Novels That Enact: Capitalist Storification and Emerging Forms in Contemporary Fiction examines the contemporary novel form in relation to major historical transformations of managerialism and cybernetics since the 1950s. Tracing the metamorphosis of cybernetics from a war-time …
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In the late 1950s, the United Kingdom remained a heavily industrialised country, with nearly 40 per cent of its workforce employed in manufacturing. Today, that figure is well below 10 per cent. Industries that were at the centre of Britain’s rise to world power in the 19th cent…
For a few decades now, free verse has been the preferred and in most cases only form used by the vast majority of contemporary Latin American poets. It first emerged in Paris –the global “capital of the 19th century”, as Walter Benjamin famously put it– in the 1880s, at the heig…
This dissertation is grounded in my position as a research practitioner and all the observations, analysis and discourse foregrounds that position. It traces the history of Bharatanatyam aesthetics between 1930 to 2020 through the lens of spectacularization.
This study asserts that, historically, the geographies of the US military have been landscapes of care, moral geographies of loyalty, trust, and sacrifice. They are now disrupted by neoliberal individualism largely through the creation of sexual arenas. The mandate for and expec…
This dissertation offers a critical and historical study of the ways in which popular music, avant-garde performance, and political life intersected within the context of burgeoning Thatcherism, the New Right, and neoliberalism in 1970–80s Britain. Drawing on archival research a…
This dissertation seeks to understand how a historically subaltern group negotiates family and societal power dynamics as they emerge from voicelessness into varying degrees of empowerment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 young women, identifying as Indo-Guyane…
This study aimed to resituate the critical educational theory of correspondence and a hidden curriculum in public schools within the modern critical landscape of time precarity. Through a mixed-methods exploratory design, this study employed and refined a novel survey instrument…
The International Monetary Fund continues to be a controversial organization in the workings of the global economy. For those seeking financial assistance from the IMF through the disbursement of a loan, austerity packages markedly contain a number of conditions the receiving co…
In 1991, India entered the global market as a liberalized economy when, coerced by the International Monetary Fund, it adopted “structural adjustment” policies. The early period of economic liberalization in India engendered a sense of optimism and forward-looking aspiration in …
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…
As one of the most profitable multinational corporations of the last ten years, Apple Inc. has become the gold standard for the production, design, and marketing of consumer electronics. Curiously, Apple products often inspire religious reflection within the imaginations of thei…
This dissertation argues that the works of the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño present at their core a stark contrast between a remembered revolutionary past and the neoliberal present from which that past is remembered. While neoliberal technocratic governments insist on pre…
There has been a robust and ongoing investment in demystifying the discursive and material conditions of neoliberalism. Scholars in communication have done much work to explore the various rhetorical effects and processes of neoliberal discourses and practices. Many of these cas…
In the last 30 years the World has been swept by neoliberal doctrine. Under neoliberal conceptions, freedom of the market mechanism has precedence in the process of development. Neoliberalism has had a major impact on the mindset of policymakers, on government strategies for dev…
“The More You Look, the more THERE IS to see…” From Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows up Another Obelisk (Christine Parker, Oceania Parker, 1995) In the 1990s New Zealand was in the grip of free market fundamentalism, neo-liberal deregulation of the economy having begun in the…
This study is about Tunisian women's work and lives in the present era of economic neoliberalism. The focus is women in the city of Bizerte, Tunisia, both those who work in Bizerte's export processing zone (EPZ), as well as those who work outside it. This study is a qualitative …
This dissertation examines the people and institutions involved in changing traditional medicine in Bangladesh. These transformations are connected to political, economic, and social negotiations of colonial pasts as well as new negotiations during the current era of neoliberal …