The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction studies how globalization has transformed our relationship with scale and creates a problem of representation in fiction. After the Second World War, new geopolitical, economic, cultural, and technological developments radically change…
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This ethnography examines grassroots political responses to the economic crisis that began in 2008, foremost in the US Midwest, which arguably laid the groundwork both for the election of President Donald Trump and presidential candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders. President Obam…
This dissertation examines how imperial education contributed to the crisis of Kenya's postcolonial political leadership. It argues that the system of education inaugurated by the agents of European imperialism, having banished imaginative political leadership of pre-colonial Af…
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such account…
Pre-modern critical interactions of nature and society can best be studied during the so-called "Crisis of the 14th Century". While historiography has long ignored the environmental framing of historcial processes and scientists have over-emphasized nature's impact on the course…
Pre-modern critical interactions of nature and society can best be studied during the so-called "Crisis of the 14th Century". While historiography has long ignored the environmental framing of historcial processes and scientists have over-emphasized nature's impact on the course…
This study investigates the political sources of change in the regulatory authority for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives that were brought about by the global financial crisis of 2008. OTC contracts have grown in popularity since the 1980s as firms in advanced market economies…
Development has been studied as a project pursued by imperialist nations to strengthen the social and economic order of empire and to curb communism. It was deployed just as frequently, however, in sovereign spaces. This project examines the efforts of the Italian intellectuals …
Higher education institutions of all types are experiencing increased challenges related to acquiring financial resources to support educational initiatives. Executive leaders, particularly during periods of instability and crisis, are required to make decisions related to highl…
College-based fraternities and sororities provide members opportunities for personal, professional and leadership development, and at the same time can create spaces that encourage behaviors that may lead to crises. Currently, scholarship on crisis communication and crisis manag…
This dissertation maps a history of Cuban comic production, analyzes hero characters in comics, and uses comics as a lens to discern both the reconstructing of memory and new imaginings of the future. Iconography and visual culture have played a formative role in negotiations ov…
During a terrorist attack, evacuees face uncertain risks when deciding which route to utilize while trying to evacuate. Immediately following an attack, information is very limited or non-existent. Emergency services personnel are responsible for finding and notifying evacuees o…
This study explored the experiences of a small group of Israeli volunteers who responded to a short-term armed conflict affecting civilians. The participants were volunteers during the Second Lebanon War in northern Israel in the summer of 2006. Community-based crises are typica…
This is a case study of three small businesses that uncovers management and employee reactions to natural or mechanical disasters and the recovery processes. The study explores Weick's Theory of Sensemaking to determine managers' and employees' perceptions of job changes post cr…
This dissertation explores the relation between gender and crisis in the late modern phase of Arabic literature—specifically, from the late 1960s to the present. Working with a regional Arab context, I define crisis as an endemic situation of political paralysis and cultural sta…
The negative impact of HIV/AIDS on the socio-economic and the religious life of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa is overwhelming. Unfortunately the Christian church and, by extension, theological educators have been accused of being negligent of their God-given responsibility to…
This dissertation is a study of influence among friends in the international arena. It explores how states convince each other to change behavior when the basic enforcement mechanism of international relations—the threat or use of force—is not an option. The experience of the tr…