Unruly Labia: Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and the Production of Normality exposes a new site of disciplinary power, surveillance, and the production of whiteness, heteronormativity, and an ideal cis-female body. Female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) encompasses a variety of…
Combining historiographic, rhetorical/analytical and hermeneutic research methodologies, this project takes as its grounding premise that neoliberal rationality is fundamentally reshaping writing and speech practices in the postsecondary higher education setting and beyond; and …
Neoliberalism is currently one of the most widespread ideologies in the world. While there have been numerous studies of Neoliberalism in the past few decades, there is an important area of knowledge that remains disconnected from the larger conversation. This study will look at…
This study analyzes policy-oriented approaches to addressing poverty on a municipal, provincial, and national level. Pairing the Foucauldian governmentality framework with the new sociology of childhood, I explore how neoliberal subjectivities are reinforced through Poverty Redu…
In this dissertation I examine how African American Muslim parents in Chicago choose to educate their children, why they've made these choices and the experiences emerging from these decisions while situating their choices inside of political, cultural and contextual factors. In…
Creativity is very important. It is at the heart of transformative thinking processes, explaining why we have achieved so much as a species. The role of education in developing creativity has been debated for centuries, although this has been complicated by the varying definitio…
Using data from 73 nations, I seek to answer 3 main theoretical questions related to the change in the youth smoking rates from the first to the second wave of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Hypothesis 1: what is the impact of neo-liberal economic policies, increases in foreig…
This dissertation explains the recent transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which income-based social assistance policies have supplanted employment-based social security policies. This transformation is part of a global neoliberal turn which has replaced the welfare …
This dissertation examines the emergence of a discrete new Syrian social group, the neoliberal elite, through shared, English-based linguistic practices. It demonstrates how this new group reacts to Syria's liberalizing economy by adopting the same ideology that underpins offici…
Tracing their origins to early twentieth century immigrants from Syria and Lebanon, Brazilians of Middle Eastern descent gained greater visibility as “Arabs” today. In the public sphere, they oversaw multi-million dollar business ventures, represented ten percent of federal cong…
Social resistance to globalization forces is increasingly becoming a popular movement around the world. While much scholarly research has been carried out on social resistance movements at the global level little is known about the strengths and weaknesses of social resistance t…
This dissertation examines Canada's position in the world economy and the 'new imperialism.' There is currently a debate in the social sciences between those who view Canada as a dependency and those who view Canada as an independent imperialist power. This thesis reworks the de…
The question of the impact of privatizations on the process of democratization remains untouched in the political science literature. One of the best ways to study the linkages between privatizations and democratization is to analyze the changes in the group of society most affe…
This dissertation focuses on overlapping religious, legal, and spatial-political mechanisms through which the Italian state, the European Union (EU), and the Catholic Church manage undocumented migration and legal and cultural identities of citizens and non-citizens. It analyzes…