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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"specters"”.
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Re-performance, Mourning and Death: Specters of the Past
… disappears, it leaves behind echoes, traces and specters. The thesis goes on to argue that these echoes and traces can be used to create re-performances which are haunted by the specter of the initial or earlier versions of the performance. Hence, whilst acts of re-performance bring the past back …
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Manly Vice and Virtu: State Specters, Secular Rituals, and Public Culture in Taiwan
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of male sociality and public culture in Taiwan. I examine the poetics and politics of disreputable social activities in which cohorts of male friends engage regularly and extensively, including hunting, drinking, and gambling. My analytical point of …
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Specters of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Student Movement and its evocation of the ‘National Question’ during the global-local long Sixties
This dissertation seeks to examine the category of Itəyoṕəya’winətə (being Ethiopian) by drawing on the logic of radical alterity. Focusing on the constitutive moment of the modern Ethiopian empire state during the late nineteenth century, the dissertation problematizes the story of Ethiopian …
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Tea and Sympathy: The United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005.
<p>The specters of violence and economic insecurity have haunted the Sudan since its independence in 1956. The United States Congress has held numerous hearings on the Sudan's civil war and U.S. television news outlets have reported on the conflict since 1983. While attempting to engage the Sudan …
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Animals in Motion
… seeks to ward off human death by propping up specters of animal life.</p>
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“Essentially cyclonic:” Race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius
… Whether as moments of acute catastrophe and as specters of future destruction, this dissertation shows that landfalling storms, the months of reconstruction efforts that followed, and the policies meant to mitigate cyclones’ effects were moments and processes that shaped ideas about racial …
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The Crucible of History:How Apology and Reconciliation Created Modern Conceptions of the Salem Witch Trials
… focusing on memory. She narrowed on how the “specters of Salem” loomed over American cultural and public memory. Apart from Adams, little scholarly inquiry has focused on the aftermath of the trials, especially how it affected the people directly involved. This thesis will expand the …
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Out of Time: Temporal Colonization and the Writing of Mexican American Subjectivity
… recovery and archivization that engage Derridian specters through intertextual dialogue with the past.'</p>
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History has Tongues: re-evaluating historiography of the moving image through analysis of the voice and critical writing in British artists’ film and video of the 1980s
… Jacques Derrida’s lecture and publication Specters of Marx (1994) is referenced to develop discussion of ghosting in relation to myths and historical sources in analysis of Ken McMullen’s Ghost Dance (1983), in which Derrida muses on ghosts and recording. An exploration of recording …
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Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931)
… and national identity to the prospects and/or specters of revolution. Ultimately, the dissertation explores the interconnected relationships between pedagogy, politics, and power to offer fresh perspectives that will enrich the cultural and intellectual histories of modern Spain and its …
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Spectrality in the works of Christoph Ransmayr
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Spectral futurity: The performative afterlives of mourning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01