This study provides a sociolinguistic profile of English in Lebanon. It focuses on the uses of English (and French and Arabic to a lesser extent) in different venues in the Lebanese society, primarily in the capital Beirut. The study also examines the Lebanese attitudes toward m…
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The twentieth century saw the spread of Western art music across the world as Western ideology and values acquired increasing dominance in the global order. How did this process occur in China, what complexities does it display and what are its distinctive features? This thesis …
This thesis is the first in depth study that has been undertaken concerning Edinburgh and Glasgow’s identities and rivalry. It is not an economic or a social study driven solely by theory. Essentially, this is a cultural and political examination of Edinburgh and Glasgow’s ident…
This thesis examines and compares newspaper coverage of the first two general elections after Scottish devolution, looking at both the Scottish and English/UK press. By considering the coverage of a major political event which affects both countries, it contributes to debates re…
This dissertation narrates an important episode in the transition of Christian peasants of Macedonia into nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. I attempt to explain how a peasant society in the Ottoman Empire was co-opted into a war that was subsequently christened an…
This dissertation explores the role that the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been playing in Palestinian state-building since the 1970s. UNRWA's role is examined by assessing the impact of the organization's socio-economi…
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, France embarked on the conquest of its modern colonial empire with the invasion of Algeria in 1830. This dissertation analyzes the relationship between the Algerian conquest and French national identity between 1830 and 1851, thro…
Often, interpreters of the Deuteronomistic History (DH) overlook its complex use of disability imagery. They frequently understand this imagery as having only rather transparent meanings. Through a close study of Mephibosheth's character in the David Story (1 Sam 16–1 Kgs 2), th…
This dissertation focuses on the Partition of Bengal in 1947 and its aftermath to 1965 to examine how India and Pakistan legitimized and symbolically reproduced markers of national identity. It argues that specific concepts of what constituted loyal citizens, Partition violence …
This dissertation explores how representations of the Holy Land shaped nineteenth-century Americans' conceptions of racial identity in the emerging United States. In the nineteenth century, Americans physically encountered Palestine for the first time, exploring, mapping, and es…
The quest for identity is becoming one of the most politically charged issues at start of the third millennium. The transformative processes that are occurring as a result of globalization, as well as the mass population migrations that took place in the twentieth century, expla…
The dissertation is an analysis of the Russian relationship to Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. As a methodological approach, it uses the concepts of irredentism, Orientalism, and multi…
This dissertation studies the modern migration of Spaniards to the United States and the process of identity formation among the Spanish immigrant communities in America from the U.S.-Mexican War to the aftermath of World War II. The starting point underscores one of its main ar…
The issue of national integration and unity has occupied the apex of national discourse in Nigeria since it secured political independence from Britain in 1960. The Nigerian state's solution to this fundamental issue is rooted in its basic constitutional principle which espouses…
Built environment and residential units as part of it have a significant role in terms of understanding cultural structure with its transformation in historical process through spatial aspects. While transformation of urban settlements presents information related to urban cultu…
This study is based in the constructivist literature, which argues that identity conceptions influence state behavior. Identities (understood as self/other relations) are seen as foundational to state interests, both in terms of end goals and strategies. In this study, I examine…
This study examines how various gendered forces--social, cultural, and other--combined to shape a new national identity in France following the Second World War. During the war, the Vichy regime, a quasi-fascist government, was in power. After the war, it was important for Frenc…
The dissertation focuses on a topic of surprising cultural and political importance in the United States from 1821 to Independence from Turkey. Each chapter provides context helpful in assessing how cultural values interacted with political precedents and political expediency in…
This research investigated the structure of Turkish national identity with respect to its ethno-cultural and civic dimensions and the association of these identity dimensions with inclusive attitudes towards ethnic and cultural minorities in Turkey. In Study 1, Turkish citizens …