This study utilizes adult learning, working-class masculinity, and political economy theories to explore the education and learning that supports engagement in the Just Transition movement in Central Appalachia. The central research question is as follows: in communities with ec…
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This dissertation examines social media-based conspiracy theories of the past five years (2016-2021) and considers what this recent conspiracy rhetoric suggests about the evolving relationship between people, platforms, and politics in the contemporary United States. I use the t…
This project addresses the uses of coalition in US political imaginaries throughout the 1930s and 1960s. Throughout this period, public familiarity with “coalition” undergoes a marked transformation: whether deployed as argument, performance, or organizational form. Analysis foc…
In this thesis, I examine the alliance formed between the American Indian Movement and Irish nationalists from 1968 to present day. Through a series of public displays of support and visits by AIM delegations to Northern Ireland and the Republican of Ireland, it is clear that th…
This dissertation is an historical cultural analysis of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF). Founded in 1997, this exhibition culture is the world’s longest-running documented trans film festival. Although content made by trans filmmakers or films with trans them…
This paper analyzes the history of the Save the Audubon Movement – a activist movement in the 1980s and early 1990s protesting Columbia University’s plan to demolish the Audubon Ballroom and replace it with a modern biomedical research complex. The Audubon Ballroom is best known…
This thesis investigates components of Black communities’ diasporic activism through a community archives project at La Maison d’Haïti, a Montreal community-based organization founded by Haitian student activists in the early 1970s. The study examines how community archiving and…
This thesis is the first ethnographic attempt to study contemporary dissident activism in Vietnam. As a country that became known and keeps being remembered as a war-torn postcolony by the West, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest to one of the fastest gro…
The aim of this dissertation is to locate and give a comparative analysis of the historical processes of cooperative agency that engendered a decolonised Africa under the aegis of the Pan-African diplomacy and agency. More specifically, it conducts a comparative analytical study…
This doctoral thesis examines transnational flows of scientific and social knowledge which shaped the understanding and experience of sexually dissident masculinities in Britain in a period of west European reconstruction and Cold War politics. Focussing on male homosexuality, t…
In the mid-twentieth century, professional basketball underwent a series of changes that revolutionized the sport. Although pro basketball began in the late 1890s, no one authority or cabal had been able to control the institution even as important changes in race relations, tec…
The value of narratives when crafting laws cannot be overstated; however, for stories to successfully influence public opinion, policy reform and policy results must include the correct elements. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) components and standards assess policy narrati…
When interest groups decide to litigate, they intentionally work through a process that has as much to do with the rule of law as with ideological preferences, in which the outcomes are much less certain. Some scholars oppose what has come to be known as ``public law cases'' bec…
In Taiwan, abortion ritual attempts to appease or rescue Yingling (fetus spirits), who are the spirits of fetuses that have died from abortions or miscarriages. Within most contemporary religious discourse, abortion is seen as an inappropriate means of ending a life. Yingling ar…
This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of h…
“Queer with the City” traces how urban and environmental context have shaped the commitments of queer cultural production in the United States. This dissertation articulates an urban environmental lineage of queer cultural production through a literary and visual approach to the…
This study aims to discover the strategies of American Muslim and interfaith nonprofits on combating Islamophobia. The study interviewed six American Muslim and interfaith nonprofit organizations located across the United States. The study used semi-structured interviews, and th…
En las últimas dos décadas, las comunidades andinas en el Perú han vivido cambios significativos. El crecimiento de la población humana, una mayor movilidad y disponibilidad de telecomunicaciones, así como también un mejor acceso a la educación, mayores recursos económicos, la i…
This thesis project explicates the proliferation of “authentic” goods in urban millennial consumer culture. Whether a product makes appeals to its historicity, uses labels such as “Ethically Sourced” and “Fair Trade,” or advertises with cinema verité aesthetics, the production o…