The media acts as a gatekeeper and decides what material to cover and what not to cover. In order to better understand why one disaster receives media coverage and another crisis is virtually unnoticed by the media, the motives behind covering one story over another is analyzed …
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Despite a growing body of research on dynamic capabilities, their contribution to competitive advantage and firm performance, as well as their origins remain unclear. This three-essay dissertation integrates the literatures on dynamic capabilities, environmental jolts, and impri…
This study analyzed the 2010/2011 Jos crisis over a four month period – December 2010 to March 2011. It focused on the online coverage of the crisis by Punch, Guardian and Thisday newspapers considering various aspects of news framing. Three hundred news reports were randomly se…
The objectives of this dissertation are the following. To define the parameters of the novela del 68 and to argue for the conceptualization of a gendered novela del 68 as expressed in the analysis of the three novels under consideration: Pánico o peligro, by María Luisa Puga (19…
Postcolonial African states are entangled in crises. These crises in Africa are extensive and pervasive. They affect the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of African peoples. African states themselves are deeply implicated in generating such crisis. Accordingly, ma…
The United Nations faces crises that were not originally considered to be within the purview of its Charter. Failed states are such crises and represent a test of the UN's legal authority, political fortitude, and physical capabilities. Failed states are those that lack the rule…
The dissertation renders a comprehensive account of the economic, social, and political implications of the Great Depression of the 1930s for colonial Northern Nigeria, focusing particularly on how various groups of Northern Nigerians—farmers, workers, traders, chiefs, and the e…
This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of the restructuring of the Malaysian capital market in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, showing how the calculative practices of financial experts intersect with the global financial regime, reformatting …
This dissertation is a study of the crisis rhetoric employed by presidential advisors during the lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003. The inquiry operates from the premise that these advisors engaged in a rhetorical movement to forward the agenda of war against Iraq. The movement…
This dissertation attempts to show how texts from the Ancient Near East, texts in the Hebrew Bible, and one text from Qumran describe life-threatening crises by means of the Birth Metaphor. Can two concepts such as birth and crisis even be compared? Birth and crisis are existent…
This research provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, this research demonstrates how theological discourse and practice (as a c…
This dissertation studies the nature of financial disintermediation and crisis under macroeconomic uncertainty in a liberalizing economy, Turkey during the 1980-1998 period. I argue that financial market fragility and episodes of recurrent crises deriving from macroeconomic inst…
This study examines in-depth the experiences of a sample of young, mostly second-generation, Muslim Americans both prior to and following the events of September 11, 2001. The research draws on data gathered through participant observation, focus groups, and individual interview…
My dissertation combines archival research on Muslims in the US throughout the twentieth century with a rich ethnography of transnational pedagogical networks in the Middle East in order to delineate the transformations of religious authority and the changing significance of the…
Fake news, populismos, peligros ambientales por el antropoceno irradian en los últimos años señales de crisis desconcertantes. ¿Qué otras preguntas habría que hacer para encarar los desconciertos y preocupaciones que nos abren? ¿Qué nuevos enfoques están ensayándose en las Cienc…
Fake news, populismos, peligros ambientales por el antropoceno irradian en los últimos años señales de crisis desconcertantes. ¿Qué otras preguntas habría que hacer para encarar los desconciertos y preocupaciones que nos abren? ¿Qué nuevos enfoques están ensayándose en las Cienc…
Viele Menschen geraten beim Versuch, gut für sich und andere zu sorgen, an die Grenzen ihrer Kräfte. Was als individuelles Versagen gegenüber den alltäglichen Anforderungen erscheint, ist jedoch Folge einer neoliberalen Krisenbearbeitung. Notwendig ist daher ein grundlegender Pe…