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21	Fantasy of Empire: Ri Kōran, Subject Positioning and the Cinematic Contruction of Space Nagayama, Chikako 25 February 2010 (has links) This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Kōran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a ‘modern girl’ on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-starred with Japanese actors: Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta, 1939), China Nights (Shina no Yoru, 1940), Vow in the Desert (Nessa no chikai, 1940), and Suzhou Nights (Soshū no yoru, 1941). The formation of domesticity played an integral part in the making of modern nation-states. Intertexualizing with the discursive formation of the ie (house/family) between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries, I first demonstrate that Japanese film subjects are made to embody the imagined Imperial nation through gendered performances in Song of the White Orchid. The interior and exterior are constructed to mirror the notion of imperial nation and the Asian ‘other’. Next, I extend the analytical framework to the three films, China Nights, Vow in the Desert, and Suzhou Nights, which employ films’ specific locations for different operations of gendered and ethnicized positioning. I also pay attention to some of the climaxes, which unconventionally present psychological dramas outdoors and action scenes indoors. Especially, my interest in this part of analysis is in interrelating metaphors of bodily boundary and national border. As delineating the signification of body and nation, I situate the relay of the gaze in the simultaneous blurring of bodily boundary and national communities that coincides with melodramatic highlights located outdoors. In order to shape a Japanese imperial subject, the films symbolically negotiate with three levels of power dynamics: the establishment of a national identity, the mimicry of the West, and the significance of China in Japanese imperial modernity. The delineation of cinematic space and subject positioning in Ri Kōran’s films reveals that Chinese, Japanese and the West are constituted as shifting positions that respectively represent past/obstructions, present/a mobile agency, and future/the envisioned goal. Ri Kōran attracts spectators’ gaze and mediates multiple locations to identify with, while Japanese male protagonists embody the gaze by making his corporeality absent. Cinema Studies East Asian History Women's Studies Cultural Studies race and ethnicity imperialism colonialism modernity diaspora studies melodrama wartime films Yamaguchi Yoshiko Li Xianglan domesticity gender and sexuality hygiene subject positioning Japan China Manchuria otherness family hybridity mobility the gaze film space 0900
22	Reaching Gold Mountain: Diasporic Labour Narratives in Chinese Canadian Literature and Film Phung, Malissa January 2016 (has links) This project provides a coalitional reading of Chinese Canadian literature, film, and history based on an allegorical framework of Asian-Indigenous relationalities. It tracks how Chinese labour stories set during the period of Chinese exclusion can not only leverage national belonging for Chinese settlers but also be reread for a different sense of belonging that remains attentive to other exclusions made natural by settler colonial discourses and institutional structures, that is, the disavowal of Indigenous presence and claims to sovereignty and autochthony. It contributes to important discussions about the experiences of racism and oppression that typically privilege the relations and tensions of diasporic and Indigenous communities but hardly with each other. What is more, this study aligns with a recent surge of interest in investigating Asian-Indigenous relations in Asian Canadian, Asian American, and Asian diaspora studies. The political investments driving this project show a deep commitment to anti-racist and decolonial advocacy. By examining how Chinese cultural workers in Canada have tried to do justice to the Head Tax generation’s experiences of racial exclusion and intersectional oppressions in fiction, non-fiction, graphic non-fiction, and documentaries, it asks whether there are ways to ethically assert an excluded and marginalized Chinese presence in the context of the settler colonial state. By doing justice to the exclusion of Chinese settlers in the national imaginary, do Chinese cultural workers as a result perform an injustice to the originary presence of Indigenous peoples? This thesis re-examines the anti-racist imperative that frames Chinese labour stories set during the period of Chinese exclusion in Canada: by exploring whether social justice projects by racially marginalized communities can simultaneously re-assert an excluded racialized presence and honour their treaty rights and responsibilities, it works to apprehend the colonial positionality of the Chinese diaspora within the Canadian settler state. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This project examines representations of Chinese labour and Asian-Indigenous relations in Chinese Canadian literature and film. By focusing on how Chinese Canadian writers and artists honour and remember the nation-building contributions and sacrifices of Chinese labourers in stories set in Canada during the period of anti-Chinese legislation policies such as the Chinese Head Tax and the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act, this thesis provides a critical look at the values and ideologies that these narratives may draw upon. It asks whether it is possible for writers and artists to commemorate Chinese labour stories without also extending the colonization of Indigenous peoples, forgetting the history of Asian-Indigenous relationships, or promoting work ethic values that may hinder community building with Indigenous peoples and respecting Indigenous ways of living and working off the land. This study explores questions of history, memory, national belonging, social justice, decolonization, and relationship building. Canadian literature cultural studies Chinese Canadian literature Chinese Canadian documentaries Asian diaspora studies Asian North American studies settler colonial studies labour national belonging Asian and Indigenous relations decolonization anti-racism
23	[es] COLONIALIDAD EN LA ACADEMIA JURÍDICA BRASILENA: UNA LECTURA DECOLONIAL EN PERSPECTIVA AMFRICANA / [pt] COLONIALIDADE NA ACADEMIA JURÍDICA BRASILEIRA: UMA LEITURA DECOLONIAL EM PERSPECTIVA AMEFRICANA / [en] COLONIALITY IN BRAZILIAN LAW ACADEMY: A DECOLONIAL READING IN AMEFRICANITY PERSPECTIVE ANA CECILIA DE BARROS GOMES 21 January 2021 (has links) [pt] A tese, pelas lentes do pensamento decolonial afrodiaspórico compromissado com a ladino-amefricanidade, possui o objetivo de analisar como a matriz colonial de poder estrutura o pensamento jurídico brasileiro dentro do espaço que, com base no eurocentrismo, imprime autoridade e validade científica a essa produção, ou seja, a academia jurídica. A partir dessas apreciações, examina-se a materialização das colonialidades, incluído a do gênero, do poder, do saber e do ser, refletindo-se sobre a geo(corpo)política do conhecimento no programas de pós-graduação strictu sensu em direito no Brasil, por meio de delineamento do perfil dominante no corpo docente, no corpo discente e dos mecanismos utilizados para fissurar a matriz colonial do poder dentro desse ambiente e/ou para manter pactos narcísicos que estruturam a(s) colonialidade(s). Em que se utilizou uma pesquisa multinível, quantitativa-qualitativa, na parte quantitativa mapeou-se o perfil docente e discente dos PPGDS, com base nos dados oficiais constantes na plataforma Sucupira e na parte qualitativa, por meio da análise dos documentos nos sites oficiais dos programas e da aplicação de duas pesquisas surveys – uma realizada com docentes e outra com discentes dos programas, descreve-se e explora-se a composição desses espaços e as estratégias que buscam romper com a modernidade/colonialidade neste campo. / [en] Throughout the lenses of decolonial thinking and committed to amefricanity, the thesis aims to analyze how the colonial global power shapes the Brazilian legal thought within the space that enforces scientific authority and validity on this production based on Eurocentrism, which is the law academy. Through these premisses, it analyzes the materialization of colonialities, including gender, power, knowledge and being, examining the geopolitics of knowledge in the postgraduate programs within law academy in Brazil, using an analysis from the profile of the professors and the students and the mechanisms applied to ensure the colonial global power within that place and /or to maintain narcissistic pacts that structure the coloniality(ies). Using a multi-level, quantative-qualitative research, the quantitative part of the PPGDS teacher and student profile was mapped based on the official data from the Sucupira platform and, on the qualitative part, through the analysis of the documents from the official sites of the programs and the application of two surveys - one applied to professors and the other to students of the programs, both of them which describe and explore the composition of these spaces and the strategies that seek rupture with modernity /coloniality in this field. / [es] La tesis, por las lentes del pensamiento decolonial afrodías comprometido con la ladino-amefricanidad, tiene el objetivo de analizar cómo la matriz colonial de poder estructura el pensamiento jurídico brasileño dentro del espacio que, con base en el eurocentrismo, imprime autoridad y validez científica a esa producción, es decir, la academia jurídica. A partir de esas apreciaciones, se examina la materialización de las colonialidades, incluida la del género, del poder, del saber y del ser, reflejándose sobre la geopolítica del conocimiento en los programas de postgrado strictu sensu en derecho por medio de delineamiento del perfil dominante en docente, en el discente y de los mecanismos utilizados para fisurar la matriz colonial del poder dentro de ese ambiente y/o para mantener pactos narcísicos que estructuran la (s) colonialidad (s). Se utilizó una investigación multinivel, en la parte cuantitativa se mapeó el perfil docente y discente de los PPGDS, con base en los datos oficiales constantes en la plataforma Sucupira y en la parte cualitativa, por medio del análisis de los documentos en los sitios oficiales los programas y la aplicación de dos encuestas encuestas -una realizada con docentes y otra con dicentes de los programas, se describe y explora la composición de esos sitios y las estrategias que buscan romper con la modernidad / colonialidad en este campo. [pt] ACADEMIA JURIDICA [pt] AMEFRICANIDADE [pt] PENSAMENTO JURIDICO BRASILEIRO [pt] PENSAMENTO AFRODIASPORICO [pt] PENSAMENTO DECOLONIAL [en] LAW ACADEMY [en] AMEFRICANITY [en] BRAZILIAN LEGAL THINKING [en] AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES [en] COLONIALITY [es] ACADEMIA JURIDICA [es] AMEFRICANIDAD [es] PENSAMIENTO JURIDICO BRASILENO [es] PENSAMIENTO AFRODIASPORICO [es] PENSAMIENTO DECOLONIAL
24	Young, Gifted, and Brown: Ricanstructing Through Autoethnopoetic Stories for Critical Diasporic Puerto Rican Pedagogy Martínez, Ángel Luis 21 October 2015 (has links) No description available. Aesthetics American Studies Community College Education Curriculum Development Educational Theory Educational Sociology Ethnic Studies Higher Education Hispanic American Studies Latin American Studies Pedagogy performance ethnography poetry poetic inquiry college Associate degree students Puerto Rican Studies Diaspora Studies Latina Latino Studies educational leadership aesthetic leadership higher education leadership
25	An Ethnographic Study of Sectarian Negotiations among Diaspora Jains in the USA Mehta, Venu Vrundavan 29 March 2017 (has links) This thesis argued that the Jain community in the diasporic context of the USA has invented a new form of Jainism. Sectarian negotiations are the distinguishing marks of the diaspora Jain community and their invented form of Jainism. Based on ethnographic study that is, interviews and observations conducted at four different sites (Jain temples/communities) from June-August 2016, the thesis examined the sectarian negotiations among the diaspora Jain community in the USA and the invented Jain tradition that is resulting from these negotiations. The central questions of the research on which this thesis is based were: 1) what are the levels, processes and results of sectarian negotiations within the Jain diaspora community in the USA, and 2) what is the nature and characteristic of the new form of Jainism, the invented tradition; and how do Jains in the USA experience and use it. Jainism Jain Diaspora US Jain Diaspora US Jain Communities Jain Identity Common Jain Identity Jain Sects Sectarian Inter-Sectarian Cross-Sectarian Multi-Sectarian Jain Philosophy Pathshala Anekantvada Jain Temple Jain Society Jain Community Jain Center Sectarian Negotiations Invented Tradition New Form of Jainism Diaspora Studies Jainism in America Jainism in the US Asectarian Indian Diasporas Invention of New form of Jainism Ethnographic Study of Jains in the USA Ethnography Ethnographic Study of US Jain Diaspora Arts and Humanities Religion
26	“DOUBLE REFRACTION”: IMAGE PROJECTION AND PERCEPTION IN SAUDI-AMERICAN CONTEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY Ghaleb Alomaish (8850251) 18 May 2020 (has links) <p>This dissertation aims to create a scholarly space where a seventy-five-year-old “special relationship” (1945-2020) between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States is examined from an interdisciplinary comparativist perspective. I posit that a comparative study of Saudi and American fiction goes beyond the limitedness of global geopolitics and proves to uncover some new literary, sociocultural, and historical dimensions of this long history, while shedding some light on others. Saudi writers creatively challenge the inherently static and monolithic image of Saudi Arabia, its culture and people in the West. They also simultaneously unsettle the notion of homogeneity and enable us to gain new insight into self-perception within the local Saudi context by offering a wide scope of genuine engagements with distinctive themes ranging from spatiality, identity, ethnicity, and gender to slavery, religiosity and (post)modernity. On the other side, American authors still show some signs of ambivalence towards the depiction of the Saudi (Muslim/Arab) Other, but they nonetheless also demonstrate serious effort to emancipate their representations from the confining legacy of (neo)Orientalist discourse and oil politics by tackling the concepts of race, alterity, hegemony, radicalism, nomadism and (un)belonging.</p> Art Literature History Disability Studies Gender studies Language North American Literature Other Literatures in English Middle Eastern Literature Comparative Literature Studies Literary Theory Aesthetics Epistemology Feminist Theory Hermeneutic and Critical Theory Comparative Religious Studies Islamic Studies Gender, Sexuality and Education British History Saudi culture American Saudi-American Orientalism Orientalism in art neo-Orientalsim Desert oil Cultural studies Arabian Gulf migration Diaspora Studies blackness slavery literature Mormonism Mormon biblical studies disability studies geopolitics 9/11 post-9/11 post-9/11 America Post-9/11, fiction terrorism extremism radicalism visual studies orientalist painting postcolonial Postcolonial Discourse Otherness Alterity munif cities of salt urbanism Modernity tradition Islamic feminism Islam whiteness studies

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