Development has been studied as a project pursued by imperialist nations to strengthen the social and economic order of empire and to curb communism. It was deployed just as frequently, however, in sovereign spaces. This project examines the efforts of the Italian intellectuals …
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The United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954) that declared segregation based on race was not constitutional. In the context of higher education, this decision opened doors for many Blacks to gain entrance in…
This dissertation is about indigenous coffee farmers who win state recognition of their ancestral territory. The story unfolds in a place called Katu that is tucked between the lush foothills of Indonesia's Lore Lindu National Park, on the island of Sulawesi. In 1995, an Asian D…
ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) community college students enrolled in a required writing course were introduced to contrastive rhetoric to assist them in making connections between their first languages (L1) and English to enhance their writing. Students wrote a …
In the debate on how globalized manufacturing transforms domestic institutions, little consensus has emerged on whether national or international factors play a greater role in shaping institutional outcomes. This study compares patterns of change in the institutions regulating …
The problem. Historically, researchers could only agree that the optimal capital structure was the one that maximized the firm's wealth. Assuming that a common set of factors exists that can be combined to describe both the maximization of the firm's value (i.e., shareholder wea…
Equity seed capital for high technology entrepreneurial start-ups originates from multiple sources that include personal finance, private investors or angels, venture capital, government, and corporations. This research examines how the sources of seed capital and the structures…
This thesis draws on a Bourdieusian perspective to explore the organisational mechanisms and dynamics in Palestinian politically motivated social movement. The consequent body of literature often lacks an integrated comprehension of Bourdieusian theory, and his three main concep…
Disability cricket in England and Wales exists within a constant state of change. This thesis is an organizational analysis of how environmental factors foster reproduction and/or transformation within the field of disability cricket. It is important to examine how these factors…
The research asked the pivotal question - Why do dairy farmers continue to farm? There is currently a lack of recognition for the social, cultural and symbolic merits of family businesses, and the non-economic contributions made to society. In critically reviewing the economic p…
Much has been written in recent years about the role of landownership in British society and, particularly, in structuring the social relations of 'rural' areas. There has also been a growing interest in the way social processes are 'patterned' geographically and are themselves …
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is widely considered to be an essential source of capital fordeveloping countries. A broad consensus is developing amongst academics, multilateraldevelopment organisations and bilateral aid donors that a states' legal system is animportant factor …
The contemporary crisis has lead to a renewed interest in Marx's critique of political economy. But today it is hard to read Marx as the prophet of a new and better world, hiswritings on capitalism's self-destructive tendencies seem without hope: where Marxbelieved that capitali…
Why 'speculation as a mode of production'? The formulation conjoins the two senses of speculation pertinent to this thesis – the speculative praxis of art, and the speculative logic of capital. It also attempts to give a specific critical valence to the phenomenon of the 'creati…
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting co…
This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of the restructuring of the Malaysian capital market in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, showing how the calculative practices of financial experts intersect with the global financial regime, reformatting …
This thesis draws on Mikhail Bakhtin's description of the carnival in order to frame conspiracy theory as an epistemological category. It positions conspiracy theories as a carnivalesque form of discourse, and demonstrates how to understand them as ideological optics on the dial…
This dissertation examines the development of an Indo-Islamic capital city in the age of colonialism. Between 1750 and 1950, Hyderabad served as the capital of the Asaf Jahs (known more popularly as the Nizams), a dynasty whose sovereignty was constrained by the pressures of Bri…
This is a comparative study designed to induce conclusions generated from an analysis of the labor-capital relationship now forming in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Both nations face severe economic crisis and are composed of very weak social actors. The situation favors a turn toward…