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This thesis draws on the documentary historical record to examine the interactions between the indigenous Larrakia people and the white settlers in the colonial township of Darwin between the years 1869 and 1911. The colonial recognition of the Larrakia as the traditional owners of lands in the Darwin region and the historical question of their land rights is discussed in some detail. Rather than seeing interactions between the Larrakia and the colonisers as polarised into either accommodation or resistance, this thesis looks at various interactions to highlight the complexities of the encounter. One of the more complex of their interactions was the negotiation of what is best described as an abstruse alliance which benefited both the Larrakia and the colonisers in various ways. The colonisation of the Darwin region had a considerable impact on the Larrakia people's ability to live on their country as they had done prior to the invasion. This thesis seeks to understand the negotiations, compromises and decisions the Larrakia made to survive in their changing landscape. Another complexity that is highlighted in this thesis is the tension within the white settler population about how to deal with what was presented as the 'Aboriginal problem'. This thesis shows that the ideology of compensating Aboriginal people for having invaded their land and undermining their means of subsistence was understood and condoned by the colonisers. The distribution of government rations, the allocation of reserves and the ongoing recognition of the Larrakia's right to be within the township were all ways that some colonisers attempted to compensate Aborigines for invading their land. This thesis shows that while the Larrakia people were recognised as the prior occupants of Darwin and, as such, accorded a distinct status within the township in the whole period under study, the colonisers ultimately failed to give tangible expression to the Larrakia's land rights.

Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-99). Also available on the World Wide Web.

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This thesis draws on the documentary historical record to examine the interactions between the indigenous Larrakia people and the white settlers in the colonial township of Darwin between the years 1869 and 1911. The colonial recognition of the Larrakia as the traditional owners of lands in the Darwin region and the historical question of their land rights is discussed in some detail. Rather than seeing interactions between the Larrakia and the colonisers as polarised into either accommodation or resistance, this thesis looks at various interactions to highlight the complexities of the encounter. One of the more complex of their interactions was the negotiation of what is best described as an abstruse alliance which benefited both the Larrakia and the colonisers in various ways. The colonisation of the Darwin region had a considerable impact on the Larrakia people's ability to live on their country as they had done prior to the invasion. This thesis seeks to understand the negotiations, compromises and decisions the Larrakia made to survive in their changing landscape. Another complexity that is highlighted in this thesis is the tension within the white settler population about how to deal with what was presented as the 'Aboriginal problem'. This thesis shows that the ideology of compensating Aboriginal people for having invaded their land and undermining their means of subsistence was understood and condoned by the colonisers. The distribution of government rations, the allocation of reserves and the ongoing recognition of the Larrakia's right to be within the township were all ways that some colonisers attempted to compensate Aborigines for invading their land. This thesis shows that while the Larrakia people were recognised as the prior occupants of Darwin and, as such, accorded a distinct status within the township in the whole period under study, the colonisers ultimately failed to give tangible expression to the Larrakia's land rights.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-85).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T22:59:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo8948_1.pdf: 1153938 bytes, checksum: 4cf1a17a5da7cb6c27f14d63c9c466fd (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / O objetivo central do presente trabalho de pesquisa é estudar a organização da conceitualização em estudantes de níveis médio e superior acerca do campo conceitual da evolução em biologia, lançando-se mão, de forma complementar, da abordagem de Lakatos referente à metodologia dos programas de pesquisa, e da abordagem psicológica cognitivista de Gérard Vergnaud, referente à organização de campos conceituais individuais (no aluno) e canônicos (nos paradigmas dominantes). Tentou-se identificar nos sujeitos como ocorre a mobilização dos conceitos necessários para a resolução de situações-problema relacionadas à evolução. Para tal foram coletados dados em dois contextos complementares de observação: a) Aplicação individual de questionário que envolveu 40 estudantes sendo 20 do ensino médio e 20 do ensino superior; b) Videografia e transcrição de debates entre estudantes em situações-problema de biologia evolutiva, envolvendo 28 sujeitos em interação social. As respostas dos estudantes ao questionário demonstram a variabilidade com que os sujeitos mobilizam conceitos dos campos conceituais diferentes. A análise destes dados mostrou que as respostas dos sujeitos não podem ser rigorosamente classificadas como lamarckistas ou darwinistas, verificando-se a co-existência flexível de aspectos relacionados a um e outro paradigma teórico. Entretanto, a análise dos dados referentes ao questionário e debates evidenciou a predominância de conceitos relacionados ao uso e desuso, herança dos caracteres adquiridos e do papel do ambiente como responsável direto pela mudança evolutiva, compartilhados tanto pelo campo conceitual lamarckista, como pelo darwinista e que podem se constituir em obstáculos à compreensão contemporânea cientificamente aceitável dos processos evolutivos. Neste contexto, quando comparados ao questionário individual, os debates apresentam um conteúdo mais rico de processos e estratégias cognitivas dos sujeitos, o que pode ser interpretado como efeito da interação social. Os protocolos aqui analisados permitem grosso modo propor que o conteúdo das teorias de Lamarck e Darwin em situações instrucionais se constitui num problema à compreensão por parte dos estudantes dos processos de biologia evolutiva. Este conteúdo, associado às idéias alternativas sobre o tema que os estudantes trazem para a sala de aula, se constitui em potencial obstáculo na aprendizagem dos conceitos canônicos da biologia evolutiva. Finalmente, os dados aqui coletados permitem propor que a Teoria dos Campos Conceituais oferece instrumental teórico adequado para a compreensão da base conceitual disponível, abordagem das dificuldades encontradas, descrição dos campos conceituais canônico e mobilizados pelos estudantes perante situações problema em biologia evolutiva

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This study explores Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s use of the dramatic form to challenge Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism by offering feminist adaptations of Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection. As she does in her career-defining manifesto, Women & Economics (1898), Gilman in her lesser-known plays deploys her own brand of reform Darwinism to serve the feminist cause. Despite her absence in histories of modern drama, Gilman actively participated in the establishment and development of this literary, historical, and cultural movement. After situating Gilman in the context of nineteenth-century naturalist theater, this thesis examines two short dramatic dialogues she published in 1890, “The Quarrel,” and “Dame Nature Interviewed,” as well as two full-length plays, Interrupted (1909) and the Balsam Fir (1910). These plays demonstrate Gilman’s efforts to use the dramatic form in her early plays to “rehearse” for Women & Economics, and in her later drama, to “stage” the theories she presents in that book.

This thesis examines Erasmus Darwin's poem The Loves of the Plants (1789) for its boundary crossing expression of ecological theory that takes into consideration the influence of religious cosmology on our understanding of the natural world. Darwin (1731-1802) was the grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theories we recognize now as the foundation of an entire field of biological study. But Darwin harboured his own beliefs of evolutionary theory long before his grandson was born, those which asserted a relatedness of all forms of life and pressed against the conceptions of existence that were so deeply rooted in the Euro-Western mind. I intend to demonstrate here the originality and complexity of Darwin's work as an exploration of cosmology, wherein the animation of his vegetal world invites readers to consider both the continuities between states of organic existence and the categories which were established in an attempt to keep them apart. By investigating the origins of these conceptions, from biblical creation to the Aristotelean tradition into the time in which Darwin wrote, I explore the ways in which these ideologies pertaining to the natural order of being have come to be and continue to be. Based on his interpretation of Carl Linnaeus' system of taxonomic classification, a system which remains in use to this day, Darwin's Loves manipulates a structure shaped by European religious and ideological assumptions to unravel the binding understanding of a separate and distant nature, one that has been implemented to discourage ways of perceiving otherwise. Because of its incorporation of Linnaean thought, this early work of Darwin's is often disregarded by scholars in conversations of innovative natural philosophy. Yet, in employing a historicist rhetorical and cultural analysis, this thesis examines Darwin's botanical poem inclusively, engaging with his decentering of the Christian understanding of the hierarchy of species that has been maintained for centuries, to illustrate that in composing a realm of personified flora he is melding the believed to be distinct worlds of the human and nonhuman to unite our species with an all-encompassing naturalism. Though this research is culturally specific, its sentiment may be carried forward to acknowledge the ideological histories and inheritances that influence our conceptions of other biological beings and our understandings of our own species as well. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / This project focuses on a reading of Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants (1789) that emphasizes its purpose as an exploration of cosmology and the influence of ideological histories. Taking inspiration from the metaphors of Carl Linnaeus' system of plant classification, Darwin is able to introduce his readers to the world of botany, all the while pointing to the implications of following approaches to understanding the natural world that rely on religious conceptions. Looking specifically at Darwin's manipulation of the origins of Euro-Western ideas pertaining to our planetary natural order, those which stem from the creation myths of Genesis and were passed on through antiquity into the Age of Reason, I intend for this thesis to demonstrate how Darwin's reimagining of nonhuman beings serves to illustrate the ways in which our cosmologies, even those we believe to be removed from, are able to affect our understandings of the worlds around us and all the beings within them.