O presente trabalho procura analisar um tema cuja visibilidade permanece algo reduzida. Esta ‘nova’ forma de abuso apropria-se das vulnerabilidades tradicionais e locais, mas também das ferramentas que, enquanto sociedade, agora nos encontramos altamente dependentes. Nomeadament…
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Sayıca ve şiddetçe giderek artan etnik çatışmaların önlenmesi ve çözüme kavuşturulması günümüzün hızla küreselleşen dünyasında bir zorunluluk haline gelmiştir. Söz konusu çatışmalar her ne kadar bölgesel düzeyde meydana gelse de, bir yandan artan uluslararası bağımlılık, diğer y…
Around the world bureaucratic forms of state coordination are being displaced by new techniques of participatory governance; changes that blur the boundaries between government, markets, and civil society. These alterations to the state are routinely attributed to three global t…
Uluslararası İlişkileri analiz etmenin zorluğu farklı aktörler tarafından çok katmanlı düzeyde gerçekleşen süreçleri barındırmasından kaynaklanmaktadır. Dünya sisteminde var olan bölgeselleşme faaliyetleri ise bu karmaşık düzeni analiz etmeyi kolaylaştırır. Bölge kavramı üzerine…
This dissertation develops a theoretical framework for the study of a resurgent realism in the context of contemporary global anglophone literature. By demonstrating the continuing relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, and by expanding their theories of realism and the …
Situated in the lives of three educators at the end of the twentieth century—Kōsuke Koyama, Kwame Bediako, and Ada María Isasi-Díaz—this study is both a narrative and mirror for theological educators. Koyama, Bediako, and Isasi-Díaz spent their lives as theologians and educators…
No fim de março de 1556, partiram de Lisboa um grupo de 14 jesuítas, enviados para as missões do Oriente, entre os quais também se destacava o Padre Gonçalo da Silveira, com as funções de Provincial da India. Em setembro de 1556, chegaram a Goa, o centro político e administrativ…
Confronting obstacles of self-confidence, cultural norms, and language barriers, discontent Non-Western female consumers (NWFC) who were born, raised, and live in China, Nigeria, and India, and who do not directly express their concerns through Western online tools, are consider…
This dissertation explores the lives, thought-worlds, and struggles of migrant workers working in a metal polishing export factory in the Okhla Industrial Area of Delhi. The factory employed about sixty male migrants, largely from villages in the states of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pra…
Because Spanish American apocalyptic novels are a neglected sub-genre, this dissertation contends that this neglect is unjustified, and makes a contribution to the field. The project considers in particular modern Mexican apocalyptic novels written in the late 1980s and 1990s: C…
The dùndún, or "talking drum," of southwestern Nigeria is a versatile speech surrogate used to reproduce the tones and inflections of the Yorùbá language. Through their daily recitations of history and oral literature, dùndún musicians have for centuries played an integral role …
This dissertation examines issues of cultural and religious difference in France—how France can and should reconcile itself to the diversification (and the attendant and inevitable conflicts in moral, cultural and religious values, traditions and identities) inherent in globaliz…
Globalization reflects a shift in the workforce development paradigm. This descriptive qualitative case study was conducted at a Midwestern university with 12 student participants and three faculty members from three engineering programs. The purpose of this body of work was to …
This dissertation examines an unexplored issue in the international relations literature: how do leading global powers respond to changes in the distribution of capabilities between minor powers in peripheral regions? In particular, do they accommodate or oppose rising regional …
This work was motivated by two major facts: the African environment is at the heart of the continent's relationships with colonialism, neocolonialism and globalization; but there is not enough literary emphasis on this environmental centrality. This work contributes in bridging …
This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, and examines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDI inflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence of multinational corporations (…
This dissertation uses the case of autism to examine the changing contours of disability, personhood and civil society in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on qualitative data collected through fieldwork and interviews, I show that despite the arguments proposed by parents groups and…
This dissertation examines a vital catalyst in the globalization of education: international assessments—that involve testing and rankings—of student achievement in academic subjects. Nearly all high-income countries participate in international assessments such as Trends in Int…
Although transnational organized crime and terrorism are not new, they are becoming increasingly intersected. Their combined activities threaten today's globalized world, making police collaboration across national borders more crucial than ever. As a consequence, bilateral and …