In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation. These efforts to reclaim and assert Palestinian heritage differ significantly from the typical…
In the early-nineteenth century, German intellectuals crafted a cultural identity to coalesce the German-speaking people into a distinct Volk. They reformed the universities to produce a new Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle class) that would lead the masses in the cultural pol…
This thesis considers the cultural politics of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the immediate post-war period in the context of Italian History, the artistic developments of the first half of the 20th Century and the ideological basis of the PCI. The text has been divide…
This thesis examines the struggles for moral, cultural and political control of the Scottish Highlands during the period, c.1918-1945. Using library and archival material it demonstrates how a range of contesting landscape narratives, each based on an amalgam of myth, ideal and …
In recent decades, the configuration of Islam as the ultimate cultural "other" has defined the politics of cultural pluralism in national public spheres across the West. This study explores how, in the years following the 9/11 attacks and the declaration of the "War on Terror," …
This research enquiry builds on and contributes to studies in the field of physical education, focusing specifically on pupils’ experiences of Year 12 physical education in a private secondary phase school in Turkey. Although there is scholarly work that examines the performance…
This study examines maracatu nação, a working-class, Afro-Brazilian carnival pageant from the city of Recife in Pernambuco state, and its relationship to the transnational circuits of knowledge production created by elite artists and intellectuals interested in the practice. Mar…
This dissertation examines the relationship among road building, critical consciousness and social relations in Nepal, with a focus on rural roads as a key site of socio-political action. After the Maoist revolution (1996- 2006), roads have become a primary site, not only of inv…
This dissertation examines how changing American views of and policies toward Israel shaped a key paradox of America's imperial mission in the Vietnam War and post-Vietnam eras. Whereas the Six Day War of 1967 drew admiration from an aging generation of liberal Cold Warriors tow…
This dissertation studies the Kurdish identity movement in Turkey which has transformed from a secessionist armed struggle to a transnational culture movement since the late nineties. Kurdish activists now utilize media and performance events as platforms for imagining, solidify…
In the Kei islands, adat (custom or tradition) and social hierarchy are inextricably intertwined. This dissertation highlights the entanglements of rank and adat through an analysis of the mobilization of “tradition” by the Kei elite during both the New Order and post-Suharto pe…
In the liberal democratic tradition, dominant nationalist discourses articulate citizenship as the domain of the nation-state, functioning as a mechanism for dispensing rights and claims through political membership. However, in the wake of heightened globality, national paradig…
Based on twenty-four months of fieldwork in London, England, this dissertation examines the politics of British Asian youth cultures as a way of investigating the processes of power by which postcolonial diasporic identities are forged. Since the 1980s, youth of South Asian desc…
This work is about boundaries in architecture. It explores the order of producing boundaries (or borders) in contemporary buildings in Egypt. In this work, I understand a border to be a space that lies between various social domains and in which these domains—divergent overlappi…
Sexual harassment has emerged as a widespread problem facing women in public space in Egypt. Activism to combat sexual harassment began in 2005. However, just prior to and in the years following the January 25, 2011 Egyptian Revolution, which witnessed an increase in the collect…
The ethnic category of “peripheral” Chinese Americans encompasses ethnic Chinese who do not come from mainland China but come from other parts of Asia and Southeast Asia such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. In the struggle with their hybrid and diaspori…
