Browsing by Subject "postcolonialism"
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Enacting Cosmopolitanism: Postcolonial Performances of 'European' Care for Asylum-Seekers in Reykjavík, Iceland
(2017-05-12)This thesis, based on the presenter’s fieldwork in Reykjavík, Iceland from May-July 2016, brings ethnographic evidence into conversation with anthropological scholars on humanitarianism, activism, migration, and cosmopolitanism. ... -
In Conversation with the Devil: Linguistic Themes of Shiʿi Mobilization in the 2011 Bahrain Uprising
(2020-05-12)In 2011, an uprising gripped the small archipelago of Bahrain, located in the Persian Gulf, as part of the wider series of contentious politics known popularly as the “Arab Spring.” Started by the 14 February Youth Coalition, ... -
"Rhodes Must Fall": Student Activism and the Politics of Memory at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
(2016-05-25)Launched at the University of Cape Town on March 9, 2015, the Rhodes Must Fall movement is a student-led initiative that advocated for the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from the University’s upper campus. The ...