Essays about: "Subaltern."

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  1. 21. Diffractive Assemblies and Invertebrate Spaces: Communal Struggle in the Mexican Anthropocene

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Talia Velez; [2020]
    Keywords : Latin-America; subaltern; postcolonial; decolonial; ethnology; cultural analysis; original peoples; Indigenous peoples; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The importance of spaces of resistance lies in their ability to subvert and even change the hegemonic discourse. However, and despite extensive research on geopolitics and space-making processes, little has been said on the power that subaltern spaces can have in this area. READ MORE

  3. 22. Nature as a subaltern : the colonial power of corporations over the environment and humans

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Sara Frenning; [2020]
    Keywords : Corporations; Nature; Colonial Power; Monsanto; Post-colonial theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this essay I attempt to examine corporations through the lens of postcolonial theory in order to investigate whether corporations and their actions can be better understood using a post-colonial analysis. I have investigated if we can understand corporations as transnational power structures rather than as only commercial businesses and what new perspectives that could give us. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Perpetual Colonial Situation: Language and Dominance in Taiwan

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Tsung-Ting Chen; [2019-02-04]
    Keywords : language policy; colonialism; Hoklo; Mandarin; sociology; habitus; field; capital; Taiwan; China;

    Abstract : In Taiwan today, 96% of the population speaks Mandarin. Yet, Mandarin speakers were rare, if not totally absent, on the island before 1945. READ MORE

  5. 24. Can the Subaltern Be Silent? : Silence as Resistance to Colonialism in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Neira Arigita Cernuda; [2019]
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  6. 25. The banking of education for sustainable development : A critical discourse analysis of the World Bank’s education policy from a modern/colonial world system perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Sera Cecilia Hejlskov; [2019]
    Keywords : Coloniality; education; sustainable development; modernity; hegemonic culture; subaltern theory; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Throughout colonial history, education has been used actively in an attempt to assimilate subaltern cultures into the colonizers’ realm. This study looks at the relationship between education of children in developing countries as a tool within sustainable development in relation to the colonial past and modern day coloniality. READ MORE