Rona Rangsch
AMBIVALAND: Cultural Ambivalence in Newfoundland
Interdisciplinary PhD project at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, completed May 2024
The project revalues the often underrated concept of ambivalence and establishes its cultural variant as a productive research lens. Applying that lens to settler Newfoundland, the understanding and perception of the place are enhanced through the reinterpretation of allegedly isolated contexts bearing cultural and social tensions as belonging to a pervasive and potentially creative web of cultural ambivalence.
Abstract
Thesis Download from the Research Repository
Related works and activities:
Visuals
Creative Ambivalence, series of digital montages, 2019
[Newfound] Land, series of digital montages, 2020/21
colonizeR/D, series of digital prints and projections, 2022
Conference presentation
Creative Ambivalence: Abstract, Slides
Regarding Uncertainty Graduate Conference, Concordia University, May 2019
The project is supported and spurred by my supervisory team, Dr. Jennifer Dyer (Arts and Humanities, Cultural Studies), Dr. Stephen Crocker (Sociology, Media Studies, Globalization), and Dr. Valerie Legge (Literary Studies, Critical Theory), as well as by scholars from the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Philosophy, and Postcolonial Studies at Memorial University and beyond.
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