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This thesis adopts a bottom-up, qualitative approach to Palestinian identity construction in East Jerusalem and asks how the new politics and altered geography of the city since Oslo are recreating Palestinian subjectivities and redefining Palestinian struggle. I make the case t…

In 2009, the IASB published IFRS for SMEs, extending their work beyond standard setting for listed entities. This thesis investigates the IASB's political processes in the development of IFRS for SMEs. The board's discourse presents an image of technocratic expertise, which acts…

This thesis is a critique of Critical Social Theory from a post-structural perspective. Itconsiders its contribution to the vision of Skinner, Pocock, Foucault and Derrida andargues against the juxtaposition of modern language and concepts with postmodernthemes, as a proximity, …

The history of resolution of some intra-state and inter-state protracted conflicts- among new neighbors of Europe- is at least as old as the independent statehood of the parties to the conflict. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not only leave those countries with unresolved …

Secular nationalism, India's official ideology and the basis for its secular Constitution, is being challenged by the rising religious nationalist discourses. This has resulted in an ongoing struggle between the secular and religious nationalist discourses. Since women are regar…