Belgian Surrealist Raoul Ubac’s Penthésilée photomontages (1937-39) depict imagined scenes of graphic violence that fragment the female body to the point of rendering it illegible. This representational violence occurs not only on the iconographic level, but is also embedded in …
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This dissertation examines the historical and contemporary lives of transcultural decorative arts produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Kerala, India, arguing for their sensorial and political efficacy in colonial and courtly sociopolitical encounters in India a…
We are largely unaware of the invisible forces at work that shape both the space we inhabit and our experience of that space. Therefore, it is necessary to interrogate the physical markers that shape that experience. This thesis poses the question: what is the purpose of a site …
This thesis examines the evolution of signaletic space in early 20th century China by looking at it through two major transformations. First, through the development of radio infrastructures as actualized in the emergence of heterogeneous institutions tied to various global proc…
While there is no shortage of scholarship on the downstream effects of colonialism, colonial authoritarianism itself remains seriously understudied. This dissertation develops mid-range insights about the “colonial situation” through a three-part exploration of the roles played …
This dissertation examines conquering creole consciousness through the voluminous pastoral and ethnographic writings of Mota y Escobar (1546-1625), a first-generation elite criollo of Hispanic descent, who served as Bishop of Guadalajara-Nueva Galicia (1598-1607) and Tlaxcala-Pu…
The controversial subject of blackness resides at the center of discussions of race in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, scholars have painted the Dominican Republic as a society ignorant of its own history of blackness and devoid of a black consciousness. They argue that D…
Black porn stars are often featured in race based porn videos headed with racial epithets such as “Dark Slut will Surely Excite You,” “The Big Black Destroyer,” and “Smallest Chick Takes 12 Inch Biggest Black Cock!”. These titles reflect long-standing tropes pertaining to the se…
On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) is enacting contested approaches of reclaiming tribal histories threatened by persistent 19th century settler colonial narratives of ethnic erasure. Legally exiled from their capital village in 1871 as a resu…
In 1697 Massachusetts settler Hannah Duston was taken captive by a group of Abenaki Indians. Duston and her companions escaped captivity by using a tomahawk to kill ten of her captors. Within her captivity narrative, Duston inhabits the role of captor rather than captive, provid…
This research is based on a qualitative exploratory enquiry which aims to investigate the status of culture in the new middle school curriculum of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Algeria and its potential to develop learners’ ICC (Intercultural Communicative Competence). …
This thesis examines myths surrounding First World War soldier Patrick Riel and argues that white Canadian settlers have created a variety of stories about Patrick Riel’s supposedly Métis identity. Settler-propagated stories about Patrick Riel started after his untimely death in…
This dissertation explores the technologies of numerical information in Afghanistan. It examines the history and politics of the tools used to produce numeral data for the purpose of governance. Based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, this project assesses the cri…
The purpose of this thesis is to draw some parallels between the largely ignored, and usually vilified national cultures of the countries making up the so-called “socialist bloc” and to ask in what way the common cultural practices adopted by a large number of them during the ha…
English is the most widely spoken language in the world, and many higher education institutes (HEIs) in the global South have prioritised English language education (ELE). In Colombia, the context of this study, English has become the de facto foreign language in Colombian highe…
This thesis discusses various issues around queer in the Korean film industry, looking at different perspectives, such as gender, politics, and economy. In particular, this thesis may be the first that investigates Korean queer films in various domains. Unlike earlier research l…
Focussing on the art and design programs of the Container Corporation of America (CCA), this dissertation interrogates the conceptualization and employment of environmental design across the CCA’s management strategies from the mid-1930s to 1970. The project begins by analyzing …
In 1963/64, James Deetz led a team in the excavation of the Chumash Family Apartments at Mission La Purísima Concepción. He suggested that the individuals who lived there had lost traditional lifeways by demonstrating more enculturation into the mission system than what was obse…
‘Etiquette’ refers to “the customary code of…behavior in society or among members of a particular… group” (Oxford University Press 2019). As a collectively agreed upon set of performances, etiquette is closely related to architecture in how it orchestrates performance through pr…