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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"white settler"”.
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Presencing Settler Colonialism: White Settler Girls’ Engagement with Colonial Violence
… the girlhood literature vis-à-vis the ways that white settler girls maintain and resist systems of colonial injustice. Everything that is known about white, North American girlhood is, therefore, predicated on a foundation of settler colonialism that has never been interrogated. The current …
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Second-Generation Euro-Canadians: Resisting or Embracing a White Settler Identity?
… founding, consolidation, and maintenance of the settler nation state of Canada. Immigrant acculturation and a history of the forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples continue to shape Canadian society, yet researchers only rarely consider these processes together (Bohaker & Iacovetta, 2009; …
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Diversity is (not) good enough: Unsettling White Settler Colonialism within Toronto's Queer Service Sector
… can contribute to and become complicit in white settler colonial projects. During this study based on in-depth interviews, forty-three research participants were asked about their experiences working within their respective queer service organizations, and, more specifically, about their …
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Walking the Path of Humility: White Settler Positionality in Research with Tsartlip First Nation
… this thesis offers insight into how white settlers may conduct research “in a good way” with Indigenous communities amongst a dominant colonial system. Through a first-person/organizational inquiry, I explored, as a non-Indigenous leader in Tsartlip First Nation, how my research …
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“Caughnawaga Indians were taking part in one of the most dramatic episodes of history…”: Manufacturing Mohawk Nationalism on the Nile Expedition of 1884 – 1885
… influence relations between the Mohawks and white settler society. This was done through the development of Mohawk nationalism, which strived for a distinct Mohawk identity, culture and political autonomy. The perspective of two Mohawks, Louis Jackson and James Deer, demonstrate their …
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"We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada
… colonial and racial formations in the making of white settler states. Through an intersectional and transnational exploration of proximities between South Asians and Indigenous peoples in Canada, the dissertation unravels South Asian complicities in ongoing processes of colonization of Indigenous …
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Becomings-Unsettled? (Un) Braiding Settler-Treaty Life Writing
… data, multiplicities of mistakes, goodness, and settler-colonial normative narratives. It stories theory by braiding, unbraiding, folding, and unfolding problematic normative narratives in turns and tangles, in the middles of mistakes. As a collection of textural braidways, it illustrates White …
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Representations of the Black subject in Irma Stern's African periods : Swaziland, Zanzibar and Congo 1922-1955
… is the question of Stern's identity as a woman, settler and Jew, as it is critical to exploring the relation between Stern as a white settler and that of her black figurative subjects as viewed through the discourse of 'primitivism'. My methodology involves drawing from various archives, primary …
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Unsettling Hope: Settler Colonialism and Utopianism
… utopia as imbricated with the project of English settler colonialism in the New World and the succeeding settler colonial societies of Canada and the US. I situate Thomas More’s Utopia as an early modern narrative that was mobilized to articulate notions of transcendental progress and universal …
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The Political Entanglements of Recognition: Aboriginal Title, Crown Sovereignty, and Indigenous Self Determination
… British colonialism. I argue that the project of settler-colonialism, as a form of governmentality, is an unfinished project that constantly seeks the erasure of Indigenous peoples and polities in favour of white-settler society.
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Decolonizing the Body
… California and whose indigenous history predates White Settler Colonialism in this state, we can gain a fuller picture about the truth of California’s past. Through the lens of Indigenous Queer Theory, we can understand how these three Queer Indigenous Writers have sought to engage with their …
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Learning to listen differently: Witnessing survivor testimony and implications for ethical responses
… responses, unsettlement, and understanding of settler responsibilities are at the center of this study. Explored through autoethnography and life writing methodologies this qualitative study aimed to answer the central research question: “Does the act of witnessing survivor testimony at the Rio …
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Afrikaner Nationalism and the Production of a White Cultural Heritage: An analysis of selected works undertaken by Dirk Visser and Gabriel Fagan from 1967-1993
… Afrikaner Nationalism and the Production of a White Cultural Heritage: An analysis of selected works undertaken by Dirk Visser and Gabriel Fagan from 1967-1993 examines the construct of a white settler heritage as promoted and implemented through various restorations and reconstructions of …
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Once an other, always an other: Contemporary discursive representations of the Asian other in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… the ways in which social relations between the white settler Self and various Other groups have been, and continue to be, constituted. In this thesis, I have explored the discursive representation of Asian identity in dominant institutional discourses in Aotearoa/New Zealand, with a particular …
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State Forest Management, Society and Environment in Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe, c.1890-2023
… not by the local population but by powerful white settler interests who prioritised unregulated exploitation for economic reasons. After decades of contestations between settler interests and state foresters, the enactment of the Forest Act in 1949 marked the end of uncontrolled exploitation …
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The formation of a colonial society : Belize, from conquest to Crown Colony
… undermined the power of the hitherto dominant white settler oligarchy.The settler oligarchy, having completely controlled the Settlement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was virtually eliminated after 1850, losing control of the political and administrative apparatus to …
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Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography
Museums in general, but especially in Europe and white settler societies, are grappling with relevance as their colonial histories are contested. Within this context, performance art has emerged as a powerful tool for challenging dominant narratives and analysing oppressive systems within cultural …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
… annexation, giving rise to a hegemonic white settler society with missionaries and their descendants at its core. On the other hand, there were no Protestants in the Philippines until after American annexation due to prohibition by Spanish Catholic rulers, and as such missionaries rode …
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Negotiating freedom: the free black farmers of Jonkershoek, 1697-1710
… nature of wheat farming at the Cape. Yet white farmers, confronted by similar obstacles, managed to transcend them and coalesce into a permanent agrarian class. This thesis attempts to account for this disparity by examining hitherto unexplored socio-economic factors that contributed to …
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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… of haole, a Native Hawaiian articulation of whiteness, in two multimodal texts related to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna-a-Wākea in Hawai'i. Specifically, I analyze the Aloha 'Aima mural at the University of Hawai'i and the 'Imiloa web interface, as two …
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