The purpose of this study is to examine the Leaving Certificate Applied programme (LCA) as it is lived out and experienced today and to investigate whether or not these experiences continue to marry with the original aims of the programme. The Leaving Certificate Applied Program…
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O presente trabalho procura analisar um tema cuja visibilidade permanece algo reduzida. Esta ‘nova’ forma de abuso apropria-se das vulnerabilidades tradicionais e locais, mas também das ferramentas que, enquanto sociedade, agora nos encontramos altamente dependentes. Nomeadament…
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 …
Die Asoke-Gemeinschaft wurde Mitte der 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts gegründet und hat sich seitdem zu einem maßgebendem und außergewöhnlichem Bestandteil der thailändischen Religionslandschaft entwickelt. Die Gemeinschaft besteht sowohl aus ordinierten Frauen und Männern, als…
The stereoscopic 3D images of Puerto Rico produced and distributed between 1900-1910 by the Kansas-based photographic company Underwood & Underwood are notable visual documents of the first years of the American occupation of the archipelago. While these images rely on visua…
Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its land filled with gullies and po…
This dissertation explores how technologies and infrastructures for promoting control and cohesion have interfaced with the social and political history of Lesotho over the longue durée . This approach allows for tracing lines of historical continuity and change during a period …
This paper proposes the “uncolonial” as an alternative Philippine ontology to the traditionally dualistic terrain of coloniality often associated with the archipelago. While much traditional research has provided insight into the ways in which colonial governance, bolstered by C…
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…
In the past decade, food (in)security has been recognized as an important public health and human rights issue in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Arctic Canada. Nunavut in particular has been characterized as the epicenter of a Northern food crisis. While a growing number …
“Making Land, Making People: Rhetorics of Value and Improvement in Early Modern English Literature,” explores early modern English conceptions of land use and agriculture as they appear in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century agricultural treatises and poetry. I argue that the ove…
In the first decade of their occupation of the former Ottoman territories of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in current-day Libya, the Italian colonial administration established a system of indirect rule in the Cyrenaican town of Ajedabiya under the leadership of Idris al-Sanusi, a …
This dissertation traces the competing forces of antisemitism and Jewish civic activism in French colonial Algeria from the 1870 Crémieux decree to the end of World War II. The dissertation centers on the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as the…
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 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…
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…
Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…
This thesis explores what it means for the Palestinian indigenous minority in Israel to produce art in a setting that has simultaneously controlled their movements and excluded them from full citizenship. It takes on the question of how Palestinian artists face discrimination wi…