Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 5-17-2013 12:00 AM Mobilizing Insurgent Pasts Toward Decolonial Futures Patrick Crowley The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Teresa Hubel The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Comparative Literature A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Arts © Patrick Crowley 2013 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the African History Commons, Cultural History Commons, Epistemology Commons, Latin American History Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Other History Commons, and the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons Recommended Citation Crowley, Patrick, "Mobilizing Insurgent Pasts Toward Decolonial Futures" (2013). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 1280. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1280 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MOBILIZING INSURGENT PASTS TOWARD DECOLONIAL FUTURES (Thesis format: Monograph) by Patrick Crowley Graduate Program in Comparative Literature A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Patrick Crowley 2013 Abstract This project is an inquiry into modes of decolonial resistance that mobilize alternative relationships to the past against the modern/colonial writing of history from a Eurocentric perspective taken as universal.