Osnovni predmet ovog teorijski usmerenog istraživanja sastoji se u problematizaciji socioloških aspekata neoliberalizma . Zbog navodne „poznatosti“ i sveopšte „razumljivosti“ neoliberalizma kao globalno proučavanog fenomena, neretko dolazi do toga da se njime kao opštim mestom m…
An important, contemporary focus of environmental sociology is on the necessary conditions to promote a sustainable transition. This debate typically centers institutions within a capitalist world-economy, specifically business, government, and civil society, and their capacity …
Indigenous social movements began proliferating across Latin America in the late 20th century. Since then, scholars have focused analyses on the factors shaping indigenous movement-state dynamics, with little consideration for how these interactions impact the larger indigenous …
“Making Land, Making People: Rhetorics of Value and Improvement in Early Modern English Literature,” explores early modern English conceptions of land use and agriculture as they appear in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century agricultural treatises and poetry. I argue that the ove…
Background: Following post-communist social and economic changes, Romania is currently transitioning from institutionalised mental health services to a recovery-focused approach. Within this context, it is important to understand the perspective of Romanian service users on reco…
This thesis uses a typological framework to explain why the core functions of economic activity vary so significantly from state to state. I explain this variation by linking large structural factors to micro-level decisions. The typological framework I employ examines the inter…
This dissertation examines the connections between global capitalism, modern medicine, and empire through a close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations,…
This study assesses narrative representations of “society in transnationalism” through the framework of globalization theory. The object of the study is to articulate meanings for globalization that both reassert the capitalist-based structures underwriting globalization's new s…
This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx's concept of surplus extractio…
What or who is the modern subject? Are people sovereign, filled with passion, creativity, freedom and autonomy; or are we slaves, robots and automatons forever tied to the chains of civilization? It is very common to critique modernity. From the Frankfurt school to Foucault, man…
Contemporary capitalism appears to be undergoing deep-seated transformations in theorganisation of business enterprise. Business organisation has traditionally beenunderstood in terms of a model of corporate development confined to a singleadministrative hierarchy, offering curr…
My research uses my painting practice as an experimental and investigative tool to test the capacity of practical aesthetics to generate similar or analogous experiences to the non-dualist reception aesthetics of certain key examples of post-Tridentine (1563) Catholic Counter-Re…
Independent small-scale producers have played central roles in organizing and industrializing capitalist production of high-value seafoods in Asingi and the Nine Islands, two coastal villages in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The accomplishment of these ethnically Bugis entrepreneurs brea…
Contemporary Western modernization in the East reifies many aspects of classic European colonialism. Modernization largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the so-called “developing” nations of the East. The colonial hi…
In this project I develop two concepts intended to be of use to those who wish to transform capitalist social arrangements: the concept of freedom as growth and the closely related concept of educative solidarity. Central to both concepts is not just opposition to capital but al…
This dissertation traces the rise and fall of the enigmatic New-York Tribune editor Horace Greeley (1811-1872) and his role as an interpreter of the "Market Revolution" that took place in nineteenth-century America. As the most influential journalist of his generation, Greeley b…
Tin Dreams: Place, People, and Product in Colonial Pahang is a collective biography inspired by microhistory of the mining community of the Pahang Corporation and the Pahang Consolidated Corporation that is bounded not by place but by the business itself. It focuses on the peopl…