Muhafazakârlık ve sosyal değişme olgularını ele alan bu çalışma, Muhafazakâr Düşünce dergisi kapsamında modernleşme sürecini ve karşısında gelişen muhafazakâr refleksi soyo-kültürel temalar zemininde incelemeyi, Türk toplumunda ve özellikle Cumhuriyet döneminde belirginleşen muh…
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In this age of globalization and environmental crises, the ethical desire to design appropriately for a place, its climate and people through proper technology is increasing. The major problem that results from globalization is losing the local identity. The loss of identity in …
In the wake of a generation that wishes to lead a life devoid of being subservient to their profession and location; the concept of wanderlust and living in motion is gaining currency. The urban nomad stands at the pinnacle of this movement to whom the border between escape and …
This study relates philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. It compares a system of western thought and its implications for contemporary Arab-Islamic philosophy. The basis for this approach lies in the concept of worldview as rooted in the process of systematization of…
International education served a dual function in the American-Iranian relationship during the thirty-seven-year reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. On the one hand, education was the most important component to the shah's project of authoritarian development - a model of rapid…
Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of litterateurs? Focusing on the last decades of the nineteenth ce…
This study arose from the desire to research the effectiveness of state building policies in Afghanistan. In order to address this topic, I review state building literature and find that state building literature focuses largely on the processes of democratization instead of ins…
This thesis aims to re-evaluate the spread of clock towers and their relationship with modernization in the late Ottoman Empire. Rather than associate the clock towers with Westernization, secularization, or centralization, it argues that the clock towers reflected what historia…
This dissertation introduces economic theory, modern microeconometric methods, and new microdata sources to the study of the economic history of the Middle East. In particular, it examines an intriguing phenomenon in this field: the stylized fact that non-Muslim minorities are b…
Following Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist movements arose in some—but not all—of the non-Russian republics in the Soviet Union. In the southern tier republics of Transcaucasia and Central Asia there was a regional discrepancy in the presence or absence of nationalist mo…
In this dissertation, I set out to examine the process of agricultural modernization in Northern Nigeria from 1970 to 1984 using an overdetermined analysis. An overdetermined analysis is free of simple determinism, includes class and non-class factors to explain change, and exam…
This research examines the hierarchy of values that has operated in the modernization histories of Africa, with Ethiopia and Tanzania as case studies. Particular focus will be on analyzing the status that has been given to accessibility to food, and how African leadership has de…
Through a case study of a Buddhist village in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, this research examines the issues of Western education and modernization within the socio-political context of Bangladesh. This study exclusively focuses on the Barua community. It adopts an anti-…
This thesis use new data on intergenerational mobility for analyzing class mobility and equalities of opportunities in the context of the “erratic” modernization of Peruvian society. The thesis begins by proposing and validating a distinctive class schema for Peru, arguing that …
This research explores the culture of the Toraya people as a changing dynamic entity. The focus is the effect of outside forces upon the Toraya people of Indonesia and how these people live adapted their cultural rituals, roles, and statuses. Changes that were originally initiat…
This study examines the Biafran secession of 1967-1970 and how the secessionist government constructed a Biafran identity in its campaign to gain international support for Biafra's permanent separation from Nigeria. The introductory chapter outlines the role of identity in Niger…
The main focus of the study is to show how Islamic education in Nigeria and Kano State can be integrated with Western-style education so as to fit into existing Nigerian educational structures to benefit the millions of Nigerian Muslims, especially women, who are living in its r…
While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music, or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation examines the human reality and experience of …
West Africa, enriched with natural resources, culture, philosophy, religion, etc., is geographically made up of the following nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and T…