Essays about: "Colonial Discourses"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 56 essays containing the words Colonial Discourses.

1. 26. Behind the protest : the construction of national and local identities in postcolonial Hong Kong

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Jiabei He; [2020]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : People in Hong Kong continues to wrestle with the configuration of national identity and local distinctiveness, even though the fact of handover from the British to China was settled long ago. In the recent decade, several large-scale political protests have witnessed the hostile sentiments from Hong Kong people towards the central government and their shrinking attachments to the nation. READ MORE

3. 27. How Worldly is the World Digital Library? : Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis of the Library of Congress Subject Headings

   University essay from

   Author : Woody Oliphant; [2019]
   Keywords : Postcolonialism; Global North; Localization; KOS; LCSH; Metadata; African cultural heritage; World Digital Libra;

   Abstract : Based on previous researchers’ criticism of Euro-American bias inherent to universal analogue and digital knowledge organisation systems, this combined qualitative and quantitative postcolonial critical discourse analysis investigates the constructed meanings behind the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) controlled vocabulary hosted by the Word Digital Library’s (WDL) metadata scheme. This is done with a sample of metadata pertaining to their African cultural heritage collection. READ MORE

4. 28. How Worldly is the World Digital Library? : Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis of the Library of Congress Subject Headings

   University essay from

   Author : Woody Oliphant; [2019]
   Keywords : Postcolonialism; Global North; Localization; KOS; LCSH; Metadata; African cultural heritage; World Digital Library;

   Abstract : Based on previous researchers’ criticism of Euro-American bias inherent to universal analogue and digital knowledge organisation systems, this combined qualitative and quantitative postcolonial critical discourse analysis investigates the constructed meanings behind the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) controlled vocabulary hosted by the Word Digital Library’s (WDL) metadata scheme. This is done with a sample of metadata pertaining to their African cultural heritage collection. READ MORE

5. 29. New Course, New Discourse, New Racism? : Right-Wing Alternative Media in Sweden

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

   Author : Tamy Al Saad; Anders Nyman; [2019]
   Keywords : right-wing alternative media; post-colonial theory; biological racism; cultural racism; nationalism; qualitative content analysis.;

   Abstract : Like elsewhere in Europe, the tides of nationalist right-wing rhetoric in Sweden have become instrumental in generating a wave of anti-liberal and anti-immigration sentiments in politics and media. In particular, one branch of right-wing alternative media has become a breeding ground for normalizing such rhetoric. READ MORE

6. 30. Speaking from the interstices: Latin American Decolonial Feminists Theorizing the State

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Andrea Del Carmen Tock Sican; [2019]
   Keywords : decolonial feminism; Latin America; state theory; knowledge production; decolonial theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Latin American decolonial feminists are concerned with deconstructing the colonial legacies that persist and multiply today albeit formal colonialism has ended. This thesis engages with Latin American decolonial feminism’s political project of decolonization in relation to the state, to see whether it follows the state-phobia tendency popular in other emancipatory political discourses. READ MORE