This qualitative meta-synthesis studied the inequities of HBCUs as it pertains to the NCAA and the black student-athlete. The study adopted the CRT and Social Constructivism paradigm and synthesized and interpreted the findings of eighteen purposefully sampled empirical qualitat…
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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…
A study of Indonesian cinema, this dissertation focuses on a new generation of cultural producers -- film directors, producers, scriptwriters, festival organizers, programmers, and activists - who emerged in the period of political reform (Reformasi ) in 1998. While offering new…
Do new information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower repressive regimes at the expense of civil society, or vice versa? For example, does access to the Internet and mobile phones alter the balance of power between repressive regimes and civil society? These questions…
In early 2010, 11 Muslim college students were arrested for shouting down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California – Irvine in protest of what they saw as Israel's unjust treatment of Palestinians. A year later, the students would be charged with plotting …
This study explores and interrogates dominant representations of African university students by examining how students conceptualize and act upon their own agency. Using a qualitative case-study approach, the author examines how students actively confront the ideological and mat…
The deployment of tourism to strengthen diaspora ties is well documented, however sociologists have yet to examine the use of tourism to complicate transnational diaspora allegiances. Jewish tourism to the Palestinian Territories offers a compelling case to study this growing tr…
The expansion of higher education in the last 24 years in Ethiopia has broadened the causes, alignments, and avenue for students to engage in student organizations and contentious actions. Despite the severity of the state's repressive tactics, university students contentious ac…
This dissertation explores the spiritual, artistic, and activist, lives and works of Chicana artists Cherríe Moraga and Lila Downs. It argues that these artists navigate their mestizaje, or mixed blood experiences, through their artwork to heal their soul wounds and transform th…
The underrepresentation of women in political decision making and their weak substantive representation continue in Turkey as of 2011. The dissertation examines the timing, direction, and mechanisms of slight changes in the representation of three women's groups in Turkey, namel…
In this dissertation, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, I examine activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. I concentrate on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructio…
This study examines the historical significance of LAS HERMANAS, a twenty-six year old national religious-political organization of Chicana and Latina Roman Catholics. Through direct involvement in the Chicano Movement, the organization expanded the ministerial role of the U.S, …
By looking carefully at one Supreme Court case and the historical context surrounding it, I argue that between ca. 1910 and 1941—when the Court decided United States, as Guardian of the Hualpi Indians of Arizona, v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co. (314 U.S. 339)—an intellectual an…
This thesis examines how routine social media use shapes political participation in Britain. Since the turn of the century, many commentators have argued that political activism has been compromised by “slacktivism,” a pejorative term that refers to supposedly inauthentic, low-t…
This practice-based research study examines two questions in an effort to determine how the photographer can play a role in the promulgation of environmental activism. Firstly, I ask if certain aesthetic approaches to the documentation of industrial pollution can be regarded as …
This dissertation examines the use of music as a tool of political communication in the contemporary Zapatista movement, which emerged after a 1994 rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico conducted by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). On the basis of ethnographic research c…
This comparative history seeks to understand the impact of new media in the Conservative Party. It does this with the analysis of case studies of original empirical research that are used to form cultural histories of the party 1951-1964 and 2005-2012. Both periods were characte…
Over the last four decades national environmental groups have become an important means of political participation for many British citizens. Since the mid-1980s these organizations have established a number of local groups. There are still some gaps in our understanding of thes…
This research project uses practical work and a supporting text to explore activism in contemporary art. Its chief concern is to consider what constitutes an activist art practice by clarifying the terms of engagement of such work. In the textual part of this submission the prod…