Rozprawy doktorskie: „Colonial science”

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Soubrier, Stéphanie. ""Races guerrières" : armée, science et politique dans l'empire colonial français (années 1850-1918)". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H096.

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Théorisée en 1910 par le général Charles Mangin dans le cadre du projet de recrutement d’une « force noire » en Afrique occidentale, la catégorie de « race guerrière » est utilisée en France, entre les années 1850 et la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, pour désigner certaines populations de l’empire colonial français qui possèderaient des aptitudes particulières à la guerre et au métier militaire. Cette thèse retrace l’émergence, dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, de cette catégorie originale de l’ethnographie militaire. Elle interroge ses éventuelles applications, ses circulations à une échelle impériale et transimpériale, ainsi que le rôle joué par les populations désignées comme « races guerrières » dans la construction de la catégorie. Les archives militaires, celles du général Mangin, les écrits des officiers et des soldats français servant dans l’empire, et un corpus de sources savantes permettent d’étudier les différentes composantes de la catégorie de « race guerrière » et la manière dont elle se construit en lien et en opposition avec la catégorie des « races non guerrières ». Présentée par les officiers coloniaux et l’institution militaire comme un outil du recrutement, la catégorie de « races guerrières », éminemment labile, n’a en réalité jamais constitué un guide précis de sélection des recrues. Elle donne en revanche naissance à la figure ambiguë du soldat indigène, à la fois menaçante et rassurante. Enfin, l’expérience de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui constitue la première mise à l’épreuve sur le sol européen, de la catégorie de « race guerrière », lui apporte à la fois une confirmation et un démenti
Theorized in 1910 by general Charles Mangin, who advocated the recruitment of a Force noire in French West Africa, the races guerrières category was used in France, between the 1850s and the end of the First World War, to designate colonized groups deemed especially warlike and prone to military service. This dissertation traces the emergence of this unique military and ethnographic category, during the second part of the XIXth century. It studies the ways in which it was put into practice, its imperial and transimperial circulations, as well as the role played by the races guerrières themselves in the construction of the category. Military archives, among which Mangin’s files, colonial officers and soldiers’ writings, and a selection of scientific sources offer insights into the internal definition of races guerrières, and its connection with races non guerrières. Although colonial officers and the military presented it as a recruitment tool, the races guerrières category was very unstable and was never used as a precise guide to select indigenous recruits. However, it gave birth to the ambiguous figure of the native soldier, both reassuring and threatening. The experience of the First World War, during which the category was first put to the test on European ground, offered both a confirmation and a refutation

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Ferro, David L. "Science and the press : nascent institutions in colonial America /". Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01312009-063236/.

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Salmon, Élodie. "L'Académie des Sciences coloniales. Une histoire de la « République lointaine » au XXème siècle". Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL056.

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C’est une « certaine idée de la France » que cette thèse se propose de dépeindre à travers l’histoire de l’Académie des Sciences coloniales (ASC), aujourd’hui Académie des Sciences d’Outre-mer, de sa création en 1922 aux années 1970. Contribuant à l’étude des « sciences coloniales » et de leur rapport au pouvoir, l’examen de cette société savante est une porte d’entrée vers plusieurs champs relatifs à la pensée coloniale et ses prolongements. Généraliste, pluridisciplinaire et modelée par des personnalités parmi les plus influentes de l’ancien « parti colonial », l’ASC est représentative des milieux coloniaux de l’entre-deux-guerres. L’étude de sa composition permet de cerner les contours d’une véritable « classe coloniale », intégrée à la classe dirigeante française, farouchement souverainiste et chantre de la « notion d’empire ». La pensée qu’incarnent ces coloniaux associe intimement l’universalisme du messianisme républicain français, et le relativisme particulariste propre à la domination de l’Autre. Ces deux postulats théoriquement opposés ont longtemps été traduits par la formulation d’une contradiction dans l’idée d’une République colonisatrice. L’expression « République lointaine », qui décrit à la fois une réalité géographique et une approche conceptuelle, est forgée à l’occasion de ce travail pour récuser ce faux paradoxe. Il s’agit ainsi d’analyser les évolutions de cette pensée, dont les deux composantes caractérisent l’ensemble de la période étudiée.La résilience et les adaptations de cette Académie, qui survit à sa raison d’être et en devient le conservatoire mémoriel, méritent enfin une attention toute particulière. Par ce prisme, on parcourt les conversions terminologique, thématique et réticulaire de la classe coloniale dans son ensemble. Décolonisation des mots, introduction des thèmes fédérateurs que sont la coopération et la francophonie, dilution et ouverture internationale de l’ancienne classe coloniale sont au cœur de cette transition
This thesis proposes to study a “ certain vision“ of France through the History of the Académie des Sciences coloniales (ASC) now called the Académie des Sciences d’Outre-mer, since its formation in 1922 until the 1970’s. Contributing to the analysis of the “colonial sciences” and its connections with the centre of power, the research about this society of experts is a gateway towards several fields regarding the colonial thought and its developments.Generalist, multidisciplinary and created by some of very important personalities from the ancient “parti colonial”, the ASC is representative of the French colonial circles of the interwar period. The study of its composition allows us to outline a real “colonial class”, part of the French ruling class, fiercely sovereignist and promoting the “empire notion”. The thought which embodies these “coloniaux” combines closely the universalism of the French Republic messianism and the particularist relativism proper to the domination of “the Other”. Those two postulates are theoretically opposite. For a long time, the historiography has presented the fact that the colonisation by the French republic is contradictory to its original premise. The expression “République lointaine” (“Distant Republic”) which is both a geographic reality and a conceptual approach is forged to refute this false paradox. This work leads to an analysis of this thought evolution.The resilience and the adaptation of this Academy, which outlasts its fundamental purpose, becoming its “memorial repository”, deserve at least a specific attention. Through this research subject, we observe terminological, thematic and reticular conversions of the entire “colonial class”. Decolonization of words, introduction of the integrating themes of cooperation and francophonie, dilution of the former “colonial class” and its opening to the international networks, are indeed crucial to understand this transition

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Westfield, Volma T. "Colonial and Post-Colonial educational policies in the Windward islands: St. Vincent and the Grenadines". DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/304.

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This study examines the purpose of colonial and post education policies in the British West Indies and more specifically, the post-independent government of St.Vincent and the Grenadines. The study concurs that the purpose of education should be for one’s personal, community and country’s development. The educated is likely to become productive members of society by engaging in activities that will foster development, create opportunities and promote policies that will enhance democratization of their country. The researcher found that neither the colonial nor post colonial purposes of education policies were specifically designed to develop the country. While the colonial education policies were designed to fulfill the needs of the colonial system, the post-colonial policies are primarily based on academia which is designed for the export market due to the lack of available local vacancies for the acquired education and skills. The conclusions drawn from the fmdings suggests that a brain drain has emerged with the citizens of SVG being educated, either for education sake as a means of pride, mobility or to fill the market for qualified personnel overseas.

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Udoko, Nsikitima J. "Colonial capitalism and politics of underdevelopment in post-colonial Africa. the case of Nigeria, 1960-1990". DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1993. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1495.

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Historically, the hallmark of "independent Africa" is inextri cable underdevelopment crises. Thus, the fundamental objective of this study is to determine the causality of politics of underdevel opment and evolving stiffening crises in post-colonial Africa, by using Nigeria, a former British colony, as a case in point. Nigeria was chosen whereas its economy personifies the pre-colonial African kingdoms, empires, fiefdoms, and states, as well as arbitrary created colonies by a model European colonial power - Great Britain. Thus, the findings in the Nigerian dilemma could manifest a profound comprehension of the raison d'etre of continuous political in cohesion, cum facts and factors of underdevelopment crises in "independent Africa." And ipso facto enabled us to evolve generalizations indispensable in establishing an authentic theory of development in Africa at the dawning of the 21st century. Based on African historiography, the fact evolved that precolonial Africa/Nigeria was developing and transforming on its own accord from tribal organizations to magnificent kingdoms, empires and "city" states. Additionally, authentic universal history resolved that African Kemetic (Kmt) kingdom - Egypt, evolved continental and universal model of civilizations before the imposition of colonial capitalist mode of production by European powers, two critical issues were raised. The first striking issue was whether or not colonial capitalism originated contemporary unobtainable political incohesion with astronomical underdevelopment dilemma in Nigeria. The second issue was why are the post-colonial leaderships unable to minimize or reverse underdevelopment? To that end, we hypothesized that - (i) colonial capitalism catalyzed contradictions of underdevelopment crises in post-colonial Africa. (ii) that failure to Africanize the post-colonial development strategies frustrates the resolution of underdevelopment crises, or authentic and sustained development in postcolonial Nigeria and (iii) that the perpetuation of colonial superstructure by "post independence" regimes catalyzed politics of underdevelop ment in Nigeria. The study, using a dialectical materialist method, affirmed the hypotheses. Consequently, we recommended an authentic democrati zation of governmental procedures, as well as a scientific indigenization of contemporary mode of production by a leadership committed to concrete reactivation of the latter as a viable way out. In this context a scientific development of Afrocentric paradigm and evolving theory of development was asserted as a priority.

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Banerjee, Somaditya. "Bhadralok physics and the making of modern science in colonial India". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45405.

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This study offers a micro-history of the development of quantum physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, prior to Indian independence. The investigation focuses on the case studies of Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956). The analytical category “bhadralok physics” is introduced to explore how it became possible for a highly successful brand of modern science to develop in a country that was still under the conditions of colonial domination. The term Bhadralok refers to the then emerging group of native intelligentsia, who were identified by academic pursuits and manners and effectively transcended the existing class and caste barriers of the colonial society. Exploring the forms of life of this social group allows a better understanding of the specific character of Indian modernity that, as exemplified by the work of bhadralok physicists, combined modern science with indigenous knowledge into an original program of scientific research. Unlike the most prominent Indian scientists of the preceding generation, Bose, Saha and Raman received their academic education in India proper, rather than Europe, and can be considered the “first indigenously trained generation” of modern scientists. They achieved most significant scientific successes in the new revolutionary field of quantum physics with such internationally recognized accomplishments as the Saha ionization equation (1921), the famous Bose-Einstein statistics (1924), and the Raman Effect (1928), with the latter discovery leading to the first ever Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist from Asia. The study analyzes the responses by Indian scientists to the radical concept of the light quantum and their further development of this approach outside the purview of European authorities. The outlook of bhadralok physicists is characterized here as “cosmopolitan nationalism,” which allows to analyze how the group pursued modern science in conjunction with, and as an instrument of Indian national liberation, and explore the role played by modern science for and within the Indian nationalist movement.

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Edmundson, Anna Margaret. "For science, salvage & state - official collecting in colonial New Guinea". Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155795.

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The Papuan Official Collection is a unique colonial collection assembled between 1907 and 1938 by government officers of the Australian administration of the Territory of Papua. It represents the first instance in the world where a colonial government made ethnographic collecting a requisite duty of its field officers. This unusual turn of events came at the insistence of Papua's first and longest serving Lieutenant-Governor, J.H.P. Murray, who administered the colony for over three decades. The story of how Murray came to establish an official government collection, and its subsequent formation, interpretation, and display over several decades, provides a case study par excellence for examining the complex relationship between colonialism, collecting and anthropology, which emerged over the course of the twentieth century. This study explores the genesis and history of the Papuan Official Collection, and situates it within the wider rubric of Australian colonialism. It establishes Murray as one of the earliest colonial governors in the world to implement, and publically advocate for, anthropology as a tool for colonial administration. It charts the rise of colonial discourses that linked loss of culture to physical demise in Pacific populations, and documents its influence on Australian colonial policy. Its findings suggest that the protection, preservation and management of Indigenous cultural heritage should not be considered a sideline of Australian colonial policy in Papua, but rather one of its most defining features. Over the course of its lifespan the Papuan Official Collection has been displayed in four different museums providing an opportunity to examine how a fixed body of objects (the collection) moved across time and space, to be re-interpreted into different conceptual frameworks: as curios and antiquities; ethnographic artefacts; scientific specimens; artworks; and, finally, as historic objects. My institutional history of the POC cautions against the assumption that colonial collections were always used as uncontested propaganda, which metropolitan museums were content to display on behalf of the imperial mission. While the Murray administration in Papua was able to provide goods and information to the various museums which housed the Collection, each institution had its own competing agendas and the relationship was not always a smooth one.

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Clements, Helen Gail, i n/a. "Science and Colonial Culture: Scientific Interests and Institutions in Brisbane, 1859-1900". Griffith University. School of Humanities, 1999. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050914.155807.

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Historians have investigated for some time the nature and practice of colonial science. Some have seen it in terms of the spread of European influence and knowledge in an age of imperialism, others have studied it in particular local contexts. These studies identi& an emphasis on practical science and natural history, and a degree of dependence on experts resident at the European centre. More recent work thaws attention to the exchange of information that occurred between various sites on the periphery. In this thesis I investigate the nature and practice of science in Brisbane in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Brisbane was a small, isolated town, an administrative centre in a colony dominated by its pastoral industry. The govermnent, partly because of regular budgetary crises and partly because it could not perceive any public benefit, was not interested in funding science. The two scientific institutions - the Philosophical Society, which became the Royal Society in 1883, and the Acclimatisation Society - are studied in order to demonstrate the ways in which men with scientific interests organised themselves and attempted to influence the scientific agenda. I go on to trace the relationships and communication networks of the two men who are arguably the pre-eminent figures in nineteenth-century Queensland science, F. M. Bailey and Joseph Bancroft, in an attempt to determine what effect geographic and intellectual isolation, and lack of funding, had on their activities. Several themes emerge. First, although there was an emphasis as elsewhere on practical science and natural history, for some middle class men science was a social and cultural pursuit. These men, in seeking to re-create the institutions that they had left behind them in Britain, established social and political networks that helped to establish them in a new society. The continual inflow of new immigrants guaranteed an inflow of scientific culture and new technology. Second, acclimatisation and economic botany provided a focus for practical scientific activities. Through the leadership of Lewis Bernays, a public servant with no scientific background or training, acclimatisation became a respectable activity in which people from all over the colony participated. Acclimatisation represented the interface between science, technology and economic progress. Third, other men such as F. M. Bailey, the colonial botanist, and Dr Joseph Bancroft, who had many scientific interests, were intent on both expanding the body of knowledge and making use of what they considered useful knowledge for the benefit of the colony. A simple diffusion model does not explain adequately the complex conditions under which western science was pursued and established in a remote settler society such as Queensland.

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Clements, Helen Gail. "Science and Colonial Culture: Scientific Interests and Institutions in Brisbane, 1859-1900". Thesis, Griffith University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366139.

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Historians have investigated for some time the nature and practice of colonial science. Some have seen it in terms of the spread of European influence and knowledge in an age of imperialism, others have studied it in particular local contexts. These studies identi& an emphasis on practical science and natural history, and a degree of dependence on experts resident at the European centre. More recent work thaws attention to the exchange of information that occurred between various sites on the periphery. In this thesis I investigate the nature and practice of science in Brisbane in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Brisbane was a small, isolated town, an administrative centre in a colony dominated by its pastoral industry. The govermnent, partly because of regular budgetary crises and partly because it could not perceive any public benefit, was not interested in funding science. The two scientific institutions - the Philosophical Society, which became the Royal Society in 1883, and the Acclimatisation Society - are studied in order to demonstrate the ways in which men with scientific interests organised themselves and attempted to influence the scientific agenda. I go on to trace the relationships and communication networks of the two men who are arguably the pre-eminent figures in nineteenth-century Queensland science, F. M. Bailey and Joseph Bancroft, in an attempt to determine what effect geographic and intellectual isolation, and lack of funding, had on their activities. Several themes emerge. First, although there was an emphasis as elsewhere on practical science and natural history, for some middle class men science was a social and cultural pursuit. These men, in seeking to re-create the institutions that they had left behind them in Britain, established social and political networks that helped to establish them in a new society. The continual inflow of new immigrants guaranteed an inflow of scientific culture and new technology. Second, acclimatisation and economic botany provided a focus for practical scientific activities. Through the leadership of Lewis Bernays, a public servant with no scientific background or training, acclimatisation became a respectable activity in which people from all over the colony participated. Acclimatisation represented the interface between science, technology and economic progress. Third, other men such as F. M. Bailey, the colonial botanist, and Dr Joseph Bancroft, who had many scientific interests, were intent on both expanding the body of knowledge and making use of what they considered useful knowledge for the benefit of the colony. A simple diffusion model does not explain adequately the complex conditions under which western science was pursued and established in a remote settler society such as Queensland.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Lourdusamy, John. "Science and national consciousness : a study of the response to modern science in colonial Bengal, c. 1870-1930". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312948.

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Matsuzaki, Reo. "Institutions by imposition : colonial lessons for contemporary state-building". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68932.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-375).
What explains variation in institution-building under foreign occupations? Why do some state-building missions produce effective and durable state institutions, while others leave a legacy of weak or dysfunctional ones? I explored these questions through a comparative study of the Japanese colonization of Taiwan (1895-1945) and the American colonization of the Philippines (1898-1941), which produced contrasting institutional legacies despite the presence of similar initial conditions. While a strong bureaucratic Taiwanese state arose in the aftermath of Japanese colonization, the legacy of the American occupation of the Philippines was a weak postcolonial state penetrated by parochial interests. I explain variation in institution-building outcomes through two causal variables: (i) the degree of discretionary power afforded to the occupational administration by the home government; and (ii) the ability of native elites to effectively resist the institution-building effort. Discretionary power allows reform agents to abandon any pre-formulated (and likely ill-conceived) plans, and instead flexibly integrate native laws, norms, and customs with their new institutional designs. Additionally, and contrary to conventional wisdom, more effective institutions emerge when native elites possess the willingness and capacity to resist (even violently) the institution-building effort of foreign agents. The reformist state-building agenda of occupiers is likely to be in direct opposition to the distributional interests of native elites, who seek to maintain their advantageous position within the existing order. It is, therefore, only under the threat of effective resistance that foreign agents will accommodate the interests of native elites to forge institutions with local ownership. The main empirical chapters of the dissertation draw on more than two years of original archival research in fourteen libraries and depositories across Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. In both cases, my analysis focused on the similarities and differences in the process through which education and police institutions were developed over time; these two areas were chosen due their importance for a country's political stability and socioeconomic development. The applicability of conclusions drawn from the historical cases to contemporary state-building missions was assessed through an examination of recent U.S. efforts at building a police institution in Afghanistan.
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Ferro, David L. "Selling Science in the Colonial American Newspaper: How the Middle Colonial American General Periodical Represented Nature, Philosophy, Medicine, and Technology, 1728 - 1765". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27585.

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This study examines the character of colonial American newspaper science to understand how and to what extent the newspaper contributed to the movement of information between those engaged in science and the public. It explores the issue of the origins of science and the press in America and characterizes the public role of enlightenment science in articles and advertisements pertaining to matters of health, invention and the natural world. The focus is on the mid-Atlantic region of colonial American newspapers including all the extant issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette, Maryland Gazette, Virginia Gazette, and American Weekly Mercury between the years 1728 to 1765. This study aims at informing the discussions of Enlightenment thought in colonial America and the role the newspaper played in the public acceptance of the processes of natural philosophy. The findings reveal that in the eighteenth century the colonial American newspaper became the textual locus through which the negotiations of what would and would not constitute acceptable public explanations of numerous subjects, including natural phenomena, were played out. Along with the public lecture, the newspaper became a primary device where actors and artifacts made legitimizing natural claims to a larger audience and enlisted allies in both scientific and broader disputes. In this way the American colonies paralleled Britain which had seen an increase in the public witnessing of an empirical natural philosophy and an appeal to economic and social gain for that philosophy since the late seventeenth century. In order to enroll a broader constituency, natural philosophers used the newspaper to argue for the value of rational and empirical exploration and its products in everyday affairs, matters of state, and even entertainment. Despite the negotiation through the pages of the general periodical, and despite the lack of strong differentiation between "virtuosi" and "lay" philosophers, the newspaper seldom became a principle place of exchange for the theory and practice of science between those doing science. With some notable and interesting exceptions, the public infrequently became privy to vanguard scientific theory and scientific disputes or enjoyed direct participation through the newspaper. Nevertheless, in eighteenth-century British America, the drive for public acceptance of natural philosophical explanations by those engaged in its explorations made the representative power of the newspaper critical to the success of science. By promoting an empirical view of the world the newspaper helped create a contemporary science, science communication and a society, that to varying degrees accepted the practices of science.
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Griffore, Anne. "Beyond Diamonds: Embedding the Post-Colonial State in Botswana". Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28660.

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This study examines Botswana's resource based development course within the framework of developmental state theory. Botswana's path to growth and development challenges existing theories in development studies in that it has avoided the many facets of the natural resource curse, which has set the majority of Africa's resource abundant economies on a path of long-term economic underperformance and low levels of social development. What is most remarkable however, is that growth and development have advanced in Botswana with inclusion of its tribal associations into a modern state bureaucracy while maintaining stable state-society relations - a feat that has been largely unmatched by other countries in the in the developing world. This study will argue in line with the developmental state ethos, that growth and development have occurred in this Botswana as the result of the deliberate actions taken by the government to embed a post-colonial state in Batswana society in ways that have enabled the central government to engage in economic and social development projects and to construct the institutions necessary to realize its development aspirations. This has not only been apparent in the undertakings of the administration to attract and collaborate with international capital, but also in its efforts to mediate between various interest groups and create the institutional framework necessary to enable positive-sum state-society relations under democratic principles.

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Leichnitz, Jordan. "Understanding contemporary governmentality: Death, healing and colonial patriarchy in Canada". Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28327.

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This thesis explores the changing shape of colonial governmentality in Canada through an examination of the complex relationship between the representation and treatment of Indigenous women in Canada and power relations underlying the creation of "healing prisons" run for Indigenous women offenders. It is hypothesized that there is a mutually constitutive connection between the discursive and literal space of death faced by Indigenous women in Canada, and the deployment of specialized prisons as a gendered and raced political technology of the colonial state. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives to search for the reciprocal links between these disparate phenomena, this paper analyses dominant discourses to understand the emergence of new responsibilizing forms of colonial governance with particularly gendered effects. It concludes with an examination of the possibilities for utilizing a similar de-colonizing critique to counter emerging forms of colonial governance in the contemporary neo-liberal state.

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Venne, Janique. "L'Accord définitif Nisga'a: Un modèle d'autonomie gouvernementale post-colonial?" Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26408.

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Cette thèse évalue la portée de l'Accord définitif Nisga'a en tant que repère dans le développement de l'autodétermination autochtone au Canada. Par une étude détaillée des paramètres du modèle d'autonomie gouvernementale nisga'a, un examen des potentialités de cet accord en matière de troisième niveau de gouvernement destiné à répondre aux préoccupations des Premières nations est réalisé. L'auteure soutient que l'Accord définitif Nisga'a établit un troisième niveau de gouvernement autochtone dans la fédération canadienne sans toutefois remettre en question les fondements historiques à la base de celle-ci, de même que la politique traditionnelle du gouvernement fédéral en matière d'autonomie gouvernementale.

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Ferreira, Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda Preces. ""A bem da nação" : medical science in a diamond company in twentieth-century colonial Angola". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446280/.

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This thesis examines the provision of biomedicine by a colonial diamond company, Diamang, in twentieth-century Portuguese Angola. It attempts to better understand the functioning and complexities of Portuguese Imperialism. It argues that Diamang healthcare services were central in the Portuguese state efforts to respond to international pressures against colonialism and central for the understanding of the empire. The company's health services were autonomous from the state ones and for most of the colonial period provided better healthcare. Diamang's argument that it provided similar healthcare for Westerners and Africans is contradicted by a closer and critical reading of the records. In place was a racial-hierarchical system of care with westerners and their families on top, followed by workers, whilst the bottom position was occupied by the general population. Its mobile campaigns were key elements for the company's health efforts and allow a more intricate understanding of the dynamics and fragmented nature of the Portuguese empire. The use by health-services of anthropometrics for labour recruitment reveals a complex exercise where the result was an increased number of workers, and a constant intake of men unfit for mine work. Closer attention to living and working conditions informs that production costs and labour concerns fashioned mining. It is revealed that diseases killed more workers than accidents and that Diamang did little to prevent these. The role of mine managers in these, and consequently in the workers' health, is also emphasised. The political character of medical studies of workers' health at mines and its value as a negotiation card with the government is also stressed, again reinforcing the political character of healthcare and the colonialism by proxy nature of Diamang.

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Ranjha, Wajid Ali. "Critical theory, modernity and the question of post-colonial identity". Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr197.pdf.

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Harbury, Katharine E. "Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres and Culinary Arts". W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625865.

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Grout, Andrew. "Geology and India, 1770-1851 : a study in the methods and motivations of a colonial science". Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283393.

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Rose, James G. "British colonial policy and the transfer of power in British Guiana, 1945-1964". Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/british-colonial-policy-and-the-transfer-of-power-in-british-guiana-19451964(34144bd1-72af-4cd8-bd1d-c497c40f95d2).html.

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Krishnan, Shekhar Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86283.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and bust in the cotton trade during and after the American Civil War - when Bombay was a colonial mercantile port - to its emergence as of one of India and Asia's largest industrial cities after the First World War. Separate chapters explore the history of railway and telegraph networks, standardisation and time-keeping, land acquisition and valuation, cadastral surveying and property registration, and the urban built environment. From the perspective of the colonial city, the history of these formations looks less like the smooth unfolding of singular standards of money, time or space, than a protracted war of position fought out across a century by experts, elites and the masses. This thesis seeks to deepen the social and political history of urbanization in South Asia beyond concepts of colonial technology transfer or nationalist resistance by examining the everyday politics of stock and real estate speculation, public clocks, land and private property, maps and topographical surveys, and buildings and streets in colonial Bombay. These "modern" technologies of calculation, coordination and control in the urban environment both created and depended on new scales of power and capital accumulation, or particular configurations of industrial technologies, civic institutions and urban space.
by Shekhar Krishnan.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)

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Oparah, Francis C. "The transportation system of post-colonial Nigeria: A strategy for development". DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1994. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3234.

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This dissertation analyzes the influence of colonialism on the current transportation system in Nigeria, its impact on development and the stringent difficulties experienced in the restructuring of the system for efficient development in the Nigerian economic milieu. These have been accomplished by an analysis of the colonial intentions of the foreign influence under whose auspices the transportation system in Nigeria was initiated and constructed. Also, the post-colonial difficulties in the efforts to restructure the system were critically analyzed. A major assumption made in this dissertation has been that colonialism was the main reason the system was structured the way it stands currently, especially since the system reached its greatest development and expansion during colonialism in Nigeria. All evidences in this study point to the fact that unless the system is completely restructured to better address the developmental needs in Nigeria, development will still be far-fetched and thus negate the importance of transportation as a major vehicle to national development.

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Eubanks, Elsie Irene. "Lead Poisoning from the Colonial Period to the Present". W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626037.

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Mustajab, M. S. H. "The impact of colonial rule in Johor : a case of social and political adjustment". Thesis, University of Kent, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356549.

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Ahire, P. T. "Policing colonization : the emergence and role of the police in colonial Nigeria 1860-1960". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355517.

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Obeng, Kwasi Kizito. "The long Jewel: assessing political solutions to the Nile river conflict by maneuvering around colonial". DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/321.

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This case study examines how the ten riparian countries of the Nile can politically reconcile colonial era agreements that split the lion’s share of the world’s longest river between Egypt and Sudan. The intent is that the countries be able to advance their developmental needs in an efficient and sustainable way that encourages environmental justice, Pan-Africanism and regional cooperation to improve relations between Arab Africans and Sub-Saharan Africans. The study is based on the premise that due to rising populations, climate change, and current global economic challenges, along with the signing of a new Cooperative Framework Agreement by the upper riparian states in 2010, the status quo of Egypt and Sudan having veto power over all projects along the Nile, and the lack of engagement of the two countries in negotiations, can lead to crises in water and food security and possibly even armed conflict that could destabilize the region. Expert interviews, document studies and contextual analyses of case studies were used to gather and analyze information as to how to engage Egypt in the post-Mubarak era and incorporate both modern and traditional governing systems to reach a politically viable solution to resource distribution and management. The researcher found that all the riparian countries agree that the current paradigm of Nile water utilization and management is not sustainable and that they all agree that states are sovereign and should be allowed access to the Nile’s resources within their territories. However, there is dispute over two countries having veto rights as well as a guarantee of the volumes of water assigned to them. The researcher also found that current international laws on transboundary rivers are not definitive enough to avert a crisis in this region. The conclusions drawn suggest that all countries in the basin have to be active participants in reaching a solution; the solution has to be African in conception, implementation and execution, and it should involve innovative diplomacy, bringing to the table the positions of central and decentralized governing institutions, the indigenous people and non-state actors who will advance the interests of the region in a cooperative and comprehensive manner where all countries win.

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Dewar, Fleur Simone. "Empowering Women? Family Planning and Development in Post-Colonial Fiji". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/943.

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Family planning initiatives have been critical to development strategies since the 1950s. Family planning has been justified on various grounds including its contribution to poverty alleviation, improved maternal and infant health and the advancement of women's rights and choices. More recently, the discourse of 'women's empowerment' has been used in the advocacy of family planning. This discourse integrates a number of earlier justifications for fertility control promoting family planning as a strategy to enhance women's access to higher standards of living and improved health. It associates family planning with advances in women's rights as individual citizens in 'modern' economies and their greater involvement in paid work. This thesis investigates whether this empowerment discourse is evident in family planning programmes in Fiji and its relationship to the socio-economic development of that country. Critical analyses of the operation of power, development strategies and western assumptions about family size, human rights and economic wellbeing inform this research. In particular, Foucault's concept of 'biopower' is used to analyse narratives about family planning articulated by health practitioners, women's rights activists and officials in the Ministry of Health. The analysis of key informants' statements is complemented by consideration of official statistics, and existing empirical data such as documents and pamphlets. The thesis argues that an empowerment discourse is strongly evident in Fiji with respect to the statements made by key informants and available written sources. It looks critically at the narratives that construct family planning as empowering for women, particularly the tropes of choice, health and full citizenship. Close analysis of these narratives demonstrate that the 'stories' uniformly position women as potentially empowered 'modern' subjects. However, critical analysis of these stories about choice, health and citizenship found that family planning strategies were sometimes disempowering. The generic stories embodied by the empowerment discourse did not allow for the diversity of women's needs; this finding supported critiques of one-size-fits-all development strategies. I demonstrate that while the empowerment discourse provided women with the opportunity to control their fertility, engage in paid work and be empowered, it simultaneously created new challenges and different forms of subordination. This thesis found that the empowerment discourse was an unmistakable example of biopower at work

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Mattes, Sarah. "Canary Red: Preserving Cochineal and Contrasting Colonial Histories on Lanzarote". W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626784.

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Patten, Monika Drake. "A Fatal Enigma?: The Reception of Smallpox Inoculation in Colonial Massachusetts". W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625629.

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Earnest, Jaya. "Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis : the case of Rwanda". Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2608.

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The research reported in this thesis is an in-depth study of science education reform in a transitional society. The society in transition is Rwanda - one of the world's poorest countries - a tiny central African nation adversely affected by major social, political, economic, and ethnic upheaval. Rwanda is faced with the challenge of ensuring rehabilitation after the genocide of 1994 and has adopted the following national goals: implementation of a durable educational policy, eradication of illiteracy, national capacity building in science and technology and reinforcing the teaching of mathematics and sciences.The objective of this research is to describe, discuss and analyse information on the status of science education in Rwanda, from the perspective of primary and secondary science teachers, students, education personnel and my personal in-field observations and analysis. This research analyses the constraints in the implementation of educational policies and a relevant science education in a climate of social, political, cultural, ethnic and economic uncertainty.The research used a case study methodology and utilised quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how teachers' and students' knowledge, perceptions and experiences impact on the school learning environment. The study made use of a questionnaire that was administered to teachers and students in Rwanda. English and French versions of a modified School Level Environment Questionnaire (SLEQ) and a modified Teacher Beliefs Instrument (STEBI) were administered to teachers. Two scales derived from the Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA) were adapted for use in Rwandan classes.The qualitative component of the research made use of interviews, classroom observations, personal reflexivity, historical and curriculum document analysis and vignettes.To enable an interpretation of the quantitative data from questionnaires in a meaningful manner, the socio-cultural, gender and ethnic perspectives of policy makers, teachers and students were examined through interviews and classroom observations of science lessons. My personal experiences and reflections also were used to understand science education reform in Rwanda.The qualitative and quantitative findings of the research identified factors that influence the science education reform process and make meaningful interpretations of background, culture and the situation in Rwanda. Document analysis indicated that there is a need for greater access to secondary education. Interviews and science lesson observations indicated that it is necessary to develop a curriculum that is contextually relevant and to redefine science teacher training programmes. The findings of the research identified the constraints, dilemmas and tensions in the implementation of the educational reform process as young and inexperienced teachers, most of whom do not have university degrees and have difficulties in implementing the curriculum effectively. Further constraints included work pressures due to the examination system, an acute, as well as a lack of material resources and finances required to reconstruct and improve educational institutions.The research investigates the impact of the transition on science education in Rwanda. The research designed to examine the science education reform process in the transitional Rwandan society and economy studied the complex cultural, historical and educational factors that influence science education.Using multiple research methods, this study is an analysis of my understanding of the changes that have taken place in science education, the impediments to these changes and the identification of aspects that may enhance the prospect for future science education reform, especially in the areas of the science curriculum reform, assessment procedures and teacher professional development.

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Kumar, Prakash. "Facing Competition: The History of Indigo Experiments in Colonial India, 1897-1920". Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-08192004-180032/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
Lu, hanchao, Committee Member ; Usselman, Steven, Committee Member ; Krige, John, Committee Chair ; Giebelhaus, August, Committee Member ; Travis, Anthony, Committee Member. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Earnest, Jaya. "Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis : the case of Rwanda". Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13802.

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The research reported in this thesis is an in-depth study of science education reform in a transitional society. The society in transition is Rwanda - one of the world's poorest countries - a tiny central African nation adversely affected by major social, political, economic, and ethnic upheaval. Rwanda is faced with the challenge of ensuring rehabilitation after the genocide of 1994 and has adopted the following national goals: implementation of a durable educational policy, eradication of illiteracy, national capacity building in science and technology and reinforcing the teaching of mathematics and sciences.The objective of this research is to describe, discuss and analyse information on the status of science education in Rwanda, from the perspective of primary and secondary science teachers, students, education personnel and my personal in-field observations and analysis. This research analyses the constraints in the implementation of educational policies and a relevant science education in a climate of social, political, cultural, ethnic and economic uncertainty.The research used a case study methodology and utilised quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how teachers' and students' knowledge, perceptions and experiences impact on the school learning environment. The study made use of a questionnaire that was administered to teachers and students in Rwanda. English and French versions of a modified School Level Environment Questionnaire (SLEQ) and a modified Teacher Beliefs Instrument (STEBI) were administered to teachers. Two scales derived from the Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA) were adapted for use in Rwandan classes.The qualitative component of the research made use of interviews, classroom observations, personal reflexivity, historical and curriculum document analysis and vignettes.
To enable an interpretation of the quantitative data from questionnaires in a meaningful manner, the socio-cultural, gender and ethnic perspectives of policy makers, teachers and students were examined through interviews and classroom observations of science lessons. My personal experiences and reflections also were used to understand science education reform in Rwanda.The qualitative and quantitative findings of the research identified factors that influence the science education reform process and make meaningful interpretations of background, culture and the situation in Rwanda. Document analysis indicated that there is a need for greater access to secondary education. Interviews and science lesson observations indicated that it is necessary to develop a curriculum that is contextually relevant and to redefine science teacher training programmes. The findings of the research identified the constraints, dilemmas and tensions in the implementation of the educational reform process as young and inexperienced teachers, most of whom do not have university degrees and have difficulties in implementing the curriculum effectively. Further constraints included work pressures due to the examination system, an acute, as well as a lack of material resources and finances required to reconstruct and improve educational institutions.The research investigates the impact of the transition on science education in Rwanda. The research designed to examine the science education reform process in the transitional Rwandan society and economy studied the complex cultural, historical and educational factors that influence science education.
Using multiple research methods, this study is an analysis of my understanding of the changes that have taken place in science education, the impediments to these changes and the identification of aspects that may enhance the prospect for future science education reform, especially in the areas of the science curriculum reform, assessment procedures and teacher professional development.

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Earnest, Jaya. "Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis : the case of Rwanda /". Full text available, 2002. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20031201.133948.

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Lönn, Gabriel. "Consociationalism in the post-colonial world : A comparative study of Fiji and Mauritius". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-431734.

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Vaidya, Ashish Akhil. "Beyond Neopatrimonialism: A Normative and Empirical Inquiry into Legitimacy and Structural Violence in Post-Colonial India". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/347514.

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Political Science
Ph.D.
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that the rational-legal bureaucratic institutions inherited by post-colonial states from their former colonial patrons have clashed with indigenous cultural norms, leading to legitimation failure. This lack of legitimacy, in turn, leads to political and bureaucratic corruption among the individuals tasked with embodying and enforcing the norms of these bureaucratic institutions. Instances of corruption such as bribery and solicitation of bribes, misappropriation of public funds, nepotistic hiring practices, and the general placement of personal gain over the rule of law on the part of officials weaken the state’s ability and willingness to enforce its laws, promote stability and economic growth, and ensure the welfare of its citizens. This corruption and its multidimensional detrimental effects on the lives of citizens are forms of what has been called structural violence. In this project, I examine four case studies of Indian subnational states that have experienced varying degrees and types of colonial bureaucratic imposition, resulting in divergent structurally violent outcomes. Deeming these systems “violent” has normative implications regarding responsibility for the problems of the post-colonial world. Corruption is often cited as a reason not to give loans or aid to certain developing countries; but viewing the matter in terms of structural violence highlights the need for not only economic assistance but also institutional overhaul.
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Bhattacharyya, Anouska. "Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912". Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11204.

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The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, following asylum and pauper reform in Victorian England. With the 1858 Lunacy Acts, native lunatic asylums occupied an unsteady position between judicial and medical branches of this government. British officers were too constrained by their inexperience of asylums and of India to be effective superintendents and impose a coherent psychiatry within. They relied on their subordinate staff who were recruited from the communities that surrounded each asylum. Alongside staff and patients, the asylums were populated by tea sellers, local visitors, janitors, cooks and holy men, all of whom presented alternate and complementary ideas about the treatment and care of Indian insanes. By 1912, these asylums had been transformed into archetypal colonial institutions, strict with psychiatric doctrine and filled with Western-trained Indian doctors who entertained no alternate belief systems in these colonial spaces. How did these fluid and heterogeneous spaces become the archetypes of colonial power?
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Esterhuyse, Harrie Willie. "A comparative study of governance and state development in post-colonial Botswana and Zaire/ DRC". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20182.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research was to explore the interaction between governance and development in post-colonial Africa. The departure point of the thesis was the understanding that the state remains a pre-eminent actor in the international system. Keeping this assumption in mind, the study made use of a comparative analysis; comparing governance and development in Botswana with governance and development in Zaire/the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), focusing on the post-colonial era. The importance of this research lies in its contribution to the debate on the role of the state in post-colonial Africa. It explores the influence of institution formation and policy implementation by governments (in other words, governance) on development. Understanding the effect of governance on development can have invaluable lessons for other African states in their efforts to develop further. The research question, which guided the thesis thus, was: in the era of the pre-eminence of the state, making use of a comparison between Botswana and Zaire/DRC, what is the influence and effect, of state institution formation and policy implementation (governance) by governments, on state development in terms of economical-, political- and social development? The two main variables were governance and development. Development was sub-divided into three indicators: political, economic and social development. Governance was evaluated in terms of being seen as poor or good governance, as per the World Bank’s definition and understanding of governance. Zaire/DRC, as an example of a failed state, was analysed first, followed by Botswana, selected for its arguably “best practice” experience. For each country the analysis was subdivided into three phases as per the theoretical framework of Chazan, Lewis, Mortimer, Rothchild, and Stedman’s book, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (1999). Their book describes three stages of change in African state development in the post-colonial era (Chazan-framework). This framework uses the Chazan-framework and thus subdivides the post-colonial era into: the concentration (centralisation) phase, the elaboration phase, and finally the reconsideration of state power phase. The research found that Zaire/DRC followed a process of state collapse in the post-colonial era, whereas in sharp contrast Botswana experienced positive state development. Since independence Zaire continuously practised poor governance whilst Botswana largely practiced good governance. This was true in all three phases of the Chazan-framework. At the same time, or perhaps due to poor governance, Zaire continuously experienced negative development in all three development categories whilst Botswana continuously experienced positive development in all three development categories, again perhaps due to good governance. The research concludes that even though Botswana is not necessarily an example of a perfect state, it is special in an African context, because of its good governance record. This study does not draw direct relationships between good governance and development, but finds that Botswana probably benefited greatly in development due to the implementation of good institutions, good government policies and general good governance. The research also found that states benefit when their governments practice and adopt policies that are anti-corruption, pro-democracy, pro-competition, pro public-private partnerships, and pro market-orientated economics. In addition, the following are also conducive to good governance: leadership with integrity, peaceful and regular leadership changes, clear distinction between government (party) and the state, and empowered government oversight institutions that act, even against the government itself when needed. The practice of good governance is thus shown to be supportive of long-term development.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om die interaksie tussen regering en ontwikkeling in post-koloniale Afrika te ondersoek. Die tesis gaan uit vanuit die oogpunt dat die staat steeds ‘n dominante akteur in die internasionale stelsel is. Die studie het gebruik gemaak van ‘n vergelykende ontleding. Regeringstyl en ontwikkeling in post-koloniale Afrika is met mekaar vergelyk. Die vergelyking is getrek tussen Botswana en Zaïre/Demokratiese Republiek van die Kongo (DRK). Die belangrikheid van die navorsing lê in die bydrae tot die debat oor die rol van die staat in Afrika in die post-koloniale era. Dit bekyk die belangrikheid van instellingskepping en beleids-implementering (met ander woorde, regeerstyl of regering) deur regerings in terme van invloed op die ontwikkeling van state in Afrika. Beter begrip van hierdie verhouding kan waardevolle lesse bevat vir ander Afrikastate in hul pogings om verder te ontwikkel. Die navorsingsvraag wat die tesis gelei het was dus: in die era van die voorrang van die staat, en deur gebruikmaking van ‘n vergelykende studie tussen Botswana en Zaïre/DRK, wat is die invloed en effek van staatsinstelling-vorming en van beleids-implementering (regering) deur regerings, op staatsontwikkeling in terme van ekonomiese-, politieke- en sosiale ontwikkeling? In hierdie studie was regering en ontwikkeling die twee belangrikste veranderlikes gewees. Ontwikkeling is onderverdeel in drie aanwysers: politieke, ekonomiese en maatskaplike ontwikkeling. Regering is geëvalueer in terme van wat gesien word as swak of goeie regering, volgens die Wêreldbank se definisie en begrip van goeie regering. Zaïre/DRK is eerste as ‘n voorbeeld van 'n mislukte staat ontleed, gevolg deur Botswana, gekies vir sy veronderstelde "beste praktyk"-ervaring. Die analise vir elk van hierdie lande is onderverdeel in drie fases, soos gebaseer op die teoretiese raamwerk van Chazan, Lewis, Mortimer, Rothchild, en Stedman in, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (1999) (die Chazan-raamwerk). Hierdie raamwerk onderverdeel die post-koloniale era in: die konsentrasiefase (sentraliseringsfase), die uitbreidingsfase en uiteindelik die fase van die heroorweging van staatsmag. Die navorsing bevind dat Zaïre 'n proses van ineenstorting van die staat in die post-koloniale era ervaar het, terwyl Botswana in skrille kontras positiewe staatsontwikkeling ervaar het. Hierdie tendens was aanwesig in al drie fases van die Chazan-raamwerk. Sedert onafhanklikheid het Botswana ook goeie regering toegepas terwyl Zaïre/DRK meestal swak regering toegepas het. Terselfdertyd, dalk ook weens swak regering, het Zaïre/DRK voortdurend negatiewe ontwikkeling ervaar in al drie van die ontwikkelings kategorieë, terwyl Botswana voortdurend, moontlik te danke goeie regering, positiewe ontwikkeling in al drie die ontwikkelingskategorieë ervaar het. Die navorsing kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat, selfs al is Botswana nie noodwendig ‘n voorbeeld van 'n perfekte staat nie, dit steeds weens ‘n goeie regeringstradisie, uniek is in Afrika-konteks. Alhoewel hierdie studie nie 'n direkte verhouding tussen goeie regering en ontwikkeling probeer bevestig het nie, bevind dit wel dat Botswana moontlik in terme van ontwikkeling, weens die implementering van goeie instellings, goeie regeringsbeleid en algemene goeie regering, baie voordeel getrek het. Die navorsing bevind ook dat state voordeel trek wanneer hul regerings beleid aanvaar en toepas wat teen korrupsie is, maar wat demokratiese ideale, markkompetisie, openbare-private vennootskappe en markgeoriënteerde ekonomiese aktiwiteite bevorder. Goeie regering word ook bevorder deur leierskap met integriteit, vreedsame en gereelde verandering van leierskap, duidelike onderskeid tussen die regering (party) en die staat, sowel as nie-regeringsinstellings met die mag om as oorsigliggame oor die regering te funksioneer. Die praktyk van goeie regering blyk dus langtermyn staatsontwikkeling te bevoordeel en te ondersteun.

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Few, Martha Blair 1964. "Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750". Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282504.

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This dissertation analyzes the gender and ethnic dimensions of cultural authority and power within the process of colonial rule in Guatemala. To do so, I focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century accounts of the lives and practices of female healers, midwives, sorcerers, and clandestine cult leaders in the capital, Santiago de Guatemala. Colonial authorities often called these women mujeres de mal vivir, "women who live evil lives." Community members from all sectors of colonial society consulted women who practiced sexual witchcraft, magical healing, and popular religious rituals in multi-ethnic urban communities such as Santiago. These women were asked to intervene in a wide variety of conflicts in everyday life, in sexual and familial relations, disputes between neighbors, petty theft, instances of abusive colonial officials, employers, and husbands, and in cases of bewildering and often bizarre illnesses. Women's power in urban communities was maintained through reputation, informal material bases of power, social ties between inhabitants of the capital and surrounding indigenous towns, and public displays of healing, violence, and devotional acts. Women possessed authority in everyday life through their knowledge of the body and the natural world, which drew on Spanish, African, and Mayan religious and supernatural beliefs. I base my analysis on Inquisition cases prosecuted in Santiago de Guatemala from 1650 to 1750, supplemented with civil and ecclesiastical correspondence, city council records, and other sources. The examination of women's practices of healing, sorcery, sexual witchcraft and popular devotional acts revealed opportunities for women's partial cultural and symbolic autonomy in everyday life in Santiago de Guatemala. Women reinforced their power through public displays and informal social ties to friends, family, and neighbors, ties that often crossed ethnic, class, and urban and rural divisions of colonial society. On the one hand, women's alternative practices revealed the crucial, but often overlooked, gender dynamics of power within the broader framework of ethnic and cultural resistance to colonial rule. On the other hand, however, women's cultural resistance also became opportunities for the reinscription of colonial hegemony through institutions such as the Inquisition, and for encompassing urban communities within the Spanish colonial state.

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Cianciarulo, Adriana Quilici Barreto. "Materiais usados como pigmento no período colonial brasileiro". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13300.

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Based on the history of science, this research aimed to discover the materials used as pigment and the specificities of colonial Brazilian artistic production through literature related to decorative arts of the period. To achieve some of those materials we‟ve referred the treatises on painting of the italians Cennino Cennini‟s Trattato della Pittura (c. 1398) and Giorgio Vasari‟s Le Vite de più eccelenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue, insino a tempi nostril (1550); of the portugueses Filipe Nunes‟s Arte da Pintura, Symetria e Perspectiva (1615); as well as the dictionary of terms of Rafael Bluteau‟s Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino (1712) and the text Segredos necessarios para os officios, artes e manufacturas, e para muitos objectos sobre a economia domestica (1794). We also observed artistic knowledge present in some of the books published by the Casa Literária do Arco do Cego and partner publishers (1799 to 1801). Several elements to the composition of this research came from contemporary studies in the areas of architecture and conservation restoration related to Jesuit constructions of art and colonial painting and scientific analyses of these materials
Com base na História da Ciência, esta pesquisa buscou conhecer os materiais usados como pigmento e as especificidades da produção artística colonial brasileira a partir da literatura referente às artes decorativas do período. Para conhecer um pouco sobre esses materiais, percorremos os tratados de pintura dos italianos Cenino Cennini, Trattato della pittura (c.1398), e Giorgio Vasari, Vida dos artistas (1550); dos portugueses Felipe Nunes, Arte da pintura, symetria e perspectiva (1615); assim como o dicionário de termos de Rafael Bluteau, Vocabulario portuguez e latino... (1712), e o texto Segredos necessarios para os officios, artes e manufacturas, e para muitos objetos sobre a economia doméstica (1794). Recorremos também aos conhecimentos artísticos presentes em alguns dos livros publicados pela Casa Literária do Arco do Cego e por editoras parceiras (1799 a 1801). Diversos elementos para a composição desta pesquisa vieram ainda dos estudos contemporâneos das áreas de arquitetura e conservação e restauração relacionados às construções jesuíticas, à arte e à pintura colonial e às análises científicas desses materiais

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Walters, Mark D. "The continuity of Aboriginal customs and government under British imperial constitutional law as applied in colonial Canada, 1760-1860". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0c0d802-5a51-44d8-a916-aa4ce08de680.

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This thesis examines the British legal status of aboriginal customary laws and governments in colonial Canada between 1760 and 1860, with a view to contributing to the debate about their modern legal status under the Canadian constitution. By "colonial Canada" is meant the British colonies of Quebec (1763-1791), Upper and Lower Canada (1791-1841) and Canada (1841-1867). The central argument of the thesis is that there existed in colonial Canada two distinct systems of municipal law one system for settlers and one system (or set of systems) for natives both deriving legitimacy from an over-arching British imperial constitution. The settler system was established by imperial statute, while native systems were recognized by non-statutory principles of imperial law, or "imperial common law". It is argued that the common-law principle of continuityâaccording to which British courts presumed that the laws of peoples subjected to British sovereignty remained in force at common law until abrogated by prerogative or Parliamentary legislation formed the doctrinal foundation of aboriginal rights to customary law and government in colonial Canada. The objective of Part One of the thesis is to construct a theory of imperial law applicable to the unique constitutional history of colonial Canada. To this end, the principle of continuity is analysed both as it was developed in relation to England's early imperial experiences and as it was manifested in statutes and judicial opinions relating to native nations in British North American colonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Part Two of the thesis applies the general principles of imperial law developed in Part One to Canadian constitutional history. The various municipal legal regimes established under imperial statute for settlers are examined in light of the fact that the imperial ministry, which retained direct control over Indian policy in Canada until 1860, recognized the continuity of native customary law and government in both unceded and reserved Indian lands. It will be argued that this imperial recognition confirmed the common-law continuity of native law and government.

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Razakamaharavo, Velomahanina Tahinjanahary. "Unveiling the puzzle of conflict recurrence through the prism of conflict transformation : Madagascar, from the colonial period to 2016". Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/69072/.

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The conflict trajectory in the cases of Madagascar features highly unstable dynamics composed of various shifts (and no shift) of conflict stages. With nine main successive episodes of conflict spanning a long period of time (the colonial period to 2016), dynamics of escalation, de-escalation and stability (where the level of conflict remains the same) are building up the cycles of peace/conflict processes in this country. The present manuscript studies conflict recurrence in Madagascar and mainly argues that peace is multi-leveled throughout the cycles. Starting from that viewpoint, the concept of conflict transformation is used in explaining the ebbs and flows at play constructing the conflict trajectory. An innovative as well as original conceptual and methodological approach to the study of conflicts, weaving together Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and in-depth narrative analysis was applied. Reactive and non-reactive methods were used to collect the data, which, after being tested with fsQCA, Tosmana and R software, were examined by conducting conflict analysis, semiotics, public policy studies and critical discourse analysis. The Units of analysis in the research design allowing the study of the dynamics of conflict recurrence in Madagascar were the structural factors and parts of the mechanism pertaining to :a) conflict dimensions (cultural, socio-demographic and economic, political and global external), b) repertoires of action the conflicting parties used throughout the shifts (or no shift) of conflict stages, c) their framings of the conflicts, d) the boundary construction of the self/the other and e) the accommodation policies as well as f) the metanarratives and local narratives. On the whole peace and conflict processes in Madagascar.

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Catsis, Nicolaos Dimitrios. "Examining the Impact of Colonial Administrations on Post-Independence State Behavior in Southeast Asia". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/257213.

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Political Science
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This project is concerned with examining the impact of colonial administrations on post-independence state behavior in Southeast Asia. Despite a similar historical context, the region exhibits broad variation in terms of policy preferences after independence. Past literature has focused, largely, upon pre-colonial or independence era factors. This project, however, proposes that state behavior is heavily determined by a combination of three colonial variables: indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. It also constructs a four-category typology for the purposes of ordering the broad variation we see across post-colonial Southeast Asia. Utilizing heavy archival research and historical analysis, I examine three case studies in the region, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, that share a common colonial heritage yet exhibit markedly different post-independence preferences. Vietnam's colonial legacy is characterized by high indigenous elite mobility, medium colonial income diversity, and medium-high levels of institutional-infrastructure. This creates a state where the local elites are capable and socially mobile, but lack the fully developed skill sets, institutions and infrastructure we see in a Developmental state such as South Korea or Taiwan. As a result, Vietnam is a Power-Projection state, where elites pursue security oriented projects as a means of compensating for inequalities between their own social mobility and acquired skills, institutions and infrastructure. In Cambodia, indigenous elite mobility and colonial income diversity are both low, creating an entrenched, less experienced elite. Medium levels of institutional-infrastructure enables the elite to extract wealth for class benefit. As a result, the state becomes an instrument for elite enrichment and is thus classified as Self-Enrichment state. Laos' colonial history is characterized by low levels of indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. Laos' elite are deeply entrenched, like their counterparts in Cambodia. However, unlike Cambodia, Laos lacks sufficient institutional-infrastructure levels to make wealth extraction worthwhile for an elite class. Laos' inability to execute an internal policy course, or even enrich narrow social class, categorize it as a Null state. The theory and typology presented in this project have broad applications to Southeast Asia and the post-colonial world more generally. It suggests that the colonial period, counter to more recent literature, has a much greater impact on states after independence. As most of the world is a post-colonial state, understanding the mechanisms for preferences in these states is very important.
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Jones, Cassandra L. "FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368927282.

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Jourdain, de Alencastro Mathias. "Diamond politics in the Angolan periphery : colonial and postcolonial Lunda 1917-2002". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:85a838a6-8a33-471e-a563-c29d18264fbc.

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Angola is currently the fifth-largest diamond producer in the world. Yet neither the politics nor the history of Angola's diamond trade receives much attention either in the Angolan scholarship or the thematic literature on the mining sector more generally. The gap in the literature is significant, for diamond companies produce far more than revenue and profits: for some one hundred years, the diamond sector has governed, policed, defended, and controlled the strategic, diamond-rich provinces of Lunda Sul and Lunda Norte. This thesis explores the historical trajectory of the diamond sector in the Lundas. It concentrates on the powerfully symbiotic relationship between the diamond sector and the state from the colonial period to the present time. Drawing on a wide range of untapped official documents as well as interviews, it argues that the diamond sector has functioned historically as the conduit through which the state projects its power and secures its interests in a strategic but hostile territory. The thesis further shows how the politics of resource control both define the state’s strategies towards the diamond sector and perpetuate the entrenched system of privatised governance that has existed in the Lundas for more than a century. The thesis builds upon both the historical and contemporary literature on the mining sector and the literature on state formation. It challenges the conventional notion that the persistent power of private companies in Africa is the result of state weakness or state absence, underlining instead how state leaders instrumentalise and empower companies according to their changing priorities. It also considers the implications of this case study more broadly through a cross-case analysis of mining politics elsewhere in Africa. In the process, this study provides an original approach to state–mining sector relations that is of relevance to scholars working on the politics and political economy of state-making and of resources extraction in Africa.

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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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Rugege, Samuel. "Chieftaincy and society in Lesotho : a study in the political economy of the Basotho chieftaincy from pre-colonial times to the present". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332935.

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Gouaux, Mireille. "Recherches sur l'imaginaire : marxisme et psychanalyse. l'imaginaire colonial; l'imaginaire de la science chez jules verne et elsa triolet; un imaginaire romanesque : colette". Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030159.

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Marxisme et psychanalyse, ont entre la fin du xixeme et le debut du xxeme siecle, aborde de facon radicalement nouvelle, les rapports de l'imaginaire et de l'art avec la realite sociale, et les activites psychiques. Le marxisme, dans son courant ouvert, tel qu'on le voit naitre chez le jeune marx et tel que lukacs, mais surtout brecht, aragon et triolet, bakhtine l'ont developpe, integre les productions imaginaires dans l'ensemble des activites humaines qui les determinent, mais y reconnait un pouv de transformation specifique, qui tend, dans les limites des donnees de la realite, a depasser celles ci, dans un espace qui leur devient par la irreductible. La psychanalyse, de son cote, rend compte, la aussi dans son courant ouvert, tel qu'il apparait chez freud, mais aussi chez ehrenzweig, et lacan, des transformations operees par l'imaginaire et l'art sur les processus primaires de l'incons cient, et qui les rend de la meme maniere, irreductibles a ceux ci. Outre que tous deux reconnaissent donc a l'imaginaire et a l'art un pouvoir specifique dans la production d'une nature humaine, ils semblent pouvoir, si on conjugue leurs explic cations, rendre compte du fait esthetique. Ce travail a comme but, a partir du marxisme et de la psychana lyse, de chercher des reponses aux questions d'ensemble concernant les rapports de l'imaginaire et de l'art, a l'histoir et a l'interiorite psychique, afin de permettre de formuler une methode d'approche des textes litteraires; il est constitue de deux volumes, l'un consacre a la reflexion theorique, l'autre a la mise en oeuvre de la methode proposee, et qui comporte une serie de travaux sur l'imaginaire colonial dans le roman anglais et francais de 1870 a 1914, sur l'imaginaire de la science chez jules verne et elsa triolet, et sur l'imaginaire romanesque de colette
Marxism and psychoanalysis, at the end of the xixth and the beginning of the xxth century, made a similar attempt at defining the relationship of imagination and art, with social history as well as with psychic activity. Marxism has been developing, after marx, and thanks to lukacs, but mainly brecht, aragon, triolet, and bakhtine, a tendency to consider imaginary productions as well as art, as determined by reality, but as achieving a specific metamorphosis upon it, which renders their achievements irreductible to to it. Psychoanalysis, for its part, accounts for imagination, after freud, mainly thanks to anton ehrenzweig, and lacan, as tr formation produced upon primary impulses, rendering them altogether different; both agree in recognizing in imagination and art a specific aptitude at producing "human nature", and both seem, if used in a complementary way, to allow a satisfactory appreciation of aesthetic facts. Inspired by both epistemologie, this thesis intends to elaborate some answers to the general questions concerning the relationship of imagination and art with history and psychic activity, and formulate a method in literary criticism. It contains two parts, the first of which is dedicated to the theoritical approach, and the second to samples of the proposed method. This part deals successively with colonial imagination in the french and english novels between 1870 and 1914, with science as a literary theme in the novels by jules verne and elsa triolet, and finally with the imaginati ve power developed by colette

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Monnier, Jehanne-Emmanuelle. "Du voyageur naturaliste à l'explorateur scientifique colonial. Itinéraires et stratégies d'Alfred Grandidier (1836-1921)". Thesis, La Réunion, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LARE0015/document.

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Cette thèse a pour objet de mettre en lumière l'évolution de l'exploration scientifique durant le XIXème siècle en France. Pour cela, elle s'appuie à la fois sur l'histoire des sciences, l'histoire coloniale et l'histoire culturelle et des mentalités. Le parcours d'Alfred Grandidier se révèle caractéristique d'une époque charnière au cours de laquelle l'héritage de la science des Lumières est encore tangible tandis que sont déjà à l'œuvre les principes de la science coloniale qui s'épanouira dans l'Entre-deux-guerres. L'étude de l'itinéraire scientifique d'Alfred Grandidier, avec une nécessaire prise de recul, est également enrichissante du point de vue de l'expérience individuelle : en effet il s'agit d'analyser le processus de construction de la carrière scientifique et le cheminement personnel d'Alfred Grandidier, de sa formation durant l'enfance jusqu'à l'héritage intellectuel qu'il a légué. Cette thèse insiste sur les aspects matériels et quotidiens des voyages et des recherches de terrain, sans oublier l'implication du scientifique dans une multitude de réseaux ainsi que la construction de sa propre image
Our aim is to study the evolution of scientific exploration in France during the 19th century, dealing with the history of sciences, colonial history and cultural history. Alfred Grandidier's path is characteristic of a transitionnal period in wich former scientific tradition of Enlightenment is still tangible while principles of colonial science of the 1930's are already emerging. Alfred Grandidier's scientific itinerary is also interesting in itself. Our puprose is to analyse the building process of the scientific career and the personnal undergoing of Alfred Grandidier, from his training during chilhood to his intellectual legacy. This thesis insists on material aspects and everyday life on exploration, bearing in mind involvement of the scientist in various networks including the construction of his own image

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Aubrey, Lisa Marie. "The transition from colonial systems of education to national systems of education in Kenya and Tanzania: implications for alleviating ethnic group inequalities a comparative analysis". The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1372076386.

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Holmberg, Megan Elizabeth. "Anomalous Apparitions of Light in Colonial America: Visions of Comets, New Stars, the Aurora Borealis, and Rainbows". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/590919.

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English
Ph.D.
This dissertation examines the body of literature that formed around anomalous light apparitions (comets, new stars, the aurora borealis, and rainbows) as it explores questions about the representation and response to celestial and meteorological phenomena during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in colonial America. I further consider the ways that these texts’ meanings are informed by rational scientific thought and by other non-scientific or non-rational, emotive, or aesthetic modes of thinking. I consider how these phenomena elicit a set of empirical yet emotionally-charged observational practices that complicate how we understand the roles of the rational and the non-rational in the scientific literature of this period. I argue that non-rational passionate investments are evident within or as part of the period’s rational scientific literature; they act as the impetus for scientific inquiry therefore forming an integral part of the scientific endeavor. This dissertation further explores how the practice of writing about these phenomena generates and facilitates the formation of communities of amateur scientific observers in colonial America. I further investigate how practices of data collection contribute to knowledge about the regular and irregular behaviors of celestial bodies, and how this knowledge impacts everyday practices essential for survival such as farming and travelling. What science writing from this period demonstrates is the ability for multiple ways of thinking to be in play simultaneously; these texts show how several worldviews (i.e. science, Puritanism, popular religion) are intrinsic to each other. Because of their liminality, these texts function outside of traditional categories such science, religion, and natural philosophy. Furthermore, they destabilize traditional conceptions of genre with their blend of rational and non-rational modes of thought and their incorporation of fact and fiction. While I treat these literary texts within their historical contexts, I am also interested in the ways in which these texts reach modern audiences, particularly in academia at a time when the humanities and sciences are positioned against one another.
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