ERA is a digital repository of original research produced at The University of Edinburgh. The archive contains documents written by, or affiliated with, academic authors, or units, based at Edinburgh that have sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by the Library, but which are not controlled by commercial publishers. Holdings include full-text digital doctoral theses, masters dissertations, project reports, briefing papers and out-of-print materials.
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Postcolonial culture in Nairobi's margins 1963-c.1982
(The University of Edinburgh, 2024-06-12)This thesis argues that there was a standoff between elite political culture and popular culture in early postcolonial Nairobi. The hegemonic vision espoused by elite historical actors was negotiated, contested, and ... -
Whose Anthropocene is this? Women's nature writing in a time of planetary emergency
(The University of Edinburgh, 2024-06-12)The Anthropocene concept claims that humans have changed the planet so profoundly that we are now in a new epoch of geological time, defined by human activity. But whose Anthropocene is this? Whose story does it tell? What ... -
Politics of friendship in the lives of black girls and girls of colour in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2024-06-12)Friendship is usually perceived as wholly separate from, and even alien to, structural inequalities and power relations. This research contests the aforementioned assumption by interrogating the politics of friendship in ... -
Data augmentation for language generation inspired by machine translation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2024-06-12)The field of natural language processing has witnessed a surge in the adoption of deep learning, which faces notable hurdles when the training data is scarce. This thesis aims to study automatic data augmentation for ... -
Care-experienced mothers and the legacy of social work
(The University of Edinburgh, 2024-06-12)BACKGROUND: Teenage motherhood has been the subject of considerable debate in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom (UK), both in the media and political circles. However, our knowledge of young women who have ...
