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Koh, Bee Kim. "Coming into Intelligibility: Decolonizing Singapore Art, Practice and Curriculum in Post-colonial Globalization." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397669338.

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Persson, Maria. "The charity organization and the thief: Understanding structures disabling public development in Sierra Leone." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22799.

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Recent Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) reforms promoting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) carried out by the Sierra Leonean government has attracted foreign investors into its extractive industry. Access to natural minerals in the country has been ensured through land leases, and the government of Sierra Leone has obtained the opportunity to accumulate revenues through participation on the global market. However, despite increasing state revenues the country remains underdeveloped and unindustrialized, and faces great challenges in promoting public development within state borders. This study aims at illuminating structures of the global economic system and domestic social fabric which may hinder public development in Sierra Leone. Such structures have be illuminated through the application of a qualitative approach including field work, participating observations and open-ended interviews in Kalansogoia chiefdom during May and June 2013. The findings of this study suggest that the international structure of dependency, and domestic formal; informal; informal institutions; and social networks structures hinder public development within Sierra Leone.
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Asokan, Ratik. "The Political Economy of Environmental Justice: A Comparative Study of New Delhi and Los Angeles." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1190.

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Though mainstream environmentalism, both in the U.S. and India, was initially rooted in social justice, it has, over time, moved away from this focus. The Environmental Justice Movement consequently arose to reunite social and environmental activism. In this thesis, I trace the historical relationship between the mainstream environmentalism, the Environmental Justice Movement, and marginalized communities. After providing this general overview, I examine two case studies – in Los Angeles and New Delhi respectively – where marginalized communities have been involved in Environmental Justice activities. My analysis reveals that marginalized communities often act in an ‘environmentalist’ or ‘environmentally friendly’ manner, without defining their actions as such. That is, their socio-political activism often is or becomes environmental because of the contexts it operates within.
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Islam, Md Nazrul. "Repackaging ayurveda in post-colonial India revivalism and global commodification /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39848991.

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Arbiol, Quezada Miguel. "Influencia del régimen normativo en la reorganización de la economía nacional post colonial : Chile : 1810-1830." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/112141.

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Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales)
El primer capítulo, el Proyecto Liberal – Republicano, tiene como propósito explicar el contexto ideológico político en que se desenvolverá la propuesta económico legislativa de los regímenes independentistas criollos que suceden a la administración española. Desarrollando como subtemas el liberalismo, en su expresión republicana y económica; pretendiendo, en el primero, explicar los factores y razones que determinan la opción liberal y republicana de la aristocracia criolla, considerando su peculiar idiosincrasia y caracteres culturales. En el segundo subtema, del liberalismo económico, se busca determinar el rasgo ideológico doctrinario que expresarán los textos legislativos y/o reglamentario normativos a través de los decretos de libre comercio y/o leyes de aduanas que se dictan a fin de incrementar el contacto comercial internacional más allá de las coloniales fronteras penin-sulares; asegurando, a la vez, la supervivencia fiscal y reactivando la pro-ducción nacional. En el segundo capítulo, Efecto Socioeconómico Cultural del Proceso Emancipador, el subtema de los efectos sociales centra su interés en la prolongación del ordenamiento colonial pre – existente y la manera en que dicha estructura se adecua a las innovaciones político-económicas que se llevaban a cabo a fin de superar las sutilezas o desconfianzas habidas en su momento para con el liberalismo como doctrina políticosocial. El segundo de los subtemas de éste capítulo, los hábitos coloniales, procura comprender de que manera las falencias y limitaciones propias de una economía de carácter provinciano y localista, como lo era en su momento la colonial, se seguían proyectando a lo largo de todo el período estudiado; haciendo, de la innovación y el cambio sinónimos de antónima aplicación al trabajo cotidiano y al quehacer productivo de la época, a pesar de lo que en su momento significó la implementación de las reformas de 1778. Dificultando la reactivación y la adaptación del aparato productivo nacional a la nueva realidad que se abre a partir de la liberación de los mer-cados y del establecimiento de redes de intercambio comercial con la región noratlántica. Por último, se desarrolla el subtema de los efectos económicos que trae el proceso emancipador a partir de la aplicación de las medidas libera-cionistas o proteccionistas que se implementan en el período y que afectan en especial a ciertas y determinadas actividades agromineras, transnaciona-lizándolas. La liberación del comercio, como temática del capítulo tercero, se estructura a partir del Decreto de Libre Comercio con Potencias Amigas Neutrales de 1811; constituyendo la base legislativa de la futura política comercial internacional chilena al establecer el marco jurídico dentro del cual se normativizará dicha actividad. En cuanto a las consecuencias del Decreto de Libre Comercio de 1811, abordado como subtema del capítulo, describimos la manera en que junto con los posteriores decretos y/o leyes aduaneras que se dictan y/o tratados o convenciones que se celebran se pretende reconstruir y reactivar las alicaídas estructuras productivas existentes; asegurando, por sobre todo, la supervivencia fiscal y el mantenimiento de las relaciones comerciales subsistentes, estimulando el consumo interno. En el capítulo cuarto, Egresos e Ingresos Fiscales, en cuanto al sub-tema de los egresos de la hacienda pública, centraremos nuestro interés en la manera en que el gasto bélico de la época, ya expresado en campañas militares o en expediciones emancipadoras, se convierte en un gasto regular del Estado; el cual, incapaz de cumplir con sus necesidades presupuestarias más inmediatas y básicas recurre inocentemente al préstamo externo, acre-centando aún más el déficit fiscal Por otra parte, en el subtema de los ingresos de la hacienda pública, determinaremos y explicaremos las vías, tradicionales o no, de financia-miento del Estado; partiendo con los aranceles a las importaciones para proseguir con el monopolio de los bienes estancados, la tributación minera, la emisión de bonos, la requisición de especies, el diezmo, etc., etc. más otros ingeniosos métodos de recaudación tales como los “cupos de guerra”, los “donativos forzosos”, las “contribuciones voluntarias” y la “requisición de especies” entre otros. El capítulo quinto, la Actividad Exportadora, aborda la temática referida a la normalización del comercio externo dentro del contexto de guerra y de desestabilización política que se vive; llegándose incluso a la transnacionalización en cuanto a su comercialización, de algunos bienes agromineros. Por ello, la temática abordada gira en torno al cobre y al trigo en su calidad de productos exportables, presentándose como los sectores más dinámicos y transnacionalizados de la producción nacional, constitu-yendo la base sobre la cual se delinea nuevamente una economía de carácter exportador de materias primas e importador de bienes manufacturados. Además, las temáticas citadas, nos permitirán destacar de un modo comparativo las características sociopolíticas del empresariado ligado a cada una de éstas explotaciones del sector primario de la economía. Ahora, en cuanto a lo que dice relación con los convenios internacionales que se celebran en el periodo en que centramos nuestro interés, estos son abordados en el capítulo sexto a partir del análisis de sus elementos más característicos para luego, centrar nuestra preocupación en la temática de los tratados celebrados con la Argentina y con el Perú, Así, en el primero de los subtemas que se abordan, caracterización de los convenios internacionales, partiremos haciendo referencia a los exclusi-vos atributos que contienen tales tratados en cuanto a sus objetivos, ya de índole político económicos o propiamente jurídico. Destacando la forma y manera en que reglamentaria y/o constitucionalmente, según sea el caso, se materializan reproduciéndose los principios del derecho comercial interna-cional en boga. De esta manera, los tratados y/o convenciones tal que se celebraron entre 1811 y 1830, ya con Argentina o ya con Perú, los constituimos en objeto de estudio de nuestra Memoria en la medida en que se van materiali-zando, por medio de la ratificación, constituyendo un verdadero cuerpo normativo comercial; tal como acontece con los acuerdos “Sobre Intercam-bio de Azogue por Pólvora”, “Para poner Término a la Dominación Españo-la en el Perú” y el “De Amistad, Alianza, Comercio y Navegación” celebra-dos con la Argentina y los tratados de “Amistad, Liga y Confederación” y “De Auxilio” con el Perú. Ahora, en lo que dice relación con el capítulo séptimo, Dependencia Económica y Subordinación Comercial, dicho tema investigativo ha sido elaborado a partir de los subtemas de la dependencia económica y de la subordinación del empresariado criollo; centrándonos, para ello, en la influencia que ha tenido en la economía del país el mantenimiento de ciertos patrones culturales de carácter y origen colonial en el estableci-miento de las bases de una futura dependencia y subordinación, con respec-to a los intereses de los grandes conglomerados extranjeros que monopo-lizan las redes de intercambio a través del control que ejercen tanto sobre el comercio internacional de mercancías como sobre el régimen crediticio interno de los mercados postcoloniales. Intereses estos que propician las actividades monoexportadoras del sector primario, ya de tipo agropecuario ya de tipo minero pirquinero, bajo las características propias de un capitalismo periférico enmarcado en el fenómeno de globalización e internacionalización de la producción y del comercio que se vive en aquel entonces; siendo dicha realidad subsistente, dominada por desbastadores acontecimientos bélicos, la que viene en carac-terizar lo propiamente económico de la época. Por último, mediante el presente trabajo investigativo, junto con cumplir con los sempiternos requisitos para optar al Grado de Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de nuestra augusta institución académica, se ha pretendido exponer resumidamente la manera en que se reordena y fun-ciona la economía chilena durante el proceso de emancipación y de cons-trucción inicial del estado republicano; destacando, en especial, la impor-tancia que tiene el régimen normativo a través de la dictación de regla-mentos, decretos, leyes, tratados y constituciones para regular, normalizar y reactivar la vida económica nacional durante el periodo enunciado y en el cual hemos centrado nuestro interés.
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Hepburn, Sacha. "A social history of domestic service in post-colonial Zambia, c.1964-2014." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dfd7ee2e-81f6-458f-8ba9-467be0857040.

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This thesis examines the history of domestic service in Zambia from the 1960s to the present day. Domestic service was one of the largest sectors of urban employment throughout this period and involved large numbers of men, women and children selling and buying labour in a variety of working arrangements. The sector has, however, received little scholarly or official attention, reflecting a broader historiographical neglect of informal sector employment and the female workers who predominate in this area of the economy. The lack of attention paid to domestic service by academics and policy-makers has considerably limited the questions that have been asked about who workers are and how processes of reproduction and production have been organized at a household and societal level in Zambia, both historically and in the present. Most immediately, in order to work outside of the home, earn money and access crucial resources, thousands of Zambians needed to find someone else to take care of their homes and children. Drawing on a wide range of source material, this study demonstrates the importance of domestic service to social and economic relations in post-colonial Zambia. The study centres on domestic service arrangements in black households in the capital city of Lusaka. It examines how and why men, women and children found work in service, how and why employers sought help with domestic and care labour, and the relationships that developed between these parties. The study illustrates the diversity of the sector, with working arrangements varying from seemingly-informal kinship-based labour relations at one end of the spectrum to formalised, contractual employment at the other. The study also explains the gendered and generational shifts that have reshaped domestic service over the last fifty years, drawing attention to the increased significance of women and female children's labour. Overall this thesis provides new insights into class formation, rural-urban dependencies, gender relations, and the nature of inequality in a post-colonial African city.
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Chipman, John. "France as an African power : history of an idea, and its post colonial practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670330.

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Leung, Chi Yuen. "Everyday life resistance in a post-colonial global city : a study of two illegal hawker agglomerations in Hong Kong /." View abstract or full-text, 2008. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202008%20LEUNG.

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Mazhikeyev, Arman. "Central Asia : colonial ties, economic performance & trade costs." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19042.

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This thesis comprises a three papers. The chapters stand on their own. Each paper-chapter analyses a specific issue and contains introduction, theoretical framework, methods of analyses, results and findings. Each of the chapters offers new empirical, methodological and modelling contributions with new empirical evidence and findings, with new extensions and specifications for the gravity based and CGE based analytical tools. The thesis reflects my analysis of regional and international trade of Central Asia by analyzing the past economic ties of the CA with former Big Brother , Russia; the present heterogeneity of socio-economic environment of CA countries; and the future development of CA trade relations with the formation of the Eurasian (Re)Union. The Introductory Chapter binds together the other chapters by discussing the general background of the Central Asian institutional formation, transition and trade relations; the research motivations and methodology employed in this thesis. Afterwards come three substantive chapters. In the first chapter, the analysis of enhancing economic relations between Russia and CA in the post-Soviet period contradicts the post-colonial trade erosion theory. In the second chapter, how the open or isolationist policies followed by Central Asian countries affect the performance of local firms and MNEs, and linked to the economic performances of the countries, is investigated. In the third chapter, the impact of deeper Eurasian regional economic integration is assessed quantitatively in the context of asymmetry between the union members and the EU deeper integration project. The final chapter discusses the limitations and possible directions for future research.
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Leathers, David M. "Against the Grain: The IMF, Bread Riots, and Altered State Development in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1200.

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Since the end of World War II, and especially over the past three decades, there has been a dramatic increase of interactions between international financial institutions (IFIs) and states. This paper will explore these interactions by examining the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This paper rests on the assumption that the complex implications of these interactions are not yet comprehensively understood and will move towards that goal by setting forth a collection of new approaches to further understand IFI-state interaction. It will discuss Jordan’s economic and political history, structural adjustment policies implemented by the IMF, and responses and consequences of such policy on economic, cultural, and political dimensions. Then, theories on sovereignty, identity, nationalism and colonialism will be applied to Jordan-IMF interaction in order to suggest new ways of understanding the implications of IFI-state interaction.
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Wright, Kelly E. "The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/18.

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This work highlights specific lexical items that have become racialized in specific contextual applications and tests how these words are cognitively processed. This work presents the results of a visual world (Huettig et al 2011) eye-tracking study designed to determine the perception and application of racialized (Coates 2011) adjectives. To objectively select the racialized adjectives used, I developed a corpus comprised of popular media sources, designed specifically to suit my research question. I collected publications from digital media sources such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Fortune by scraping articles featuring specific search terms from their websites. This experiment seeks to aid in the demarcation of socially salient groups whose application of racialized adjectives to racialized images is near instantaneous, or at least less questioned. As we view growing social movements which revolve around the significant marks unconscious assumptions leave on American society, revealing how and where these lexical assignments arise and thrive allows us to interrogate the forces which build and reify such biases. Future research should attempt to address the harmful semiotics these lexical choices sustain.
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Fink, Rachael. "France and the Soviet Union: Intervention in Africa Post-Colonialism." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617892018822665.

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Ingridsdotter, Jenny. "The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Etnologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32312.

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This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. The empirical data consists of ethnographic in-depth interviews and participatory observation from Buenos Aires between the years 2011 and 2014. Through the theoretical frameworks of political discourse theory, critical race studies, auto-ethnography, and theories on coloniality, the author examines questions of migration, mobility, race, class, and gender in the processes of re-establishing a life in a new context. The interviewees were not only directly affected by the collapse of the USSR in the sense that it drastically changed their terrain of possible futures as well as retroactive understandings of their pasts, but they also began their lives in Argentina during the turmoil of the economic crisis that culminated in 2001. Central to this thesis is how these dislocatory events impacted the interviewees’ possibilities and limitations for living the life they had expected, and thus how discursive structures affect subject positions and identifications, and thereby create specific conditions for different relocatory trajectories. By focusing on how these individuals narrate their reasons for migration and their integration into Argentine labor and housing markets, the author demonstrates the role Argentine and East European history, as well as the neoliberal restructuring of the postsocialist region and Argentina in the 1990’s, had for self-understandings, subject positions, identities, and mobility. Various intersections of power, and particularly the making of race and whiteness, are important for the way that the interviewees negotiated subject positions and identifications. The author addresses how affect and hope played a part in these processes and how downward mobility was articulated and made meaningful. She also examines how participants’ ideas about a “good life” were related to understandings of the past, questions of race, social inequality, and a logic of coloniality.
Den här avhandlingen undersöker hur ett antal individer som migrerade från Ryssland och Ukraina till Argentina efter Sovjetunionens fall berättar om sin erfarenhet. Det övergripande syftet är att studera hur dessa migranter navigerade i den sociala verkligheten i Argentina, särskilt vad det gäller kroppsliga, materiella och socioekonomiska positioner, såväl som hur detta påverkat deras berättade självförståelse och identifikationer. Det empiriska materialet består av etnografiska djupintervjuer och deltagande observationer gjorda i Buenos Aires mellan åren 2011 och 2014. Författaren använder sig av ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av politisk diskursteori, kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier, autoetnografi och teorier om kolonialitet för att undersöka frågor om migration, mobilitet, rasialisering, klass och kön i en kontext av återetablering av ett liv i ett nytt samhälle. De som intervjuas i denna avhandling påverkades inte bara av Sovjetunionens kollaps, på så sätt att det påverkade deras förståelse av möjlig framtid samt deras retroaktiva förståelser av det förflutna, utan de påbörjade även sina nya liv i Argentina under den ekonomiska krisen som kulminerade år 2001. Centralt i avhandlingen är hur dessa dislokatoriska händelser inverkade på de intervjuades möjligheter och begränsningar för att kunna leva det liv som de hade förväntat sig, och därmed hur diskursiva strukturer påverkar subjektspositioner och identifikationer och därmed skapar specifika villkor för olika vägar för återetablering. Genom fokus på hur dessa individer berättar om sina anledningar för migrationen och om deras väg in i den argentinska arbets- och bostadsmarknaden visar författaren vilken roll argentinsk och östeuropeisk historia, såväl som 1990-talets nyliberala omstrukturering av den postsovjetiska regionen och Argentina, hade för deras självförståelse, subjektspositioner, identitet och mobilitet. Viktigt för hur de intervjuade förhandlade om olika subjektspositioner och identifikationer är intersektionella maktordningar och särskilt skapandet av ras och vithet. Författaren analyserar hur affekt och hopp spelade en roll i dessa processer och hur social deklassering artikulerades och gjordes meningsfull. Här undersöks även hur de intervjuades idéer om möjligheten att leva ett ”gott liv” var sammanflätade med förståelser av det förflutna, rasialisering, social ojämlikhet och en logik som präglades av kolonialitet.
Тема этой диссертации – это личный опыт ряда индивидуумов, переехавших в Аргентину вскоре после распада Советского Союза, на основе их собственных повествований. Основная цель работы заключается в исследовании того, как мигранты-участники вписывались в общественную реальность Аргентины на фоне её превалирующих физических,  материальных и социо-экономических позиций, а также по отношению к тому, как согласно их рассказам, эти люди сами себя воспринимали и идентифицировали. Эмпирическая компонента диссертации включает в себя комплекс углубленных этнографических интервью и включенного наблюдения, проводимых в Буэнос Айрес в 2011 -2014 гг. Автор изучает вопросы миграции, класса, социальной мобильности, расы и гендера в процессе переустановки жизни в новых условиях, руководствуясь теоретическими посылами теорий политического дискурса, критических расовых исследований (critical race studies), автоэтнографии и теорий колониальности. В дополнение к тому факту, что на интервьюируемых оказал непосредственное влияние распад Советского Союза, который кардинальным образом изменил как возможные сценарии их будущего, так и ретроактивные интерпретации их прошлого, эти люди начали свою новую жизнь в Аргентине сразу после сумятицы экономического кризиса, достигшего кульминации в 2001 г. Центральным аспектом диссертации является изучение воздействия, которое имели эти дислоцирующие обстоятельства на спектр естественных возможностей и преград на пути реализации жизненного проекта участников исследования, как они себе его представляли, а также какое влияние оказывают соответствующие дискурсивные структуры на позиции и идентификации субъектов, обуславливая определенные условия реализации различных траекторий их жизни в эмиграции. Фокусируя внимание на том, как эти индивидуумы повествуют о том, что побудило их к эмиграции в Аргентину и интеграции в местные рынки труда и жилья, автор подчеркивает ту роль, которую сыграли в этом особенности как аргентинской, так и восточноевропейской истории, наряду с более поздними структурными изменениями 90х гг., происходившими как на постсоветском, так и аргентинском пространствах в эпоху неолиберализма. Это касается в равной степени аспектов самовосприятия, позиций субъектов, а также вопросов их идентификации и мобильности. Важной составляющей того, каким образом интервьюируемые устанавливали рамки своей субъективной идентификации и позиции, являлись различные грани концепции власти; в частности того, как возникают понятия расы и ‘белизны’ (whiteness). Автор обращается к вопросу, какую роль в этих процессах сыграли аффект и надежда, и как субъекты исследования артикулировали и находили смысл в своей нисходящей мобильности. Параллельно автор анализирует то, как представления участников о "хорошей жизни" ставились ими в зависимость от их собственной интерпретации прошлого, наряду с вопросами расы, общественного неравенства и колониальной логики.
Esta tesis investiga las experiencias narradas por una serie de individuos que emigraron a Argentina desde Rusia y Ucrania a raíz de la caída de la Unión Soviética. Su objetivo general es estudiar el modo en que estos inmigrantes transitaron la realidad social argentina en lo que se refiere a las posiciones físicas, materiales y socioeconómicas disponibles, así como también a su auto-comprensión y a las identidades construidas desde sus narraciones. La autora examina cuestiones de migración, movilidad, raza, clase y género en los procesos de restablecimiento de la vida de estos sujetos a través del marco de la teoría política del discurso, los estudios críticos de la raza, la auto-etnografía y teorías sobre la colonialidad. Los datos empíricos consisten en entrevistas etnográficas en profundidad y observación participante realizadas en Buenos Aires entre los años 2011 y 2014. Los entrevistados no sólo se vieron directamente afectados por el colapso de la URSS en el sentido de que éste cambió drásticamente su terreno de futuros posibles y la comprensión retroactiva de su pasado, sino que también comenzaron sus vidas en Argentina durante las turbulencias de la crisis económica que estalló en el año 2001. En esta tesis, es central la indagación sobre cómo estos eventos dislocatorios impactaron en las posibilidades y limitaciones de los entrevistados para vivir la vida que esperaban y cómo las estructuras discursivas afectan las posiciones y las identificaciones de los sujetos, creando condiciones específicas para diferentes trayectorias de reubicación. Al enfocarse en cómo estos individuos narran sus razones para la migración y su integración en los mercados laborales y de la vivienda en Argentina, la autora demuestra el papel que tienen en las auto-comprensiones, posiciones de sujeto, identidades y movilidad, tanto la historia argentina y de Europa del Este, así como también la reestructuración neoliberal de la región postsocialista y de la Argentina en los años 90. Diversas intersecciones de poder, y particularmente la raza y la blancura son importantes para la manera en que los entrevistados negociaron posiciones subjetivas e identificaciones. La autora aborda cómo el afecto y la esperanza desempeñaron un papel en estos procesos y cómo la movilidad descendente se articuló y se hizo significativa. También examina cómo las ideas de los participantes acerca de una "buena vida" se relacionan con la comprensión del pasado, las cuestiones de raza, desigualdad social y una lógica colonial.
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Bhattacharya, Rajesh. "Capitalism in post-colonial India: Primitive accumulation under dirigiste and laissez faire regimes." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3409540.

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In this dissertation, I try to understand processes of dispossession and exclusion within a class-focused Marxian framework grounded in the epistemological position of overdetermination. The Marxian concept of primitive accumulation has become increasingly prominent in contemporary discussions on these issues. The dominant reading of “primitive accumulation” in the Marxian tradition is historicist, and consequently the notion itself remains outside the field of Marxian political economy. The contemporary literature has de-historicized the concept, but at the same time missed Marx’s unique class-perspective. Based on a non-historicist reading of Marx, I argue that primitive accumulation—i.e. separation of direct producers from means of production in non-capitalist class processes—is constitutive of capitalism and not a historical process confined to the period of transition from pre-capitalism to capitalism. I understand primitive accumulation as one aspect of a more complex (contradictory) relation between capitalist and non-capitalist class structure which is subject to uneven development and which admit no teleological universalization of any one class structure. Thus, this dissertation claims to present a notion of primitive accumulation theoretically grounded in the Marxian political economy. In particular, the dissertation problematizes the dominance of capital over a heterogeneous social formation and understands primitive accumulation as a process which simultaneously supports and undermines such dominance. At a more concrete level, I apply this new understanding of primitive accumulation to a social formation—consisting of “ancient” and capitalist enterprises—and consider a particular conjuncture where capitalist accumulation is accompanied by emergence and even expansion of a “surplus population” primarily located in the “ancient” economy. Using these theoretical arguments, I offer an account of postcolonial capitalism in India, distinguishing between two different regimes—(1) the dirigiste planning regime and (2) the laissez-faire regime. I argue that both regimes had to grapple with the problem of surplus population, as the capitalist expansion under both regimes involved primitive accumulation. I show how small peasant agriculture, traditional non-capitalist industry and informal “ancient” enterprises (both rural and urban) have acted as “sinks” for surplus population throughout the period of postcolonial capitalist development in India. Keywords: primitive accumulation, surplus population, postcolonial capitalism
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"The politics of heritage conservation in a Southeast Asian post-colonial city: the case of Georgetown in Penang, Malaysia." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894672.

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Li, Ho Fai.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-117).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgements --- p.i
English and Chinese Abstracts --- p.ii
List of Contents --- p.iv
"Index of tables, figures, and diagrams" --- p.vi
Lists of abbreviations and acronyms --- p.vii
Notes --- p.ix
Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Research Background and Research Question --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- Methodology --- p.3
Chapter 1.3 --- Research Significance --- p.5
Chapter 1.4 --- "Theoretical Frameworks, Central Arguments and Organization of the Thesis" --- p.6
Chapter 2. --- Theoretical Frameworks and Literature Review --- p.8
Chapter 2.1 --- Historical Institutionalism --- p.8
Chapter 2.2 --- The Study of Heritage Conservation --- p.10
Chapter 2.3 --- The Study of Civil Society --- p.12
Chapter 2.4 --- Political Economy of Built Heritage Conservation --- p.14
Chapter 2.5 --- State-Civil Society Relations in Post-Independence Malaysia --- p.16
Chapter 3. --- "Case Study of George Town in Penang, Malaysia (1957-2008)" --- p.24
Chapter 3.1 --- Genesis of George Town as a British Colonial Town --- p.24
Chapter 3.2 --- Development of George Town in 1950s-1970s --- p.25
Chapter 3.3 --- Development of George Town in 1980s-2008 --- p.32
Chapter 3.4 --- Updates of Development of George Town since 2008 --- p.60
Chapter 4. --- "Analysis of the case of George Town in Penang, Malaysia" --- p.66
Chapter 4.1 --- A Path of Institutional Change towards Heritage Conservation --- p.67
Chapter 4.2 --- Structural Basis for Civil Society-state Synergy --- p.69
Chapter 4.3 --- Conceptualizing the Constructability of Civil society-state Synergy --- p.77
Chapter 4.4 --- "Identification of ""Critical Juncture"" in the Developmental Path" --- p.82
Chapter 4.5 --- Sustainability of Civil society-state Synergy --- p.83
Chapter 5. --- Conclusion and Discussion --- p.88
Chapter 5.1 --- Brief Review of the Heritage Movement in Penang --- p.88
Chapter 5.2 --- Summary of Arguments --- p.89
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Methula, Dumisani Welcome. "Black Theology and the struggle for economic justice in the democratic South Africa." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18918.

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This study sets out to contribute to the expansive development of Systematic Theology and Black Theology, particularly in the struggle for economic justice in the democratic South Africa. The liberation of black people in South Africa and across the globe is the substantive reason for Black Theologies‘ existence and expression. The study‘s reflections on economic justice and Black Theology as sites of the intellectual focus and analysis is central to understanding the conditions of existence for the majority of South Africa‘s citizens, as well as understanding whether the fullness of life based on dignity and freedom as articulated in biblical witness, particularly John 10:10 is manifest for black people in South Africa. The study also seeks to identify, describe, analyse and understand the emancipatory theories and praxis, which entail a plethora of efforts they undertake to liberate themselves. Understanding and engendering the nexus of social practice and theological insights in the articulation of Black Theology as a particular expression of systematic theology, and drawing attention to the ethical foundations undergirding Black Theology, are important in demonstrating Black Theology‘s role and task as a multi-disciplinary discipline which encompass and engender dialogue within and between theory and praxis, and theology and ethics. This study thus suggests that since the locus of Black Theology and spirituality is embedded in the life, (ecclesial and missional) work (koinonia) and preaching (kerygma) of black churches, they have the requisite responsibility to engage in the efforts (spiritual and theological) in the struggle to finding solutions to the triple crises of unemployment, inequality and poverty which ravage the quality and dignity of life of the majority black people in post-apartheid South Africa. This study therefore concludes by asserting that, there are a variety of viable options and criteria relevant for facilitating economic justice in South Africa. These strategies include transformational distribution of land to the majority of South Africans, the implementation of heterodox economic policies which engender market and social justice values in the distribution of economic goods to all citizens. It also entails prioritization of the social justice agenda in economic planning and economic practice. In theological language, economic justice must involve the restoration of the dignity and the wellbeing of the majority of South Africans, who remain poor, marginalised and disillusioned. It also entails promoting justice as a central principle in correcting the remnants of apartheid injustices, which limit transformational justice which enables and facilitates equality, freedom and economic justice for all South African citizens.
Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
M. Th. (Systematic Theology)
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