Neo-liberal globalization has challenges and opportunities for rural agrarian communities. Creating alternate market outlet is one of the opportunities rendered by neo-liberal globalization. Furthermore, those that afford to buy agricultural inputs have benefited from scientific…
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After the September 11th attacks, the U.S. government implemented immigration reform to defend against terrorism, creating an institutional link between the two spuriously related issues of immigration and terrorism. This M.A. thesis examines the relationship between terrorism a…
The dissertation analyzes the intersections between the discourse of adolescence and the discourse of Empire. The adolescent is a major, if not the central, figure in the rhetoric of Empire, specifically as a site of adult anxiety and imperial contestation. Chapter 1 revisits Ho…
My research into ethnic representations in the major newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, the Commercial Appeal, between 1990 and 2006 looks at the relationship between changing patterns of immigration, particularly in Memphis, the dominant political ideologies during this period--n…
This dissertation examines the complex and contradictory expectations, regulations, and logics that govern neoliberal development in Dakar, Senegal. More specifically, I draw transnational migration and foreign investment into the same ethnographic framework to consider how urba…
My dissertation is based on eighteen months of research conducted in Jimma, Ethiopia, a city of 120,000. Jimma is typical of urban Ethiopia in that unemployment rates for youth are close to fifty percent. The dissertation examines the manner in which unemployed and working youth…
Osnovni predmet ovog teorijski usmerenog istraživanja sastoji se u problematizaciji socioloških aspekata neoliberalizma . Zbog navodne „poznatosti“ i sveopšte „razumljivosti“ neoliberalizma kao globalno proučavanog fenomena, neretko dolazi do toga da se njime kao opštim mestom m…
A globalização é um fenômeno multidimensional que tem, por meio de alterações constitucionais, redefinido o papel do Estado. Em particular, a globalização política caracteriza-se pela união de Estados em blocos plurinacionais e pelo desenvolvimento de um sistema universal de dir…
In four parts, this dissertation analyzes the development U.S. public administration, its subsequent critique and transformation within a neoliberal political economy, and finally, the liberatory potential of the nascent fourth Industrial Revolution. Part I develops the ontologi…
Uluslararası ilişkiler disiplininde konstrüktivist teoriye göre kimlikler çıkarları, çıkarlar ise dış politikayı belirlemektedir. Buna bağlı olarak dini kimlik ülkelerin dış politikalarını şekillendirmede önemli bir faktördür. ABD geç kurulmuş ve ortak bir kimliğe sahip olmayan …
The primary research question that guides this dissertation is: What is the relationship between neoliberalism and welfare governance? In contrast to the idea that market reforms bring the destruction of social welfare provision, I argue that market reforms are actually accompan…
This autoethnographic study problematizes a fourth-year teacher's experiences at an alternative high school as she navigates a conflicting personal and professional identity. It seeks to trouble notions of curriculum, the teacher's role in developing and shaping that curriculum,…
The 1996 urban water sector reform in Senegal is not the sustainable development success claimed by its proponents. Privatization and cost-recovery management resulted in poor water and sanitation services unaffordable to many, increased access inequalities, and accelerated wate…
Scholars agree that there may be no better time for Sub-Saharan African countries to create the conditions for a more peaceful and democratic reality than now. This optimism is driven in part by the possibilities for development unleashed by neoliberal globalization and the curr…
The military coup of 1980 in Turkey was followed by more than two decades of neoliberal transition, which included the introduction and rising influence of Islamic capital, as well as the systematic weakening of trade unions through both economic and political processes. In this…
This is an exploratory study of a contemporary food controversy that also pilots an orientation to rhetorical criticism, which I call rhetorical geography. The contemporary agriculture system, which has reduced global hunger over the last half century, is also laden with problem…
This thesis explores the conditions in which experts gain political and policy making authority and become technocrats. After reviewing available explanations of high expert authority, it focuses on two expert teams that gained considerable political influence during free market…
Host & Server traces the contemporary global shift away from the permanent and the national toward the temporary and transnational in the global cities of Dubai, Los Angeles, and Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon. The term "temporariness" is used to conceptualize the structures of feeling…
What are the reasons that make Cyprus a national policy for Turkey? How likely is it for Turkey to give up on the island? What is it that makes it so attractive for the relevant stakeholders, and who are they? Why is it one of the world's longest outstanding unresolved internati…