Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and has been classified by the World Bank as a developing country since 1961. The purpose of this investigation was to explore factors that may have prevented Nigeria from attaining sustainable economic advancements from 1960 to 200…
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Was Jesus a political figure? If one says, 'no', s/he must explain Jesus activities and preaching that have pointed political ramifications. If one answers 'yes', s/he must then explain why Jesus never claimed a political title and apparently refused the use of political power. …
This dissertation examines the discourses, following the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, that have articulated the rationalization for the imposition of "American style" democracy and neoliberal economic policy in the Middle East and around the globe. Drawing on Michel Foucault'…
The period 200-700 CE, conventionally termed "late antiquity," was critical in the construction of the social and political institutions of the medieval Near East. Facing a variety of challenges to public order, both internal and external, the societies of the region created new…
Background: Despite the importance of smart Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) operation in obtaining energy-saving and environmentally friendly strategies, in many cases, the operation is still done according to expert opinion and rules of thumb which use local control schemes o…
Şiddet ve iktidar kavramları ilk insan topluluklarından bugüne her zaman ilişki içerisinde olmuştur. Yaşanan tarihsel süreçte iktidar ve şiddet ilişkisi farklı şekillerde tezahür etse de, varlığını her daim sürdürmüştür. Bu ilişki Thomas Hobbes’un siyaset teorisinde de kendisini…
Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
This dissertation is devoted to exploring Armenian Üsküdar (an Anatolian side municipality of Istanbul) and its surroundings within the lenses of “conviviality” as conceptualized by Freitag (2014). Armenian neighborhoods in Üsküdar had all its relevance within the Ottoman rule i…
Today, a “High-carbon Energy compleX” (HEX) of fossil-fuel enterprises and their allies hold the future captive, attempting to indefinitely preserve global reliance on carbon- emitting energy. Emergent social forces offer alternative futures, from ‘climate capitalism’ to energy …
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the unequal access to and accumulation of wealth from clove resources in Minahasa, Indonesia, in the 1990s. The dissertation asks: (1) how do specific people in a community gain access to and accumulate wealth from agricultural reso…
In July 1977 Somalia invaded the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, a land to which Somalia laid traditional and historical claim. This struggle might have remained a minor border conflict among small nations on the Horn of Africa were it not for the Cold War. The Soviet Union was heavi…
The domain of broadcast policies and television programs provide a useful point of entry for exploring the epistemological underpinnings of national culture in postcolonial India. The construction of national culture during 1982–98, revealed a series of contradictory articulatio…
In the interests of understanding how English as a Second/Foreign Language instructors struggle for power in their professional development programs offered in English Language Preparatory Schools in Turkish universities, a narrative study of nine instructors' was conducted. The…
This thesis revolves around two armatures. The first argues that the nature of state power in the Middle Niger Valley and the broader Mandé world was in large part determined by ligatures of power to association. One significant confluence of forces was located in the Komo power…
In my dissertation, through looking at contemporary urban queer formations and politics, I theorize about the complex ways in which power and abjection operates in the context of Turkey's post-Empire, Westernizing nation-state formation. I argue that queer formations, subjects a…
In counterinsurgency wars with large-scale foreign military interventions, under what conditions do in-country allies comply with the demands of foreign intervening forces and under what conditions do allies dismiss foreign demands? By examining thousands of primary source docum…
The purpose of this study is to examine how Cleopatra VII, Christine de Pizan, and Queen Elizabeth I created unique voices by navigating within patriarchal societies. These three women used intelligence, reason, image manipulation, and even sexuality to challenge the socially pe…
This research focuses on how we should define the energy that empowers rebellion and generates appealing frames and imposes change, and whether one can claim some correlation between this bottom-up shift and weak leadership, institutional fatigue, public discontent, or social ma…
Workers are increasingly cooperating across national borders in campaigns aimed at influencing employers to improve wages, working conditions, and labor rights. To date, however, there are no systematic studies of why some transnational labor alliances succeed while others do no…