This thesis examines Democratic and Republican party platforms over the 1980–2016 period in a content analysis to test claims of partisanship increasing on identity lines in American politics. As a key issue facing democracies in recent years, polarization has coincided with cha…
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In this dissertation, I explore the texts of several writers from Haiti and Algeria to better understand how people live out their revolutions. I argue that in these two countries, revolution has been a cultural raison d'être since the fight for independence. This research perta…
This study considers the work of three francophone writers working in the cultural space between France and Algeria. Authors Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar and Feriel Assima each explore what it means to belong to a particular community and how one defines identity in such a group a…
Nationalism has been considered one of the greatest threats to the existing global order, where non-dominant groups create movements that reject the official ideology of state uniformity while demanding autonomy. Baloch history and identity formation is unique due to specific co…
In this thesis I theorize Indian revolutionary V.D. Savarkar's seminal text "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?" (1923), comparing related themes in Carl Schmitt's Weimar writings: national myth (1923) and the friend-enemy distinction (1932). Responding to the first phase of mass-mobiliz…
In this dissertation, I examine how different visions of ethnic community and nation have developed and been manipulated politically in one particular Malaysian city, Georgetown, Penang. My main argument, developed in chapter one, is that it is useful to think of ethnicity, like…
This dissertation, “One Day the Girl Will Return: Feminism, Nation, and Poetry in South Asia,” seeks to embed the poems of four women writers, two from India and two from Pakistan, within the nationalist movements of their respective countries. One crucial question with which th…
Cette thèse s'intéresse aux dimensions stratégiques des identifications en diaspora arménienne. Elle cherche à déterminer, à partir du discours sur la nation et sur la diaspora, comment le discours identitaire définit les Arméniens en diaspora, comment il parvient à se mobiliser…
This dissertation considers alternative accounts of the Partition in the performative public sphere that complicate our received official histories of Indian independence from British rule. The 1947 Partition of British India into India and Pakistan affords a crucial historic mo…
This dissertation examines food practices as a cultural manifestation of Jewish nationalism within the Zionist movement and in the state of Israel from the First Aliya (immigration) in 1905 to the Six Day War in 1967. The Zionist movement and later the Israeli state tried to int…
This dissertation examines the relationship between nation and class in a range of postcolonial fiction. The field of postcolonial studies, I suggest, is marked by an anti-nationalist trend that betrays an idealist and ahistorical approach to both politics and literature. In cha…
“Culinary Scapes” analyzes culinary cultural production produced and consumed by South Asians in various “national” sites: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Britain, Canada and the United States. It juxtaposes contemporary South Asian cultural production to identify the potentials as …
In March 1942, Japan captured the Dutch East Indies and began a military occupation that lasted until August, 1945. More than in most military occupations, occupier and occupied had strong practical reasons for cooperation: Both shared a common Western enemy. Japan had an acute …
The question of what John is saying about women through his narrative arises within the context of contemporary discussions about women's roles in our society because the subject of women per se was not a Johannine interest. Feminist biblical scholarship should therefore be less…
This study concerns the extensive subcontracting network of apparel assembly and home work that has expanded in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the past thirty years. Of concern is how the power disparities in terms of nation and gender have shaped the spatial organization…
Cornwall is a peripheral rural location in the South West of the UK, and has experienced almost continual socio-economic decline for more than a century. It has a nationalist heritage and is a popular tourist resort. It is also one of the poorest parts of the UK. Academic work h…
Until recently, historical or theoretical perspectives have dominated discussions of violence in the Algerian context. The aim of this analysis is to build on previously completed studies to offer a new perspective. Specifically, this examination demonstrates how literary texts,…
Italy's modern empire, a modest collection of colonies and concessions on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, lasted roughly from 1896 to 1949. The empire's character reflected problems Italy faced as a young nation, including high emigration, a weak military, and a disadvantageo…