Historical events have persitent effects on contemporary economic development. This paper studies a natural experiment of ethnic segregation. In its colonial foundation, the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, was divided into two kinds of settlements: one for the Spaniards and one for…
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After the severe landslides that affected Rio de Janeiro in April 2010, causing 67 deaths, the city authorities implemented what they called “a paradigm shift” in responding to disasters. This new approach, which echoes international discourses on urban resilience, builds on the…
In this dissertation, I trace the changes in the US military’s health engagement practices in Africa from the beginning of the Cold War through to the current global war on terror. My project reveals trends in the overlaps between military and humanitarian networks and highlight…
The Metacolonial State is a genealogical project that is concerned with understanding the nature of political space in contemporary Pakistan. My contention is that political Islam, and specifically the Deoband and Taliban `ulama, have taken on an increasingly biopolitical charac…
The thesis traces the successive urban responses made by the Hong Kong government from 1997 to 2014, in an attempt to achieve “imagined immunity” for the city. The urban responses being analysed are efforts to regulate the ways in which “live poultry” (especially live chickens) …
The present thesis examines ideological and discursive constructions of physiological, neurological and psychological diseases in women writers' fiction in Turkish in relation to the nation-building project of Turkey in the twentieth century. While the Turkish nationbuilding pro…
The tendency within science fiction to satirise and expose dominant political and social structures works in harmony with Agamben's paradigmatic, philosophical system, which seeks to similarly expose the functioning of biopolitical structures in the West. Agamben is known for hi…
This PhD seeks to explore the development of a bio-molecular (i.e., genomic) map as a sovereign resource in Mexico. The basic analytical thread of the dissertation is related to the circulation of genomic variability through the policy/legal and scientific social worlds that com…
Over the past decade, the United Kingdom has witnessed a proliferation of civil-military initiatives that have engendered overt and celebratory displays of support for the British Armed Forces. This thesis interrogates two of these initiatives: the annual public relations event …
Metaforlar belirli bir bilgi alanını başka bir bilgi alanından gelen kavramlar yoluyla düzenleyen veya inşa eden ifadelerdir. Buna göre, metaforlar bahsedilen alanı sadece basitleştirmekle kalmazlar, aynı zamanda inşa ederler. Özellikle belirli bir fenomenin güvenlik nesnesi hal…
This study sought to examine how graduates of the "at-risk youth" category experience their selfhood years after they populated this category. The sample comprised adults who had been removed from their homes in their youth by court order or at the local welfare department's rec…
This work explores the relationships between disease and power. Specifically, within the framework of biopolitics, it focuses on how authoritarian regimes in Mexico, Spain, and Cuba separated classes of individuals from the rest of the society by labeling them as diseased. Throu…
The building of a mosque in downtown Manhattan created a significant controversy in the media due to its proximity to the World Trade Center site. The discussions were produced by and have produced a certain conception of contemporary Islam within the US public sphere that recas…
This dissertation examines the ethnicization of Islam among a specific ethnic group in China, namely the Hui. It is based upon sixteen months of multi-sited fieldwork conducted in China's Henan Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from 2010 to 2012. I argue that the partic…
This dissertation examines motherhood as a discursive practice that has influenced American women's relationship to processes of militarization, albeit in different ways and to different effect across bodies and even differentially within the same bodies across time. There are t…
This work looks at the 2009 Iranian show-trials through modern discourses of biopolitics, sovereignty, and history. I argue that, understood as a theatrical phenomenon, the show trials are situated within the Foucauldian mode of biopower. The latter entails a shift from a politi…
This dissertation develops a theory that accounts for the rhetorical practices that constitute living entities as sacred, expendable, or somewhere in between. I forward a concept of zoerhetorics , defined as legible, consequential, public, and partisan discourses or practices th…
Informatic Aterlives and Database Erotics explores the tension between coercive documentation and violent erasure in surveillance studies by centralizing the role of the body in the political and cultural transformations that have accompanied the rise of mass surveillance. Throu…