The Southern California cityscape is characterized by urban sprawl, an ever-expanding and homogenized pattern of development. Complicating matters, (over)regulated standards for form, function, and uniformity lack respect for the landscape’s genius loci, or sense of place. Infor…
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This dissertation uses changes in Shanghai’s urban geography as a lens to study the processes and meanings of urban revolution for the daily lives of workers in the 1950s. Using a large body of archival documents, I focus especially on the construction of so-called Workers’ New …
This dissertation examines the explosion of the cultural field in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom through the lens of nature-society relations. I argue that cultural production was an agent of state-led ecological transformation and, at the same time, a space where artists a…
The following thesis explores construction policy discourses within the context of the United Kingdom (UK). The research was deemed both important and necessary as the construction sector represents a major portion of the UK economy, accounting for approximately seven per cent o…
The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the image of the city of Diyarbakır as emerging from Kurdish and Turkish literature throughout the twentieth century. Diyarbakır city represents a highly contentious place in socio-political and cultural terms for the Kurdish vis-à-vis …
This dissertation explores how humor is employed by minority authors of 21st-century German literature and how that humor contributes to redrawing perceived centers and margins in contemporary Germany. I investigate humor as a community-building tool that establishes points of i…
This paper explores the possibilities of community-centered education as a critique of neoliberalism. Education in the United States has been defined by neoliberal policy and practice for decades, but recent crises in health and racial justice represent an opportunity to challen…
This dissertation examines the introduction of governmental technologies that have shaped the formation of three ethnic museums in downtown Los Angeles, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), La Plaza de Cultura y Artes (LAPCA), and the Chinese American Museum (CAM), to p…
This thesis will explore solutions to the affordable housing crisis in West Baltimore by providing affordable housing options for low income residents. By investigating the history of housing discrimination and neighborhood inequity, this thesis seeks to understand the reasoning…
This dissertation is an ethnography of the everyday paradoxes and politics of race between Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent and their non-Chinese counterparts, focusing specifically on the ways in which “Chinese-Indonesians” are racialized and ethnicized at intimate spaces…
This dissertation examines the complex and contradictory expectations, regulations, and logics that govern neoliberal development in Dakar, Senegal. More specifically, I draw transnational migration and foreign investment into the same ethnographic framework to consider how urba…
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is a set of farming and land management practices intended to support or enhance soil health and carbon sequestration potential of soils while producing food, fiber, or other agricultural products. It has received broad acclaim from scholars, corpor…
This study examines the relationship between public sexual activity and the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870) and early Third Republic (1870-1940). It argues that prostitutes and male homosexuals were central to the city's everyday life. Urban administ…
The visualization of space has been central to the history of Beirut, which is also a vitally important node in the landscape of Arab media. This study critically examines the historical relationship between media technology and urban space in Beirut to critically reflect on vis…