This study explores the construction of Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish) ethnic identity in contemporary Israeli films and its inscription by power imbalances and by the positionality of the Mizrahi in Israeli society. Against the widespread dismissal of ethnic divisions informed by th…
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This dissertation examines the making of tourism spaces at Luxor, Egypt. Through ethnography and archival research, it explores the production of tourism enclaves as spaces of segregation. This production of 'enclaving' is complex and synergistically realized and resisted by dif…
This dissertation introduces a heuristic model that can contribute to a better understanding of the nature of urban transformation in globalizing Middle Eastern cities. It primarily aims to explain the new trends of urban development that are occurring in these cities. New types…
When Eritrean refugees began to return to their country from Sudan at independence in the early 1990s, they came to inhabit places that had been imagined from afar for as many as 30 years--for the younger generation, their entire lives. However, returnees shared a history of col…
This dissertation investigates the creation of identity in Caribbean literature as that creation is shaped by property law principles. The strict legal construction of property is that it is "a bundle of rights" (right to use, possess, dispose, alienate, etc) and I examine how i…
That rural spaces have both challenges to confront and strengths with which to confront them is well trod territory. Within this larger narrative I set out to analyze the story of a single place along an arc of old transnational highway that lost its high school to consolidation…
In his seminal 1942 article, "Introduction to an 'Iconography of Medieval Architecture'," Richard Krautheimer argued that medieval architects transferred the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the West in the form of architectural "copies," translating not only the meaning of the s…
Place is characteristically imbued with a multiplicity of meanings contingent on the specificities of the society, time and space in which place is perceived. It is essentially subjective, relational and differential. As such, virtual multiplicity is the main characteristic of p…
This project concerns the intellectual production in exile of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, and Max Aub, all of whom were displaced from the nation they considered their homeland in the 1920s and 30s, and whose separation from that homeland lasted to varying degrees u…
Life, individual and collective, exists in reference to what came before; my research into the life histories of places explores the cultural threads which tie us to places and which allow us to make personal and collective connections between the past and the present. Understan…
This dissertation argues that transnational literatures of the 1990s emphasize everyday place-making during a period when physical distance might be erased through new technologies and social identities might be understood diffuse and "groundless." Drawing on a range of cross-di…
The Mishnah depends on the Bible for its authority, vocabulary, and much of its contents. Nearly six hundred Bible citations are distributed in fifty-three of the Mishnah's tractates and are quoted from all but six biblical books. Most citations are from the Torah and are used f…
Taking my cue from the general theory that art makes an important contribution to childhood education and learning, I investigated, in Bhutanese schools, why children make art, what they learn through art making, and the role of art making. I talked to pre-primary through grade …
This dissertation seeks to define the theory of rhetorical dynamism and illustrate how this theory can be applied to studies of rhetoric and place. The study builds on current rhetorical scholarship and adds to it with the four characteristics of rhetorical dynamism: that places…
Dans mon étude intitulée Place et fonction du conte et de l'épopée dans le théâtre contemporain d'Afrique noire francophone, je me suis penchée sur les nouvelles formes de théâtre apparues en terre africaine depuis la décolonisation. En retenant des œuvres formellement novatrice…
This study explores the motifs of place, landscape, earth (territory), and nationality in Israeli art from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the approach to these topics underwent a paradigm crisis with the emergence of Environmental and Earth Art. These motifs are reexamined in the …
While the Shakers are associated in North American with simplicity and communalism, an examination of Shaker history reveals a dynamic and complex society. Shaker life was structured by a powerful metanarrative: the Shakers were the 'Chosen People of God,' who lived in 'His Prom…
In this study, I develop an integrative approach by which archaeologists can analyze the relationship between the built environment and human behaviour in ancient societies. I then apply it to an investigation of how elites employed monumental architecture as a means of advancin…
The sovereign power of the nation to police who has the right to live or work within its territory is experienced and undone everyday by Muslim immigrants and their children who struggle to find jobs and a safe place to raise their families in France while facing social, economi…