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Griffith, Patrick Joseph Edward. "Canon law in post-Imperial Gaul." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/canon-law-in-post-imperial-gaul(10f0d570-7559-47a5-b604-d9e179ac6dbb).html.
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This dissertation traces the transition of ‘canon law’, the episcopate’s own legislation on matters of ecclesiastical organisation, clerical discipline and select aspects of lay religious activity, from the context of a functioning Roman Empire and into the successor kingdoms, which dominated Gaul in the fifth and sixth centuries. Ecclesiastical canons developed in the early fourth century from the ‘internal’ rules of minority Christian communities, and by the fifth had matured into organisational and disciplinary norms deeply intertwined with Empire’s own institutions and legal system. This dissertation examines the effect the ‘ending’ of the imperial system had upon canon law in Gaul. It seeks to reintegrate canon law into the extensive historiographical debates over the utility of Late-Antique normative legislation, as a source capable of illuminating the myriad social, economic and institutional transformations underway in Gallic society. It will attempt to highlight and above all to explain changes in the form, content and application of conciliar canons, the key component of canon law in this context, in terms which emphasize the shifting institutional and legal-cultural landscape. In particular, this dissertation will argue that the period c.570 – 614 saw the manifestation of an ecclesiastically-driven legal culture, which arose from the relatively unique matrix of political and institutional conditions presented by Merovingian Gaul. It will also seek to highlight previously undervalued historical contingencies, such as the impact upon legal culture of ‘Arian’ rulership in the first generation of Gallic successor states, and the complex interplay between political fragmentation on the one hand and the survival of ecclesiastical institutions and legislation which were intrinsically pan-Mediterranean.
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Starosta, Anita. "Eastern Europe, literature, and post-imperial difference /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Zembe, Christopher Roy. "Imperial and post-colonial identities : Zimbabwean communities in Britain." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/12263.
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This comparative study of Zimbabwean immigrants in Britain illustrates why they should not be viewed as reified communities with fixed essence, but as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the phases of Zimbabwe’s history. Through an analysis of personal interviews, participant observation, and secondary and primary sources, the thesis identifies and engages historical experiences which had been instrumental in not only constructing relations between Zimbabwean immigrant communities, but also their economic and social integration processes. The quest to recognise historic legacies on Zimbabwean immigrants’ interactions and integration processes necessitated the first thematic chapter to engage the construction of ethno-racial identities in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial phases of Zimbabwe’s history. With contemporary literature on the Zimbabwean communities in Britain tending to create perceptions that Zimbabwean immigrants are a monolithic community of Blacks, the thesis’ examination of inter-community relations between Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Asians unveils Zimbabwean immigrants fragmented by historic racial and ethnic allegiances and prejudices. Examining education and employment as economic integration indicators has also facilitated the identification of historical experiences that have been influential in determining economic integration patterns of each Zimbabwean community. Intermarriage, language, religion and relations with the indigenous population were critically engaged to gauge the influence of historical socialisation on Zimbabwean communities’ interaction with Britain’s social structures. While it is undeniable that colonial Zimbabwe was beset with a series of political and economic policies which set in motion salient racist discourses that inevitably facilitated the construction of racially divided diaspora communities, the thesis also unveils a Black diaspora community imbued with historic communal tensions and prejudices. By focusing on Black Zimbabwean immigrants, the thesis will not only be acknowledging an increase of Sub-Saharan Africans in Britain, but also offers an alternative perspective on Black British History by moving away from the traditional areas of study such as eighteenth century slavery and post-1945 African-Caribbean migration. Exploring the dynamics of diaspora relations of the Shona and the Ndebele will expose how both the Nationalist Movement and the post-colonial government failed to implement nation building initiatives needed to unite Africans that had been polarised along ethnic lines. Black Zimbabweans therefore migrated as products of unresolved ethnic conflicts that had been developed and nurtured throughout the phases of Zimbabwe’s history. In the absence of shared historic socio-economic or cultural commonalities within the Black community and between the Zimbabwean diaspora communities demarcated by race, the thesis will be tackling the key question: are Zimbabweans in Britain an imagined community?
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Guha, Malini. "The post-imperial cityscape : London and Paris in the cinema." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1086/.
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My doctoral thesis conducts an analysis of post-imperial Paris and London, as represented in the cinema. More specifically, this study develops a narrative of the intimate connection between the cinema and the city that parts ways from the founding story of the filmic city, which revolves around the birth of the modern metropolis and mobilities of the flâneur. This thesis engages in the exploration of the largely untold story of the relationship between empire and the cinematic city in Michael Haneke’s Code inconnu (2000) and Caché (2005), Claire Denis’ J’ai pas sommeil (1994) Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Michael Winterbottom’s In This World (2002) and Tony Gatlif’s Exils (2004). This study investigates the lingering traces of imperial histories, spatialities, narratives and figures that can be located in more contemporary cinema. The first chapter of the dissertation entitled ‘Post-Imperial Paris’ is divided into two sections. The first investigates the construction of ‘post-imperial topographies’ in J’ai pas sommeil and Code inconnu, while the second posits dwelling spaces and their interiors as a form of city space specifically in relation to Caché. The second chapter, called ‘Post-Imperial London’, situates Dirty Pretty Things within a wider historical continuum of ‘migrant London’. This film is examined in relation to filmic depictions of Caribbean migration and settlement, in order to ascertain the way in which an older historical imaginary of the cinematic London can be detected in Dirty Pretty Things but also some of the salient differences between this film and its predecessors as related to the representation of space and place. The final chapter, titled ‘On the Road: The Journey to the City Narrative’ posits another narrative of the cinematic city concerning the depiction of migrant journeys to the city as represented in In This World and Exils.
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Southon, Emma. "Marriage, sex and death : the family in the post-Imperial west." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4129/.
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This thesis presents a cultural history of families and family roles in the post-Imperial west, here defined as AD 400-700. This thesis questions the ‘tri-partite’ influences of Roman heritage, ‘Germanic’ culture and Christianisation in the post-Imperial west, and identifies the prime driver of change in the construction of families as the development and implementation of Christian thought. This thesis is in two parts. The first considers families in the legal context of the post-Imperial law codes, and provides a systematic overview of the laws using the Theodosian and Justinian codes as a point of comparison. This section concludes that the post-Imperial codes are Roman in nature and that much of the legislation which concerns the family is very similar to the late Roman law of the Theodosian Code. This section considers legal stipulations concerning betrothal, marriage, adultery, divorce, widowhood, and parenthood. Part two considers the issues raised in part one within the literary context of the post-Imperial west, drawing on a wide geographical and chronological range of genres and texts to provide a diachronic analysis. This section considers many of the same concerns which are raised part one, but highlights different perspectives. In particular, part two argues that the development of Christian thought concerning families, and the increasing power of Christian Churches underlies much change that is seen in the literary texts within and throughout this period. These two sections come together to present a broad analysis of families and family roles throughout the lifecycle of the traditional families in the post-Imperial west, highlighting new cultural and religious landscapes as drivers for change rather than ethnic values.
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Shaw, Matthew L. "The north smelter at Titelberg post-imperial bronze recycling in Belgic Gaul /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4897.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 5, 2007) 9 unnumbered blank pages at end of manuscript. Includes bibliographical references.
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Fortin, Jessica. "Post-communism or post-colonialism? Soviet imperial legacies and regime diversity in East Europe and the former USSR." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21925.
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While post-communist countries share a common past, the variability of outcomes in both democracy and economic reform is very large in the region. Only a few countries have become Western-type democracies in Eastern and Central Europe and the Baltic. By contrast, the norm is clearly not democracy for other Soviet successor states: regimes range from semi-autocratic to downright repressive. In my doctoral dissertation, I attribute this variation to differences in the infrastructural capacity of the state. Using both quantitative and qualitative analyses within 21 post-communist countries, I argue that for democracy to flourish, the state must first possess the means necessary to maintain law and order, to protect the rights of citizens, in other words, to insure the maintenance and delivery of essential public goods. The results show that on the one hand, the links between a strong state that has been able to apply a definitive set of rules, and democratic institutions are clear. On the other hand, where state capacity was more limited after independence was gained, democracy was a less likely outcome. By trying to recentralize power to compensate for the state's administrative limitations, executive authorities also had a parallel tendency to build vertical structures of authority and to suppress liberties and freedoms. In turn, I explore the sources of infrastructural state capacity at the onset of independence. Soviet rule did not leave uniform traces on societies: there were important variations in ruling patterns from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Therefore this dissertation explores how the shape of colonial ties shared by each entity with the former metropolitan center had direct implications on the administrative capacity of the successor states. In short, the coupling of heavy state engineering with low levels of state penetration and high levels of exploitation were least conducive to the construction of robust state structures.À ce jour, les pays post-communistes présentent de considérables différences en termes de démocratie et de réformes économiques, ce, malgré un passé commun. En fait, seulement quelques pays d'Europe Centrale et de l'Est ainsi que les républiques Baltes, ont acquis le statut de démocraties. Pour les autres anciennes républiques Soviétiques, la norme est toute autre. La plupart d'entre elles affichent des régimes soit semi-démocratiques, ou tout simplement autoritaires. Dans le but d'expliquer cette différence, je fais appel au concept de capacité étatique, qui réfère à l'infrastructure de l'appareil d'état. À l'aide d'analyses quantitatives ainsi que qualitatives menées dans 21 pays post-communistes, cette dissertation vérifie l'hypothèse suivante : un État doit être en mesure de maintenir la loi et l'ordre, de protéger les droits des citoyens, en d'autres mots de garantir l'allocation d'une certaine classe de biens publics, pour qu'un régime démocratique puisse y apparaître et persister. Les résultats des analyses menées établissent la présence d'une robuste association entre, d'un côté des institutions démocratiques, et de l'autre, un certain niveau de capacité étatique. Dans les États où cette capacité était limitée au moment de l'indépendance, une conclusion démocratique était moins probable. En tentant de re-centraliser les pouvoirs de l'État pour compenser certaines faiblesses administratives, plusieurs gouvernements ont eu tendance à construire des structures d'autorité verticales et à ainsi limiter les libertés des citoyens. En retour, cette dissertation explore également les conditions qui peuvent expliquer les différents niveaux de capacité étatiques observés au moment de la chute du communisme. En particulier, je cherche à démontrer que l'Union Soviétique n'a pas utilisé les mêmes méthodes pour gouverner toutes ses colonies : d'importantes variations existent entre les colonies informe
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Furlanetto, Elena [Verfasser]. "Towards Turkish American Literature : Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey / Elena Furlanetto." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1136248404/34.
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Charlick-Paley, Tanya M. "Accommodating to the loss of empire: Is there a post-imperial military syndrome /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487945744574961.
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Dudley, Graham David. "Political aspects of geographical information technologies with examples from imperial and post-independence India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0004/NQ30602.pdf.
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Henning, Barbara [Verfasser], and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Herzog. "Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts: Continuities and Changes / Barbara Henning ; Betreuer: Christoph Herzog." Bamberg : University of Bamberg Press, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1156601185/34.
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Dahlheim, Mayannah [Verfasser], and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Heyl. "Post-imperial Phantom Pains : Negotiating Reception and Text in A. / Mayannah Dahlheim ; Betreuer: Christoph Heyl." Duisburg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1163534064/34.
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McDowell, Daragh Antony. "The relationship between Russia and Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan from 2000-10 : a post-Imperial perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ed2bd54-936b-48d2-b8e4-83e3490db3da.
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This study aims to account for the high degree of influence and intensity displayed in bi-lateral relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states - specifically Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (BUK.) It seeks to do so by employing an analytical framework based around the concept of 'post-Imperialism,' arguing that persistent legacies of the imperial past have both ensured a high degree of intensity in bilateral relationships as well as providing pathways of influence over certain policy areas - primarily for Russia, but in some instances for BUK as well. It also seeks to examine imperial legacy issues as distinct 'types' - from physical economic and military infrastructure, to cross-border constellations of elite personnel to the normative and cognitive inheritances of imperialism amongst both the elite and the population at large. It concludes that Russia has been able to mobilise and employ power resources not available to alternative actors in order to 'punch above its weight' when competing with other powers for influence in the post-Soviet space, and preserve certain Soviet era patterns of relations. It is not the focus of this study, but it is to be hoped that the framework will prove useful for researchers in other former imperial polities in future.
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Mycock, Andrew James. "Post-Imperial Citizenship and National Identity: A Comparative Study Of Citizenship and History Education in Britain and the Russian Federation." Thesis, University of Salford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490045.
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This thesis is concerned with the evaluation of the ability of post-imperial states to construct revised over-arching and inclusive civic (multi)national identities that reject articularistic representations of identity founded in empire. The thesis focuses on the potential for revised citizenship and history education in Britain and the Russian Federation, provided within the period of compulsory state education, to aid the instruction of revised state civic identities and accommodates competing civic and ethnic identities. The purpose of the research is to establish to what extent citizenship education projects initiated within the respective case studies compliment history teaching programmes, "thus encouraging pluralistic understandings of group identification within post-imperial multiethnic and multinational states.
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Cosme, João. "Nation building and reception of African literatures in postcolonial and post-imperial anglophone and lusophone worlds: The examples of Chinua Achebe and Mia Couto." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492600.
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Black, Jack. "It isn't easy being a fading post-imperial power : British and Commonwealth national newspaper constructions of Britain during the 2012 Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Games." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19564.
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This thesis explores the construction, framing and representation of Britain and British identity in British and Commonwealth national newspaper coverage of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Games. Specifically, national newspapers from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales were examined using a qualitative thematic content analysis. From this sample it is argued that when viewed as part of a long-term process, the relationship between Britain's national and imperial histories can be used to explore contemporary media discourses on Britain and British identity.
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Forbes, Andrew Stephen. "An artery of empire : the British Post Office and the postal and telegraphic service to India and Australia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265836.
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Solomon, Lauren. "The Propagation of Imperial Indoctrination and Modern Day Oppression : The Philippines as Case Study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77122.
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This study aims to investigate and analyse certain aspects regarding the current condition of the Philippines. Both of its culture and its polities, approached within perspectives of historical epochs of colonialism and its aftermaths regarding post-colonial discourse. The contemporary society of the Philippines has been deeply imprinted by its colonial legacies and left a profound mark on its culture, tradition and the development of its politics both from the institutional perspectives and international context. This project aims to confront some of the structural roots and causes that contribute to its national crisis such as mass poverty and the persisting oppression that permeates within the society of the Philippines, regarding its national identity and its global status as a former colony under western powers. The context of this project is about the enduring and uneasy relationship between the Philippines and the former western hegemonic powers, Spain in the late 15th century and the United States in the early 19th century, that have assumed territorial border in the archipelago. In which it has subsequently determined and consolidated, however constrained and inescapable, many of the historical, cultural and political formations that have influenced developmental trajectories in the Philippines Society.
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Levin, Sonia. "Cultura imperial y conciencia etnocentrista en la obra Marianela de Pérez Galdós." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148289.
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En el presente trabajo se estudian expresiones imperialistas en la novela Marianela de Benito Pérez Galdós, las cuales pueden apuntar a actitudes y posiciones ideológicas que formaban parte del contexto de la sociedad española de la época. Mediante el análisis del discurso imperialista en la obra, esta investigación permite descubrir vestigios de los orígenes de la representación de otredad y de la configuración del otro como el periférico, así como también otros rasgos que pueden apuntar al carácter colonialista, tales como la violencia epistémica y la ambición de apropiación de la potencialidad de la fuerza del trabajo. Este estudio analiza los diálogos de la novela y concluye que en el discurso del personaje focalizador de Golfín se revela un ideal de subjetividad que apunta al caracterizado por el prototipo del nuevo sujeto burgués que trajo consigo la Modernidad y que a su vez es un discurso influenciado por constructos de subjetividad dibujados desde los ideales de la conquista, el eurocentrismo y la clasificación de los seres humanos en tanto a su adaptación o ausencia de la misma para con el ideal burgués.Le présent document vise à étudier les expressions impérialistes dans le roman Marianela de Benito Pérez Galdós. Ces expressions peuvent évoquer des attitudes et positions idéologiques qui font partie du contexte dans la société espagnole à l’époque. À partir de l’analyse du discours impérialiste utilisé dans le roman, cette étude montre des traces des origines de l’altérité ainsi que d’autres indices qui pourraient montrer le caractère colonialiste tels que l’ambition pour l’appropriation de la force du travail et la violence épistémique dont l’analyse des dialogues du roman fait preuve. La recherche a permis de conclure que dans le discours du personnage « Golfín » révèle un idéal de subjectivité qui pointe le modèle d’homme bourgeois que la modernité a entraîné avec elle. Tel discours est sous l’influence de la subjectivité esquissée dans les idéaux de la conquête, l’eurocentrisme et le classement de l’homme par rapport à son adaptation ou à l’absence de la même pour l’idéal bourgeois.
The following thesis studies the imperialist expressions present in the novel “Marianela” by Benito Pérez Galdós. These expressions may point to attitudes and ideological stands of the Spanish society of the time. Through analysis of the imperialist discourse in the novel, this investigation reveals vestiges of the origins of the representation of otherness and the configuration of the other as the peripheral, as a referent of otherness merged with the imperialist discourse of the time. It also reveals traits that may point to the colonialist character such as the ambition of the appropriation of the potentiality of the workforce and the epistemic violence found in the analysis of the novel’s dialogues. This study concludes that, within the discourse of the focusing character, Golfín, an ideal of subjectivity is revealed. This ideal points to the one characterised by the stereotype of the new bourgeois subject, who brings Modernity with him. At the same time, the discourse is influenced by the constructs of subjectivity drawn from the ideals of conquest, the Eurocentrism and the classification of the human being according to its adaptation, or lack of, to the bourgeois ideal.
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Denker, Nilufer Eda. "The Security Perception Of The Russian Federation And Its Military Doctrines In The Post-cold War Era." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606963/index.pdf.
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In this thesis the Russian Federation is investigated to understand if it still tries to continue its classic Soviet style of security perception in the post-Cold War era and its views concerning national security as reflected in Russia's military doctrines. It is so obvious that the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emrgence of Russia as an independent entity in the post-cold war era have compelled the Russian Federation to redefine its national interest. In this context it experienced a crisis of describing its identity and national interests in changing security environment. Although in the early years of Yeltsin it preferred close cooperation with the West then abandoned this approach. It was implied that some states and coalitions were still main threats to the security of the Russian Federation in the military doctrine and the near-abroad policy re-gained importance. In addition with the inauguration of Putin as the Russian President the reaction of the Russian Federation regarding both internal and external security issues displayed the growing significance of traditional interests and old-style security issues. Thus in this thesis it is asserted that the Russian Federation still tries to sustain its well-known traditional interests the classic Soviet style of security perception in the post-Cold War period. Therefore this study tries to explain this argument through examining the effects of its imperial past, transformation years and its situation in the new security environment of post-Cold War era under Yeltsin and Putin.
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Devenish, Annie Victoria. "Being, belonging and becoming : a study of gender in the making of post-colonial citizenship in India 1946-1961." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8fbbf3b1-bb13-47a4-aee2-dd7b5dfb7804.
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Concentrating on the time frame between the establishment of India's Constituent Assembly in 1946, and the passing of the Dowry Prevention Act in 1961, this thesis attempts to write an alternative history of India's transition to Independence, by applying the tools of feminist historiography to this crucial period of citizenship making, as a way of offering new perspectives on the nature, meaning and boundaries of citizenship in post-colonial India. It focuses on a cohort of nationalists and feminists who were leading members of two prominent women's organisations, the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW), documenting and analysing the voices and positions of this cohort in some of the key debates around nation building in Nehruvian India. It also traces and analyses the range of activities and struggles engaged in by these two women's organisations - as articulations and expressions of citizenship in practice. The intention in so doing is to address three key questions or areas of exploration. Firstly to analyse and document how gender relations and contemporary understandings of gender difference, both acted upon and were shaped by the emerging identity of the Indian as postcolonial citizen, and how this dynamic interaction was situated within a broader matrix of struggles and competing identities including those of minority rights. Secondly to analyse how the framework of postcolonial Indian citizenship has both created new possibilities for empowerment, but simultaneously set new limitations on how the Indian women's movement was able to imagine itself as a political constituency and the feminist agenda it was able to articulate and pursue. Thirdly to explore how applying a feminist historiography to the story of the construction of postcolonial Indian citizenship calls for the ability to think about the meaning and possibilities of citizenship in new and different ways, to challenge the very conceptual frameworks that define the term.
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Jacobs, Tessa Katherine. "The Monkey in the Looking Glass: Fairies, Folklore and Evolutionary Theory in the Search for Britain's Imperial Self." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/81.
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In his groundbreaking work of postcolonial theory, Orientalism, Edward Said puts forth the idea that imperial Europe asserted an identity by constructing the character of its colonized subjects. Said writes that his book tries to “show that European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off against the Orient as a sort of surrogate and even underground self” (3). The object of this thesis is a related project, for it too is a search for imperial Britain’s surrogate or underground self. Yet rather than positioning this search within the British colonies, this thesis takes as its context a land and people that were at once more intimate and more alien: the races and landscapes of Fairyland.
This Thesis attempts to situate the fairy folklore and literature from the Victorian era within the context of greater social and political ideologies of the age, specifically those pertaining to national identity, imperial power and race. In doing so it will analyze Charles Kingsley’s Water-Babies, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Kenneth Grahame’s The Golden Age, George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden concluding that the British self proposed by these works was an uncomfortable manifestation, and haunted by the anxieties and discontinuities that arose as imperial Britain attempted to navigate an identity within Victorian conceptions of race and power.
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Baazizi, Nabil. "The Problematics of Writing Back to the Imperial Centre : Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, and V. S. Naipaul in Conversation." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA073.
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Dans le sillage de la décolonisation, les récits colonialistes ont systématiquement été réécrits à partir de perspectives autochtones. Ce phénomène est appelé « The Empire writes back to the centre » - une tendance qui s'affirme dans la critique postcoloniale à la fin du XXe siècle. L'objectif de ces actes de réécriture est de lire des textes colonialistes d'une manière barthesienne à l'envers, de déconstruire les dogmes orientalistes et colonialistes, et éventuellement créer un dialogue où il était seulement un monologue. Tourner le texte colonial dedans/dehors et le relire à travers la lentille d'un code ultérieur permet le texte postcolonial de déverrouiller son précurseur colonial et le changer de l'intérieur. Dans ce cadre critique, Heart of Darkness (1899) de Joseph Conrad a été un texte particulièrement influent pour Chinua Achebe et V. S. Naipaul. Leurs romans Things Fall Apart (1958) et A Bend in the River (1979) peuvent être considérés comme une réécriture du roman de Conrad. Cependant, avant d'examiner leurs différentes stratégies de réécriture, il serait utile de les localiser dans la tradition postcoloniale de la réécriture. Alors que Achebe se démarque clairement comme la figure de proue du mouvement, le romancier trinidadien est difficile à catégoriser. Est-ce que Naipaul réécrit, de façon à critiquer, ou d'une manière d'adopter et de justifier, l’idéologie impériale? Comme pas toute réécriture est une forme de « writing back » en termes de critique anticoloniale, la position de Naipaul continue d'être considérée comme l’énigmatique entre-deux d'un «insider» devenu «outsider». Prenant acte de ses différentes perceptions critiques peut devenir un moyen de mettre en évidence de manière efficace la lecture erronée d’Achebe et le détournement de Naipaul du modèle Conradien, un moyen de fixer un cadre pour la conversation simulée cette thèse vise à créer entre les trois romanciersIn the wake of decolonization, colonialist narratives have systematically been rewritten from indigenous perspectives. This phenomenon is referred to as “the Empire writes back to the centre” – a trend that asserted itself in late twentieth-century postcolonial criticism. The aim of such acts of writing back is to read colonialist texts in a Barthesian way inside-out or à l’envers, to deconstruct the Orientalist and colonialist dogmas, and eventually create a dialogue where there was only a monologue. Turning the colonial text inside-out and rereading it through the lens of a later code allows the postcolonial text to unlock the closures of its colonial precursor and change it from the inside. Under this critical scholarship, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) has been a particularly influential text for Chinua Achebe and V. S. Naipaul. Their novels Things Fall Apart (1958) and A Bend in the River (1979) can be seen as a rewriting of Conrad’s novella. However, before examining their different rewriting strategies, it would be fruitful to locate them within the postcolonial tradition of rewriting. While Achebe clearly stands as the leading figure of the movement, the Trinidadian novelist is, in fact, difficult to pigeonhole. Does Naipaul write back to, that is criticize, or does he rewrite, and in a way adopt and justify, imperial ideology? Since not all rewriting involves writing back in terms of anti-colonial critique, Naipaul’s position continues to be explored as the enigmatic in-betweenness and double-edgedness of an “insider” turned “outsider.” Taking cognizance of these different critical perceptions can become a way to effectively highlight Achebe’s “(mis)-reading” and Naipaul’s “(mis)-appropriation” of Conrad, a way to set the framework for the simulated conversation this thesis seeks to create between the three novelists
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Lherbette-Michel, Isabelle. "L’idee russe de l’Etat, contribution a la théorie juridique de l’Etat : le cas russe des origines au postcommunisme." Thesis, Bordeaux 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR40064.
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Il existe une continuité dans l’« idée » russe de l’Etat qu’une analogie dans la continuité des systèmes ne reflète pas. De la Russie impériale à la Russie soviétique, l’Etat (Gosudarstvo) n’est pas conçu comme une entité abstraite et autonome. A la dimension césariste du pouvoir correspond la non-émergence, et du concept et de la réalité d’un Etat. Jusqu’en 1917, la conception russe du pouvoir est conditionnée par le discours idéologique – religieux. Après 1917, sa principale caractéristique est d’être subordonnée à l’idéologie, en tant qu’expression de la volonté du Parti communiste. L’Etat soviétique s’impose donc comme un Etat « de fait » et non comme un Etat « de droit ». La prédominance du discours idéologique entrave, à la fois, la constitution d’une culture de l’Etat, qui reste une culture du pouvoir, et la formation d’une culture de l’antériorité et de la supériorité du droit sur l’Etat. Après la désintégration de l’Union soviétique, la référence à la démocratie libérale et à l’Etat de droit devient un outil de la création d’une nouvelle légitimité pour l’Etat postcommuniste. L’entrée de la Russie dans la modernité politique nécessite une rupture avec les postulats idéologiques du passé. Or, la déconstruction du socialisme est un processus beaucoup plus complexe que la construction de la démocratie. Bien qu’ayant subi, sur plusieurs siècles, plusieurs types de transitions – de l’absolutisme de droit divin au socialisme, puis au postcommunisme -, l’Etat russe a donc conservé certains caractères constants et typiques qui en font, encore aujourd’hui, un modèle hybride, en tension entre autoritarisme et démocratieThere is a continuity as concerns the « idea » of the state that an analogy with the different systems does not reflect. From imperial to Soviet Russia, the state (Gosudarstvo) is not thought of as an abstract and autonomous entity. Until 1917, the Russian conception of power is conditioned by the religious ideological discourse. After 1917, her main feature is one of submission to ideology, in other words the expression of the will of the Communist Party. The Soviet state stands out by its « de facto » nature, rather than a « de jure » state. The supremacy of the ideological discourse hampers both the constitution of a new state culture, which remains focused on power, and the formation of the precedence and the superiority of law over the state. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, reference to liberal democracy and the rule of law becomes a tool in creating renewed legitimacy for the postcommunist state. Russia’s entry into political modernity demands a rupture with the ideological postulates of the past. The dismantlement of socialism is a much more complex process than the construction of democracy. Despite having been subjected, over centuries, to many types of transition – absolutism founded on divine right to socialism, then postcommunism -, the Russian state has always preserved certain features (be they constant or specific) that make it, and still today, a hybrid model pulling towards both authoritarianism and democracy
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Gopinath, Praseeda. "'Scarecrows of chivalry' : the literature of post-imperial English masculinity /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3223598.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2590. Advisers: Jed Esty; Joseph Valente. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-301) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Osborne, Margot. "Post-imperial perspectives: British art since 1940 at the Art Gallery of South Australia." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/103311.
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This dissertation examines the Art Gallery of South Australia’s patterns of collecting
modern and contemporary British art since the outbreak of the Second World War. It
analyses the relative influence on these collecting patterns of Australia’s transition from
a mono-cultural British dominion to a post-imperial multicultural nation positioned in
the Asia/Pacific region, in comparison to the influence of institutional and art world
changes. It evaluates the resulting strengths and weaknesses of the collection and
assesses post-imperial museological issues pertaining to collection management.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016
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Chen, Ling-chieh, and 陳令杰. "Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the Establishment of Chinese Imperial Post in Late Qing, 1878-1911." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78771758857595777531.
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Claros, Yujhan. "(Post-)Classical Coloniality; Identity, Gender (Trouble), and Marginality/subalternity in Hellenized Imperial Dynastic Poetry from Alexandria, with an epilogue on Rome." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-rtx8-ez62.
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This dissertation is about how dominant identity is constructed through the centering and incorporation of marginal and subaltern subjectivities in Ancient Greek thought, with some preliminary consideration of the Classical Age but chiefly devoted to a study of Hellenistic poetic aesthetics at Ptolemaic Alexandria. The thesis argues ultimately for a specifically Queer and Afrocentric reading of the ArgonautikaI use postcolonial methods, tactics, and strategies to theorize the genealogical intersection(s) of gender and race, and explore the ancient roots of racism. I am indebted in my work to Critical Race Theory, Gender and Queer Theory, Intersectionality Theory and Decolonial Studies.
Guided by the millennial discourses of the Coloniality of power and the contributions of Aníbal Quijano and his intellectual heirs to critical thought and theory—positing the fundamental and central functions of epistemological thought, knowledge-production and the control and regulation of knowledge within oppressive social orders as specifically and particularly interrelated practices in the European colonialism of Modernity, and enabling us to deconstruct out of our contemporary knowledge and social practices the oppressive consequences in Modernity as a result of the aftermath of Old World regimes in the New World—the argument throughout this dissertation subjects monuments of Classical Greek literature to an analysis that traces loosely a genealogy of how ideology and identity were constructed and fabricated in imperial contexts in the aftermath of the Greco-Persian Wars, during which time Hellenic peoples were first exposed to Empire, and some great portions of the Greek-speaking world came under the dominion of the Achaemenid imperial regime.
In a manner of speaking, this dissertation deconstructs the intersections of identity, including gender (and ethnicity) and “race”, at pivotal moments in the history of Greek Antiquity. Principal test-cases for this study analyze monumental texts produced in societies under the hegemony of “democratic” imperial authority at Athens in the 5th Century BCE and Ptolemaic Egypt in the 3rd Century, in the aftermath of Alexander’s conquests. This dissertation explores how the control and regulation of racialized and ethnic marginalities and subalternities is critical to civic and political structures in the Classical Age, as well as how the interrelated concept of the gendered other, in artistic expressions of knowledge and authority—high literary monuments—functioned critically to reify and justify imperial and colonial practices in the Ancient Greek World.
Chapter 1 consists primarily of readings of the Wesir-Heru (“Osiris-Horus”) dynastic succession myth from Egypt in representations of kingship and dynastic succession particularly in Africa and African spaces in the texts of Pindar, Herodotos, and Aiskhylos, including an exploration of the what at the instigation of Jackie Murry I call the Imagistic Poetics of Pindar and Aiskhylos in comparative consideration of Egyptian symbolic literary culture, including even the mdw-ntjr (“hieroglyphs”), and an especially instructive close reading of the center of the Agamemnon. To support my readings of Aiskhylos’ interactions with Egypt and Egyptian thought, I also consider how Aiskhylos interacted with the legacy of the Danaid myth. Situated in their proper historical contexts these readings demonstrate that during the height of the Achaemenid Empire in the Mediterranean World, which coincides incidentally with what we call the Greek Classical Age, Hellenism and Africanism were not mutually exclusive.
In fact, as we see early in Chapter 1 with Pindar, Africanism is coextensive with Panhellenism. Furthermore, and critically, as part of my readings of gender as racialized—i.e., constructed under the Ancient Greek linguistic paradigms that govern “racial” otherness (genos)—I show that Blackness, beyond representing masculinity and the male body in the Greek artistic and visual imagination, is separable notionally in the Ancient Greek imagination, and in critical contrast to the modern and contemporary situation, from Africanism. In order to perform this work, I call upon archaeology and material evidence to render a more coherent picture of the networks of culture accessible in the micro- and macro-regions of an interconnected and transnational Ancient Mediterranean. In Appendixes to Chapter 1, I also provide brief readings of intertextuality in the Hellenistic reception at Alexandria of Classical Greek interactions with Egypt, Libya, and the African cultural past and show the embeddedness of that interaction in literary encounters especially, a fact evident from the Classical Greek texts.
Chapter 2 explores the Hellenistic origins of Afro-Greek subjectivity in the literary record with Theokritos at Alexandria. I explore “race” in the West and the formation of Greek ethnicity in the East as a “kairological” artistic and poetic projection that exposes of the roots of 3rd-century universalist and globalist Ptolemaic imperial ideology. I also explore Space and identity, the social imaginary, and consequent(ial)ly the gendering of space in the poetry of Poseidippos. In my readings, we see texts engaged intimately with discourses about Sovereignty, and implicitly with the history of Rome and Qrt-ḥdšt (“Carthage”).
Chapters 3 and 4 function as a pair or couple. After a full historical and social contextualization of Ptolemaic Alexandria in the Hellenistic Age of the 3rd Century BCE, as well as an exploration of an inclusive range of Queer (including “LGBTQ+”) subjectivities in Alexandrian poetry in Chapter 3, in Chapter 4 I argue that in the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios Medeia represents a Queer woman who endures systematic heteronormative and patriarchal oppression, or heterosexism. This opens up Book 4 of the Argonautika for fertile close readings of the inclusive and all-encompassing aesthetics that constitute Hellenistic poetry, including authentically Kemetic (“Egyptian”) voices.
The Epilogue provides a roadmap for applying these analytic tools to the Latin Literature of Rome.