Essays about: "Postcolonialism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 137 essays containing the word Postcolonialism.

1. 1. Hiding in Plain Sight : A Gynocritical Reading of Rochester’s Narrative in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Emma Hennig; [2022]
   Keywords : Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea; Elaine Showalter; gynocriticism; psychoanalysis; postcolonialism; feminism; cultural theory; Edward Rochester; consciousness; narrative;

   Abstract : This essay is the result of a close-reading of the male protagonist’s narrative in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). His narrative was examined through an interpretive lens layered with a combination of several critical onsets that form the pillars of Elaine Showalter’s theory of a metaphysical female crescent outside of male consciousness. READ MORE

3. 2. Development as more than economic growth : A qualitative analysis on development in the African Union’s migration policy

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Ayaat Abdelaziz; [2022]
   Keywords : migration policy; African Union; migration-development nexus; postcolonialism; critical development;

   Abstract : An increased global attention has been placed on the effects of migration on development, particularly in Africa, due to the increase in remittances to the continent. The African Union (AU) has negotiated multiple migration frameworks and conventions to promote development in this arena. READ MORE

4. 3. ‘Global South’ and Climate Change

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Alma Jurgelaityte; [2022]
   Keywords : Global South; climate change; postcolonialism; identity; agency; voice; othering.;

   Abstract : ‘Global South’ has no widely agreed definition, nevertheless, this term has become apopular abstraction to refer to everything else that is not ‘the developed world’. In climatechange discursive framework ‘global South’ alludes to the climate vulnerable developingcountries. READ MORE

5. 4. Colonial karma? Identity and failed postcolonial reconciliation in Europe - Understanding ontological insecurity as shaped by narratives of colonial societal beliefs

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Hanna Bergman; [2022]
   Keywords : postcolonialism; European identity; sociopsychological reconciliation; ontological security; narrative analysis; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Following postcolonial thought, this thesis argues that colonialism can be reconceptualized as an identity conflict. Consequentially, reconciliation theories concerned with identity creation and societal beliefs can be applied to better understand postcolonial relations. READ MORE

6. 5. Postcolonialism and Secularization in Peacebuilding : A Critical Approach to the Swedish Parliamentarian Peacebuilding Initiatives to the Dispute of Western Sahara.  

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Bilal Lagoun; [2022]
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