In sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, portrayals of the Turk reflected aspects of Christian thinking. More specifically, these views varied according to ideological outlook, place and time. To complicate matters further, while there are a variety of images of the …
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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 sought to conceptualise children’s spelling and reading representations in a novel way based upon the implicit-explicit framework proposed by the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). The children studied were aged 4-7 years. Existing mod…
The decade of the 1950s and early 60s in Turkey witnessed a proliferation of popular historical literature on Ottoman women. The uniqueness of these writings, in terms of the representations of Ottoman women they introduce, stand out in light of the erasure of Ottoman women from…
This thesis explores middling reform-minded representations of plebeian children’s material worlds in England from 1720 to 1780. Specifically, it examines depictions of chattel and place in imagery of children, to convey messages aligned with the reform initiatives of the eighte…
The Internal War in Peru (1980-2000) had as its political actors the Peruvian army and police forces against the self-called guerrilla groups Sendero Luminoso (SL) and the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) that sought to destabilize the institutional order. One of the…
Memorials are connected to the geographical and historical moment during which they were built. Despite the myriad of monuments and memorials created in the wake of World War II, the widespread rape of women, has been largely absent from this commemorative landscape. Now that ra…