The thesis encompasses three chapters which provide policy-relevant insights into the domain of conflict economics. The research endeavour goes deep into exploring the underlying linkages of varied economic and non-economic factors (e.g., culture, religion and myriads of ethnic …
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This dissertation explores the intersection of American imperialism, commerce, and families in 19th century Hawai‘i. By the end of the nineteenth century, private commercial interests helped bring an end to the Hawaiian monarchy. After several decades of intervention into the is…
The rural-urban divide is discussed between scholars (Pew Research Center, 2018), politicians (Siegler, 2020), and everyday Americans (Badger, 2019). Those in urban blue states (majority voting Democrat) blame those in rural red states (majority voting Republican) for being raci…
One can argue that European colonial consciousness and its actions have caused more harm in the world than any other collective psychology. Grounded in the psychology of C. G. Jung, this research investigates the cultural complexes of white colonial consciousness and the possibi…
Accounts detailing the atrocities committed by the Nazi party too often overlook their persecution of the Black German community. Even less often is the course of anti-Black racism in Germany detailed from its origins in the German Empire’s colonial endeavors through the Third R…
This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850–…
In this thesis, I examine the alliance formed between the American Indian Movement and Irish nationalists from 1968 to present day. Through a series of public displays of support and visits by AIM delegations to Northern Ireland and the Republican of Ireland, it is clear that th…
In this thesis, I bring Afropessimist/Black studies theories of Blackness and social death into conversation with Black feminist, decolonial, and trans studies scholars to think about the experiences of racialized gender violence (anti-Black violence) for Black trans women. To d…
The concept of an African university was brought into the spotlight during the 2015-2016 FeesMustFall students protests. However, decolonial history illustrates that the notion of an African university predates FeesMustFall. African scholars and politicians have mooted this idea…
Africa’s history can never be told without mentioning the impact of colonialism on its people and economies. Despite attaining political independence from their colonial masters, starting from the late 1950s into the early 1990s, most African countries have remained economically…
This study traces the root causes of terrorism in West Africa, focusing on Nigeria, Mali and Niger. This exploration is conducted within the framework of the relative deprivation and the greed and grievance theories. The relative deprivation theory is often used to analyse conte…
This thesis is the first ethnographic attempt to study contemporary dissident activism in Vietnam. As a country that became known and keeps being remembered as a war-torn postcolony by the West, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest to one of the fastest gro…
Tanganika 09 Aralık 1961 tarihinde, Zanzibar ise 10 Aralık 1963 tarihinde Birleşik Krallık’tan bağımsızlıklarını ilan etmişlerdir. Ancak, sadece bir ay sonra 12 Ocak 1964’te Zanzibar’da kanlı bir darbe meydana gelmiştir. Çıkan bu darbeden üç ay sonra oluşturulan Zanzibar Halk Hü…
This thesis explores the hidden narratives of women students at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and incorporates the voices of activists and scholars who advocate against sexual harassment, assault, and gender-based violence (GBV) across university campuses and in the countr…
This thesis answers the call by the International Organization for Migration for researchers to listen to migrants. Based on the assumption that contemporary and historical migrants have similar experiences, this study takes as its subject 915 letters written by 218 immigrants i…
This study analyses selected themes in the poetry of E.J. Mhlanga. It reveals some of the techniques that he employs to reveal the direct and indirect themes in his poetry. These themes are education, love and religion. This study uses the qualitative research approach to collec…
In North America, all cities have beneath them Indigenous land and are set within Indigenous landscapes, and yet this connection is rarely explicit in the physical environment. Much of urban development has been constructed as part of the settler colonial project that has sought…
My dissertation examines care in post-war Vietnamese American cultural production. I argue that care is a significant method of historical retrieval that resists dominant understandings of time, gender, and political action. Vietnamese refugees have often been portrayed as a pro…
At their core, national anthems attempt to unite citizens of the nation through music. While “O Canada” might endeavour to unify the country in song, this research-creation project unsettles and detunes the anthem to consider both the content and context of its continuing lyrica…