colonialism

Scholarly discussion of tourism's role in modern Egypt is commonly reflected as a byproduct of orientalism and Egyptomania. While this is true, tourism's relationship with colonialism in the early twentieth century is underrepresented in scholarship. Modern tourism's origins in …

The consequences of colonialism for Canadian Indigenous peoples are far-reaching, and cumulative, with vast disparities in health, healthcare, and high mortality rates. Decolonizing Indigenous health and wellbeing is long overdue, requiring an equal partnership between governmen…

Mixed opinions of cute heavy metal band Babymetal reveal a genuine misunderstanding of historical Japanese musicianship and heavy metal scenes, while also exemplifying racist and misogynistic attitudes that are endemic to the heavy metal community as a whole. Drawing on Kimberle…

This dissertation answers the timely questions: how has the Black female body been represented in the contemporary poetry of the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean, and why does it matter today? In pursuit of these questions, this project compares the work of Afrofeminist poets Nancy Morej…

Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, colonial projects in southern New England sponsored dozens of communities commonly called “praying towns.” Missionaries and colonial authorities envisioned these as bounded settlements where Indigenous people would learn to adopt Christi…

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in order to build a common language, or discourse, for the diagnosis of mental health disorders. First, the critical historical tracing of the DSM examines…

The education system of the western world is a tool of hegemony used to command replication of an ontology rooted in oppression. Teachers interested in combating oppression must work toward decolonizing their praxis, a nuanced task accomplished with the help of critical inquiry …

Following the discovery of sizable offshore petroleum deposits off the southeastern coast of Mtwara Region in Tanzania, state and private-sector representatives assured Mtwara residents that they would see intensive government investment in local infrastructure and industry. In …

Is it possible for the victim of epistemic injustice to be appreciative of it? What we get from the literature is that victims of epistemic injustice are either unaware of, indifferent to, or resistant against, the injustices that they experience – never appreciative. But how sh…

Land reform is important to correct historical injustices in all districts of South Africa, including the Waterberg District Municipality. There is consensus, globally, that there are trade-offs among diverse land reform objectives, namely: social, economic, political and enviro…

Purpose. This study engaged Diné women in describing wellness and how they maintain wellness utilizing a qualitative descriptive methodology and application of the culturally valued process of relational accountability. A Diné Cultural Advisory Committee provided guidance for an…

Suicide is commonly described as an urgent health concern and tragedy afflicting Indigenous communities in Canada. This work aimed to develop more contextual understandings of complex death, specifically Indigenous youth deaths by suicide that considered social, economic, histor…

The Filipino American population has now grown to more than 4.1 million, a significant increase from the 2010 estimate of 3.4 million. As a large segment of the fast-growing Asian American population, Filipino Americans are more likely than any other Asian American group to iden…

What does it mean to look Native and what do the stereotypes of Indigenous appearance have to do with actually being Indigenous in the 21st century? This dissertation examines embodiment as a concept and an artistic strategy utilized by four contemporary Indigenous artists—Fiona…

This thesis focuses on the Ogoni minority ethnic group in Rivers State, which forms part of the Eastern Niger Delta, Nigeria. It explores the Ogoni people’s struggle for survival by tracing the problems of the Ogoni to British colonial rule and its political effect on the minori…

This work explores the ramifications of slavery for modern Britain, contrasting ancient and pre-modern institutions within the context of Britain’s former colonies (Williams, 1994). Modern attitudes to slavery are inspected, revealing the continuing manifestation of anti-black r…

This thesis quantitatively and qualitatively analyses publication trends in the Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, a journal that was published by the Department of Agriculture of the Cape Colony from 1888 to 1911. The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, t…

A partir da análise da primeira obra historiográfica relativa a Angola, escrita em 1680, apresenta-se o papel das autoridades locais na construção deste território enquanto espaço colonial. Este processo foi estruturado a partir da vontade portuguesa, no final do século XVI, em …

Though Childhood Studies has been gradually diversifying, children’s literature of the Global South is still understudied. This has resulted in a normative understanding of the concept of ‘multiple childhoods,’ a concept that is gradually permeating the field in opposition to un…

Physical activity, games, sport and youth have a rich history within Indigenous communities, but that is not reflected in academic literature. For years, scholars wrote about Indigenous communities and people and not with them. Aspects of everyday life, such as physical activity…