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Watters, Jordan Austin. "Reproducing Canada's colonial legacy: a critical analysis of Aboriginal issues in Ontario high school curriculum." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/656.
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Rozo-Marsh, Roxanne. "Comandantas and Caracoles: The Role of Women in the Life and Legacy of the Zapatista Movement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1235.
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This thesis delves into the role of women in the Zapatista movement and how that role has changed over time in the private, public and political spheres. It also draws parallels between the struggle for female liberation within Zapatismo and the struggles of working-class, women of color movements in the United States. Chapters are focused on topics including women's involvement in the San Andrés Accords, the Women's Revolutionary Law, the Other Campaign and Marichuy's electoral campaign as well as personal observations from time spent in Oventik, a Zapatista caracol. As complement to the text, the thesis includes a visual zine.
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Mollard, Baptiste. "Décolonisation et formation d'une capacité administrative autonome ˸ l'encadrement de l'émigration de travail au tournant de l'indépendance en Algérie (1955-1973)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPASU016.
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De 1947 à 1963, de nombreux Algériens bénéficient d'une liberté de circulation vers la métropole. Avec près de 250 000 individus en France en 1954, plus de 500 000 en 1965 et un peu moins de 900 000 en 1976, ils fourniraient, selon les gouvernements français et algériens successifs, un revenu à un quart ou un cinquième de la population. Ces pratiques de subsistance sont encouragées par le Gouvernement général d'Algérie qui promeut une émigration de travail masculine dès 1955. Malgré des interruptions liées à la guerre, la transition vers l'indépendance et la naissance conflictuelle d'une diplomatie franco-algérienne, ces dispositifs d'encadrement sanitaire et professionnel sont réinvestis jusqu'en 1973 par l'État indépendant.Cette thèse analyse cette émigration d'État à l'aune de la formation d'une capacité administrative algérienne autonome au moment de la décolonisation des institutions. En contexte de sous-emploi massif, elle étudie la bureaucratisation des interactions entre candidats et services d'encadrement. À partir d'archives coloniales et diplomatiques françaises, de documents algériens de la littérature grise et de la presse, d'entretiens avec d'anciens fonctionnaires algériens et d'archives privées fournies par ces derniers, elle démontre le caractère structurant des tensions entre des individus et des communautés paysannes émigrant selon leurs logiques propres et une action publique algérienne de contrôle des frontières et des mobilitésFrom 1947 to 1963, many Algerians enjoyed freedom of movement to mainland France. According to successive French and Algerian governments, with nearly 250,000 individuals in France in 1954, more than 500,000 in 1965 and just under 900,000 in 1976, they would supply an income to a quarter or a fifth of the Algerian population.These subsistence practices were supported by the Gouvernement Géneral d'Algérie (the colonial french State), which promoted a male labour emigration programme from 1955 onwards. Despite breaks caused by war, transition to independence and the conflictual birth of Franco-Algerian diplomacy, these health and professional supervision mechanisms were reinvested by the independent State until 1973.This dissertation analyses this state emigration in light of the formation of an autonomous Algerian administrative capacity at the time of the decolonisation of institutions. Against a backdrop of massive underemployment, I look at the bureaucratisation of interactions between applicants and the supervisory services. Using French colonial and diplomatic archives, Algerian documents from grey literature and the press, interviews with former Algerian civil servants and private archives, I try here to demonstrate the structuring nature of the tensions between individuals and peasant communities emigrating according to their own logic on one hand, and Algerian public action to control borders and mobility on the other hand
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Bobda, Augustin Simo. "Irish presence in colonial Cameroon and its linguistic legacy." Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4101/.
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1. Survey of Foreign Influences on English in Cameroon
1.1. Early Foreign Influences in the Formation of English in Cameroon
1.2. Later Influences
2. Irish Linguistic Legacy
2.1. Language Policy
2.2. Structural Aspects of English
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Sprighton, Caylin. "Colonial Legacy and the City of Tshwane: Seeking Spatial Justice." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78561.
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This dissertation seeks to explore the legacy of coloniality inherent in the built environment of South African cities today, especially the City of Tshwane (Pretoria), and propose strategies to rewrite a more inclusive and transformative architectural legacy. As the historical (and current) seat of the South African government, Pretoria has seen much of the making of South Africa’s colonial (as well as pre and post-colonial) history. The remains of the architectural heritage speak of European classical ideals, battles for imperial power and colonial ways of life, and many of these heritage buildings could be seen to be struggling to represent a diverse and transformed nation.
As the call has gone out to question the future of statues and monuments of problematic past leaders, it brings to light the question of our built history, heritage and the legacy it leaves. Colonial architecture heritage faces different avenues of conservation, such as forms of reuse or adaptive reuse; however, many are facing abandonment due to its inability to transform or adapt to the changing needs of society. Such is Berea Park Sports Club's case, abandoned and then vandalised, its ruins speaking of possibly becoming forgotten altogether.
By investigating the reuse of the building and sports grounds through the themes of urban land reform, architectural hybridity and relevant heritage approaches, this project seeks to reimagine the legacy of the site and address spatial and social justice concerns left in the wake of the colonial city.Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Architecture
MArch (Prof)
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Presley, Ryan John. "The Legacy of Lesser Gods." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367360.
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This project highlights deeply embedded links between religion, economics, and power in colonial societies of the ‘West’, with a particular focus on Australia. Archival imagery and historical texts are examined to demonstrate the negative influences of particular monotheistic ideas and notions of supremacy. It is argued that these prevailing views have been adopted in the global propagation of Christian faith over many centuries. The imagery is paired with historical examples that demonstrate a conversion mentality that aimed to control any alternative practices of divine worship and associated culture. The legacy is then brought to bear on the contemporary treatment of Australian Aboriginal people.
These themes of power and dominion—in particular, how religion and economic control served colonialism and empire building over time—have become the foundation for the primary outcomes expressed through the studio production. The creative outputs of my doctoral research include a major installation entitled Lesser Gods and associated exhibition projects, which will be discussed and analysed in this exegesis.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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England, Joseph. "The Colonial Legacy of Environmental Degradation in Nigeria's Niger River Delta." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5198.
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Nigeria's petroleum industry is the lynchpin of its economy. While oil has been the source of immense wealth for the nation, that wealth has come at a cost. Nigeria's main oil-producing region of the Niger River Delta has experienced tremendous environmental degradation as a result of decades of oil exploration and production. Although there have been numerous historical works on Nigeria's oil industry, there have been no in-depth analyses of the historical roots of environmental degradation over the full range of time from the colonial period to the present. This thesis contends that the environmental degradation of Nigeria's oil producing region of the Niger Delta is the direct result of the persistent non-implementation of regulatory policies by post-independence Nigerian governments working in collusion with oil multinationals. Additionally, the environmental neglect of Nigeria's primary oil-producing region is directly traceable back to the time of colonial rule. Vital to this argument is the view that the British colonial state created the economic institutions which promoted Nigerian economic dependency after independence was achieved in 1960. The weakness of Nigeria's post-colonial dependent system is exposed presently through the continued neglect of regulatory policies by successive post-colonial Nigerian governments.M.A.
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Mukherjee, Anuparna. "The Haunted City: Calcutta and the Legacy of Nostalgia." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143545.
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Nostalgia is one of the most persistent windows through which we
see our pasts, and yet it is critiqued in literary and cultural
discourses for sentimentalism. Interrogating the problem of
nostalgic yearning and its discursive liminality, this thesis
examines the affective politics of nostalgia in relation to the
growth of a colonial city—Calcutta—a metropolis straddling
the traces of its colonial modernity and a more recent
postcolonial identity as “Kolkata”. My research assesses
nostalgia’s multifarious ideological and social embodiments in
Bengali literary and political culture. It reads the
transformation of Calcutta in literature from colonial to
postcolonial times through the critical lens of nostalgia and its
changing paradigms across time and space. This nostalgia, I
contend, bears a very specific connection to the city’s
colonial modernity.
By reading the city through literary texts and records, this
research addresses the role of nostalgia as an instrument of
imperial domination, to its functions in mediating the spatial
relationship between city and village in literature, and its
association with spectrality and trauma. Here nostalgia
simultaneously forms the theoretical framework, and the site of
my archive in Anglophone and Bengali literary works from the
nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century on Calcutta. I argue that
specific literary works in particular historical and cultural
circumstances produce notions of nostalgia in response to the
imagined emotional demands made by communities. By placing
together the strands of palimpsestic memories of Calcutta this
thesis traces two transitions concurrently: one in the narrative
of the city and the second in the evolution of nostalgia itself
as a cultural aesthetic.
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Hakim, Md Abdul Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "The colonial legacy in the administrative system of a post-colonial state; the case of Bangladesh, 1971-1985." Ottawa, 1987.
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Sadd, Deborah. "Mega-events, community stakeholders and legacy : London 2012." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2012. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/20305/.
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This study highlights the treatment of the smaller stakeholders for whom the social legacy impacts are potentially the greatest within mega-event planning. The aim of this research is to develop a framework of urban regeneration legacy associated with the hosting of mega-events where the local community are key stakeholders, and where they can gain long-term positive social legacies. Mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, are widely held to bring a variety of positive social benefits through the process of urban regeneration. This research is built around the development of a conceptual framework of social legacy impacts arising from the urban regeneration planned through hosting the Olympic Games. Social legacy impacts, also referred to as soft impacts, are those which are intangible and affect individuals within their everyday lives in the longer term. This research is concerned with the social legacy impacts of The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the ‘community’ (being defined as those, who have either lived, worked or have some social connection with the area within the proposed Olympic Park site) in the Lower Lea Valley site in east London, and how they have or have not been recognised as stakeholders. A stakeholder being an individual or group who will be affected by the actions, decisions or policies of the Games organisers, within the planning of the Games. Key informant interviews have been undertaken with individuals who have had a stake in the planning of the Barcelona Games of 1992, Sydney Games of 2000 and the planning of the London 2012 Games. Each interview involved a semi-structured conversation, encouraging the interviewees to recount their experiences of the planning of these mega-events from the perspectives of the communities involved and the social legacy planning. Interviews were analysed thematically. The main themes to emerge focus on legacy identification, community identification, the importance of regeneration for the existing community, the need to identify power relationships and the need for knowledge transfer and experience. The study shows that, for some ‘communities’, the opportunity to gain positive social benefits are too late as they themselves have already been relocated. The study has developed the Olympic Legacy Management Stakeholder framework to help communities to become more active as stakeholders within future mega-event planning through, amongst other things, recognising the different power relationships that exist.
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Young, Kathryn, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "AN ONGOING COLONIAL LEGACY: CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA." Deakin University. School of Education / School of Social & Cultural Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040726.102645.
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In the late 1980¡¦s, a realisation that the western education system bequeathed to Papua New Guinea at the time of Independence had functioned to devalue and marginalise many of the traditional beliefs, knowledge and skills students brought with them to education, led to a period of significant education reform. The Reform was premised on the report of a Ministerial Review Committee called A Philosophy of Education. This report made recommendations about how education in Papua New Guinea could respond to the issues and challenges this nation faced as it sought to chart a course to serve the needs of its citizens on its own terms.
The issues associated with managing and implementing institutionalised educational change premised on importing western values and practices are a central theme of this thesis. The impact of importing foreign curriculum and associated curriculum officers and consultants to assist with curriculum change and development in the former Language and Literacy unit of the Curriculum Development Division, is considered in three related sections of this report:
P a critical review of the imported educational system and related practices
and related issues since Independence
P narrative report of the experience of two colleagues in western education
P evidential research based on curriculum Reform in the Language and
Literacy Unit.
How Papua New Guinea has sought to come to terms with the issues and challenges that arose in response to a practice of importing western curriculum both at the time of Independence and currently through the Reform, are explored throughout the thesis. The findings issues reveal much about the capacity of individuals and institutions to respond to a post-colonial world particularly associated with an ongoing colonial legacy in the principle researcher¡¦s work context.
The thesis argues that the challenges Papua New Guinea curriculum officers face today, as they manage and implement changes associated with another imported curriculum are caught up in existing power relations. These power relations function to stifle creative thinking at a time when it is most needed. Further, these power relations are not well understood by the curriculum officers and remained hidden and unquestioned throughout the research project.
The thesis also argues that in the researcher¡¦s work context, techniques of surveillance were brought to bear and functioned to curtail critical thinking about how the reformed curriculum could be sensitive and respectful of those beliefs and traditions that had sustained life in Papua New Guinea for thousands of years. Consequently, many outmoded beliefs and practices associated with an uncritical and ongoing acceptance of the superiority of western imports have been retained, thereby effectively denying the collective voices of Paua New Guineans in the current curriculum Reform.
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Cook, Anne Patricia. "Social policy and the colonial economy in Guyana." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1985. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2080/.
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Hurley, J. D. "Children or brethren : Aboriginal rights in colonial Iroquoia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272935.
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Dertien, Kim S. "Irrevocable ties and forgotten ancestry : the legacy of colonial intermarriage for descendents of mixed ancestry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2466.
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The identities of mixed Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal descendents in British Columbia is as varied as it is complex. In this paper I examine what caused some people of mixed Native and non-Native ancestry not to identify as Aboriginal while others did. The point of fracture for those who identify with their Aboriginal origins and those who do not can be traced to a specific time in our history. More importantly, specific variables were instrumental in causing that divergence of identity, spurred by a pervasive social stigma in colonial society. For many of mixed ancestry, the disassociation from their Aboriginal identity led to generations of silence and denial and eventually to a 'complete disappearance of race'. It was a deliberate breeding out of cultural identity through assimilative ideology and actions in order to conform to European norms.
Determining what factors caused this divergence of identity for mixed-descendents entails considering why many Aboriginal women married non-Native partners in B.C. during the mid-19th century, how intermarriage affected identity formation for offspring, and what the multi-generational effects have been on the identities of mixed descendents. Today, this leaves a dilemma for those in-between who are eligible for status, and for those who are not but who choose to reconnect with, acknowledge and learn more of their ancestry. Both assertions of First Nations identity and choices to reconnect with a First Nations heritage while maintaining a non-Native identity, challenge the assumed inevitability of assimilation, and the federal government's continuing reluctance to understand the cultural significance of identification as 'Indian'.
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Bristol, Laurette Maria Stacy. "Mouth open 'Tory jumpout! Subverting the Colonial legacy of plantation pedogogy in Trinidad and Tobago." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489363.
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Drawing upon the resources of postcolonial perspectives, for both its theoretical and methodological framework, this thesis engages in a critique of teaching in a postcolonial setting. Building upon Best's (1968b) and Levitt's (2005) criticisms of plantation economies the thesis draws on a relationship between education and economy to construct the conceptual framework for understanding plantation pedagogy. The thesis constructs plantation pedagogy as a form of pedagogy which perpetuates the continuation of colonial assumptions through ideological positions that have become endemic to the culture of education in Trinidad and Tobago. Against this understanding. Part One of the thesis sets the methodological, historical and theoretical foundation for the argument that in order for teachers, in Trinidad and Tobago, to transcend the limitations of their inherited understandings of teaching and education, teaching needs to become a more subversive activity.
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Mohd, Ali Hamdan. "The British colonial legacy sport and politics in multi-ethnic Malaysia from 1800 to 2000 /." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://www.oregonpdf.org/index.cfm.
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Holt, Kristine M. "Through fire and ice| The olympic cauldron park carves a legacy." Thesis, The University of Utah, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550645.
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In 2002, Salt Lake City joined an elite group of cities, in the world, when it hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. This "once in a lifetime" chance gave the city, community, and state of Utah an opportunity to show the world a different side of the community than just the home to the peculiar people known as Mormons. The city took the chance and pulled it off beautifully. Salt Lake not only managed to stage one of the most impressive Olympic Winter Games ever but ended up with an unprecedented amount of profit. But what do you do after the party is over? In an effort to keep the spirit of the Olympics alive, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) wanted to build a legacy park where locals and tourists could visit and relive the thrill and excitement the Olympics. The announcement of the legacy park brought great support from the people, the city, and state government officials but unfortunately, it also brought along all of the politics and personal agendas involved when working with these entities. In the end, the legacy park was merged with a park which was originally planned to showcase just the Olympic cauldron at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah. The following thesis is the story of how the legacy park came to reside at the University of Utah, the planning and design of the park, the operations and maintenance, and the celebrations it hosted in the ten plus years since the Olympic Winter Games. This thesis focuses on whether or not the Olympic Cauldron Park served as a legitimate and appropriate legacy for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and if that legacy should continue now that original contracts are expiring. Primary research was gathered through local and national newspaper articles, oral interviews, personal experience, and official documents such as contracts between SLOC and the University of Utah. As time and the outdoor elements take their toll on the park, contracts are finished and expansion of the stadium for the Pac 12 Athletic Conference pending, the future of the Olympic Cauldron Park looks bleak. Although there are plans to have some items from the park live on at another Olympic legacy destination, the Olympic Cauldron Park story needed to be told before it ceases to exist.
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Yeung, Chi Wai. "Urban redevelopment in late colonial Hong Kong : a socio-political analysis." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319958.
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The importance of land to the economy of Hong Kong lies in the fact that land sales are a major source of revenue to the colonial state. A continuous supply of land for private property development is essential for the survival of the colony's capitalist economy. If, for whatever reason, the supply of land is blocked, the developers, the state and the economy of Hong Kong as a whole will suffer. The failure of the market to release land in the old urban areas for redevelopment has forced the Hong Kong State to step in. The attempts, however, have been largely unsuccessful due mainly to the difficulties in land acquisition and the strong resistance from the affected residents. In 1987 the state established the Land Development Corporation [LDC] to intervene in the urban redevelopment process. The author argues that the LDC is basically a socio-political strategy serving the function of political legitimation for state intervention. The LDC can be regarded as a piece of state apparatus for providing the necessary means of intervention in the urban redevelopment process in order to ensure the release of land to private developers for profit making redevelopment projects (capital accumulation). At the same time it serves as a buffer to distance the state from being in direct conflict with the affected communities in the urban redevelopment process. However, if the conflict is a structural one inherent in the capitalist logic of development, the conflict will eventually be directed back to the state. The LDC will simply add one more layer to the administrative procedure in the redevelopment process. By conducting empirical studies on four of the LDC's redevelopment schemes during the period 1988-1992, with particular focus on the interactions between the affected communities and the LDC/the state, the author examines the role of the LDC so as to demystify the social reality of urban redevelopment in Hong Kong.
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Baba, Awonke. "The impact of the colonial legacy on African institutions: A case study of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP)." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8273.
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Masters of CommerceAfter Independence in Africa, vast institutions were established in order to deal with the legacy of colonialism and to encourage development in the continent. Decades later, some of these institutions are said to be ineffective due to a number of constraints – one of which is the colonial legacy which has rendered them almost dysfunctional. This study assesses the impacts of colonialism on these African institutions and uses the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) as a case study. Guided by Post-colonial theory and Institutional theory, and using Content Analysis (CA) as a tool for data analysis, this study has found that African institutions are operating under the influence of ex-colonial countries. This is evidenced by how these institutions are using European languages as their medium of communication and receive more than half of their funds from international bodies which then control their operations. This contributes to their inability to make decisions due to conflicting interests within the representatives and member states. Based on these findings, this study concludes that the colonial legacy plays a major role in delaying the development of African institutions. Therefore, this study provides recommendations or a way forward by arguing that these institutions which include the AU should tie/tighten the knots on their programmes such as the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) so as to strengthen democracy within member states. They should revive or reconsider constitutions that focus on the penalties for member states that do not pay their membership contribution as agreed and on those member states that fail to obey agreed to protocols. Lastly, this study recommends that fund-raising programmes should be established in selected member states so as to prevent financial dependency on international bodies that weaken African institutions.
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Attwell, David. "Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7591.
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Bibliography: leaves 219-229.This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the question of criticism's being a discourse which, in its articulation with a given social context, relies on the resources of a particular critical heritage. The basis of the second and central chapter is the interrelationship between the context and heritage of anglophone African criticism. The dominant themes of this discourse are seen as being shaped by ideological affiliations with the modern nation-state, and by the legacy of the empirical and organic traditions of metropolitan criticism. It is argued that in the situation of neo-colonial social stratification, anglophone African criticism faces a crisis of legitimacy. In the third to fifth chapters I attempt to illustrate and refine the central argument in relation to a selection of critical texts. The chapter on two works by Eldred Jones examines his reliance on orthodox British critical assumptions and its consequences in his treatment of the writing of Wole Soyinka. The chapter on West African traditions examines a range of critical operations which are used in the construction of organic traditions based on oral or traditional cultures. These operations rely on mythopoesis, formalism and the sociology of literature. The final chapter on East African political readings investigates the internal, discursive tensions in the work of two critics who, in attempting to politicize their reading of literature, have not been able to achieve a conceptual break from the legacies of idealism.
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Kidd, Maureen A. "'Expanding Horizons' : investigating the Glasgow 2014 legacy for young people in the East End of Glasgow." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7295/.
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The recent staging of Glasgow 2014 drew universal praise as the ‘Best Games Ever’. Yet the substantial undertaking of hosting the Commonwealth Games (CWG) was sold to the nation as more than just eleven days of sporting spectacle and cultural entertainment. Indeed, the primary strategic justification offered by policymakers and city leaders was the delivery of a bundle of positive and enduring benefits, so-called ‘legacy’. This ubiquitous and amorphous concept has evolved over time to become the central focus of contemporary hosting bids, reflecting a general public policy shift towards using major sporting mega events as a catalyst to generate benefits across economic, environmental and social dimensions, on a scale intended to be truly transformative. At the same time, the academy has drawn attention to the absence of evidence in support of the prevailing legacy rhetoric and raised a number of sociological concerns, not least the socially unequitable distribution of purported benefits. This study investigated how young people living in the core hosting zone related to, and were impacted upon, by the CWG and its associated developments and activities with reference to their socio-spatial horizons, the primary outcome of interest. An ‘ideal world’ Logic Model hypothesised that four mechanisms, identified from official legacy documents and social theories, would alter young people’s subjective readings of the world by virtue of broadening their social networks, extending their spatial boundaries and altering their mind sets. A qualitative methodology facilitated the gathering of situated and contextualised accounts of young people’s attitudes, perceptions, beliefs and behaviours relating to Glasgow 2014. In-depth interviews and focus groups were conducted before and after the Games with 26 young people, aged 14-16 years, at two schools in the East End. This approach was instrumental in privileging the interests of people ‘on the ground’ over those of city-wide and national stakeholders. The findings showed that young people perceived the dominant legacy benefit to be an improved reputation and image for Glasgow and the East End. Primary beneficiaries were identified by them as those with vested business interests e.g. retailers, restaurateurs, and hoteliers, as well as national and local government, with low expectations of personal dividends or ‘trickle down’ benefits. Support for Glasgow 2014 did not necessarily translate into individual engagement with the various cultural and sporting activities leading up to the CWG, including the event itself. The study found that young people who engaged most were those who had the ability to ‘read’ the opportunities available to them and who had the social, cultural and economic capital necessary to grasp them, with the corollary that those who might have gained most were the least likely to have engaged with the CWG. Doubts articulated by research participants about the social sustainability of Glasgow 2014 underscored inherent tensions between the short-lived thrill of the spectacle and the anticipated longevity of its impacts. The headline message is that hosting sporting mega events might not be an effective means of delivering social change. Aspirant host cities should consider more socially equitable alternatives to sporting mega events prior to bidding; and future host cities should endeavour to engage more purposefully with more young people over longer time frames.
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Chaplin, Robert Ian Chaplin, and ianchaplin@gmail com. "The Impact of Contemporary Tourism Development on Colonial Built Heritage: Case Study of the Portuguese Legacy in Macau, China." Flinders University. School of Cultural Tourism, 2007. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20080228.234110.
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The hypothesis put forward in this thesis is that tourism can be the agent for the sustainable conservation and development of the valuable legacy of colonial built heritage by capitalizing on its tangible and intangible assets. The key variable is the recognition of the intrinsic value of both iconic and non-iconic properties and sites that constitute the extrinsic value of the cultural attractions of the tourism destination. The research problem is concerned with assessing the impact of contemporary tourism development on these attractions and identifying the issues affecting preservation and realization of asset potential. The research aims to support the collaboration between tourism professionals and cultural heritage stakeholders committed to resolving issues and problems for the destination identified within the stages of the tourism destination's life cycle of evolution (Butler, 1980).
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Lee, Chulwoo. "Law, culture and conflict in a colonial society rural Korea under Japanese rule /." Thesis, Online version, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.339141.
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Sier, Maureen. "Empowerment and constraint : the cultural legacy of indigenous and colonial religion and its impact on women in Samoa." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2004. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=128247.
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Religion, both indigenous and colonial, is an important aspect of Samoa’s cultural legacy. This thesis examines aspects of the religious lives of Samoan women as shaped by that legacy. Using data gained during fieldwork, along with historical and cultural insights, I have shown how religion in Samoa can both empower and constrain Samoan women. To inform this study I have used feminist methodologies and have suggested that a feminist theory of religion, which acknowledges human agency, is necessary so that the complex reality of women’s religious lives can be examined more sympathetically. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this study seeks to demonstrate that Samoan women have created meaningful religious spaces for themselves, despite the fact that limitations do exist within the various religious and cultural milieu of Samoa. The religious environment in Samoa is heterogeneous despite claims to the contrary. The religions/denominations selected for study demonstrate that heterogeneity, these are; the vestiges of the Samoan indigenous religion; the Congregationalist, Methodist, Catholic and Charismatic Christian Churches; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Bahá’í Faith. Individual chapters discuss specific aspects of the religion/denomination as highlighted by Samoan women.
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Dickson, Louise Ratcliffe Bailey. "A Legacy of Lifelong Learning: Leadership, Lessons, Love, and Laughter in the Life of Elizabeth Gammon Pendleton." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1909.
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In the postmodern Information Age (digital and wireless) with the expanded globalization of economies worldwide, there has been a vast transformation of workplace and educational systems. Thus, new meanings for educational practices and learning are evolving. Medical and social literature has suggested that learning throughout the lifetime is the key to successful living. The literature proposed that all types of education (formal, informal, and nonformal) may be a factor in the total well-being of the increasingly older adult population. Consequently, there is an increased need to understand the characteristics, traits, beliefs, and attitudes that generate the incentive for individuals to become lifelong learners.
The purpose of this study was to examine the life of Elizabeth Armetta Gammon Pendleton and identify the characteristics, personality traits, beliefs, and attitudes that distinguish her as a lifelong learner. From an interpretivist perspective, this study assumed that all reality is internal. The rationale of this educational biography was to explore the phenomenon of lifelong learning while also celebrating the unique life of Elizabeth Pendleton. This study employed a detailed narrative description of her life and interviews with people who knew her to construct and develop a theory grounded in oral and traditional history under the framework of lifelong learning.
As a native of a small rural community in the Appalachian Mountains, Pendleton lived a healthy and optimistic life as a student, teacher, leader, and role model for her family, friends, coworkers, and community members. She experienced formal, informal, and nonformal learning for 95 years. Although she never used the phrase "lifelong learner," she certainly had an inclination toward lifelong learning.
The value of this study of Pendleton's life journey emerges in the form of naturalistic and user (reader) generalizations within the framework of lifelong learning. The study of Elizabeth Pendleton's life journey yielded valuable insights that provide an understanding of the phenomenon of lifelong learning and the challenges that researchers, educators, employers, and individuals face as new meanings for educational practices and learning evolve.
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Vytrhlik, Jana. "The Journey of the Dutch Silver Rimmonim to The Great Synagogue in Sydney: The Search for Australian Jewish Visual Legacy, 1838–1878." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24541.
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Jewish ritual objects, Judaica, are significant for their symbolism and the meanings they convey through their use and art forms. The synagogue architecture can provide insights into a city’s past and reflect community’s aspirations. Mid-nineteenth-century Jewish heritage in Australia represents a rich historical and art historical field marked by a group of Judaica objects and synagogue architecture. Yet, the art history of Jewish Australia has, until now, remained an understudied subject. Inspired by a pair of exceptional and unattributed silver Torah finials (rimmonim in Hebrew) from The Great Synagogue in Sydney, this thesis investigates their provenance, and the emerging visual dimension of Jewish history in Australia. It offers a new context for understanding the role that visual expression played in the construction of Jewish identity. The thesis opens with an investigation of the rimmonim’s intricate provenance pointing to the late eighteenth-century Dutch silversmith and the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. The trail then vanishes until 1839, when Sydney’s Jewish leaders purchased the rimmonim in London. From this point on, the thesis examines the Jews' motivations to build a strong visual identity. It explores what inspired them in the design of Sydney’s two oldest synagogues – the York Street Synagogue (1844) and The Great Synagogue (1878). The Egyptian style of the York Street Synagogue sought to convey a message of ancient Israelites' independence. In contrast, the ornamented design of The Great Synagogue signified the merging of a new Jewish social conformity with the prevalent Victorian taste. Ultimately, this thesis instigates the method of documenting Jewish history in Australia through a visual-focused approach. It builds on the research of Australian historians, and moves into the mostly unexplored territory of Jewish art history in Australia.
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Morgan, Zachary Ross. "Legacy of the lash : blacks and corporal punishment in the Brazilian navy, 1860-1910 /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3006769.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2001.Available in film copy from University Microfilms International. Vita. Thesis advisor: Thomas E. Skidmore. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 279-290). Also available online.
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Record, Ian Wilson. "Aravaipa: Apache peoplehood and the legacy of particular geography and historical experience." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280792.
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This study seeks to articulate in the broadest of terms the cultural legacy of Arapa (the ancestral territory encompassing Aravaipa Canyon and the confluence of Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River) as seen through the eyes of a group of its Western Apache descendants. It humbly attempts to sketch the basic outlines of the contemporary relationship between this place and those Apaches who possess a working cultural knowledge of it. Specifically, it demonstrates that the experiential exercise of maintaining place is a fundamentally personal one dependent on its individual actors to interact with it and in the process fulfill their obligation to enliven its history, stories and lessons anew. Finally, it illustrates how the unique historical experience emanating from Arapa has no bounds in time or meaning, proving that events of the past--namely the Camp Grant massacre, which precipitated the Apaches' forced exodus from that place--affect Apache culture and society in the present. This study enlists as its primary analytical lens the "peoplehood" matrix--the notion that indigenous peoples in this country (and elsewhere) possess a unique, place-bound sense of group and community identity shaped by lived experiences that sets them apart, both individually and collectively, from dominant society.
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Kim, Joong-Seop. "Social equity and collective action : the social history of the Korean Paekjong under Japanese colonial rule." Thesis, University of Hull, 1989. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:12349.
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The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct and analyse the Hyongpyongsa [Equity Society] and its activities in Korea under Japanese colonial rule. The work presents a historical and sociological account of the social life of the paekjong, the beneficiaries of the Society's activities, and of an assessment of the social dynamics of the period with particular reference to the Hyongpyong movement. Part One stresses the historical and social backgrounds of the paekjong who were discriminated against and stigmatised throughout the Choson period and even before. Their distinct occupations, mainly relating to slaughtering, butchering and wickerwork, left them segregated from the rest of the society. While their social conditions had improved in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, their stigmatised status continued well into the twentieth century and up to the 19205. Part One reviews the "constraining" and "enabling" factors in the eventual foundation of the Hyongpyongsa in 1923. Part Two discusses the birth, development, dynamics, and decline of the Hyongpyong movement, which was initiated by "professional social movement activities" and wealthy paekjong, and then developed with the enthusiastic support of the ordinary paekjong. The initial aims of the movement bore on "human rights" and "community solidarity". Local branches of the Hyongpyongsa rapidly developed. Despite severe factionalism in the national leadership and hostile opposition in the early years of the movement, the Hyongpyongsa soon established "social movement sector" of itself at the heart of the the times and received considerable support from other social movement groups. This development, particularly in association with the support of various radical groups, brought the Society under the close surveillance of the Japanese authorities, whose interventions before and during World War II became a major factor in the decline of radical activists and the consequent re-emergence of a moderate leadership in the movement. In the end, the Hyongpyongsa changed its name to Taedongsa [Great Equality Society] and tended to represent the interests of its wealthy members who collaborated with the Japanese rather than the interests of its poorer rank and file members.
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Achberger, Jessica. "A Legacy of Instability: Western Influences on the Democratic Republic of Congo." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1155.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Bechir, Mahamoud Adam. "The impact of the colonial legacy on Civil-Military Relations in Africa Chad and the Sudan as comparative case studies /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1997. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA346346.
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Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1997.Thesis advisor(s): Mary Callahan. "December 1997." Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75). Also available online.
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Gavin, Megan. "The legacy of colonial languages in West Africa: the issues of education and national language policy in Niger and Nigeria." Thesis, Boston University, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27652.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Valterio, Beatrice. "Boundaries to the effective implementation of mother tongue education in a post-colonial context : A case study of The Gambia." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Afrikanska studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34515.
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The thesis focuses on mother tongue education in The Gambia, attempting to analyse factors affecting its implementation in public lower basic schools across the country. The work is based on a field study investigating the strategies and the controversies behind multilingual education, with reference to a project launched in 2015 and aimed at the introduction of the seven Gambian national languages beside English
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Kilic, Kutbettin. "Between Drean And Reality:the Iraqi Kurds." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608903/index.pdf.
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This thesis departs from the idea that the political behaviors of the Iraqi Kurds will play important roles in shaping of the future of Iraq in particular and the Middle East in general. Based on this idea, this thesis analyzes the perceptions of Iraqi Kurds towards new political and economic developments in Iraq appeared after American invasionin 2003. The research questions of the thesis are the following:what are the perceptions of Iraqi Kurds of their leaders Jelal Talabani and Mesud Barzani, who are considered to represent all Iraqi Kurds, of new socio-political developments in Iraq, for the political situation in Northern Iraq, of the status of Kirkuk, of foreign support and of Turkey. In order to find answers of these questions, this thesis evaluates the results of interviews and inquiries made with Iraqi Kurds. In order to contextualize the perceptions of Iraqi Kurds, this thesis also focuses its attention on the domestic and international dimensions of the issue. By doing this, it aims to show how both dimensions affect each other in terms of escalating the Kurdish problem in Iraq. Furthermore, it emphasizes on how the international and domestic evolution of the issue played roles in determining of perceptions and ideas in the region.
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Page, Alexander Lloyd. "Surviving “Advancement”: Aboriginal Community Organisations Negotiating Settler-Colonial Neoliberal Governance in Western Sydney." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21887.
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The introduction and rollout of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS, the Strategy) in 2014 by the Abbott Coalition government dramatically altered the relationship between the Indigenous sector and the Commonwealth. In this thesis, I use a critical qualitative methodology to undertake in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 32 frontline workers in eight Aboriginal community organisations in Western Sydney between 2016-2017, to highlight the day-to-day processes of negotiating and ultimately surviving these ongoing policy settings. Although there is a body of research on the broader turn to neoliberalism in Indigenous Affairs beginning with the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in 2004-05, there is little analysis of how Aboriginal community organisations and frontline workers understood, dealt with, and negotiated this significant policy shift of the IAS at the grassroots level of service delivery. In my significant and original contribution to knowledge, I examine how frontline workers describe the effects of the Strategy for Aboriginal community organisations, and their practice in negotiating and fighting for their survival whilst balancing their commitment to the Aboriginal community of Western Sydney in an era of deep crisis. This research reveals how settler-colonial neoliberalism is problematised, challenged, and negotiated by Aboriginal frontline workers through their day-to-day action as the reality of contemporary Indigenous Affairs policy. While Aboriginal community organisations continue to deliver culturally-specific services, and a social good for Aboriginal communities in specific socio-historical contexts through grassroots programs, advocacy, and policy representation mechanisms, I explain that the constraining nature of the organisation-to-government relationship, and the reflexive practice of frontline workers to Commonwealth settler-colonial neoliberalism, are correlated with the distinct positioning and social function of the Indigenous sector, the reflexive negotiation of Aboriginal community and government relationships, and frontline workers’ agency through anti-racist project making. I argue that Aboriginal community organisations in Western Sydney continue to actively negotiate state domination, paternalism, and logics of mainstreaming in Indigenous Affairs policy in Australia, and significantly, expose a dual legitimacy crisis of both New Public Management and settler-colonial governance.
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Walker, Matthew A. "“If You Open the Cage: Former Slave Mens' Transitions from Slavery, and The Legacy of a Total Institution."." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1590185455119833.
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Jordan-Sardi, Veronica. "Colonial subjectivity: an evolving legacy in Ousmane Sembène's La noire de...(1965), Michael Haneke's Caché (2005), and Claire Denis' White material (2009)." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2908.
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Kerr, Shane. "A sociological critique of the legacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21050.
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This thesis presents a sociological critique of the concept of legacy as it surrounded the London 2012 Paralympic Games. A sociological approach was adopted to challenge much of the spontaneous sociology that surrounds the ascendancy of legacy within the Olympic and Paralympic space. Legacy, disability and the Paralympic Games are the predominant structures of the research problem. The literature review attempts to present a sociology of the sociological approaches in these fields. Underpinning the research design is Bourdieu et al. s (1991) epistemological hierarchy which consists of and proceeds from the break , the construction of a conceptual framework to the empirical design. This hierarchy contributed to the repositioning of legacy from the pursuit of cause and effect, or rather away from the pursuit of legitimacy and illegitimacy, of London 2012 to a study of the proposed and imposed causes and effects, legitimations and illegitimations of it. Aligned to this repositioning is the primary collection of data through interviews with five different institutional fields: government, media, corporate sponsors, disability sport and disability institutions. The research findings present a positional analysis of the inter- and intra-relations of these respective fields. In the discussion key symbolic struggles and issues are presented for each field with particular attention given to the development of the positive leaning and legitimising best ever Paralympic narrative and to the commercial and political legitimacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. It is concluded that legacy is ultimately a symbolic struggle of different visions of respective agents and institutions that are unable to achieve these absolute visions or ends.
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Turgeon, Nancy. "Revisiting Imperial China's trajectory in the context of the 'rise of the West' : the Eurocentric legacy in historical sociology." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59890/.
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This thesis proposes a theoretical and historical reconstruction of the ‘Great Divergence' between Europe and China. In contrast with both the dominant narrative on the ‘Rise of the West' and its main detractor, the California School, the dissertation enquires critically into the categories of ‘China' and ‘Europe' and contests their temporal and spatial homogeneity. In this, the thesis proposes a unique way to overcome Eurocentrism in International Relations and to sociologically understand similarity and dissimilarity in development. The thesis reveals facets of Eurocentrism which are overlooked in all approaches engaging with the issue of divergence and informing the IR literature (neo-institutionalist economic history, neo-Weberian Sociology, World-Systems Theory, mode-of-production analyses, and the California School). These Eurocentric conceptual anachronisms are: the naturalisation of the European international system; the understanding of Europe as a homogenous entity; the postulate of a universal rationality; and the ontologising of analytical categories derived from the Western experience. The thesis' methodology, informed by Political Marxism, overcomes such Eurocentrism through its unique reading of Marx, leading to a socialising of geopolitics and rationality, and theorising the specific nature of developmental trajectories, thereby enabling the productive transfer of its method to non-European contexts. From this anti-Eurocentric standpoint, the thesis submits an alternative narrative on the trajectory of Imperial China from the 7th to the 19th Centuries. Re-problematising the contested and changing nature of China's authority relations and political geography as stemming from social conflicts around politically-constituted power challenges the Realist, English School's, and California School's assumptions of its stability, hegemony, and immutability widely held to have prevented take-off. Such a convergence between Continental Europe and China until the 19th Century, contrasting with the IR assumptions of a series of Chinese absences and European structural exceptionalisms, highlights the Anglo-Continental 17th Century divergence as a unique resolution of social conflicts, essential to Europe-China comparative strategies.
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London, Scott Barry 1962. "Family law, marital disputing and domestic violence in post-colonial Senegal, West Africa." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284052.
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This dissertation examines disputing and dispute resolution primarily among married couples in the small city of Saint-Louis, in the northwest comer of Senegal, West Africa. The goal of this project is two-fold: first, to locate "couples disputing" in the context of the culture and systems of power in urban Senegal; second, to analyze how this context is reproduced and contested through disputing and participation in legal (state) and informal (non-state) dispute resolution processes. At another level, this project focuses on determining how and to what degree the law enables and empowers women to resist domestic violence, and, alternatively, allows it to persist. The place of domestic violence is examined through the lens of local culture and ideology, as well as legal and conflict-oriented behavior. Central to this project is the observation of a dynamic interaction between the daily lived reality of couples and intermediate and higher-level institutional frameworks. In other words, love, cooperation, arguing, disdain, beating, rape, separation, divorce, and reconciliation occur inseparably from the authority structures of family and community, selective coercion and empowerment by state and civil bodies, and the distant impositions of international entities. An ethnographic portrait of marital disputing and domestic violence is created using court observations and recorded speech, structured and unstructured interviews, documentary research on court records, and extended participant observation in the community.
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Dawson, Andrew. "State authority structures and the rule of law in post-colonial societies: a comparison of Jamaica and Barbados." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106362.
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This thesis examines the determinants of a strong rule of law in post-colonial societies by comparing Jamaica and Barbados, two countries with many similarities, but with divergent outcomes concerning the rule of law. The research takes a comparative historical approach, specifically investigating the origins of the divergence of the rule of law between Jamaica and Barbados during the transition to independence. The analysis suggests that the extent of communal divisions influenced the political culture of the masses during the transition to universal suffrage in the late colonial period. This proved to be the critical factor that determined whether political violence and patronage politics were institutionalized, which ultimately led to the deterioration in the capacity of the state to promote the rule of law. Differences along four key dimensions (the extent of a race-class correlation, the extent to which the Afro-Caribbean population viewed themselves as members of the national community, the orientation of the religion of the lower classes towards the established order, and the structural conditions that facilitated the cultural autonomy of the lower classes) developed between the two islands during the early colonial period that influenced the formation of communal divisions along class lines, which in turn influenced the political culture of the masses. In Jamaica, the ethnic division between the lower and middle classes led the former to adopt a political culture that challenged the authority of the colonial state, which, combined with the inaction of colonial authorities, ultimately resulted in the establishment of a democratic political system based on violence, lawlessness and patronage that emerged during a critical period of instability on the island (the transition to both universal suffrage and independence). In Barbados, the absence of communal divisions resulted in the adoption of the dominant political culture by the masses. As such, there was broad-based acceptance of the legitimacy of legal state authority, with all major political parties appealing to the electorate on a rational basis, thereby hindering the escalation and institutionalization of political violence and clientelism. Moreover, the compatibility between the political culture and the state authority structure in Barbados provided the foundation for a strong rule of law during the post-colonial period.Cette thèse examine les déterminants de la légitimité de la loi dans les sociétés post-coloniales à travers la comparaison entre la Barbade et la Jamaique, deux pays similaires à plusieurs niveaux, mais dont la légitimité de la loi s'exerce on ne peut plus différemment. Ce projet de recherche propose une comparaison historique, ayant pour angle une recherche des origines de cette divergence de la légitimité de la loi entre ces deux pays pendant leur transition vers l'indépendance. L'analyse propose que le degré des divisions ethniques à influencer la culture politique de la masse lors de la transition au suffrage universel vers la fin de la période coloniale. C'était le facteur critique qui a déterminé si la violence et le favoritisme politiques étaient institutionnalisés, ce qui a conduit à la détérioration de la capacité de l'état à promouvoir la légitimité de la loi. Des divergences entourant quatre éléments-clés (la présence d'une corrélation race-classe sociale, le niveau d'identification de la population Afro-Antillaise à la communauté nationale, l'orientation de la religion de la classe inférieure envers l'ordre établi, et les conditions qui ont facilité l'autonomie culturelle des classes inférieures) se sont développés entre les deux îles pendant le début de l'ère coloniale et ont influencé le développement des divisions ethniques entre les classes, entraînant une influence de la culture politique de la masse. En Jamaique, la division ethnique entre les classes moyennes et inférieures ont poussé ces dernières à adopter une culture politique qui défiait l'autorité de l'état colonial, qui, combiné avec l'inaction des autorités coloniales, a eu pour résultat l'établissement d'un système politique démocratique basé sur la violence, l'absence de lois et le patronage durant cette période critique d'instabilité sur l'île (la transition vers le suffrage universel et l'indépendance). À la Barbade, l'absence de divisions ethniques a entraîné l'adoption de la culture politique par la masse. Il y avait une large acceptation de la légitimité de l'autorité judiciaire de l'État, avec tous les principaux partis politiques faisant appel à l'électorat sur une base rationnelle, ce qui a empêché l'escalade et l'institutionnalisation de la violence politique et du favoritisme. Par ailleurs, la compatibilité entre la culture politique et la structure d'autorité de l'État à la Barbade a constitué le fondement d'une légitimité de la loi forte pendant la période post-coloniale.
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Beltrão, Gabriel Magalhães. "A economia colonial e a particularidade da manufatura açucareira." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1580.
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This dissertation is a study subject analysis of colonial sugar manufacturing with the aim of seeking to seize their particularities in relation to manufactures classic studies by Marx. Because of the sugar mills are inserted in the historical process of colonization, became necessary to discuss the colonial economy by exposing two Marxist interpretations to the question. Such interpretations about the global economy have enabled us to understand the colonial socioeconomic fundamentals that explain the striking features of the craft such as slavery and the division of labor. Through iconographic resources and time reports seek to highlight the character existing manufacturing from the earliest mills in the sixteenth century, emphasizing the means of labor and organization oh production that were used for export production. Improving manufacturing occurred in the seventeenth century will be considered on its implications on workers and productivity, showing that the slave relations of production were consistent with technical and organizational typical of mercantile capitalism. Cooperation based on division of labor – manufacture – is presented not only as compatible with slave labor, but also as a necessity for the systematic use of this type of production relations. Such relationships production deepened further separation of manual work in relation to intellectual work hallmark of manufacture, and therefore print a particularity to manufacture sugar which is designated as an imperfection in relation to european manufacture. Besides this particularity of socioeconomic nature, the mill suffered from another flaw resulting from raw material benefit, that it had negative effects as it would undermine the predictability of production common in other productions. Thus, the particularity of manufacture sugar will appear as imperfections imposed by slave relations of production and the contingency imposed by raw material.Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
A presente dissertação tem por objeto de estudo a análise da manufatura açucareira colonial com o intuito de buscar apreender suas particularidades em relação às manufaturas clássicas estudadas por Marx. Pelo fato dos engenhos de açúcar estarem inseridos no processo histórico de colonização, tornou-se necessário discorrer sobre a economia colonial através da exposição de duas interpretações marxistas para a questão. Tais interpretações globais sobre a economia colonial nos possibilitaram compreender os fundamentos socioeconômicos que explicam características marcantes dos engenhos, tais como a escravidão e a divisão do trabalho. Através de recursos iconográficos e de relatos de época buscaremos evidenciar o caráter manufatureiro já existente desde os primeiros engenhos no século XVI, enfatizando os meios de trabalho e a organização da produção que eram utilizados na produção para exportação. O aprimoramento manufatureiro ocorrido no século XVII será analisado em suas implicações sobre os trabalhadores e a produtividade, demonstrando-se que as relações escravistas de produção eram compatíveis com progresso técnico e organizativo típicos do capitalismo mercantil. A cooperação baseada na divisão do trabalho – manufatura – é apresentada não somente como compatível com o trabalho escravo, mas também como uma necessidade para a utilização sistemática deste tipo de relações de produção. Tais relações de produção aprofundam ainda mais a separação do trabalho manual em relação ao trabalho intelectual, característica marcante da manufatura, e, por conseguinte, imprimem uma particularidade à manufatura açucareira que será designada como uma imperfeição em relação à manufatura européia. Além desta particularidade de natureza socioeconômica, o engenho sofria com outra imperfeição decorrente da matéria-prima beneficiada, que surtia efeitos negativos à medida que prejudicava a previsibilidade da produção comum em outras produções. Desta forma, a particularidade da manufatura açucareira será apresentada como imperfeições impostas pelas relações escravistas de produção e pela contingência imposta pela matéria-prima.
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Gilliard, Dominique DuBois. "Political Accommodation: The Effects of Booker T. Washington's Leadership and Legacy on Tuskegee University and The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1667.
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In this re-evaluation of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, I identify the original causes that made the Study emerge, examine why the intent of this research shifted over time, reveal the manner in which the Study was conducted, expose the role the government played in the manipulation of the Experiment, and, finally, investigate the ways, as well as the reasons, for the selection of the participants involved in the Study. After exploring the Experiment itself, I investigate the lasting effects of it on the community in which it occurred and the ways in which it further affected the relationship between African Americans and the United States Government. I explore the reasons for the involvement of Tuskegee Institute. Also, the philosophies of its founder, Booker T. Washington, are examined to discover the rationale behind the Institution's participation in an Experiment, which eventually became harmful. Finally, I hope to reveal why Tuskegee has been historically omitted from any blame in the Study.
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Mayblin, Lucy. "Asylum after empire : colonial institutional orders and the hierarchical ordering of humanity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57724/.
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In this study I argue that the recent proliferation of punitive and restrictive asylum policies indicates that the British government is prepared to tolerate levels of violence against certain human bodies, from particular countries, to a much greater degree than would be tolerated for others. Archival evidence is presented to show that hierarchical conceptions of humanity have a long history, rooted in British colonial activities, and that such ideologies continue to operate in the contemporary period. The project involves documenting three ‘critical junctures’ when ideas of human hierarchy were challenged at the political institutional level. These critical junctures are used to make the case for a historically informed reading of contemporary British asylum policy which takes seriously the epistemic legacies of colonialism. The study adapts Desmond King and Rogers Smith’s ‘racial institutional orders’ approach, originally conceived in the US context, to the British case, and incorporates a post-colonial perspective into the analysis. Through analysing the debates around these issues, it is possible to glean some insight into both the enduring power of ideas of human hierarchy, and the possibilities for transformative change.
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Stephens, Kelsey Renee. "Colonial History, Modernization and Terrorism: The Effect of Colonialism and Modernization on Transnational Ethnoseparatist Terrorism, 1968-2002." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275063261.
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Rabecchi, Ana Lucia Gomes da Silva. "O fio das travessias: a perspectiva histórica em Os tambores de São Luís, de Josué Montello e A gloriosa família - o tempo dos flamengos, de Pepetela." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-01022010-153835/.
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Os romances Os tambores de São Luís (1975), do brasileiro Josué Montello, e A gloriosa família do angolano Pepetela, mantêm um diálogo com a história maranhense e angolana respectivamente, estreitando as fronteiras entre Literatura e História. Mais que estreitar fronteiras, eles investigam um lugar narrativo em que a forma e o conteúdo interagem fora de suas margens de origem: literatura e história são desvirtuadas/deslocadas em busca de outras verdades que, separadas, nem uma nem outra poderiam conceber. É certo, no entanto, que a perspectiva histórica de cada romance os diferencia significativamente, tendendo à função sacralizadora em Montello e dessacralizadora em Pepetela. Enquanto a história faz parte do pano de fundo da narrativa montelliana, ela é parte orgânica da narrativa pepeteliana, através de uma projeção temporal contrária: em Montello se dá no sentido retrospectivo e em Pepetela, no sentido prospectivo, o que de saída singulariza qualitativamente os romances. A partir da visão peculiar que preside a organização de cada narrativa, a experiência histórica compartilhada pela trágica herança colonial e escravista toma um viés diferente, onde se vislumbra, já de começo, como cada romancista relê a sua própria história. Assim, longe de se alinharem plenamente pela perspectiva histórica, os romances são diferenciados a partir dela e este trabalho comparativo se ocupa justamente em demonstrar como isso acontece.The novels called Os tambores de São Luís (1975) by the brazilian Josué Montello, and A gloriosa família - o tempo dos flamengos (1997), by the angolan Pepetela, maintain a dialogue with the Angolan history and the Maranhão history respectively, closing the borders between literature and history. More than to narrow borders, they investigate a narrative place where the form and content interact outside their margins of origin: literature and history are displaced looking for other truths that once separated, neither one of them could conceive. Certainly, however, that the historical perspective of each novel make them seem different tending to the sacramental function in Montello and to the desacramental one in Pepetela. While the story is part of the background of the montellian narrative, it is an organic part of the pepetelian narrative through a temporal contrary projection: in Montello there is a retrospective meaning and in Pepetela a prospective one that comes out the unique quality of the novels. From the peculiar vision that governs the organization of each narrative, the historical experience shared by the tragic colonial legacy and slavery takes a different bias where since the beginning it is possible to wonder how each novelist re-read his own history. Thus, far from having a fully alignment by the historical perspective, the novels are differentiated from it and this comparative work is concerned to demonstrate precisely how this happens.
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Perez, Matthew B. "Intersections of Puerto Rican Activists' Responses to Oppression." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275957393.
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Shanton, Kyle David 1962. "A legacy of language discrimination at Old Pueblo School: Generation after generation of two Yaqui families tell its never-ending story." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288883.
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Research in the area of bilingual education language policy has focused generally on: (1) its relation to curriculum development and instructional design, (2) its relation to the legislative process, and (3) its relation to issues of power. Past research, however, failed to concentrate on the meanings of policy assigned by students and the relationship between the letter of policy and the spirit of its enactment at school. The purpose of this humanistic, cultural study was to examine school language policy from both historical and student-centered points of view. By addressing what they have to say in a historical context, I gleaned new insights into the possibilities for future design and evaluation of language policy. I focused on the historical relationship between the lived experiences of students regarding language choice and use at one elementary school and the central language policy statements initiated by the respective state's legislature, issued by the school district's administration and governing body, and interpreted by classroom teachers. The various policy statements and oral histories--by three generations of students--in addition to U.S. census data for the respective historical period were analyzed to understand the relationship among history, social context, policy, and language experience at school in new ways. The findings were interpreted and presented in terms of continuities and discontinuities in the relationship between students' lived experiences and policy over time. In terms of the continuous aspects of this relationship, I found the following: teachers persist in standardizing children's oral and written language expressions; children are indoctrinated by the culture of the school to abide by "American" values; and English is regarded as the language of privilege and accomplishment. In terms of discontinuities, I found the following: indigenous languages and Spanish spoken by children were no longer prohibited but sanctioned in the classroom; teachers began speaking languages other than English for instructional purposes; and faculty demographics changed from predominantly monolingual, white women to largely bilingual Hispanic women. In sum, my study is important because I offered a critical interpretation of the prevailing historical realities that have governed language policies and their ensuing practices in a South Tucson neighborhood school for the past sixty-one years. Also, in this study, I revealed the importance of opening a forum for students to voice an evaluation of language policies that regulate the course or methods of action in bilingual elementary education programs.
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Payas, Puigarnau Gertrudis. "The role of translation in the building of national identities: The case of colonial Mexico (1521--1821)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29246.
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The purpose of this doctoral research is to demonstrate that translation, as a form of representation, is present in the elaboration of a discourse on the nation in colonial Mexico, or New Spain. To this end, a catalogue of 712 translational products is explored by means of a classification based on a conceptual framework provided by nationalism studies. This approach leads to see how, individually and collectively, one group of translations weave the canvass of an "imagined community" of faithful, on which three other groups intertwine narratives of foundational myths, instill a sense of belonging to a continuum of classical civilizations, and, lastly, incorporate New Spain to the concert of modern nations. Historiography is part of this evolution, and the presence of translation and subsequent rewritings are traced in the fixing of a national history.
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CHOI, Wing Yee Kimburley. "Remade in Hong Kong : how Hong Kong people use Hong Kong Disneyland." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2007. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/6.
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Recent studies of globalization provide contrasting views of the cultural and sociopolitical effects of such major corporations as Disney as they invest transnationally and circulate their offerings around the world. While some scholars emphasize the ubiquity of Disney’s products and its promotion of consumerism on a global scale, accompanied by cultural homogenization, faltering democracy, and diminishing state sovereignty, others highlight signs of contestation and resistance, questioning the various state-capitalist alliances presumed to hold in the encounter between a global company, a local state, and the people.
The settlement process and the cultural import of Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong complicate these studies because of the evolving post-colonial situation that Disney encounters in Hong Kong. While Disney specializes in “imagineering” dreams, Hong Kong itself is messily imagining what “Hong Kong” is and should be, and how it should deal with others, including transnational companies and Mainlanders. In this thesis, I appropriate Doreen Massey’s ideas of space-time in order to examine Hong Kong Disneyland not as a self-enclosed park but as itself a multiplicity of spaces where dynamic social relations intersect in the wider context of post-colonial Hong Kong. I illuminate the shifting relationship between Disney, Mainlanders, and the locals as this relationship develops in its discursive, institutional, and everyday-life aspects. Through interviews and ethnographic research, I study how my respondents have established and interpreted the meanings of Hong Kong Disneyland, and how they have made use of the park to support their own constructions of place, of politics, and of identity.