El llamado “ciclo progresista” en América Latina es un proceso político caracterizado por el giro de varios gobiernos latinoamericanos hacia la izquierda. Desde finales de la década de los 90, estos gobiernos han desarrollado cambios importantes en sus países e impulsado nuevos …
This dissertation argues that representations of economic experience as epitomized by heightened states of feeling—the despair following a bad day at the stock market, the panic set off by reports of an impending bubble, the excitement around rapid gains in a company’s valuation…
The contemporary American Dream is based on the myth that anyone can obtain upward mobility if they work hard enough, regardless of their class or race. This ideology supports the idea that America is the land of equal opportunity, democracy, and liberty. This framework is probl…
Becoming Posthuman looks to dystopian and apocalyptic fiction to interrogate what it means to be human in a contemporary global landscape marked by neoliberal politics, white supremacy, and environmental precarity. In particular, this project responds to and examines the converg…
Schools should be the place to cultivate and model a just society. Teacher candidates must be equipped with the ability to recognize, critique, and oppose any practices, policies, or structures that perpetuate the social and economic inequalities that currently exist. Yet the cu…
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…
National parks are made up of many unique and beautiful places that offer visitors chances for recreation, enjoyment of natural resources, and education. One main way parks educate visitors about the parks and conservation is through conversation. Rangers parks reach out to visi…
İpek Yolu, uzun yıllar fikirlerin ve kültürlerin geniş coğrafyalar ölçeğinde ticaret vasıtasıyla aktarımını sağlayan insanlık tarihinin önemli bir değeridir. Küresel düzeyde meydana gelen değişimler İpek Yolu’nun önemini kaybetmesine neden olsa da dünya ticaretindeki avantajlı k…
In the U.S., 44% of women and 23% of men experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime (Breiding et al., 2014). Psychological research on the perpetuation of rape culture typically overlooks the influence of neoliberal ideology. The purpose of this study was to inves…
This paper explores the possibilities of community-centered education as a critique of neoliberalism. Education in the United States has been defined by neoliberal policy and practice for decades, but recent crises in health and racial justice represent an opportunity to challen…
20. yüzyıl çağdaş Fransız düşüncesinin özellikle ikinci yarısı felsefe tarihi açısından oldukça karmaşık bir yapıya sahip olup bu karmaşıklığın başında şüphesiz felsefenin “alan dışı” etkileşimlerle almış olduğu yeni hal vardır. Özne merkezli bir düşünceye gönderimde bulunan ve …
My analysis is focused on the visual and sexual politics of the media coverage and public response to the military sex scandal commonly referred to as Abu Ghraib within a neoliberal context. The purpose of this project is to address a gap in current academic scholarship regardin…
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 …