Adele V. Holden adds her creative voice to the numerous other Black women who focus and narrate the experiences, the stories, memories, family relationships, the social life, and customs of a people who have endured and survived living in America while Black. Holden's literary c…
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This study described the extent to which local history museums established place identity among museum members. Understanding the small history museum’s role in shaping place identity could be beneficial to developing and sustaining museum audiences and could be vital to a museu…
Place is disguised, hidden or simply ignored in much sociological research. Belonging, however, has become a focus of sociological concern. This thesis proposes that one way of belonging is through belonging-in-place leading to a sociological positioning of place as an active pa…
This thesis explores the two year transition period leading towards the end of compulsory schooling. It asks how young people who live in disadvantaged locations make career related choices, and is concerned with why such people often do not choose in ways that are advantageous …
Approaches to place and landscape have concerned geographers, at least throughout Modern history. In geographical place and landscape writings, notions of dwelling have been taken up and developed since the 1970s to indicate the lived and practised character of the relationships…
This thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the Toktogul valley of Kyrgyzstan, this study contributes to theoretical questio…
This thesis analyses ethnographic data gathered during participant observation within two vernacular town carnivals in East Devon and Dorset during 2012 and within the professional Cartwheelin’ and Battle for the Winds street performances which were staged as part of the Maritim…
This thesis muddies the idea of singular being, tracing the footprints of nature writer and poet Edward Thomas, from the beginning of his epically creative final four years, to the site where he died in 1917, during the Battle of Arras. It is presented as a series of engagements…
This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itse…
"An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering the Holocaust shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next. Through the discussion of a range of memoirs and …
In this dissertation, I examine how we quantify the dynamic, cumulative effects of relational social exposures with longitudinal survey data. In Chapter 1, I demonstrate a new mediation framework for describing what are often conceptualized problematically as “neighborhood effec…
This study focuses on Christopher, the Christian patriarch of Antioch who was killed by Muslim rebels in 967 due to his loyal support of the Muslim ruler against whom they were rebelling. Two years after Christopher’s death, the Byzantine Empire conquered Antioch from the Muslim…
This dissertation explores connections between geography and missiology to understand territoriality in Christian faith and mission. Andrew Walls and Lamin Sanneh have stated that because Christendom has ended, Christianity is no longer territorial. To evaluate Walls’ and Sanneh…
Recent scholarship in religious studies, philosophy, and other disciplines supports the view that the formation of individuals and communities is made possible through differentiations of various kinds of space, such as physical, disciplinary, and symbolic spaces. These spatial …
This dissertation examines the strategies used by early Americans to collect and display data on a variety of natural phenomena. I argue that these data displays allowed Americans to enter debates and dialogues about what kind of place the North American continent was and would …
My dissertation revives the notion of place for the critical reception of post-1970 experimental poetry in France. By analyzing the locopoetic turn in writings by Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard and Jacques Darras, I stress their innovative use of discursive lenses borrowed f…
Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship on the sense of place, this dissertation examines how the literary landscapes of formerly colonized countries embody colonial and post-colonial history. The project focuses on the ways in which specific material places both preserv…
Ezra-Nehemiah appears as a single book in the Jewish canonical tradition, and scholarly consensus since Tamara Cohn Eskenazi's In an Age of Prose has likewise leaned toward treating the book as a literary and ideological unity. I challenge this consensus. I argue that Ezra and N…