break up of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet rule in this way. Post-Soviet culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest of space, the normal functioning of Soviet life with clear sources of symbolic authority, the Soviet …
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Tracking Discourses of Occupation and Genocide in Lithuanian Museums and Sites of Memory
Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific methodologies to …
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Negotiating the memory of the dead in the community of Yehud.
Research in the material culture and texts of the Persian period Levant has provided greater understanding of the early second temple communities and identity formation. However, studies regarding mortuary practices and the role of the dead among these communities are limited. Through the lens of …
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Expectations of peace: documentation, memorialization, and construction of the archive in northern Uganda
… contemporary northern Uganda since the collapse of the Juba peace talks in 2008. Taking the collapse of political settlement as my starting point while staying attuned to the history of humanitarian activity in the region more broadly, I address how each of these initiatives produces knowledge …
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Pass, passing : between frames of memory, cinema and the archive
This thesis explores the artistic process of producing a film, All We Have is Now, that is about family and apartheid. The text traces various aspects of the film's production from the points of research, perspective, and representation. The thesis includes the multitudes of challenges and …
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'The Place of My Fathers' Sepulchres' : the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna
This thesis presents the first integrated history of Vienna’s four Jewish cemeteries as sites reflecting the construction, negotiation and at times contestation of Jewish communal belonging within Viennese society, embedded in the Viennese cityscape. Through a novel analysis of the sepulchral …
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Performing nostalgia: body, memory, and the aesthetics of past-home
… etymological beginnings, the meanings and usages of nostalgia have shifted markedly. In the shifting, nostalgia’s associations with the body and with the concept of home has diminished. This study of African American nostalgia for Africa uses genealogical inquiry, personal and autoethnographic …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …
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Commemorating Controversy: Place-making at the Birthplace of the Bomb
… weapons. Today, the remaining places and spaces of the bomb at Los Alamos are being preserved for future generations through their inclusion in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, a unique partnership between the Department of Energy, which will continue to own and manage its wartime …
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The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s
… event for Afrikaners, not only because of the suffering endured, but also for how the war came to symbolise Afrikaner identity and ethno-nationalism. The South African War is central to Afrikaner beliefs and conceptions of the Afrikaner volk, or nation, its sense of belonging in South …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
Following the devastation of 80 percent of the city of New Orleans and the prolonged period of trauma due to levee failure and lack of effective emergency response in 2005, New Orleanian performing artists independently and along with national artists to create post-K performances as acts of …
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Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
This dissertation examines the competing goals of Ghanaian tourism stakeholders, diaspora African visitors, and Cape Coast residents regarding pilgrimage tourism in Ghana's Central Region. Based on over one year of fieldwork in Cape Coast, my research incorporates interviews and surveys with …
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Within the Walls: War, Trauma, and Recovery in Dubrovnik
The siege of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik that began on October 1st, 1991 was among the earliest military aggressions of the Yugoslav army in response to the breakup of the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The thriving tourist economy of the 1400 year old city collapsed the moment the first …
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Migrating memories: Power and transcultural memory in contemporary South Asian fiction
… questions: First, what effect does power have on memory? Second, how does literature help us “locate” or make visible the processes of memory transmission within and between subaltern groups whose actions are patrolled and, at times, curtailed? These questions are central to the future …
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Unearthing living memory: from displacement to place making in 'Konstansie'
The Constantia Valley, situated south of Cape Town holds fragmented remnants of the communities who were displaced by the apartheid regime. The historical context of forced removals has left a lasting mark on the fabric of what was once Konstansie and the traces it now holds of injustice and the …
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
<p>A study of Renaissance literature's engagement with temporality, my project is a critical evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts …