The Margi ethnic group occupies the geographical region of southern Borno and northern Adamawa states of the Republic of Nigeria. This study concentrates on the Margi Udzirngu subgroup who currently resides in North Eastern Nigeria. Margi Udzirngu literally means " the Margi who…
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The dissertation looks at the enduring nature of religious nationalism in certain European states in spite of the broader trend towards secular identity. Through a combination of in-depth case studies (Ireland, England, Poland, Greece) and cross-case analysis, I argue that relig…
Chicago in the early twentieth century (1910s) and Istanbul later in the century (1950s), each experienced an influx of rural migrants, a process that challenged the ability of the city and its residents to cope with the ensuing problems. Though separated by time and place, Chic…
A determination to nurture a developing cultural modernity in early twentieth century Kuwait provoked subsequent symbolic explorations in architecture and urban form. Socioeconomic and political conditions enabled the state to undertake utopian projects that, for the most part, …
Unlike other Arabian Gulf cities that went through a modernization processes in the 1970s, Kuwait City, Kuwait, went through a drastic transformation in the early 1950s. The 1952 Master Plan drastically changed the urban fabric of Kuwait City. By the mid-1960s Kuwait City was al…
In this dissertation I examine the impact of transformation in opportunity space, organizational structure, and cultural framing efforts of the political actors on Kurdish political identity. Applying a synthesis of social movement theories and theories on nationalism, I seek to…
Many states are ethnically plural today with potentials of experiencing ethnic wars. Thus, it is important to understand why ethnic conflicts and wars happen. This dissertation proposes an integrated approach based on two major theories, the spiral and conflictual modernization,…
In studies of Islamic civilization, the modes of periodization adopted by previous generations of scholars are generally based on a single paradigm. That is, the modern history of the Middle East starts with Napoleon's 'expedition' to Egypt in 1798, and the preceding period is c…
Why do Western societies, despite their overpowering financial and political influence, fail to dictate the course of non-Western modernization? Engaging this question, I critically review the epistemological role of the West/non-West divide in the sociology of modernity and pre…
This research questions the "role model" status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in the secular context with a specific reference to the women with headscarves. The Turkish Republic's commitment to modernization is what renders it a role m…
The scholarship on modernization of non-western states can be enhanced with the help of recent formal approaches to architecture such as space syntax methodology that examines the spatial morphology of the built environment. This research explores the complex dynamisms involved …
The revolutionary political upheavals, the structural socioeconomic changes after the 1979 revolution, and the first post-revolutionary family planning and health program are argued to be the major factors that led to swings in fertility levels over the last decades in Iran. How…
In recent years, the intensification of the globalization process and reactions to it by particular groups and identities, has raised awareness of the question of difference in nation states. National identity for a long time has been able to establish itself as a hegemonic enti…
This dissertation examines the ways that gender roles and women's rights advocacy are affected by concerns about globalization, community, secular nationalist and Muslim politics in Java at the end of the twentieth century. Based on ethnographic and historical research conducted…
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the process of autocratic modernization in Iran that lead to the Revolution of 1978-79. This study also examines the impact of Iran's Islamic post revolutionary regime's political culture on the formation and implementation of t…
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, crucial processes of political and economic liberalizations transformed the political landscape in much of the post-colonial world. The reigning theory of modernization which was pegged in the era of political emancipation to nat…
Currently, no sector of Saudi society has been subject to more debates and discussion than the women's sector and its role in the modernization processes. Also, no issue is as controversial and creates as much contention between liberal and conservative groups in Saudi Arabia as…
The State of Qatar is in the process of change, a process that started only in the last decade. This change includes modernising its institutions, introducing democracy, and moving towards becoming a more open economy and society. The State authorities have introduced legislatio…
This dissertation examines the motivations for and consequences of biomedical health care use in a medically plural region in the Hunza valley of northern Pakistan. Hunza valley has undergone significant social, economic, and political changes in the past twenty-five years, incl…