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Kujat, Christopher Norman. "Can the Subaltern Tweet? A Netnography of India’s Subaltern Voices Entering the Public via Social Media." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23976.
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This netnography depicts the notions of India’s subaltern voices entering the public via social media. The study puts an emphasis on feminists and caste critics, divided into two case studies. The study witnessed dynamics of Twitter use between sociality and activism as well as the notions of performance and identity of these two intersecting, yet polarised groups.Privilege remains a governing factor, which regulates access, accessibility and the use of the subaltern sphere and makes it exclusive for a privileged group of the subaltern. The main benefits of Twitter in the subaltern sphere, as the study suggests, is the factor of sociality and networking around causes, which leads to peer dialogue in the public sphere and increases visibility. This eventually leads to more attention for certain causes in the public discourse and to the countering of mainstream media narratives, for example in the case study of the Dalit Lives Matter Movement and its ad hoc fame, which evolved after the suicide of the Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula.Further, while online activism is present, its impact remains hard to measure. The main benefits of the space are the plurality of voices that inhabit it. Also, the unleashing of the counternarratives towards the mainstream media that are even more controlled by the state than the new media landscape, is an important benefit.
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Jooste, Yvonne. "The subaltern can speak' reflections on voice through the lens of the politics of Jacques Rancière." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53132.
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The aim of the research is to reflect on the notion of political voice through the lens of the politics of Jacques Rancière. This reflection takes place against the background of the difficulty and complexity of issues surrounding the political voice of many South African women. The motivation behind the reflection on political voice arose out of concerns regarding the contradiction between the exemplary formal position of South African women and their lived realities as it pertains to the contexts of poverty and sexual violence that many women face and live in.
Since South Africa s transition to democracy, many activists and scholars have engaged with notions of gender equality along the lines of constitutional discourse, substantive equality and transformative constitutionalism. This research seeks an alternative understanding. I turn to the work of theorist, Jacques Rancière in order to consider possible alternatives and ways of thinking about the notion of voice. I explore his unique formulation of politics as well as other theoretical engagements in order to open up questions around the frameworks that determine the possibilities of political voicing and/or silencing.
The reflection also entails an exploration of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak s famous essay Can the Subaltern Speak . I analyse Spivak s essay along the lines of Jacques Rancière s formulation of politics in order to further make sense of what it means to have a political voice. I also read instances of political statements and historical and literary figures from the perspective of Rancière s politics. The aim is to contest and question current meanings of voice and to suggest that Jacques Rancière s postulations can provide valuable insight on issues of political voicing, silence, politics and equality.Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Zavala-Petherbridge, Dina Yamileth. "Re/braiding Catrachaness: The Testimonios of Subaltern Voices." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25861.
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The current literature about rural feminists in Central American countries lacks details about the experiences women like my Grandmother had. The physical and social realities of my Grandmother breathed collective participation, self-reflection, critical thought, and personal development connected to the social struggle. Becoming an engaged social activist gave her a chance to reflect and act, which are the elements for concientizaci?n. Once she became emancipated, she was part of the social change by providing others and me the guidance to our freedom. The simple fact that women acted against an oppressive society, and they took control of their own reproductive rights demonstrates the will of women to find a way to make change and create agency. Writing this dissertation is my way of carrying on my Grandmother?s legacy, as well as a means to create a space for rural feminist women from the next generation. My narrative offers everyday life discourses inversely related to those presented by the collective organized feminist movement narratives. In this research, I use testimonio as the method of inquiry and product through which my Grandmother?s and my narrative are braided and re-braided as a symbolic way to construct and deconstruct narratives, terms, and journeys. I completed this process under the lenses of theory in the flesh, Freire?s social emancipatory theory, and Mestiza consciousness. Una conscientizaci?n embodies and lives in context, no longer abstracted; therefore it embodies social and biological concepts of physical realities creating a generative resistance. I conclude this study with a reflection on the research process and future direction.
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Leonte, Eva. "Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144396.
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It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. Literary texts which embark on this task can be seen as symbolic speech acts and, as such, they depend upon their illocutionary force for success in the public sphere. In this thesis I have chosen to discuss The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011) – a novel I perceive as a collective speech act – from the combined perspective of speech-act criticism (J. L. Austin, S. Petrey), subaltern studies (G. Spivak, G. Pandey) and feminist theory (M. P. Lara, S. Lanser). My analysis explores the interrelation between this little-known story of the first-generation Japanese women immigrants to the US and the sophisticated narrative strategy which sustains it, continually balancing between the women's heterogeneity and their shared experiences, especially their systematic silencing by the dominant population. Finally, the thesis discusses the novel’s larger illocutionary implications for the public sphere, in particular how the reclaiming of the past creates new understandings of the present as well as opens up onto the future. Keywords: Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic, migrant literature, picture brides, subalternity, feminist theory, communal voice, speech-act criticism, illocutionary force.
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Clare, Rebecca. "Elite and Subaltern Voices in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5757.
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Farzana, Khandoker. "The Subaltern's Power of Silence and Alternative history : Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30547.
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Amitav Ghosh's novel The Calcutta Chromosome is a science-fiction which deals with subalter voice. In this paper I have discussed that how Ghosh has written an alternative hisory for the suabltern and how he establishes a connection between subaltern and the science-fictional term, the posthuman. I also argue that through such representation Ghosh proposes a open ended way to think about the subaltern future as well.
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Liu, Linjing. "When Silenced Voices Meet Homi. K. Bhabha’s “Megaphone”." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-76243.
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Drawing upon Homi. K. Bhabha's essay A Personal Response and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can The Subaltern Speak? I initiated my research project When the Silenced Voices Meet Homi. K. Bhabha's "Megaohone". The focal point of this paper aims at identifying and questioning the limitatpons of Bhabha's theories while highlighting Spivak's insightful perspectives. In conducting this project, the motif of my paper is derived, which is to question male scholars’ gender-blindness under the feminist lens in the field of post-colonial studies. Issues, such as identity, hybridity and representation are under discussion; meanwhile by citing the example of and debate on sati, the gender issue and the special contributions of postcolonial feminism are developed.
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Anderson, Agnes. "Skogen berör alla : Maktrelationer inom skogsbruket i Jokkmokks kommun 1980-1990." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-61452.
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Skogsbruket har en lång historia i Sverige och kom under 1900-talet att hamna i en rad konflikter med intressegrupper som förespråkade skogens immateriella värden. Syftet med denna diskursanalys är att redogöra för de maktrelationer som var rådande under 1980-talets skogsbruk i Jokkmokks kommun. Undersökningen ämnar i första hand att lyfta de röster som under 1980- talets skogsbruk i Jokkmokks kommun tystades av de intressegrupper som prioriterade skogens materiella värden. Hur den koloniserade har agerat och reagerat kommer följaktligen att behandlas. Undersökningen påvisar att Jokkmokks kommun blev överexploaterad under 1980-talet vilket kom att skapa maktrelationer mellan skogens intressegrupper. Avverkningarna påverkade både rennäringen och den lokala befolkningen och 1980-talet går således att ses som en fortsatt postkolonial era där en kolonial diskurs är rådande. Undersökningen visar även att det fanns möjlighet att göra motstånd men att de röster som förespråkade skogens immateriella värden försummades.Forestry has a long history in Sweden and came during the 20th century to end up in a series of conflicts with the interest groups advocating the immaterial values of the forest. The purpose of this discourse analysis is to describe the power relationships that were prevalent during the 1980s forestry in the municipality of Jokkmokk. This study primarily focuses on highlighting the voices during the 1980s forestry in the municipality of Jokkmokk who were silenced by groups that prioritize the material values of the forest. How the colonized have acted and reacted will also be discussed. This study shows that the municipality of Jokkmokk became overly exploited in the 1980s which came to create the power relationships between forest interest groups. Felling affected both reindeer herding and the local population and it is possible to speak of the 1980s as a continued post-colonial era where a colonial discourse is prevalent. The survey also shows that it was possible to resist but that the votes in favor of the forest's immaterial values were easily neglected.
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Olsson, Angelika. "Arundhati Roy : Reclaiming Voices on the Margin in The God of Small Things." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8366.
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The aim of this essay is to critically consider Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things from a postcolonial feminist perspective, with a special focus on how she models different representations of women, taking as a background the discussions within postcolonial feminism about subalternity and the representations of women from the so-called Third World in theory and literature, as well as the concept of agency from Cultural Studies. This purpose is reached by studying and comparing three main female characters in the novel: Mammachi, Baby Kochamma and Ammu, centering on their different ways of relating to the male hero of the novel, Velutha, an Untouchable in the lingering caste system of India. The essay argues that Roy has contributed with diverse representations of subaltern women in the ‘Third World’ who—despite their oppressed and marginalized status—display agency and are portrayed as responsible for their own actions.
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Roy, Mantra. ""Speaking" Subalterns: A Comparative Study of African American and Dalit/Indian Literatures." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3441.
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“Speaking Subalterns” examines the literatures of two marginalized groups,African Americans in the United States and Dalits in India. The project demonstrates how two disparate societies, USA and India, are constituted by comparable hegemonic socioeconomic-cultural and political structures of oppression that define and delimit the identities of the subalterns in the respective societies. The superstructures of race in USA and caste in India inform, deform, and complicate the identities of the marginalized along lines of gender, class, and family structure. Effectively, a type of domestic colonialism, exercised by the respective national elitists, silence and exploit the subaltern women and emasculate the men. This repression from above disrupts the respective family structures in the societies, traumatizes the children, and confuses the relationships between all the members of the families. While African American women, children, and men negotiate their national identities in USA, Dalits, the former Untouchables, attempt to realize their national identities guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. While successful resistance to oppression informs the literatures written by these historically marginalized peoples, thereby giving voice to the silenced subalterns, I argue that it is equally important to be attentive to the simultaneous silencing that has not ended. Moreover, we must be skeptical about the power seemingly achieved by the subalterns in articulating their claims to legitimate rights because re-presentation of subaltern resistance by the elite intellectualsand by subalterns themselves becomes a critical inquiry.
Thus, while some subaltern women claim agency through representation, their narratives may not be exempt from hegemonic control. Others are thoroughly misrepresented by elitists. While some subaltern mothers undertake outlaw mothering by defying normative patriarchal motherhood, responsible representation can re-cover these tales which are silenced when these mothers succumb to their children and community’s disparagement. While some subaltern children may survive disastrous experiences, others may be traumatized into silence. Representation bears witness to these traumatic silences and the silencing processes. While historically emasculated subaltern men may vent and represent their rightful frustration and wrath against the oppressors, they may be simultaneously silencing their own doubly-oppressed women.
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Sanecki, Kim Caroline. "Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07062006-114644/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Ian Christopher Fletcher, committee chair; Duane J Corpis, committee member. Electronic text (180 p.). Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180).
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Spellman, Jennifer Lee. "Can the Subaltern Sing?" Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556281880685869.
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McClary-Jeffryes, Theresa M. "Modalities of Injustice in the Subaltern Discourse." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1621.
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Subaltern persons continue to be most negatively impacted by the hegemonic practices of institutions. Subaltern populations are the furthest removed from political agency, not only by the insecurities of their lived experiences, but also by academic and agency discourses that recreate the subaltern political citizen-subject in modes representing the “Other” through lenses of elite scholarship and high theory. The subaltern agent is not present in her own political making. The considerations of social justice require both the underpinnings of a global ethics of caring and a commitment to center the subaltern citizen subject’s account of herself as corresponding privileged record. This paper explores the marginalizing outcomes in the historiography of subaltern studies and defends both ethical cosmopolitanism and participatory democracy as modes that better respect diverse worldviews outside of neoliberal constructions. Advocacy on behalf of subaltern groups must include Community-Based Participatory Research and eco-cultural analysis that give priority to positive near stakeholder goals and outcomes for their communities. Subaltern self-representation is the needed checks and balances for 21st century policy making
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Maddox, Bryan. "Subaltern literacies : writing, ethnography and the state." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570653.
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The thesis explores the theme of 'literacy and subalterneity' in two linked contexts; colonial Bengal and contemporary Bangladesh. It draws both from my ethnographic field research in the rural north-west of Bangladesh and from archive-based research, and in doing so provides a critical historical perspective which reflexively informs my representations of the colonial past and the ethnographic present. The thesis begins by presenting a theoretical framework for the study. In doing so it draws from two contrasting academic fields - contemporary ethnographic writing on literacy (informed by anthropological theory and research), and the historically focussed studies presented in the journal 'Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society' and associated writing. I argue that these two academic fields present radically contrasting views of literacy. Whereas ethnographic writing tends to emphasise the cultural diversity of social uses and meanings of literacy, I argue that the 'subaltern studies' writing has largely presented literacy as a singular and repressive phenomenon in its representations of literacy in colonial India. The first part of the thesis locates the study in Bengal, and sets out the theoretical framework of the study including an extensive discussion of literacy, subalterneity, representational power and commodity fetishism. The research data used in the first part is developed from close readings of nineteenth century archive material and Indian census reports. The second part of the thesis expands on these themes in relation to my own ethnographic research in Bangladesh. In doing so I reflexively link the historical themes developed in the first part of the thesis to the context of contemporary ethnographic research. As a result of this reflexive historical and contemporary analysis I develop new perspectives on literacy and ethnographic research, gender and power, religious practice and economic development.
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Pagan, Louan Isabel. "False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/48898.
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A false presence of the colonized female arises within Frantz Fanon's books Peau noire, masques blancs, L'an V de la révolution algérienne, and Les damnés de la terre. Through a close reading of these texts, this thesis aims to locate where these blind spots exist and how they are facilitated by Fanon, while also acknowledging the potential for these exclusions to be accidental. The introduction provides a brief synopsis of Fanon's life and the colonial relations of his time, namely the Algerian revolution. The first chapter deals with how Fanon's language reinforces the female subaltern through silencing, effacement, and stereotypical language. The second chapter concerns the similarities between racial and gendered power relations within his books. In the third chapter, I discuss hierarchies of power and their establishment through gendered binaries. Finally, my concluding chapter posits how addressing these false presences can lead to deeper understanding and interaction with the female subaltern in Fanon's books.Master of Arts
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Naicker, Camalita. "Marikana : taking a subaltern sphere of politics seriously." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015651.
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This thesis aims to open up the realm of what counts as political in the context of the Marikana strikes and subsequent massacre. It does primarily by taking into account the social, political and cultural context of Mpondo workers on the mines. Many narrow Marxist and liberal frameworks have circumscribed the conception of the ‘modern’ and the ‘political’ so much so that political organisation which falls outside of this conceptualisation is often regarded as ‘backward’ or ‘archaic’. It will provide an examination of the history, culture and custom of men, who have, for almost a hundred years migrated back and forth between South African mines and Mpondoland. This not only reveals differing modes of organising and engaging in political action, but also that the praxis of democracy takes many forms, some of which are different and opposed to what counts as democratic in Western liberal democracy. By considering what I argue, following some of the insights from the Subaltern Studies collective in India, to be a subaltern sphere of politics and history, it is possible to better understand the way workers organised and acted. The thesis also argues that most labour and nationalist historiography has been silent on the political contributions of women because of how Marxist/liberal analysis frames struggles through disciplined notions of work and resistance. Rather than objectifying workers as representatives of a homogenous and universal class of people devoid of context, the thesis has linked ‘the worker’ to the community from which s/he comes and community specific struggles, which are supported and sustained, often, by the parallel struggles of women in the community.
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Hayden, Cheryl Joy. "The rebels shout back : subaltern theory and the writing of 'A Christmas Game'." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19211/.
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The cultures and stories of peripheral populations and conquered peoples, which have largely been drowned out by the accepted discourse of the nation states that colonised them, have begun to be recouped and re-told.The subaltern school of post-colonial theory provides the writer of fiction with a range of theories from which to devise the means of voicing the unvoiced. Among these, Ranajit Guha’s work on the prose of counter-insurgency provides the author with the key to finding lost voices, in particular those of the vanquished peasant rebel.
“A Christmas Game” is a fictional account of the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion, in which the commons of Cornwall and Devon rebelled against the abolition of the mass and the introduction of the English language prayer book. By analysing the language and detail contained in the substantial historical record, identifying that which is missing, and examining sources that detail the religious, cultural and “folk” elements of daily life, it is possible to see this event and re-tell it through the eyes of those characters whose stories have never been told and thereby create a new place from which to further debate and research.
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Chakraborty, Madhurima. "Midnight's Children and Subaltern Pasts Salman Rushdie Provincializing Europe /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0001216.
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Gollnick, Brian. "The bleeding horizon : subaltern representations in Mexico's Lacandón Jungle /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9913152.
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Góes, Camila Massaro de. "Existe um pensamento político subalterno? Um estudo sobre os subaltern studies: 1982-2000." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-12062015-114259/.
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Essa pesquisa apresenta como objeto central os Subaltern Studies. Trata-se de um grupo de intelectuais que se destacou no estudo da história social e política indiana no final dos anos 1970. O que ligou estruturalmente os intelectuais próximos aos Subaltern Studies, em sua fase inicial, foi a tentativa de reescrever criticamente a história colonial da Índia. Nesse sentido, o esforço do grupo correspondeu a uma busca por tentar resgatar a voz nativa silenciada e extrair novas perspectivas historiográficas e políticas não só do passado, mas da própria fraqueza da sociedade nativa. Protagonizados por autores como Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee e Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, se organizou uma série de coletâneas de artigos sobre a história social e política indiana que totalizaram onze volumes compreendidos entre os anos de 1982 e 2000. Amplamente discutidos, os Subaltern Studies passaram a nomear um campo de estudos abrangente, de caráter internacional. Em meio às diversas fontes que confluíram nos subalternistas (marxismo, pós-estruturalismo, pós-colonialismo), se busca aprofundar o estudo sobre as apropriações conceituais feitas pelos indianos. Se enfatizará seu percurso de mudanças e tensões intelectuais e se analisará os limites de sua realização teórica com destaque para a tradução e extensão à experiência latino-americana com os Latin American Subaltern Studies, fundados em 1993.This research has as its subject matter Subaltern Studies. This is a group of intellectuals, who stand out in the social and political Indian history of the late 1970s. Intellectuals close to the Subaltern Studies, in its initial phase, critically tried to rewrite the history of colonial India. In this sense, the group sought to rescue the silenced native voice and extract new historical and political perspectives not only from the past, but also from the weakness of the native society. Performed by authors such as Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a series of collections of papers were organized on the Indian social and political history that totaled eleven volumes, published between 1982 and 2000. Widely discussed, Subaltern Studies came to suggest a field of extensive studies, of an international character. Among the various sources that converged in subaltern studies (Western Marxism, post structuralism, post colonialism), this research seeks to study the conceptual appropriations made by the Indians. This research will emphasize its changes and intellectual tensions and will examine the limits of his theoretical achievement especially in relation to the translation and extension to the Latin American experience with the Latin American Subaltern Studies, founded in 1993.
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Gonsalves, Tahira. "Gandhi, nationalism and the subaltern, an examination of Indian historiography." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ52905.pdf.
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Alawi, Turki Mahmoud S. "Subaltern realism, Saudi foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/subaltern-realism-saudi-foreign-policy-and-the-arabisraeli-conflict(68a70244-f3a7-4a35-8bb5-e471018f5f41).html.
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This study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Saudi foreign policy towards the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The study has three main aims: the discovery of the historical Saudi foreign policy towards the Arab-Israeli Conflict, an analysis of how far internal and external factors influence this foreign policy and the extent to which the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia can be explained by using a Subaltern Realism perspective. The study uses a case study research methodology, with the use of a secondary source analysis of official studies into Saudi foreign policy as the main form of research data. The results of the study found that there were internal and external factors that impacted tremendously upon Saudi foreign policy, underlining the developing nation status that is central to the Subaltern Realism perspective. The analysis shows that there is tension between the individual groups in Saudi society and the foreign policy that has developed. The relationship with the US has perhaps historically been the most dominant external influence on the development of Saudi Arabian foreign policy, with it often siding with peace in the region rather than the destruction of Israel. However, in recent years, the influence of internal groups has increased and the relative power and roles of the Ulama, liberals and Islamists have been vital in the development of foreign policy that has sought to become more independent of the US, as the country has become more confident in its position. The study concludes that the Subaltern realist perspective (although it has its limitations) is a far more effective way of identifying the impact that internal and external factors have on the development of Saudi Arabian foreign policy, than previous studies based upon a more traditional form of Realism. This study finds that the importance of domestic groups such as the Ulama, the Royal Family, liberal and the growing religious extremists have a determining influence on the development of foreign policy and, further, that the relative power that each has at any given time leads to the increase or decrease of the influence of international factors respectively. Overall, this research shows that the Arab-Israeli Conflict has had wide and important implications for the Saudi decision-making process because it is an issue that draws together and involves all of the many, complex and multi-faceted external and internal factors that impact on Saudi foreign policy decisions. The conclusion draws out the implications of this research and outlines some further recommendations for study.
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Mizan, Souzana. "National Geographic: visual and verbal representations of subaltern cultures revisited." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09092011-090808/.
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This thesis is a multidisciplinary endeavor that draws on theories from Visual Culture Studies, Subaltern Studies and Critical Theory. The discourses of these areas interact in various ways in order to analyze representations of subaltern groups in National Geographic magazine. We see these representations as multimodal cultural texts that mobilize historical, sociological, political, economic, aesthetic and philosophical elements. We do close reading of the visual and verbal texts that the magazine produces on the subaltern in order to show that we get to know more about the Western conceptual world through these representations than on the Other since the conceptual categories National Geographic uses are culture specific and not universal. We show that both the discourse of the magazine and that of the researcher doing the analysis are products of their locus of enunciation and its historical context. We finally emphasize the importance of admitting the power of mediation when we talk about anthropological representations. The magazine uses an apparently scientific discourse in order to validate the truthfulness of its representations. However, its science is formed by concepts expressive of the Western cultural hegemony which seeks to construct knowledge that is rooted in power.Esta tese é um projeto multidisciplinar, que se baseia em teorias de Cultura Visual, Estudos Subalternos e Teoria Crítica. Os discursos dessas áreas interagem de várias maneiras com o objetivo de analisar as representações de grupos subalternos na revista National Geographic. Vemos essas representações como textos culturais multimodais que mobilizam elementos históricos, sociológicos, políticos, econômicos, estéticos e filosóficos. Fazemos uma leitura dos textos visuais e verbais que a revista produz sobre o subalterno, a fim de mostrar que acabamos sabendo mais sobre o mundo conceitual ocidental através dessas representações do que sobre o Outro, uma vez que as categorias que a National Geographic usa são específicas da cultura ocidental e não universais. Mostramos que tanto o discurso da revista quanto o do pesquisador que faz a analise das representações são produtos de seu locus de enunciação e seu contexto histórico. Finalmente, enfatizamos a importância de admitir o poder de mediação quando falamos sobre representações antropológicas. A revista usa um discurso aparentemente científico, a fim de validar a veracidade de suas representações. No entanto, sua ciência é formada por conceitos da hegemonia cultural ocidental, que procura construir conhecimento que está enraizado no poder.
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Landon, Rocky. "Voice, whose voice is it, anyway?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ31220.pdf.
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Fick, Angelo Carlo. "Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940.
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Bibliography: pages. 197-211.This thesis examines the representation of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the four writers are able to offer black women as female gendered subalterns the space to negotiate subjectivity and to assert agency. Given the history of sexism, racism and imperialism in South Africa, the politics of place impact crucially on the practice of writing literature, so that the tensions between the representation of others and self-representation becomes crucial in identity formation. Through the four texts, I propose that there is a spectrum of practices, and that each offers different possibilities for black women's subject formation: from the most limiting liberal discourses, through the interrogation of those discourses, to an autobiographical moment of self-reclamation.
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Hsu, Ching-Ying. "Love and the ethics of subaltern subjectivity in James Joyce's Ulysses." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10736/.
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This thesis explores Joyce’s aesthetic enterprise in Ulysses from the perspective of ethics, arguing that my psychoanalytic study necessarily points to the entwinement of ontology, epistemology and ethics. Joyce’s literary experimentation not only revolutionised western literature, writing his name into world history, but also inaugurated an emergent subjectivity in modernity. In answering Spivak’s question, ‘Can the Subaltern speak?’, one of my main theses is that the subaltern can speak through the process of self-naming, through the self-invention of a new subjectivity and a New Symbolic. In Chapter One, I critically review Lacan’s theorisation of the ethical models in his long career, engaging in the current debates among Lacanians regarding the definition and efficacy of Lacan’s theory of the (ethical) act and the interconnected ethico-political theories in the contemparay landscape. I evaluate Lacanians’ diverse stances toward Žižek’s interpretation of Lacan centered on the emphasis of negativity and Badiou’s theory of event and truth-procedures. After offering my own theoretical evaluation and intervention into the above-mentioned debates, I also seek to foreground the place of love in Lacanian psychoanalysis and to elucidate how love manifests itself ethically. In my reading of ‘Scylla and Charybdis,’ I argue that Joyce, through Stephen’s idiosyncratic theory of Shakespeare, articulates his artistic ambition as a work of/for a singular universal, endeavouring to transform the human subject by way of writing a book of himself, and of making a self out of writing. I take Joyce’s literary experiment in ‘Cyclops’ as an arrangement deployed through the narrative by the Nameless One that juxtaposes with the rhetorical excess of interpolated digressions. Drawing on Lacan’s theorization of the look and the gaze, I contend that Joyce conducts a literary traversal of fantasy, a working through of symptomatic nationalism. The interpretation of ‘fantasmatic’ working offers an alternative reading to the historicist approaches and critiques of Gibson and Nolan. I also argue that neighbour love has already prefigured in ‘Cyclops,’ in Bloom’s proclamation of the ideal of universal love and in the poetic justice of Bloom’s escape from his xenophobic, Cyclopean neighbours. The psychoanalytically-inspired theory of ‘de-activation of the law’ and Badiou’s conception of ideological ‘subtraction’ are enlisted in my interpretation of neighbour love. I read ‘Circe’ as Joyce’s experiment with a sinthomatic construction of subjectivity, contending that there is a constant process of unknotting and reknotting in the construction of textual subjectivity. I examine whether the sinthomatic construction of subjectivity, as it is evidenced in the fantasmatic episodes, truly invents a new structural stratification of subjectivity and alternative libidinal organization. By way of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Žižek’s theory, I argue that masochism in ‘Circe’ is not necessarily ethical but can function as a preparatory step towards the true ethical act. Pseudo-messianism and masochism are opposed to the true messianism manifested through neighbour love as a genuine ethical act. Enlightened by Lacan’s complex theory of the psychoanalytic act and Badiou’s idea of new neighbourhood, I try to capture the ethical impact of genuine messianism. I interpret Joyce’s modern version of ‘Penelope’ as a sinthomatic writing as well, finding this female countersign to be problematic by way of an ethical evaluation of the sinthome as a (singularised) sexual relation and an investigation of Joyce’s belief in his sinthome. Furthermore, my ethical reading is also explored through the productive tension between what I term ‘sinthomatic eroticism’ and love. I invoke both Lacan’s idea of love as ‘compensaiton’ of the non-existence of sexual relationship, and Badiou’s work on love as a way of creatively carving out what I term ‘the ethical space of love’ as a space (not entirely disengaged from but) distinct from the psychoanalytic domain of sexual desires or eros.
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Woodling, Marie Louise. "(Re)Producing the U.S.-Mexican border : state power and the citizen/subaltern binary." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/ca04a7b0-1981-4597-8bc0-ea34c52c7414.
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This thesis highlights and interrogates the mutually constitutive relationship between marginality, state power and borders. In doing so, it focuses specifically on the U.S.-Mexican border, and the role of the citizen/ subaltern binary. I use a Postcolonial approach to state power which reads Foucault’s work on power alongside Gramsci’s work on the state to see state power as decentralised and dispersed in society; to see power as acting productively through civil society, and power and resistance as inseparable. Subsequently, I introduce the concept of marginality through the work of Agamben and the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group, focusing on the mutual constitution of the citizen and subaltern whereby state power is reaffirmed through its ability to distinguish between lives and their value. This, I argue, becomes a logic of everyday life in the borderlands that makes sense to ordinary people. The empirical chapters of the thesis apply this theory to the Undocumented and subaltern women at the U.S.-Mexican border; illustrating the binary nature of state power and how the subaltern both at once sustains and disturbs this binary structure. I argue that citizen-led movements to ‘help’ the subaltern, although well intentioned, tend to act in solidarity with state power, reinforcing subalternity through the binary structure of power. By taking the naked life of the subaltern as their referent point, they too become implicated in the project of statecraft and the (re)production of the border. The thesis concludes by revisiting possibilities for resistance via disturbing the citizen/ subaltern binary in the context of representation. Drawing from Agamben, Spivak and Beverley I tackle the thin line between resistance and recolonisation within representation. Certainly there is an injustice of talking about without talking to. Indeed, I argue that to avoid using subalterns as tokens we must address and acknowledge this.
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Anitha, Sundari. "Dominant texts, subaltern performances : two tellings of the Ramayan in Central India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401211.
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Wang, Hans S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Voice wars : smart speakers, voice assistants, and strategies for building a successful voice ecosystem." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122259.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2019Page 99 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-98).
In recent years, voice-powered digital assistants have exploded into the consumer mainstream as an important new form of human-computer interaction. Powered by dramatic improvements in speech recognition and artificial intelligence (Al) technologies over the last decade, digital voice assistants are now abundantly prevalent in modem consumer electronic devices ranging from mobile phones, to smart speakers, to wearables. As the technology matures and the availability of big data used by digital assistants proliferates, voice will soon become a primary modality by which people interact and accomplish tasks. Many of these tasks will be accomplished in consumer homes and digital voice assistants present a significant new opportunity where voice and the physical home intersect to dramatically reshape how consumers live in their home.
This also represents a tremendous opportunity for companies in the digital assistant industry, and, in order to successfully leverage this nascent technology, they will need to understand both their own strategic goals as well as their direct and indirect competitors' strategies in building a business ecosystem around voice-first digital assistants. A fierce struggle has begun - not just amongst current technology titans (i.e. Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft), but also involving key incumbent players in the home media and electronics industry (e.g. Samsung, Sonos, Bang & Olufsen).
The goals of this thesis, with respect to the current industry leaders in the digital assistant and smart home space, are to 1) understand the current landscape of the digital assistant voice ecosystem, 2) elucidate each major players' current voice-powered digital assistant platform strategy, 3) analyze the consumer adoption, selection, and diffusion mechanisms for digital voice assistants in the consumer smart home, and 4) determine what the likely outcomes are for each major player as well as the likelihood of success and associated risks with the current ecosystem and platforming strategies employed. Finally, through additional market analysis and industry projections, strategic recommendations will be presented to guide each key player over the next decade. Following these recommendations will be key to winning the digital assistant voice wars and for creating a successful and sustainable voice technology ecosystem in the personal digital assistant market.
by Hans Wang.
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S.M.inEngineeringandManagement Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program
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Charest, Ian. "Hierarchical organisation of voice and voice gender perception." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1681/.
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The most important sound in our auditory environment is the human voice. Voice professionals, whether they are teachers, radio hosts, sport coaches, use their voice on a everyday basis to earn their living and communicate information and knowledge. We grow up spending most of our time everyday listening to voices in school, at the sports club, on t.v., etc. So much that by the time we are adults, voice plays a major role in our everyday social interactions. Yet, while extensive research has been conducted on speech perception voice alone has only just started generating more and more interest in the cognitive neuroscience research community. Voice is not "just" a speech carrier, it conveys rich paralinguistic information such as gender, age, identity or affective state. A theoretical model which emphasises the similarities between face and voice processing was recently introduced, suggesting a serial and parallel processing pathway of voice information leading to high level cognitive processes like person identification. Globally this model of voice processing suggests an extraction of low-level acoustic features, followed by a voice structural encoding leading to parallel pathways for the recognition of speech, affect and identity related information. Furthermore, this model suggested potential interactions with face perception pathways. In this thesis, I investigated two different stages of this voice perception model. First, little is known about the speed at which the distinction between vocal and non-vocal sounds is performed, i.e. is there a time-frame where the "voice structural analysis" would occur. Using electroencephalography, we conducted an experiment in order to delineate this voice vs. non-voice perception time-frame. I observed an early electro-physiological response preferential to voice stimuli, emerging around 164 ms on fronto-temporal electrodes FC5 and FC6 which was termed the "fronto-temporal positivity to voice". Second, little is known about the neural basis behind the perception of paralinguistic information such as identity, gender or affective state contained in the human voice. I used voice gender as a tool to investigated the "voice recognition units" stage of the voice perception model. The cognitive processes behind voice gender perception are still under debate, and more precisely, the nature of the representation of voice gender, whether it is organised around low level acoustical discriminants, or relies on high level categorical representations still remains unclear. Voice gender continua can be created in order to parametrically control the degree of gender contained in voice. I investigated the importance of low level acoustic features using the recently developed auditory morphing algorithms. I averaged 32 male and 32 female voices in order to "approximate" a prototypical voice for each gender. From those prototypes, I generated caricatures by exaggerating the acoustical properties of the male prototype in reference to the female prototype. Those voice composites were included along with 3 pairs of male and female voice exemplars in a voice gender adaptation experiment. I observed significantly stronger perceptual after-effects caused by adaptation from the voice gender caricatures. This result provides evidence for a determinant role of the low level acoustical features in our ability to perceive the gender of a voice. Finally, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), I investigated whether brain regions of the auditory cortex are sensitive to voice gender, voice gender adaptation, and whether a dissociation between extraction of acoustical features and higher level, perceptual representations could be achieved. I used voice gender continua and an event-related fMRI design called the continuous carry-over design to assess these working hypotheses. I observed a covariation between BOLD signal and the degree of acoustical differences in consecutive voices in the anterior part of the right superior temporal sulcus, where the extraction of voice gender related acoustical features occurs. Furthermore, I observed a higher level network involving the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, the insula and the anterior cingulate cortex where a summary of acoustical features would be input from auditory areas enabling a voice gender categorisation.
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SOUZA, GUSTAVO SANT ANNA DE. "VOICE INSURRECTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30175@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar os elementos não-lexicais, todavia produtores de sentido, na performance vocal dentro do campo da canção. Tomam-se como norte epistemológico os estudos do suíço Paul Zumthor, que, ao falar sobre voz poética, afirma que ela transcende a linguagem simbólica e manifesta suas qualidades materiais no tom, timbre, intensidade e demais elementos não linguísticos, porém expressivos e instauradores de presença. A pesquisa se desenvolve em torno de alguns desses elementos, buscando entender melhor como atuam, de que maneira se organizam e por meio de que parâmetros produzem diferenças e semelhanças que afetam diretamente a produção de sentido no âmbito da língua em seu estado musical. Paralelamente, adotou-se como conceito teórico-empírico a proposição do compositor e linguista brasileiro Luiz Tatit, para quem, no universo da palavra cantada, a eficácia da linguagem poética provém das potências da entoação. Assim, buscamos na investigação de aspectos sonoros relacionados à fala e à oralidade os elementos materiais que dão subsídio a nossas elucubrações teóricas e proposições estéticas.
The purpose of this work is to identify and investigate non-lexical elements, however producers of meaning in vocal performance in the song field. We take as a starting point the studies of Paul Zumthor, a Swiss linguist, who, when speaking of poetic voice, states that it transcends the symbolic language and expresses its material qualities in tone, timbre, loudness and other sound elements that in spite of being called non-linguistics are significant and responsible for creating presence. We have developed our research around some of these elements, trying to comprehend how they act, organize and create similarities and differences that affect directly the creation of meaning in the language in its musical state. At the same time, we adopted as a theoretical and empirical concept the proposition of Luiz Tatit, a Brazilian songwriter and also a linguist, who advocates that the efficacy of the poetic language in the universe of song lyrics comes from the characters of the intonation. In this investigation of the sound elements, we intend to find sufficient material to subside our theoretical reflections and aesthetical propositions.
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Shillingburg, Lisa. "Voice Lessons." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/504.
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Asikin-Garmager, Eli Scott. "Sasak voice." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5408.
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This dissertation provides a formal and functional analysis of grammatical voice in Sasak, an Austronesian language spoken in Eastern Indonesia. The research addresses two primary questions, which are (1) how does Sasak clause structure and morphosyntax vary across dialects? and (2) what shapes speakers’ syntactic production, namely grammatical voice choices? Answers to these questions are pursued via elicitation data, a corpus analysis, and results of two language production experiments.
The first part of the dissertation examines how Sasak dialects differ syntactically and morphosyntactically. Data from embedded clauses, clitics, and possessive pronominal clitics are used to argue that that Central Sasak maintains two distinct transitive clause types despite the lack of the overt morphological contrast found with transitive verbs in Eastern Sasak. These data also support prior arguments (Davies, 1993; Guilfoyle, Hung, & Travis, 1992; Shibatani, 2008) that Indonesian languages have either two grammatical subject positions, or both a subject and grammatical topic position in the case of Sasak.
Many Austronesian languages spoken on Indonesia’s Java Island and surrounding islands share a cognate nasal prefix that is generally found in the presence of preverbal actors (Arka, 2009; Davies, 2005; Sneddon, 1996). This dissertation presents data from three Sasak dialects that show how multiple, morphologically distinct nasal prefixes in Sasak dialects (also noted by Austin, 2012) correlate with two syntactic facts: first, what argument may be extracted out of vP; and secondly, whether or not the lexical verb projects an internal argument. These facts are accounted for in a Minimalist framework (Chomsky, 1993, 2001) by permitting variation to target single features on syntactic heads (as proposed by Aldridge, 2008).
The second half of the dissertation investigates what factors shape speakers’ grammatical voice choices. Speakers’ production patterns can clearly be understood as shaped by the structural properties of their specific language(s), and this is also true in Sasak. However, what about when multiple word orders and voice choices are possible? When languages allow for syntactic options, are there universal non-syntactic constraints that exert influence on the production and syntactic coding choices? This dissertation explores potential universal biases identified in literature that has grown out of Bock and Warren’s (1985:50) work on Conceptual Accessibility, or the “ease with which the mental representation of some potential referent can be activated in, or retrieved from, memory”.
The specific biases examined for Sasak in the current work are Discourse Topicality (Givón, 1983), animacy (Branigan, Pickering, & Tanaka, 2008), and noun phrase length (MacDonald, 2013; Tanaka, Branigan, McLean, & Pickering, 2011). Results of a corpus analysis are combined with data from two production experiments, and show that both animacy and topicality affect voice selection in Sasak. Specifically, [+animate] and [+topical] noun phrases are produced earlier in a sentence, thereby affecting the grammatical voice produced. Also, Sasak speakers exhibit a ‘long before short’ bias (i.e., placing longer noun phrases before relatively shorter ones in utterances), affecting voice selection as well. Contextualized in cross-linguistic data, this supports the argument made in this dissertation that the cognitive effect of the semantic richness and salience of longer nouns is relative to the speaker’s stage in planning and producing an utterance.
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Orphanidou, Christina. "Voice Morphing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491672.
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Voice Morphing is the process of modifying a source speaker's speech so that it is perceived as if uttered by a target speaker. The numerous applications of this technology have made it a very popular research topic with most approaches focusing on transforming the spectral envelope of the source speaker to match that of the target speaker. This is usually achieved by estimating a transformation function from parallel training data from the two speakers. However, the current applications suffer from loss of spectral detail during synthesis of the morphed speech, often attributed to the low dimensional representations of the acoustic models used for extracting the acoustic features. We propose a new Multiresolution Voice Morphing Algorithm (MVMA) which uses the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for modeling the shortterm and long-term acoustic properties of speech and estimates a transformation function at each sub-band by means of a Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network. The proposed system is evaluated objectively and subjectively using parallel and non-parallel training data. The tests show that the proposed approach effectively transforms speaker identity even though perceivable artifacts still exist in the transformed speech.
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Swamy, Muthuraj. "Religion, religious conflicts and interreligious dialogue in India : an interrogation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8145.
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This thesis is an assessment of interreligious dialogue in India developed as an approach to other religions in the context of exclusivist attitudes. While dialogue is important in such a context, nevertheless, in terms of its wider objectives of creating better relationships in society, it has some limitations which need to be addressed for it to be more effective in society. Studying the past 60 years of dialogue in India and undertaking field-research in south India, this thesis discusses three such limitations. Firstly, critiquing the notion of world-religion categories which is fundamental to dialogue, it argues that such categories are products of the western Enlightenment and colonialism leading to framing colonised people’s identities largely in terms of religion. Dialogue, emphasising the plurality of religions, has appropriated these notions although people live with multiple identities. Secondly the idea of religious conflicts serves as the basic context for dialogue in which dialogue should take necessary actions to contain them. While the concern to do away with conflicts through dialogue needs to be furthered, this thesis considers the multiple factors involved in such conflicts and works for solutions accordingly. Analysing through a case study a clash in 1982 in Kanyakumari district which continues to be termed as Hindu-Christian conflict, this thesis shows that there are multiple factors associated with each communal conflict, and dialogue needs to understand them if it is to work effectively. Thirdly it critiques the elite nature and methods in dialogue which ignore grass root realities and call for ‘taking dialogue to grassroots.’ The argument is that grassroot experiences of relating with each other in everyday living should be incorporated in dialogue for better results. What is proposed at the end is a necessity of re-visioning dialogue which can lead to fostering ‘inter-community relations based on multiple identities and everyday living experiences of ordinary people’ that invites one to enlarge the horizons to comprehend the plurality of relations and identities, not just plurality of religions, understand and address real-life conflicts and question naming conflicts as religious, and incorporate grassroot experiences of everyday living in continuing to work for a more peaceful society.
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Chambers, James Michael. "Towards a Scottish 'folk cinema'." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26075.
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The following study explores the, as-yet largely unexplored question within film studies of a ‘folk cinema’ through research and two practical film projects: the finished dramatic feature Blackbird (2013), and the 4th draft of a script for a dramatic feature in development, False Faces (2016). Drawing from aspects of Scottish folk culture, both films explore different forms of what a rooted, Scotland-based ‘folk cinema’ could be. In addition, the creation of an annual film festival – the Folk Film Gathering – has created a forum in which some of the issues of an emergent folk cinema could be explored with audiences in Scotland. The question of a folk cinema grows increasingly pertinent both globally and locally, particularly within an European cultural landscape where the traditional arts are increasingly resurgent, and upon a global stage where the indigenous peoples movement has led to reevaluations of concepts of tradition, indigeneity and autochthony. My PhD by practice attempts to explore, both theoretically and practically, some of the possible implications of a folk cinema, interlinking local and global contexts. In doing so I have made particular use of aspects of cultural studies and anthropological theory, such as the writing of James Clifford, Faye Ginsburg and Jay Ruby, which I believe to be a relatively untapped critical resource for wider film studies. Whilst opening discussion attempts to consider the question of folk cinema globally, as an issue that may be pertinent for diverse filmmaking traditions in world cinema, my practical filmmaking work is firmly rooted within a contigent and highly-localised attempt to explore such questions within Scotland. In particular, I explore the practical implications of a cinematic pursuit of ‘ethnographic verisimilitude’, and the translation of oral forms into a filmic narrative, whilst questioning the validity of ‘folk cinema’ that arises from ‘etic’ viewpoints, outside a depicted community. Ultimately, consideration of my practical work explores how the theoretical ideals of an emergent folk cinema are negotiated in the more unruly, worldy domain of filmmaking practice and whether, ultimately, an autochthonous Scottish ‘folk cinema’ is possible.
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Engberg, Melissa. "Five Lines for the Traveler's Phrasebook." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1209313573.
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Derfler, Brandon Joel. "Single-voice transformations : a model for parsimonious voice leading /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11418.
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Keyl, Shireen. "Subaltern Pedagogy: Education, Empowerment and Activism among African Domestic Workers in Beirut, Lebanon." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/333043.
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According to critical pedagogues and post-development scholars, globalization and transnational movement open up new avenues for pedagogy; to be sure, some scholars assert the development sector is in need of a paradigm shift to accommodate "new forms of pedagogy" (Appadurai, 2000) while subaltern scholars call for "alternative pedagogies" (Sherpa, 2014) for the theorizing and understanding of subaltern, marginalized groups within the educational realm. In the search for and transition to a subaltern pedagogy, it is necessary to tap into the very voices of those who comprise the subaltern, because, as Kelly and Lusis (2006) assert, "Researchers are frequently interested in understanding the experiences of 'the immigrant,' as an objective analytical category, rather than the experiences of 'an immigrant'" (p. 831). The aim of this study is to examine the interplay between knowledge production of migrant workers, power as domination and empowerment, and the appropriation of space in considering how these groups are able to segue subaltern epistemologies into forms of activism and empowerment; as such, this study looks at constructions and deconstructions of power among historically oppressed peoples in macro, meso and micro contexts. I assert that dominant discourses of power attempt to perpetuate an intentional subjugation of oppressed groups, in this case, migrant workers, especially female domestic workers. However, via the creation of a critical, oppositional consciousness by way of reciprocity and dialogism within the migrant worker and Lebanese activist community, migrant workers are able to harness agency and empowerment even within the most oppressive of societal conditions. What this research reveals is that migrant workers are able to create powerful counter-cultural communities of practice and epistemological spaces for learning. Based on this research, I assert a subaltern praxis, a paradigm shift comprising of a subaltern pedagogy and practice, that incorporates ideas of critical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and postcolonial/third world feminisms; this dialectic triad informs the subaltern interstitial and liminal experience, the need for the building of a critical consciousness for educators and learners alike, and a re-mapping and re-configuration of subaltern epistemologies for the benefit of all who desire to learn about migration and the refugee experience.
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Lehner, Stefanie Florence. "Subaltern aesthethics : tracing counter-histories in contemporary Scottish, Irish and Northern Irish literature." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3305.
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This PhD thesis proposes an Irish-Scottish comparative framework for examining a range of shared ethical, socio-political and theoretical concerns, pertaining to aspects of class and gender, in contemporary Irish, Northern Irish and Scottish literature. My approach galvanises Lévinasian ethics with the socio-cultural category of the ‘subaltern’ in relation to postcolonial, Marxist and feminist theories in order to trace what I term a ‘subaltern aesthethics’ between selected works of Scottish, Northern Irish and Irish writing that show a specific sensibility to the social inequalities and inequities that are part of the current restructuring of the global capitalist system. My work explores how these texts engage with both the processes of political and economic transformation in the Atlantic archipelago, and critical-theoretical approaches which, I argue, show the tendency to subsume the specificity and intensity of subaltern concerns. The first chapter delineates key debates in Irish and Scottish studies, offering a critique of conventional applications of postcolonial and postmodern theory. I demonstrate that dominant versions of postcolonialism are analytically entrapped in the nation as a paradigm. Additionally, I show that for all its apparent celebration of difference, postmodernism reduces otherness to the terms of the self. Chapter 2 outlines the model of a subaltern counter-history as a theoretical framework for reading ethical issues of historicity on the basis of texts by James Kelman, Patrick McCabe and Robert McLiam Wilson. This engagement with history is continued in chapter 3, which investigates the desire to archive Northern Ireland’s recent past in the context of its peace process in Glenn Patterson’s and Eoin McNamee’s recent novels. The emphasis of the three subsequent chapters turns the attention of my counter-historical method to issues of gender. The fourth chapter evaluates the material consequences that the gendering of the imagined nation has on female bodies in particular. Whereas the focus lies here specifically on the Irish context, the following chapter 5 engages in a comparative reading of traumatic herstories in three Irish and Scottish novels by Roddy Doyle, Janice Galloway and Jennifer Johnston. The purpose of both of these chapters is to examine women’s experience of disempowerment and their struggle to reclaim agency. My last chapter then investigates the relationship between men, gender and nation in the allegorical imagiNation of Alasdair Gray and McCabe with specific regard to the turn to the feminine that has taken place in contemporary criticism.
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劉健芝 and Kin-chi Lau. "Gendered subaltern as perspective in reading Mo Yan, Wang Shuo and Zhang Jie." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31238774.
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Lau, Kin-chi. "Gendered subaltern as perspective in reading Mo Yan, Wang Shuo and Zhang Jie /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21129186.
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Abul-Magd, Zeinab A. "Empire and its discontents modernity and subaltern revolt in upper Egypt, 1700-1920 /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436214394/viewonline.
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Hed, Isabelle. "”Nu är det mullornas tur att darra” : kampanjen #WhiteWednesdays som medialiserad subaltern counterpublic." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402586.
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The aim of this thesis is to study Iranian women's struggle against the mandatory veil, based on Nancy Fraser's (1990) theory on subaltern counterpublics and Mia Lövheim's (2012) use of Stig Hjarvard’s theory on mediatization of religion. Specifically, how the Iranian-exile Masih Alinejad's Twitter can be seen as an alternative sphere in which she creates a mediatized subaltern counterpublic for marginalized women. The research questions are as follows:(1) How is Iran and the compulsory hijab portrayed in the selected material? (2) Can this portrayal be seen as a mediatized subaltern counterpublic? The material consists of 100 tweets from the campaign #WhiteWednesdays. By using a qualitative method with an abductive approach, I found four themes in the material. Research question (1) showed that Iran is portrayed as a stratified society where men are superior to women and that the public sphere constitutes problems regarding women's rights. The mandatory veil is presented as the most visible symbol of gender apartheid and religious dictatorship. Research question (2)showed that, based on subaltern counterpublics and mediatization, societies (especially with religious authority) exclude women from speaking in authorized discourse, which contributes to a search for alternative spheres. The study’s chosen theories proved to be a good fit for capturing, describing and explaining how Alinejad creates a mediatized subaltern counterpublic - via new digital media - for marginalized women whom have been excluded from the authorized and official capacity of the country. The results further showed how Alinejad participated in the mediated public sphere as an independent agent who engaged in religious issues from a position of authority. She continues to use the #WhiteWednesdays campaign as a space to perform activism against the regime's veil policy.
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Napier, Steven. "Political Development of Subaltern Education in Great Britain, the United States, and India." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337718264.
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Chang, Wing-yin Maureen. "Perceptual and acoustic differences between aging voice and dysphonic voice." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36207810.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2001."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, May 4, 2001. Also available in print.
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Freeman, Stacey. "Canadian Aboriginal voice : retooling Hirschman’s concepts of voice and exit." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46376.
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The purpose of this study is to identify barriers faced by Aboriginals when employing voice channels for political and civic participation. This article begins with an overview of literature addressing participation paradigms. It critiques previous literature and offers a mathematical model to address the cost-benefit analysis Aboriginals face when employing various voice channels within Canada. This study is divided into two parts. Part I examines the costs to employing voice channels typically ascribed to Aboriginal participation. Part II, employs a case study of an Environmental Assessment currently underway between BC Hydro and the West Moberly First Nations. The case study applies ideas developed in Part I, highlighting barriers to Aboriginal participation. Throughout, this research examines the colonial relationship found within Canadian institutions and offers a new approach to restructure the relationship between the Crown and Aboriginal peoples.
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Kennelly, Ita B. "Voice matters : narratives and perspectives on voice in academic writing." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16766/.
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Acciari, Louisa. "Paradoxes of subaltern politics : Brazilian domestic workers' mobilisations to become workers and decolonise labour." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3839/.
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This thesis investigates the possibilities and forms of subaltern politics through an empirical study of Brazilian domestic workers' mobilisations. Domestic work, often described as a legacy of slavery in Brazil, is characterised by the intersection of gender, race and class matrices of oppression, which makes domestic workers a subaltern group. As a result of their subaltern status and characterisation as 'non-standard' workers they are expected to be harder, or even impossible, to organise and represent. Yet, Brazilian domestic workers have been organising since 1936; they formed their own autonomous trade unions, and won partial recognition in 2015 when the Brazilian Congress approved a law extending basic labour rights to them. Thus, my thesis examines how this subaltern group has been able to organise, and argues that instead of considering subalternity as an impediment to collective action it should be understood as a potential resource for mobilisation. I have identified three paradoxes of subaltern politics. First, I show how the professional identity 'domestic worker' is both necessary for political recognition in the Brazilian corporatist state, but also rejected, as it re-inscribes domestic workers into the raced-gendered power relations they want to challenge. Furthermore, I find that while the intersecting nature of their oppression is what has constructed domestic workers as a subaltern group, it has also enabled the formation of broad-based alliances with women, black and workers' movements, thereby turning subalternity into a resource for collective action. Finally, domestic workers have used their perceived vulnerability to force recognition from the Brazilian state, yet, this has led to a paternalistic mode of recognition and a certain demobilisation of the domestic workers' local unions. As domestic workers gained partial recognition as workers, they were also forced into an industrial relations model that did little to respond to the complex and multi-sided forms of oppressions they face, posing new challenges to their modes of organising.
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SIT, Tsui. "Specters of the subaltern : a critique of representations of rural women in contemporary China." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2005. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/11.
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China has speeded up modernization since the reform and open-door policy was introduced in 1978. After accession to the World Trade Organization in 1999, China has been further incorporated into the global track. The national policy of economic development requires a continuing exploitation of natural resources and intensive labor from the rural sector, and over the last few decades, there has been a ceaseless wave of rural women going to the cities and working mainly as assembly-line workers, domestic helpers and sex workers.
Developing a subaltern and feminist perspective, this thesis examines representations of rural women in academic research and literary works, as well as in films, documentaries, TV dramas, photography and popular magazines. The thesis attempts to outline and invoke a spectral figure of the subaltern as the rural woman demonstrably haunting dominant regimes of representations of modernization. In the prevailing mentality of development, a mega-city is portrayed as the ultimate destination; meanwhile, the rural is depicted as residual and as a repository of the past. There is a system of negative equivalences attached to the rural, which is always positioned as the unspoken, invisible or stereotyped other of overwhelming cosmopolitan values.
The thesis reviews how urban intellectuals represent rural women in the contemporary cosmopolitan settings. Drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s discussion of the two kinds of representation—proxy and portrait—the thesis aims to read how urban intellectuals speak for as well as draw a portrait of rural women.
The thesis also tries to read against the grain of the texts to trace the irreducible figure of the rural woman. As the readings will demonstrate, there are contradictions, paradoxes and ambivalences in narrating and portraying rural women as actors of modernization, victims of industrialization, agents of proletarian struggle, consumers purchasing commodities, and as the residual from agrarian society.
From such incongruities within the texts, one can posit the figure of the rural woman as a symbol of resistance to the predominant discourse of modernization. This is not necessarily to suggest a nostalgic return to the past, that is, to the statist industrialization of Mao Zedong’s period and the patriarchal tradition; or an orthodox ruralism that everyone should go back to ancient society; or a romanticization of the primitive. Rather, this figure operates like Stuart Hall’s concept of “black”, referring to a way of referencing the widespread experience of marginalization in contemporary China, and an organizing category of a new politics of resistance among different groups.
This research not only negotiates but also re-adjusts the notion of urban superiority by exploring the spectral figure of the rural woman. Gendering the rural vision means not only making a difference from the present capitalist and patriarchal values and practices, but also taking the excluded majority into serious consideration. It is hoped that this exercise, in the end, will help us to imagine a communal society in which we can recognize the practice of care of others as care of the self.