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Based on twelve months of fieldwork in Dakar, Senegal and funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, this thesis examines how in the context of contemporary globalization, increased volumes of luxury commodities shape the modern consciousness of individuals in a developing African ci…

The present dissertation is fundamentally a critique of some of the prevalent ideologies of modernity, modernization, and globalization in the post-colonial Arab world, with a specific focus on the case of Morocco. More specifically, it provides a critical analysis of the work o…

This thesis undertakes a feminist deconstructive reading of the discourses of state-sponsored Islamization and the feminist response to it in an attempt to answer the question: What does it "mean" to be a "woman" and a "citizen" in Pakistan at this juncture? Going beyond the ont…