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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"subaltern studies"”.
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
<p>Subaltern studies has overwhelmingly privileged subaltern resistance as a means for the subaltern to attain autonomy. While the group's project has made breakthroughs in rewriting Indian subaltern history, their emphasis on resistance to oppression has also essentialized what it means to create …
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa
… draw upon the resources of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and African/Fanon studies to demonstrate how strategies of containment and exclusion have been employed to mediate the persistence of the sacred in colonial, anti-colonial and African nationalist discourses. A further …
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Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio
… hagiographic poems in the light of modern subaltern studies: the anonymous Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, and Gonzalo de Berceo’s Martirio de San Lorenzo, Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, and Vida de Santa Oria. Observing the numerous similarities between …
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Hidden Hout Bay mainstream, myths and margins
… (Gramsci 1971, Simon 1991) notion of the subaltern, most notably the Subaltern Studies Group in Calcutta formed by Gayatri Spivak and exemplified in Partha Chattterjee’s (Chatterjee 2000, Chatterjee 2004, Chatterjee 2011) distinction between political and civil societies, Asef Bayat’s …
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Community self-determination in South Sudan: A return to the subaltern
… third chapter presents the argument for using Subaltern Studies as the theoretical framework for this study. I outline the limitations of prevalent frameworks, primarily the use of rigid binaries to understand citizens and communities, as well as the assumption that communities lack …
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Experience and Viewpoints in the Social Domain of Space Technology
This thesis is about how space technology is experienced in the social domain and how its purpose is recast from different viewpoints. The author is an artist and the approach taken foregrounds qualities of experience and viewpoint in which artists have a particular investment. This approach opens …