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Rona Rangsch

AMBIVALAND

Cultural Ambivalence in Newfoundland

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. project at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, in progress

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.



Research Statement (as of August 2023)



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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