This study explores the influences of religious faith on the family structure - family bonds, the ties of kinship, cohabitation, divorce and marriage- with the focus on Christianity and Islam. Moreover, it examines how modernization affects the interaction of traditional religio…
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This dissertation investigates domesticity as a site for the production of modernity in late Ottoman Beirut. It focuses specifically on the material aspects of the home in trying to understand its formation in relation to urban management, intellectual discourses, and changing t…
The Ulster linen industry was renowned throughout the world for its high-quality linen products, making an easy transition from hand loom to power loom production in the mid nineteenth century where its craft origins advanced into highly profitable industrial scale manufacturing…
This PhD study examines the consequences of modernity and modernisation for Kurdish-Iranian society in the twentieth century. It identifies a dual process of socio-economic transformation and homogenisation of culture and identity, the dialectics of which (re)formed the economic…
This research explores institutional discourse on change in South Korean football. It seeks to understand the construction and legitimisation of change in Korean football as a product of both national and international dynamics. It explores the debates on modernity and modernisa…
In 1957 a number of women's organizations were involved in planning a government-sponsored Festival of Women - an event that indicates contemporary awareness of and interest in the changing position of women. This study is similarly concerned with the position of women in the 19…
Los conceptos de modernidad y modernismo han dado lugar a múltiples debates dentro de la filosofía contemporánea y la teoría cultural. En este caso el autor analiza si la afirmación de estar en un momento de “modernidad” con respecto al tiempo anterior implica que la conciencia …
The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplify our fantasies of Parisian n…
The processes of globalisation have created an arena for cooperation between nations, institutions, and private sector agencies. Several studies have indicated that among these private sector agencies, are Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)- a sector now commonly referred to …
This thesis analyses two different TRT series to reveal when and how Turkishness is reproduced on television. These two series are Sevda Kuşun Kanadında and Seksenler. The thesis makes use of an interpretative approach in which the components of themes, music, contexts, characte…
20. yüzyıl çağdaş Fransız düşüncesinin özellikle ikinci yarısı felsefe tarihi açısından oldukça karmaşık bir yapıya sahip olup bu karmaşıklığın başında şüphesiz felsefenin “alan dışı” etkileşimlerle almış olduğu yeni hal vardır. Özne merkezli bir düşünceye gönderimde bulunan ve …
This dissertation challenges the way scholars have defined modernity in terms of inaccurate dichotomies by comparing Max Weber (1864–1920), often considered the most important sociologist of the twentieth century, and Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), founder of Waldorfpädagogik and t…
This dissertation examines Friedrich Schiller’s, G.W.F. Hegel’s, and Søren Kierkegaard’s critiques of modernity. Through exegesis of key texts, it argues that the categories of ‘sacrifice’ and ‘reconciliation’ are crucial for understanding these critiques.
This thesis examines the relationship between Korean film and modernity by conducting a survey of the representation of cars, trains, and the city throughout (South) Korean film history. There have been several remarkable changes in these representations over time: the train, fi…
Scholarship on Jamal ad-Din Al Afghani focuses on the apparent contradiction in his writings between those addressed to a European audience and those addressed to an Islamic audience. This paper resolves that contradiction by placing Al Afghani within the discourse of orientalis…
This dissertation examines women’s lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and p…
In recent decades, French historical scholarship has begun to re-examine the Second Empire, revising a period once interpreted in terms of failure and national tragedy to reveal a moment in which the roots of France’s “modern” republican polity emerged. Yet in spite of this re-e…