'Turkish Republican citizenship and rights to the city' explores the significance of the city in the constitutions, contestations, and transformations of Turkish citizenship. While it focuses on the republican era after 1923, it also takes into account the nineteenth century ref…
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This thesis explores Iranian entrepreneurship in the Toronto CMA by comparing the characteristics of Iranian business owners, their entrepreneurial experiences, and the attributes of Iranian businesses inside and outside the Iranian residential concentration and by business type…
This thesis examines the transformation of informal housing settlements, namely the gecekondus (squatters) of Turkey. The occupation of public land and the construction of illegal housing units by the immigrants have served to protect the livelihood of the society and maintain i…
This study examines the changes and constraints upon Iranian farming practices resulting from the Shah's land reform, or "White Revolution." Gilaki-Rashti rice farming in northern Iran is analyzed in the context of its peasant ecology and economy. The major findings of this stud…
This study investigates the networking behavior of innovative firms in two regions in Turkey: Ankara and Istanbul. Specifically, it compares the geographical extent and characteristics of innovation networks between the two regions when firms carry out innovation, i.e. developin…
As part of the ongoing Harvard-Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, research directed at providing information about environmental change in central Lydia was undertaken. As part of that research, a 12 meter long sediment core was obtained from Golcuk (elevation 1050 m)…
Many analyses of civil conflict focus on nation-state scale processes. Necessarily, such an approach ignores local complexity in many of the most violent regions of the world. In this study geostatistical and spatial-statistical regression methods are employed to investigate pat…
My study explored the post migration experience of Somali female refugees located in Atlanta, Georgia. Somali refugees began arriving in the United States since a civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991 and during the early and mid 2000s Somalis became the largest refugee group e…
In this dissertation, I analyze the discourse and practice of immigration regulation in the Malaysian State of Sabah. Immigration problematizes the conventional conception of belonging to a national population, as it introduces the possibility of becoming through the process of …
Many scientists have used the expediency of geographic information science (GIS) for archaeological analyses, such as predictive site location modeling and producing topographical site surveys. However, the use of GIS to explore the spatial relationships among the architecture, …
What do home, family and identity mean for diasporic populations? What kinds of practices, relationships and spaces are involved in making these things come alive on an everyday basis? What does an understanding of this contribute to discourses of Palestinian identity in particu…
Most developing countries are heavily reliant upon agricultural exports as the primary generator of economic growth. However, for a smaller subset of countries natural resource booms can act as catalysts for more rapid structural economic transformation. Originally cast as benef…
Between 1917 and 1965 Hausa farmers in central Niger pushed northward toward the Sahara, onto marginal lands in the departements of Maradi and Zinder that previously had been occupied mainly by herders. During the early period (1917-1939), migrants from the far south (precolonia…
Societies always have chosen to eat particular foods rather than consciously decided to ingest the essential nutrients required by the human body. Culture has indicated what those foods should be though geographic factors initially determined the range of potential foods from wh…
World-wide spatial and temporal patterns of various painful, traumatic, and repressive practices aimed at infants, children, adolescents, and women were developed by systematic analysis of anthropological data on subsistence-level cultures. A 'patrist' culture form was identifie…
The stimulus for this research is the belief that the International Energy Agency (IEA) would be better able to plan for and implement its Emergency Oil Sharing Plan (EOSP) if it modeled important aspects of the world oil economy from an operational point of view. This belief is…