To survive. This is the main battleground of peripheric bodies (body-territory), particularly indigenous, black, poor and trans* women. By adopting a transdisciplinary and mixed methodology, this research conducts decolonial excavations, traces genealogies of discourse, and pays…
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This dissertation relies on scholarship on Saudi Arabia, as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, to explore how representations of Saudi women are constructed and deployed in the political sphere in both Saudi Arabia and the United States. It argues that these representatio…
There are seventeen million people in the world who are stateless, not considered as citizens by any state. They suffer due to the current function of citizenship in the nation-state system, occupying a legal space outside of the system, yet, their lives are very much blighted b…
This dissertation argues that Pentecostal Christianity is a fundamentally global religion. By examining Pentecostalism in Brazil and Nigeria--two of the most Pentecostal countries in the world--it de-centers the United States and shows how Pentecostalism's development in the U.S…
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent – into India and Pakistan in 1947 – was one of the crucial moments marking the break between the colonial and postcolonial era. My project is invested in exploring the Partition not merely in terms of the events of August 1947, but as an …
Political conflict erupted after the fall of the Soviet Union instead of the convergent world that was anticipated. Responding in part to protests and ethnic strife after the Cold War, authors predicted breakdowns in prevailing power arrangements--particularly the nation-state. …
Like many other post-colonial multiethnic countries, Nigeria has been struggling to build a stable democracy and an integrated nation-state. In Nigeria, the democratization and nation-state building process has been complicated by the issue of ethnicity. Even more disturbing is …
In my dissertation, through looking at contemporary urban queer formations and politics, I theorize about the complex ways in which power and abjection operates in the context of Turkey's post-Empire, Westernizing nation-state formation. I argue that queer formations, subjects a…
The premise of this work is the notion that the emergence of social media is providing another challenge to Westphalian statehood as it was conceived in the 1600s. As social media support user interaction and information exchange, they lead to the establishment of cyber communit…
This is a study on the material and symbolic re-configuration of urban spaces and population structures in the processes of the transition from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish nation-state in the historically specific case of Izmir. Through an analysis of two historical events…
The dissertation undertakes a detailed analysis of a series of parliamentary acts which occasioned numerous and dramatic transformations of the meanings and institutions of British citizenship in the twentieth century. This is followed by a close reading of personal narratives b…
This dissertation deals with ethnic conflict as an outcome of the interaction between international political dynamics and domestic factors in multiethnic societies during the transition periods of modernization and democratization. The causes of ethnic conflict are the focus of…
In the 1990's, Senegal was one of many nation-states that began introducing policies that sought to institutionalize their relationships with their diasporas. These countries have created institutions and policies that allow nonresident nationals (diasporas) to have a political …
Since the 1970s, new forms of spirit mediumship emerged in urban Thailand. Spirits and their mediums answered the modern needs of clients as the country underwent a major transition from an agriculture-based society to a globalized industrial economy. Meanwhile, there has been a…
This Dissertation is an exercise in critical political theory. It examines the idea of the nation, as it evolved in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the modern version of the territorial nation-state. It will later examine the extent to which writings fr…
This study explores the relationship between architecture and the 'nation' as exemplified in the conceptualizations of 'national architecture' in early republican Turkey. The concept of 'national architecture' is examined through the display of, and the discourse on, architectur…
The dissertation examines the production and consumption of colonial and post-colonial subjectivities in France, with a particular attention to recent transformations in identity construction and national belonging within the Algerian immigrant community. Based on twenty months …
This dissertation is an ethnography of art production in Lebanon. It combines historical and contemporary data about the importation and implantation of easel-painting into a contested social setting to demonstrate the agency of art in society. Given the indexicality of art--i.e…