This research examined the role of communication – and in particular public relations (PR) and public affairs activities – in the decision-making processes around the proposal to build a bypass road around the city of Aberdeen. The study focused on the relative power of various …
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This research involves understanding the civic learning that emerged from the ways individuals in two civic action groups, Greenhill Historical Society (GHS) in Bonnybridge, a deindustrialised location, and Cumbernauld Village Action for the Community (CVAC) in Cumbernauld Villa…
This thesis examines and compares newspaper coverage of the first two general elections after Scottish devolution, looking at both the Scottish and English/UK press. By considering the coverage of a major political event which affects both countries, it contributes to debates re…
In the wake of a generation that wishes to lead a life devoid of being subservient to their profession and location; the concept of wanderlust and living in motion is gaining currency. The urban nomad stands at the pinnacle of this movement to whom the border between escape and …
This dissertation is a comparative study of how ideal-typical forms of religious subjectivity are fashioned in a secular age. Taking as the site of study three, modern, Italian, Roman Catholic ecclesial movements, it utilizes a “post-secular” methodology to analyze, first, how e…
This dissertation uses Habermas's concept of the public sphere to explore the impact of alternative and citizen media, especially blogs, in Egypt. It examines the dynamic relationship between politics and media in Egypt to better understand the role of new media and blogs in thi…
The enhanced discursive opportunity structures that the Internet enables has inspired a momentous revolution in the Nigerian media landscape. This dissertation chronicles the emergence and flowering of the citizen and alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic publi…
This study examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the print culture of the late nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the framework of social, cultural and political transformations in which that culture operated. This study crosses traditional disciplinary line…
The study attempts to make a connection between cultural consumption and political citizenship. It accomplishes that by critiquing Jürgen Habermas' notions of “public sphere” and “power” from a feminist perspective. The study proposes “cultural citizenship” as a helpful concept …
This thesis argues that the elite and urban women leaders of the Palestinian women’s movement neglected to engage rural women and women living in refugee camps as their equals in a women’s movement. Further, despite women's active presence in the public sphere, the sphere remain…
This dissertation focuses on public discourse in Egypt from 2000 to 2010 under Mubarak's authoritarian regime, which placed severe restrictions on public conversation. I ask the following question: Why, in a highly repressive, authoritarian state, were relatively weak, underpriv…
This thesis examines the role that digital technology plays in the advancement of political and social goals. Though a fairly recent phenomenon, digital activism has become a highly contested topic as regards its effectiveness. This thesis looks at two case studies in the use of…
Building upon the important work of Roberto Alejandro (1993), this study pursues a hermeneutic and dialogic conception of the public sphere, a phenomenology of the public sphere, and rejects liberal conceptions of civil society grounded in a principally conservative narrative in…
This dissertation seeks to define the proper role for religious discourse in the American public square. I contend that religious viewpoints should be welcomed in public discourse, though this is often not the case. This project examines the background of current conceptions of …
Benevolent and mutual benefit societies, associations for the care of the sick and burial of the dead, fraternal lodges, literary associations, Sunday schools, orphan asylums, hospitals and Jewish cemeteries constituted an American Jewish public sphere—the realm of social and ci…
This study examines state-society relations in post-communist Kazakhstan from a civil society perspective. It discusses in detail the historical developments that shaped the growth and decline of civil society development. In contrast to the studies of democratization, which ass…
This dissertation applies public sphere theory to the inter-state system. I argue that the globalization of publicity—the worldwide rise of literacy, deliberative forums, free press and other media—has led to the emergence of public spheres in the states system. At any level pub…
Traditional religious communities view multiculturalism and other forms of liberal secularism as committed to relegating religious aspects of life to the irrelevant margins of civil society by excluding them from public discourse. Faced with such institutional and structural der…
In this dissertation I inquire into the ideological and social roots of Pashtun ethno-nationalism in Afghanistan, by analyzing political-economic history; biography; and written and oral Pashto literature. Demands for the proper public realization of Pashtun identity were not un…