This project examines how, in an increasingly precarious global economy buttressed by the tenets of neoliberalism, Caribbean theater and performance have often been a transnational forum for aesthetically exploring the limitations of this economic reality. Throughout, I base my …
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Türk sinemasında kendine özgü senaryo ve çekim teknikleri ile farklı bir yere sahip olan Ümit Ünal’ın filmleri, özgünlüğü nedeniyle bağımsız sinema olarak nitelendirilebilir. Araştırma için seçilen filmlerinde farklı cinsel kimliklerin hayatları özellikle vicdan, ahlak, suç ve c…
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…
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 …
In Imagined Diasporas: Neoliberal Nationalism in Contemporary Singaporean Fiction and State Culture , I compare the diasporic Singaporean figure as it is constructed in state narratives and contemporary fiction, making two central arguments: first, although the liberal humanist …
In the early 1990s, the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina endured one of the most devastating conflicts in European history since World War II, including a campaign of genocide by the aggressor. The nation is now twenty years removed from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreemen…
Can state leaders create the citizens they want, successfully shaping hearts, minds, and ultimately the culture of their own societies? To build theory about the contemporary making of citizens and the conditions for success and failure, I study state-initiated social engineerin…
This dissertation explores the changing terrain of Turkish prison politics in the last three decades. I focus on the inherent links between the prison society and the broader society outside the prison walls through examining the long term reform movement that institutionalized …
This dissertation explores how three social movements deployed an anti-neoliberal master frame during the course of a multi-movement protest wave. Using ethnographic content analysis. I examine the Global Justice (GJM), Antiwar (AWM), and Immigrant Rights movements (IRM) of the …
The neoliberal era has witnessed rapid and fundamental transformations in criminal justice institutions, expanding their role around the globe as charted by a variety of scholars. This dissertation takes up the case of Turkey, where a new neoliberal- politics of crime has been s…
Since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s, the Chinese state has extended and intensified its economic development agenda, trying to shape its citizens to become rational market actors who prioritize commodity production. In Tibetan pastoral areas, this takes the form …
The Marshall Plan and post-2003 Iraq represent the two largest US-led, post-war reconstruction projects in history, yet the two cases embody the implementation of two nearly opposite political ideologies. Whereas proponents of the Marshall Plan emphasized the supremacy of the st…