The Experts below are selected from a list of 10923 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform

Jeffery William - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • War graves, munition dumps and pleasure grounds: a Postcolonial Perspective of Chuuk Lagoon’s submerged World War II sites
    2007
    Co-Authors: Jeffery William
    Abstract:

    The focus of this thesis is the meanings that can be gained from examining the conflicts in the\ud values associated with the submerged World War II sites located in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated\ud States of Micronesia. The submerged WWII sites are representative of the war phase in the history\ud of Chuuk and part of Chuuk’s colonial period. They are valued and used by the three relevant\ud groups, Chuukese, Japanese and Americans in different ways that are indicative of a range of social,\ud cultural, economic and political connections. I have investigated these connections using a postprocessual\ud approach to underwater cultural heritage management to appreciate contemporary\ud societies and issues, and site management.\ud \ud Understanding Chuukese contemporary societies and issues includes understanding Chuukese local\ud history. After 1,800 years of regional seclusion, Chuukese experienced a number of foreign contacts\ud and colonial rulers. As a result, they experienced a number of changes and adapted and adopted\ud practices for their own benefit. During World War II, Chuuk was utilised as a major Japanese base\ud in the same manner as Pearl Harbor was to the United States of America (U.S.), and Chuukese were\ud dominated by a large Japanese military presence. War and suffering came to Chuuk on 17 February\ud 1944 with the commencement of the U.S. bombing of the base and the associated cruelty of some\ud Japanese military personnel. The base was bypassed by U.S. amphibious forces during their 1944\ud conquests in the western Pacific and not only left to ‘wither on the vine’, but used in U.S. bomber\ud tests, British aircraft carrier tests, and discussed as a target for U.S. atomic bomb tests.\ud \ud Chuuk was dominated and Japanized pre-war, which had a number of consequences, including\ud many marriages between Japanese men and Chuukese women. Although there was an initial hatred\ud of the Japanese post-war, many Chuukese today acknowledge their Japanese ancestry and many\ud older Chuukese lament the ‘good’ pre-war Japanese days, as compared to the poor current services\ud and supplies that came after the war.\ud \ud With the loss of over 50 million lives, World War II was a watershed in ‘world’ history and the\ud bombing of the Japanese base in the Chuuk lagoon was an important historic event in relation to\ud this. But for the Chuukese, this is not ‘world’ history, but their ‘local’ history. This research focuses\ud on gaining an understanding of Chuukese local history, including the values associated with the war\ud and the submerged WWII sites. The need to have a local Perspective and to be socially inclusive\ud (rather than objectively scientific) is inherent in this approach. It has revealed that submerged\ud WWII site management takes it cue from Cultural Resource Management (CRM) approaches that\ud privilege archaeological values of sites that are then used to prescribe site management. The Chuuk\ud Lagoon submerged World War II sites are currently managed and promoted according to the\ud dominant Euro-American values, that is, as significant sites associated with the U.S. conquering the\ud Japanese during World War II, and as a focus for international tourism. Chuukese values have not\ud been acknowledged , and while Japanese values are acknowledged, they are ignored. These values\ud can be complex, they can conflict, perhaps especially in relation to those of the Euro-American\ud approach. However, I argue that the lack of Chuukese and Japanese values in this approach is\ud indicative of neo-colonialism, and the continued contested nature of World War II and its\ud remembrances. This investigation has also revealed that conflicts between Chuukese and Japanese\ud values are related to past colonialism and the impacts of World War II.\ud \ud The value of this research is in demonstrating how a more socially inclusive, less scientific\ud approach in investigating submerged WWII sites, will facilitate better understanding of the range of\ud meanings inherent in this important submerged landscape. It is anticipated that it could result in a\ud more valuable and viable methodology for site management. This research also demonstrates that\ud submerged WWII sites can have value, meaning and relevance for contemporary societies, in\ud addition to their role as repositories of the past. This study has also revealed apparent paradoxes in\ud war sites that both commemorate war and are used as peace memorials, which in association with\ud the conflicts shown in Chuuk Lagoon illustrate the need for less domination and more inclusion

  • War graves, munition dumps and pleasure grounds: a Postcolonial Perspective of Chuuk Lagoon's submerged World War II sites
    2007
    Co-Authors: Jeffery William
    Abstract:

    The focus of this thesis is the meanings that can be gained from examining the conflicts in the values associated with the submerged World War II sites located in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. The submerged WWII sites are representative of the war phase in the history of Chuuk and part of Chuuk’s colonial period. They are valued and used by the three relevant groups, Chuukese, Japanese and Americans in different ways that are indicative of a range of social, cultural, economic and political connections. I have investigated these connections using a postprocessual approach to underwater cultural heritage management to appreciate contemporary societies and issues, and site management. Understanding Chuukese contemporary societies and issues includes understanding Chuukese local history. After 1,800 years of regional seclusion, Chuukese experienced a number of foreign contacts and colonial rulers. As a result, they experienced a number of changes and adapted and adopted practices for their own benefit. During World War II, Chuuk was utilised as a major Japanese base in the same manner as Pearl Harbor was to the United States of America (U.S.), and Chuukese were dominated by a large Japanese military presence. War and suffering came to Chuuk on 17 February 1944 with the commencement of the U.S. bombing of the base and the associated cruelty of some Japanese military personnel. The base was bypassed by U.S. amphibious forces during their 1944 conquests in the western Pacific and not only left to ‘wither on the vine’, but used in U.S. bomber tests, British aircraft carrier tests, and discussed as a target for U.S. atomic bomb tests. Chuuk was dominated and Japanized pre-war, which had a number of consequences, including many marriages between Japanese men and Chuukese women. Although there was an initial hatred of the Japanese post-war, many Chuukese today acknowledge their Japanese ancestry and many older Chuukese lament the ‘good’ pre-war Japanese days, as compared to the poor current services and supplies that came after the war. With the loss of over 50 million lives, World War II was a watershed in ‘world’ history and the bombing of the Japanese base in the Chuuk lagoon was an important historic event in relation to this. But for the Chuukese, this is not ‘world’ history, but their ‘local’ history. This research focuses on gaining an understanding of Chuukese local history, including the values associated with the war and the submerged WWII sites. The need to have a local Perspective and to be socially inclusive (rather than objectively scientific) is inherent in this approach. It has revealed that submerged WWII site management takes it cue from Cultural Resource Management (CRM) approaches that privilege archaeological values of sites that are then used to prescribe site management. The Chuuk Lagoon submerged World War II sites are currently managed and promoted according to the dominant Euro-American values, that is, as significant sites associated with the U.S. conquering the Japanese during World War II, and as a focus for international tourism. Chuukese values have not been acknowledged , and while Japanese values are acknowledged, they are ignored. These values can be complex, they can conflict, perhaps especially in relation to those of the Euro-American approach. However, I argue that the lack of Chuukese and Japanese values in this approach is indicative of neo-colonialism, and the continued contested nature of World War II and its remembrances. This investigation has also revealed that conflicts between Chuukese and Japanese values are related to past colonialism and the impacts of World War II. The value of this research is in demonstrating how a more socially inclusive, less scientific approach in investigating submerged WWII sites, will facilitate better understanding of the range of meanings inherent in this important submerged landscape. It is anticipated that it could result in a more valuable and viable methodology for site management. This research also demonstrates that submerged WWII sites can have value, meaning and relevance for contemporary societies, in addition to their role as repositories of the past. This study has also revealed apparent paradoxes in war sites that both commemorate war and are used as peace memorials, which in association with the conflicts shown in Chuuk Lagoon illustrate the need for less domination and more inclusion

Elonda Clay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a black theology of liberation or legitimation a Postcolonial response to cone s black theology and black power at forty
    Black Theology, 2010
    Co-Authors: Elonda Clay
    Abstract:

    AbstractIn this essay, I posit that the original way in which the concept, heuristic, and signifier "liberation" functioned in U.S. Black Liberation Theology has by both form and content been un/consciously resignified into a discourse of cultural legitimation. The signifier "liberation" has become decontextualized (politically, economically, and culturally) in the second and third iterations of U.S. Black Liberation Theology, causing the discourse to become perpetually oriented towards past, not present or future, alternative dreams of social transformation and sites of struggle informed by the Black Christian radical tradition. In order to accomplish such work, this article employs a Postcolonial Perspective to the sources and discursive strategies within U.S. Black Liberation Theology. The second section of the article examines the historical and social processes involved in the slippage between liberation and legitimation, probing key moments and issues of class difference that led to (1) the disengag...

Lassi Étienne-marie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • L’Éden dans le discours Postcolonial : rencontres interculturelles et imaginaires du lieu idéal dans Le dernier gardien de l’arbre de Jean-Roger Essomba
    'Consortium Erudit', 2020
    Co-Authors: Lassi Étienne-marie
    Abstract:

    Cet article a pour objectif de montrer comment les mythes du jardin se réactualisent dans une Perspective Postcoloniale, en s’appuyant sur Le dernier gardien de l’arbre du Camerounais Jean-Roger Essomba. Partant de l’hypothèse que la thématique du jardin mène aux questions de l’identité collective ainsi qu’à celles de l’altérité, qui renvoie à la relation avec d’autres peuples et cultures, il analyse ces problématiques en se référant à la rencontre des civilisations européenne et africaine dans le roman.Based on Le dernier gardien de l’arbre, a novel by Cameroonian author Jean-Roger Essomba, this article aims to show how the myths of the garden are reinterpreted from a Postcolonial Perspective. Assuming that the theme of the garden brings up questions of collective identity as well as otherness (meaning, one’s relationship with other peoples and other cultures), the article analyzes the relevance of this hypothesis in the context of the encounter of European and African civilizations

Lantto Heldebro Flora - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Postkolonialism inom barnrättsarbetet : En analys av Rädda Barnens handbok för religiösa ledare om sexuella och reproduktiva rättigheter
    Uppsala universitet Teologiska institutionen, 2020
    Co-Authors: Lantto Heldebro Flora
    Abstract:

    This study is centered around Save The Children Swedens Religious’ leaders Handbook on Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights. The thesis purpose is to understand the issues that may occur when a western actor preform child rights work in a non-western country. One of the main question is wether it is possible to ignore the history of colonialism and harmful social power structures when child rights work is done? I will furthermore try answer the question how to preform a child rights work globally without reproduce or reinforce already existing social power structures. The main theoretical views are post-colonialism and utilitarianism which are used to understand how to protect children while still being able to criticizing the structural power discourse that surround human and child rights work. John Stuart Mill’s rule utilitarianism and Peter Singer’s preference based utilitarianism focuses on the consequences of action, or non action. Ania Loomba’s view on post-colonialism will help shed a light on the social issues and structural defined parts of Save The Childrens Religious’ leaders Handbook on Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights. Furthermore Elizabeth Povinelli and Elena Namli fills the purpose of explaining three, for this thesis, important factors within the Postcolonial Perspective and the human rights discourse - freedom, universalism and human dignity. The study finds some Postcolonial tendencies within Save The Childrens Religious leaders Handbook. The result of those findings shows that the colonial history can effect todays child rights work, even if the intention is defined as good. Even though the child rights work might have some positive results for the moment, I suggest that we should focus on the bigger picture and foresee negative consequences for the children which are brought up within a society that is being affected by their colonial history. The thesis concludes that if there is not in immediate danger the post colonial Perspective should be a part of both the planning and execution within the child rights work

Kedziora Elisabet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Och de ha?danga?ngnas andar skall nu vittna da?rom..
    Malmö universitet Lärande och samhälle, 2019
    Co-Authors: Kedziora Elisabet
    Abstract:

    This essay examines how articles in the Swedish spiritualistic journal Efteråt? – which por- trayed the afterlife – were affected by imperialistic discourse and its associated power structures. The source material for the investigation is articles that were published between 1891- 1919 as channelized messages through mediums, and which depict what throughout the essay is referred to as ’the other side’: realms beyond death. Any inherent magical aspect of the channelling phenomenon has been removed and the essay treats the mediums as authors and the written messages as their textual productions. These have been assessed with a Postcolonial Perspective focused on eurocentrism, christocentrism, evolutionary theory, otherness and the idea of Western progress. Using Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, the texts’ actual use of language, its discursive influences and its reflecting of imperialistic ideologies have also been assessed. The result shows that the imperialistic discourse that dominated the Western knowledge productions in the Victorian age, is directly mirrored in the way the articles in Efteråt? portrayed ’the other side’ and its inhabitants. Westernized conceptions are being treated as universal which shows in how ’the other side’ is structured around evolutionary principles that glorifies progress and development. ’Ethnic others’ are held as less developed, barbaric, stupid and in the need of help from Western experts. The texts also reflects the christocentric essence that places Western theology as the ultimate developed spirituality. And they portray hierarchical power structures and imperial dominance in a normalizing and moralizing way. Even if the Spiritualistic movement often is contextualized as a radical, progressive new spirituality and seen as the dawn of ’New Age’, this essay shows that the construction of ’the other side’, as it is narrated in the analyzed articles of Efteråt?, is merely a discursive cultural expression of the imperialistic ideologies that dominated the Western society at the time the articles where written and published. Key words: Spiritualism, Imperialism, Ideology, Postcolonial, Eurocentrism, Evolution, Channeling Nyckelord: Spiritualism, Imperialism, Ideologi, Postkolonialism, Eurocentrism, Evolution, Kanaliserin