Affective Socialists explores the story of the Chilean and Bahraini Marxist left, their rise to political and cultural prominence, and their subsequent removal from power during the peak of their influence. This thesis covers the period between 1964 and 1975, during which both n…
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This dissertation has three chapters. In chapter 1, we address the issue of when to switch to a more flexible exchange rate regime after an exchange rate-based stabilization. The model presented uses an intertemporal optimizing framework that allows for nominal rigidities in way…
The 2006 student movement, termed the Penguin Revolution for the black and white uniforms worn by high school students, and the 2011 student movement, called the Chilean Winter, a reference to the "Arab Spring," have captivated the attention of the media and scholars alike. Howe…
The project focuses on the interrelationship between both government and dissident leaders' “micromotives” and the regime's/group's “macrobehavior” (Schelling 1978). That is, the author explains how dissident and government leaders' individual motives transpire into events such …
Telecommunications is an infrastructure which facilitates economic growth and development. Its importance had often been overlooked in the developing countries until the late 1980s. The funds for a telephone network were not prioritized as compared to other types of infrastructu…
The dissertation explores the relationship between European literary heritage and native experience in the poetry of Tagore, Yeats, Senghor, Césaire, and Neruda, and anticipates patterns in the development of postcolonial literatures during the twentieth century. The different n…
My dissertation encompasses different fields (psychoanalysis, cultural and gender studies, historiography) in an effort to establish a critical approach to the literary text, which I see as an aesthetic and ethic phenomenon within a specific historical context. Through this inte…
The purpose of this research is to analyze the political and economic arrangements of developing countries that successfully attract and utilize foreign investment for development, in comparison to countries that do not demonstrate this capacity. The research focuses on foreign …
This thesis explores how Chilean teachers understand their life trajectories in terms of life-course change, socio-historical change and social mobility, examining whether they make distinctions between these different kinds of understandings of transitions. In a context of 40 y…
This thesis is an exploration of the neoliberal state and how it can be studied through an analysis of the work of state actors at the local level. Specifically, my research is based on an ethnographic study of the everyday practices of state officials charged with implementing …
How might the arts help to unveil and integrate realities so as to facilitate shared meanings and understandings between peoples and thus generate the conditions for the participatory, creative cultural diversity which may contribute to the construction of more democratic societ…
This dissertation is a political sociological analysis of the cross-border mobility of capital. It seeks to determine the political and economic conditions under which emerging economies embrace as well as curtail capital mobility, with a special emphasis on analyzing policies o…
This thesis identifies a series of strategies employed by contemporary Spanish-language poets in Latin America and Spain in order to navigate shifts in the economic and cultural landscape that occur in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid…
The Arabian Nights, the work of Arabian literature whose origin goes back to the Middle Ages, has had a great influence in western literature from the first translation carried out in the XVIII century. The vision of the Orient that spread from the translation of Antoine Galland…
The literary treatment of Spanish America's cities from the end of Salvador Allende's Chilean socialist government in 1973 and the culmination of Argentina's "Dirty War" in 1983 demands its own critical enterprise. In a decade characterized by dictatorships, novels of Spanish Am…
When do armed forces concede the legal powers and privileges that they inherit from periods of military government? When do politicians seek to curtail the prerogatives of the armed forces? This dissertation examines these questions through the comparative study of the cases of …
As the price of oil has risen, the effect of resource wealth on countries around the world has become increasingly important. Previous studies have shown that countries dependent on oil exports tend to be less democratic and more prone to civil unrest, but have not clarified wha…
This thesis explores the conditions in which experts gain political and policy making authority and become technocrats. After reviewing available explanations of high expert authority, it focuses on two expert teams that gained considerable political influence during free market…
This dissertation explores postcolonial fiction that reflects the structural situation of a genocidal number of third-world women who are being trafficked for sexual purposes from postcolonial countries into the global north—invariably, gender, class and race play a crucial role…