The central query of this dissertation concerns the suspension (Aussetzung) of Western colonial concepts that occurs in the face of those who are to be …
This dissertation examines themes of herding, mining, infrastructure, and environment in sixteenth and seventeenth century Huancavelica, Peru. Spanish colonial mining in the Americas flooded the …
Sociology tends to see modern citizenship as the result of class struggle, or as a liberal ideal, highlighting the promises of civility and integration. Often …
This article analyzes the history of hydrocarbon waste across Algeria and France. Focusing on the critical years between the discovery of oil in late-colonial Algeria …
Africa is currently at a crossroads. Its fast economic development is being threatened by escalating conflict, which has not only affected the stability of the …
Using a 1933 crime case known as the “Shanghai trunk murder” as a point of access, this study explores Portuguese extraterritoriality in China to shed …
Abstract of FRONTIER ONTOLOGIES: LAND, AGRARIAN GOVERNANCE, AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRITISH INDIA’S NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST, 1840-1930, by ABHILASH MEDHI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2020 This …
This dissertation comprises close readings of poems and prose texts by four poets: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Aimé Césaire, and Charles Reznikoff, along with several …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
The United States of America annexed the Danish West Indies via a twenty-five-million-dollar purchase in 1917, forming the U.S. Virgin Islands. On March 31st, 2017, …
An intellectual biography of a newspaper aims a methodology that should disclose an editorial line, its agents and the means by which they intended to …
“What Dem Do to We No Have Name: Intimate Colonial Violence, Autonomy, and Black Women’s Art in Caribbean Nicaragua” traces a visual and discursive history …
This dissertation analyzes the representation of the orphan in the contemporary Portuguese literature that constitutes a critical revisiting of the end of Portuguese colonialism in …
There is a shortage of work on the role of self-reflection and “spiritual indwelling” (Holmes 2017) in Black healing faith practices, let alone how these …