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This dissertation seeks to document, date, and analyze a discourse in which Sunnī Muslims expressed prescriptive views about non-Muslim state officials. By reconsidering the provenance and historical context of several seminal texts, it proposes to re-read the discourse as a pro…

Critical discourse analysis investigates the ways in which discourse is to abuse power relationships. Political debates constitute discourses that mirror certain aspects of ideologies. This study aimed to uncover the ideological intentions in the formulation and circulation of h…

In recent years there has been growing concern that the social legitimacy of west-European welfare states is threatened by immigration. The underlying argument is that immigration yields ethnic, racial, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, which is said to impact negati…

The overall aim of this thesis is to provide an holistic assessment of the financial practices of migrants in advanced Western economies using the analytical lens of risk. More specifically, this research argues that a geographical approach to risk, informed by concerns about ti…

This research examines problematic and taken for granted issues in Scottish Secondary Education, from a critical community psychological perspective. Young people are positioned as central to the research, in particular young people experiencing exclusion being the most disempow…

This thesis provides a critical understanding of the size and relative position of the Cornish in Cornwall, a county in the south-west of the UK. Cornwall is a region which has experienced increased levels of disadvantage for a prolonged period of time. The indigenous people, wh…

The purpose of this dissertation is to engage the question of why, in spite of decades of feminist-inspired discourse and action, the broad goal of women's movements to eliminate gender-based subordination has remained out of reach. While recognizing the embeddedness of masculin…

Exclusion and violence persist in post-conflict states, despite external assistance to the demilitarization of politics, which the literature emphasizes as the primary goal of aid. Through a field-based study of Tajikistan and a survey of an additional three cases (Cambodia, Gua…

This dissertation is a study of four novels that document the complexity of Turkish-German cultural interactions. It start out by criticizing the practice of categorizing literature primarily according to the ethnicity of its authors. In doing so, it attempts to redefine Turkish…

The main objective of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis the association between a set of social structural factors and the certain types of social movement events in Turkey. The changing nature and significance of social movements over time and space makes this study…

The study of the legal texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls benefits from a theoretical framework that is informed by contemporary legal scholarship. This dissertation undertakes a shift from the comparative approach, which focuses on parallels from either early Christian or e…

This dissertation examines urban expulsions of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire 1000-1520 CE. I argue that expulsions were policy changes undertaken within a political economy that placed increasing value on religiously-based concepts of political responsibility and Christian commu…

The last few decades of the twentieth century have witnessed an increased presence of religious identities in political spaces in the Muslim world. Multifold conceptions of the nation and the state have flourished from which state actors have differentially drawn upon to define …