Ambivalence

This dissertation consists of a multi-sited ethnographic examination of Western-owned and managed transnational office spaces in Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore. I describe the kinds of social spaces that are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives due to global economic p…

This research explored the cognitive processes underlying the Response Amplification Effect (RAE), which is ambivalent people's tendency to judge the object of their ambivalence (typically, a stigmatized other) more extremely than a comparable control target. Being in a state of…

This dissertation examines the origins of the ambivalence that was reflected in the lives and works of the early Arab-American writers at the turn of the nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. My intention is to show that this ambivalence is historically, political…

This study aims to capture how left-behind children in China experience their life with their parents’ migration and how they exercise agency to negotiate with structural and cultural contexts when living under these circumstances. The fieldwork was conducted in a middle school …

In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread as figures frozen in tragic postures. Such unrealistic portraitures replicate the traditional white-authored pathologizations of racial hybridity. Drawing on the theore…

The experience of God has been the subject of psychoanalytic discussion, beginning with Freud's focusing on its unconscious defensive aspects. Object relations theorists describe an unconscious relationship with an internalized representation of God, which can be a source of gro…

Entrenched between contradictory traditional and western values, francophone African Muslims have adopted opposing attitudes and customs. They take refuge in their secular practices that predate both Islam and the Coran, which they have misread, in order to justify polar interpr…