This book sets out to examine the internal workings of a colonial settler society drawing on aspects of post-colonial theory and whiteness studies. It focuses on the construction of a hierarchical social order in German Southwest Africa in the period 1884-1914. In doing so it explores the historical creation of categories of race and the construction of a concept of whiteness within white settler society in Germany¿s foremost settler colony. In the colonial environment the presence of some settlers was deemed to be more desirable than others. As a consequence policies of exclusion and racial rhetoric were employed to exclude undesirable settlers from white society. What emerged was a pioneer society in which undesirable settlers were socially, politically and economically excluded whilst desirable settlers sought to forge a racially and culturally exclusive utopia. Based on extensive archival material from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin as well as a wide range of printed sources, the book presents an insight into strategies of social control, power, the establishment of social privilege and constructions of whiteness in a settler society.
Illustrates the significance of margins and the instability of demarcation in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro. In this book, the author approaches Ishiguro's writings as a corpus rather than separate units, examining the novels to illuminate their generic, theoretical or stylistic affiliations.
Nationality, however, has rarely counted for much on Athos, and though the Romanians have never secured a monastery for themselves, today they form, after the Greeks, the largest ethnic group. This book tells the story of how these many traditions came to be represented on the Mountain and how their communities have fared over the centuries.
Beyond Universal Pragmatics
Examines the notion of 'the homely' which rests at the foundation of Gaston Bachelard's concrete metaphysics. In order to trace the development of this effaced notion through the history of contemporary Continental philosophy and literature, this title progresses along two distinct arcs.
Using the psychoanalytical theories of Julia Kristeva, this book identifies reasons for Stephen Donaldson's derogatory characterization and provides an insight into why these novels cannot allow their male protagonists to establish viable love relationships. It explores the violent and abusive nature of Donaldson's male protagonists.
Dante in the Nineteenth Century
Advertisements are often viewed as indices of cultural change, just as advertising industry is often imagined as innovative and transformative. This book highlights routinisation of practices and representations in advertising.
Sport annually mobilizes millions of people across Europe: as practitioners in a variety of competitive, educational, or recreational contexts, and as spectators, who are physically present or following events through mass media. This book presents research into modern sport funded by Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers an analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally.
The Kashubs, a regional autochthonous group inhabiting northern Poland, represent one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in Europe. This scholarly monograph focuses on the history, culture and language of the Kashubs to be published in English since 1935.
Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. This book offers a critical approach to study of Ireland's colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into operations of colonial, and postcolonial discourse.
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion in Europe of interest in foreign languages and literatures. This book explores how early generations of women writers formed connections with each other across national boundaries.
Brings together research providing perspectives on the status quo and challenges for the future of Queer Theory/Queer Studies. In this title, the chapters offer analyses and insights into changing academic and public discourses on sexual and gender normativities within a wide multi- and trans-disciplinary scope.
Examines the films that the Kaurismaekis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 - films which mobilise various methods to reflect, criticise, counteract and contribute to the globalisation of Finnish society in the era of late capitalist development. This title provides an analysis of these films.
Uncovers an ancient Irish perspective of learning and reconfigures it to offer a vitality-restoring vision for education in our digital age. This book aims to help re-engage learners of the Net generation meaningfully and with enjoyment in the learning process.
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