colonialism

The collecting of “erotic” artifacts in 19th century Egyptology reveals the ways in which museums constructed knowledge around sex and grappled with sexual content in relation to the perceived value of artifacts. By looking at two types of artifacts, those with an overt sexual n…

A standard practice in the sociological and comparative politics literature is to interpret ethnicity broadly as identity cleavages deriving from non-class categories such as language, religion, race and caste. In recent decades, conflicts between ‘ethnic’ communities, i.e., gro…

Diese Studie ordnet die ökonomischen Modelle der „Entwicklungshilfe“ als kolonial geprägtes und historisch gebundenes Wissen ein und untersucht deren Lokalisierung in Verhandlungen und Projekten der Bundesrepublik und der Niederlande mit der Republik Indonesien in den langen 196…

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…

In colonial Peru, the Spanish crown relied on religious orders, most notably Dominicans, Franciscans, and Jesuits, for accelerating processes of colonization. The dissemination of Christian art, architecture and music, and most of all the agency of indigenous people in their pro…

This research set to read the reign of the Modjadji Rain Queens from a gender-critical lens. The setting of their dynasty on the one hand in a South African democratic space with an appraisal of women’s rights and on the other in a rural traditionalist setting where women have a…

This dissertation explores the emergence of three different epidemic diseases in three British colonial cities at the end of the nineteenth century. At first glance these cities – Melbourne, Australia; Bombay, India; and Belfast, Northern Ireland – appear disparate, and their ep…

This paper investigates William Strachey’s A True Reportory, a stylized eyewitness account of Strachey’s 1609–1610 voyage to the Jamestown colony, showing how the text utilizes Vergil’s Aeneid to set a precedent for the British colonization of the New World. By using the Aeneid …

As concerns with global interconnectedness have moved cosmopolitanism to the center of political philosophy, interest in Kant's cosmopolitan arguments has surged. Kant's vision of cosmopolitanism and his claims to universalism have been attacked by feminist theorists, critical r…

In recent decades, French historical scholarship has begun to re-examine the Second Empire, revising a period once interpreted in terms of failure and national tragedy to reveal a moment in which the roots of France’s “modern” republican polity emerged. Yet in spite of this re-e…

In this dissertation, I tell three stories about cultural institutions, colonialism and memory. I tell these stories through the exploration of a well-known cultural institution in Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA). This dissertation is interested in how IMA talks about Franc…

This dissertation is an examination of the ways in which colonial ontologies continue to structure forms of self-understanding in the postcolonial world, with specific reference to contemporary Fijian military service in the British Army. Based on seventeen months of ethnographi…