This dissertation is about late state formation and state-led socio-economic transformation. I argue that state formation during the 19 th and 20th centuries followed a pattern fundamentally different from that of the early Western European cases. This contrast is due to the fac…
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How can we responsibly and usefully read literatures from a variety of cultural positions? The metaphors of fractal geometry can help us conceptualize the complexity of the cultural situation of a text or an author in regard to social vectors such as race, gender, sexuality, and…
This study re-examines the significance and meaning of the period of“nationalist literature” in the two decades following World War II; it does so through a comparative exploration of the literature of three “postcolonial” regions of the former British Empire: Canada, the Caribb…
This dissertation is an historical ethnography of photography as a technology of vision and memory in post-colonial, urban Java. Based on ethnographic and oral history research in Yogyakarta, Central Java, the dissertation traces the multiple paths of a global technology as it h…
Assia Djebar has benefited from a rare set of circumstances in her native Algeria to gain access to a position of discursive freedom practically unknown to the vast majority of her sister citizens. However, her French-speaking narratives are not limited to a personal search for …
Political theorists often view ethnic diversity as problematic for the modern state (Horowitz 1984, Connor 1994). Recent studies show an inverse relationship between ethnic diversity and economic growth in a state: the more diverse a state is ethnically, the slower the growth ra…
Ethnocratism focuses on the ethnopolitical narratives of society. The possibility of the theoretical structure of ethnocratism problematizes the State as a vehicle for (re)constructing the primary ethnic community's goals, desires and interests within a stipulated political boun…
This dissertation examines the relationship between nation and class in a range of postcolonial fiction. The field of postcolonial studies, I suggest, is marked by an anti-nationalist trend that betrays an idealist and ahistorical approach to both politics and literature. In cha…
This thesis first posits a theoretical distinction between two major historical waves of South Asian migration: the dispersal of South Asian peoples as “indentured labourers” or “passenger Indians” during the greater part of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to the colo…
In asking the question, “Which way to the modern art museum?” this dissertation explores how the Moroccan cultural elite of the 1960s and 70s engaged with global discourses on art, modernity and the cultural infrastructures that support them. After Moroccan independence from Fra…
Africans in general agree that in the post-colonial and post-apartheid period it is necessary to develop new structures and a new outlook that transcends tribalism, reconciles native Africans and immigrants from Asia and Europe with one another, and builds bridges between the in…
Since a large number of working women now inhabit the public sphere once impervious to them, the separation and hierarchy of 'separate spheres' have been severely challenged in Bangladesh. As gender norms and ideals develop in space, any restructuring of the spatial organization…
A new perspective on the sociology of globalization is evaluated. It considers increasing inequality across the world to be a consequence of emerging globalized economy rather than an outcome of underdevelopment. The sample included 126 countries classified as low-income to low-…
This dissertation is concerned with Enlightenment in a colonial and postcolonial setting. Its premise is that minority is a fundamental category of experience in post-Enlightenment liberal societies. It attempts a genealogy of secularism in colonial and postcolonial South Asia b…
This ethno-historical analysis of everyday life in contemporary Aleppo, Syria predicates its interpretational method of urban meaning on the contention that antagonistic practices over local space reflect and render significant conflicts in Syrian society as a whole. Because loc…
This dissertation proposes a reading of postcolonial African literature in light of the continent's continued status as a "remnant" of globalization--a waste product, trash heap, disposable raw material, and degraded offcut of the processes that have so greatly enriched, dignifi…
Drawing together various rubrics from Postcolonial Studies and Asian Studies, this dissertation examines the colonial travel narratives of three British writers who shaped the ideological construct of "Malaya" for the British reading public from the late nineteenth century onwar…
The post-colonial state, in much of the literature on the state, has been seen as an undifferentiated extension of the European nation-state---with a number of theorists promoting the emulation of the latter's formative experience in the Third World. Alongside, some theorists of…
The main focus of this dissertation is on the interpretation of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor in the context of the Roman appropriation of ancestors and the implications of perspective for Shona Christians in postcolonial Zimbabwe. In constructing Abraham as a spiritual ancest…