Essays about: "postcolonial states"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 31 essays containing the words postcolonial states.
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21. Reclamation: A Feminist Genealogy of the Cultural Symbols of the Chicana Feminist Movement
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis will explore two significant cultural symbols of Mexican-American/Chicano culture: La Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe [La Virgen de Guadalupe]. The Chicana Feminist Movement, a notable women of color feminist movement, is considered to have been created and most active in the 1960s-1980s era of the United States. READ MORE
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22. European External Border Management and its Narratives : Aspects of Dominance and Neocolonialism in European Foreign Policy during the “Refugee Crisis”
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Large numbers of incoming refugees since 2015 were perceived as a major challenge for European cooperation and migratory regimes and the situation has within Europe soon been seen as a crisis. Since then, European states and the European Union (EU) have intensified measures to shut down migrant routes to Europe as well as their attempts to externalise means of protection of refugees in Africa. READ MORE
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23. Native Americans on Screen in 1939 and 2015 : A Postcolonial Study on the Portrayal of the Indigenous People of America in Films and How to Adapt it into the EFL Classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Abstract : The essay originates from the idea that the United States has a history of racism evidenced in the displacement and discrimination of Native Americans and that the representation of Native Americans in films reflects the changing views of the indigenous population in the surrounding society. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the Native American characters are portrayed in western films. READ MORE
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24. The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria - The future of international law or an abuse of power?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The Responsibility to Protect, or “R2P”, is a principle that has generated heated debate since its introduction in a report by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) in 2001. Having received an enthusiastic response from member states at the World Summit Outcome in 2005, the United Nations seemed to move into a new era of protecting humanitarian values; that of acting to protect the citizens of states when the states themselves proved unwilling or unable to do so. READ MORE
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25. Whose self-determination? - A critical examination on the right to self-determination and its role during the process of decolonisation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Den här uppsatsen undersöker självbestämmanderätten ur ett kritiskt perspektiv, baserad på postkolonial teori. Genom att undersöka den historiska bakgrunden till självbestämmanderätten kan dess koppling till internationella mänskliga rättigheter samt till koncept såsom suveränitet och nationalism fastställas. READ MORE
