"How and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or re-emerged at particular moments throughout history? And how has the concept of solidarity shaped the history of the US left in particular? I…
This ethnographic case study explores the relationships cultivated between the Japanese American and Muslim-American grassroots activist communities that took place after the Muslim ban was enacted on January 27th, 2017. In the summer of 2018, over the course of three months, I …
In the context of historical marginalization of indigenous people from diverse ethnic communities in Bangladesh, this study will investigate how mainstream researches and writings, in books, research reports, newspapers, and blogs on indigenous issues have ignored women's relega…
My dissertation delves into the interrelations between feminism and nationalism during periods of political, economic and social crisis associated with the influence of the United States over the Caribbean nations. I especially focus on the writings of Cubans Ofelia Rodríguez Ac…
This dissertation seeks to recover the relational quality of the Holy Spirit who is the Lord and the Giver of life as enshrined in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381). Neo-Scholastic theology had utilized the conceptual categories of Aristotelian metaphysics with its orien…
In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative wh…
Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Region, along the border with Afghanistan, is home to a number of Pashtun tribes that continue to remain politically autonomous. Wresting control of this territory has been the object of numerous efforts by various alien rulers over the years, none …
This dissertation examines the pursuit of inter-religious relations and solidarity from the perspective of Francis Cardinal Arinze (1984-2002), the first of President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious relations and dialogue in the Catholic Church. Cardinal Arinze cal…
The main objective of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis the association between a set of social structural factors and the certain types of social movement events in Turkey. The changing nature and significance of social movements over time and space makes this study…
This thesis explores the relationship between the AFL-CIO and the Polish Solidarity movement throughout the 1980s. It explores the evolving international policy of the AFL-CIO as it began to support Solidarity through financial and material aid, domestic and international campai…
The aim of our research is to study the changing dynamics of poverty and solidarity in the context of economic crisis in the capital city of Dakar. It is based on qualitative data and a theoretical framework primarily founded on the emergent "sociology of the new African individ…
In the midst of revolution as the Qing Dynasty faded into the twentieth century, metropolitan Chinese Muslim leaders took initiatives in their communities, which shaped change. As a result, a process was set in motion, one that effected the identity of urban Chinese Muslims in m…
The development of Christianity in the life of the Toba Batak people in Indonesia and in Indonesian society generally continues to support and express itself within the local cultural values of the people. It will continue to assess local theologies resulting from self-reflectio…
