Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In dialogue with the critical scholarship on war and remembrance, my research deals with the construction, contestation and negotiation of collective memory in contemporary Vietnam with a focus on commemorations devoted to dead soldiers. Utilizing the methodologies of cultural studies and ethnography, this research seeks to comprehend the politics of memory which characterize collective… more Full Text: POLITICS OF MEMORY: (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST IN POST-SOCIALIST VIETNAM A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Cyr, Rachel Esther, Thesis advisor (ths): Junyk, Ihor, Thesis advisor (ths): Bordo, Jonathan, Degree committee member (dgc): Pletenac, Tomislav, Degree committee member (dgc): Milloy, John, Degree committee member (dgc): Innis, Randy, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Forensic scientific practice is conventionally understood as a solution to absence. With every technological advance the power and span of the archive grows and with it revives hopes of uncovering facts and locate bodies that might put genocide denial and/or negationism to rest. Destruction, however, continues to define the reality and conditions</p><p>for testimony in the… more Full Text: FROM NEGATION TO AFFIRMATION: WITNESSING THE EMPTY TOMB IN THE ERA OF FORENSIC SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in the Faculty …
