Malbim (Meir Leibush Weisser, 1809-1879) was one of the most industrious biblical exegetes in Jewish history—providing exhaustive commentaries to all but two of the twenty four volumes of the Hebrew Bible.
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This thesis argues that early nineteenth-century Spanish literature portraying the Inquisition depends on the unmodern to define modernity. It explores this subject, neglected in Peninsular Hispanism until recently, in novels printed in France, Britain, and Spain: Luis Gutiérrez…
This thesis examines the evolution of signaletic space in early 20th century China by looking at it through two major transformations. First, through the development of radio infrastructures as actualized in the emergence of heterogeneous institutions tied to various global proc…
This dissertation examines the understudied development of epistolary knowledge in China during the late Qing and Republican periods (ca. 1831–1949), when an increasing number of guides to letter writing were published. Attending to the ways letter-writing manuals transmitted ep…
In this thesis, I demonstrate how Catholic pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon. I define public history as public engagement, understanding, and use of the past. While I assert that pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon both in the past and in the present, my thesis wi…
Nonhuman animals are a key parameter for processes of urbanization, but have been marginalized in both mainstream and critical frameworks of urban theory and design. This dissertation critically analyzes this proposition in relation to the history and theory of Western urbanizat…
The main purpose of this thesis is to open a conversation regarding the role of the linear conception of time that serves as the driving force of the modern and capitalist conception of human history, and that conceives it as a timeline based on progress. The idea of modern prog…
Unsettling the Coloniality of Voice proposes that aligning voice with sound and the human has been a central component of the colonial project of modernity. While sight and seeing have been primary sites of analysis in much critical historical work, my research historicizes how …
This study aims to trace the multifaceted literary representations of spectatorship in American modernist texts, demonstrating the various ways in which the Emersonian model of the spectator is criticized and reconfigured as the American literary tradition moves from the age of …
A case can be made that the greatest fear of our time is the fear of boredom. We live in an age in which things change daily. New technologies are developed, old inventions are reconceived, the entertainment industry churns out movies, shows, and music constantly, and yet, peopl…
In their attempts to explain the dysfunctions of modernity in Latin America, theorists see it as a failed project (Néstor García-Canclini), a chronic deferral of the modern (Aníbal Quijano), or blame residual colonial practices (Walter Mignolo). Rather than continuing this obses…
This dissertation examines the various meanings of modernity in the history of Korean pop music, focusing on several crucial turning points in the development of K-pop. Since the late 1980s, Korean pop music has aspired to be a more advanced industry and establish an internation…
Major attempts to control the natural environment characterized government ‘developmental' activity in twentieth-century Sind. This thesis argues that the construction of three barrage dams across the River Indus, along with a network of irrigation canals, enacted human control …
This study focuses on the Welfare Party elite's conceptualisation of modernity during the party's last 4-5 years before its closure in 1998. Since the party was the most important Islamist organisation in Turkey. it was at an important point of interaction between Islamism and m…
This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of the inhabitants of Whiddy Island, and focuses on the change from one form of societal organisation to another on this island. The thesis is not an ethnography proper, but an attempt to link the local perceptions of change and the …
I will argue that the modern can be viewed as a stage of apprenticeship in an ethics of responsibility. The debates on racial slavery in the Americas reveal a fractured modernity, where a counter-discourse of domination coexists with a totalising impulse. The complicity of human…
The following thesis can be read as a socio-historical case study of the emergence of risk discourses within the Scottish Criminal Justice System, particularly in relation to offenders who are defined by their dangerousness. It focuses on the emergence of the Risk Management Aut…