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Colonial Articulations: Race, Violence, And Coloniality In Kafka's "Penal Colony", Marshall Pierce Jun 2020

Colonial Articulations: Race, Violence, And Coloniality In Kafka's "Penal Colony", Marshall Pierce

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony” has been widely, even exhaustively studied. However, there is a dearth of analysis which stresses the centrality of the colony as a site, and race as a structure, in this text in a sustained and appropriately nuanced manner. While Kafka’s work is often read as representing universal conditions of domination and alienation, this paper argues that “In the Penal Colony” illustrates specific political processes and relations which belong to colonial and racialized orders of power. Reading “In the Penal Colony” alongside theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, and Saidiya Hartman, this …


Tourism And Tradition In Chiang Mai, Jared Makana Kirkey May 2020

Tourism And Tradition In Chiang Mai, Jared Makana Kirkey

University Honors Theses

This paper is an attempt to delve deeper into the relationship between tourism and culture in Chiang Mai. The push and pull of these forces is of particular interest. On one side, tourism is beneficial for Chiang Mai's economy, and encourages the preservation of its unique culture. Tourist dollars support local businesses, and any further profits can be reinvested into the local economy. And because many of Chiang Mai's major tourist draws are its cultural attractions, their preservation seems commonsense. But this is not always the case. Oftentimes, tourist dollars are funnelled out of Chiang Mai as packaged tours, luxury …


Original, Nicole Donisi, Skyler Hayes, Ash Horn, Naomi Likayi, Trudy Chin, Fahad Al-Meraikhi, Matt Davidson, Wolfgang Schildmeyer, Nicola Cheadle, Melissa Delzio, Olivia Ridgley, Portland Design History Apr 2020

Original, Nicole Donisi, Skyler Hayes, Ash Horn, Naomi Likayi, Trudy Chin, Fahad Al-Meraikhi, Matt Davidson, Wolfgang Schildmeyer, Nicola Cheadle, Melissa Delzio, Olivia Ridgley, Portland Design History

Student Work

This magazine showcases some of the people, brands and organizations of significance from Portland’s design scene with a focus on the 1960s & 1970s.