The main purpose of this study is to examine a popular Thai genre of the novel, romance fiction, with a focus on the modes of subjectivity and discourses of femininity and masculinity to be found in Thai romance novels between the 1940s and 1990s. The thesis also seeks to locate…
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The recent Umbrella Revolution has drawn the world's attention to Hong Kong's neo-colonial situation, where it is sandwiched in a number of interregna, such as between the postcolonial and the neo-colonial, or between ex-coloniser Britain and current coloniser China. This unique…
Using wide-ranging literature and theoretical concepts published digitally and in print, this thesis will build the emerging picture of African literature in English that is being published in the digital space. The study will analyse the technological production of classed and …
As a once-colonized people now living primarily in transnational family groups, Marshall Islanders have gone through rapid cultural changes. To better understand these changes, I present three ethnographic perspectives. The first is an analysis of Majuro’s transformation from a …
This thesis offers a critical analysis of the implications of ideological mediations in the translation of English-Kurdish geopolitical texts. It makes an original contribution by enabling a deeper comprehension of the role of re-contextualisation of socio-political texts in sit…
In the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), there are at least two groups of people with privileged claims to the islands' territory: The U.S. Military and the native Chamorro and Refaluwasch peoples. As some of the longest colonized islands in the Pacific, …
This thesis brings together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite the limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and Oceania have been dis…
The Pacific Islands were settled via two major waves of migration - first in Near Oceania ~40-60 KYA and second in both Near and Remote Oceania ~3.5 KYA. These migrations are associated with non-Austronesian and Austronesian speakers, respectively. Previous studies of mitochondr…
Westerners have long imagined, represented, and treated islands around the globe as “natural laboratories” given their perceived geographic isolation. It was on islands that colonizers first conducted “experiments” in imperial expansion via the establishment of plantation econom…