The three questions aimed to be answered when beginning this research is as follows: How does Māori spirituality including mana and tapu contribute to and influence the distinctive songs of the Māori? How does waiata act as an agent for social change, particularly regarding lang…
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Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century recovery romances create a convergent set of fantasies that reflect desires both for the reclamation of the Holy Land and for the protection and ascendance of Christianity. The disunity of Europe and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire produced …
L'homme Ouvert is a thesis that focuses on the translation of a full body of work by the poet Jean Sénac. Jean Sénac was a French-Algerian poet of the mid-20th century. He was a French-speaking Pied-noir homosexual whose life and poetry revolved around the facets of his complex …
This thesis is the study of Great Power nvaliy during 1958-1963, a period of bothincreasing political and economic cooperation in Western Europe and transatlanticrelations within NATO against a background of the Cold War France and Britain are thefocus of our analysis. The two s…
This thesis shall examine the development of a contemporary Irish animation industry, and in doing so, shall demonstrate how representations of Irish culture in animated film can be effectively assessed using postcolonial models of cultural production. The application of postcol…
This thesis examines the context and practices of emotion management for National workers in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) through a study of national workers recruited into disaster intervention in India. The research draws on postcolonial theory and prob…
The Maghreb Goes Abroad seeks to broaden and nuance our understanding of francophone North Africa by examining the ways in which some of its most well known literary and cultural works and figures have navigated a global market. This project analyzes the transnational movements …
This qualitative research method of study examined the impacts of the Nigerian pre-independence era Mathematics Education Practice on the Post-Colonial era Mathematics Education Practice. The study was designed to gather qualitative information related to Pre-independence and Po…
This creative dissertation implements an interdisciplinary methodology in reviewing theoretical arguments pertaining to the trope of Anthropological Magical Realism in literature. Part I examines my novel Babu Bangladesh! to evaluate how it maneuvers within this literary sect. P…
This dissertation explores the possibilities of Islamic statehood in post-colonial Pakistan through the works of three figures involved in framing the idea of the Islamic state: W.C. Smith, Muhammad Asad, and Muhammad Munir. Each of these three thinkers owes their position and p…
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 …
Prior research has well outlined, detailed, and critiqued the effects of post-colonialism on schooling in Trinidad and Tobago and throughout the Caribbean, but there is a glaring absence of teacher voice regarding its legacy in teaching, learning, and schooling. The literature l…
This thesis investigates the influence of folkloric and traditional Brazilian music genres in the work of contemporary Brazilian composers. It demonstrates that traditional Brazilian music styles are an intrinsic element of contemporary Brazilian music and that they inform compo…
Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita (completed 1940, first published 1966–67) is an attack on Stalin’s regime of lies and terror. Alternating between a fantastical account of the devil’s arrival in Moscow and a pseudo-historical account of Jesus Christ’s trial under Pontius …
In France there is a special genre of popular music called chanson engagée that is explicitly socially and politically engaged. This designation poses questions about the nature of music and politics, for example: what does it mean for a music to be socially and politically enga…
Modernity is central to postcolonial discourse. This paper examines how the state of Cambodia constructs modernity in the public imagination. Reflecting upon Homi Bhabha’s discussion on mimicry “almost the same, but not quite”, this paper looks at different aspects of modernity …
In contemporary France, there exists a tension between republican universalism and antiracism, particularly in terms of the way in which identities are constructed. Part of the difficulty, or the “trouble” that France has with identity has to do with its relationship to its form…
This study explored the impact of organizational culture on Haiti from a socio-economic standpoint. The study used a case study approach in examining how Haiti’s national organizational culture influences the organizational structure of the various entities that make up the over…