A presente dissertação via fazer uma reflexão sobre as práticas do design em contexto ativista, explicando a importância do design gráfico ativista numa sociedade, assim como compreender o seu processo de análise e o modo como é aplicado em momentos de resistência e protesto. Co…
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The contentious political climate of the 1960s and 1970s gave birth to an abundance of social protest theatre collectives (SPT) dedicated to illustrated the needs of marginalized communities and advocated for liberation in the United States and Latin America. By employing a hemi…
“‘To Make History the Living Force’: The Professionalization of Public History, 1880- 2000” challenges how we often distinguish public history education from “traditional” history education and shows how debates about public history teaching reveal a larger and more dynamic stor…
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the market reaction to Corporate Sociopolitical Activity, utilizing an event study methodology to determine the impact of an event on the companies’ abnormal stock returns. The sample consists of Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, US-bas…
Schools should be the place to cultivate and model a just society. Teacher candidates must be equipped with the ability to recognize, critique, and oppose any practices, policies, or structures that perpetuate the social and economic inequalities that currently exist. Yet the cu…
This dissertation is a philosophical exploration of the formulation, convergence and divergence of conceptions of freedom1 in selected contemporary South African feminisms. I engage critically with concepts and conceptions that I identify as dominant within the feminisms underpi…
This doctoral thesis consisted of a cultural-rhetorical-cognitive approach to the work of the English street artist Banksy and in particular of his graffiti. By examining the aesthetics and function of Banksy’s graffiti in both street and contemporary art, this study has shown t…
Whereas previous studies of the Indonesian student movement have been limited to studies of single episodes of activism of student protests, this work focuses on the narratives, and repertoires that, together with crucial external events of political and economic realignments cr…
The underrepresentation of women in political decision making and their weak substantive representation continue in Turkey as of 2011. The dissertation examines the timing, direction, and mechanisms of slight changes in the representation of three women's groups in Turkey, namel…
This dissertation employs a qualitative research design that incorporates an exploratory and cross-disciplinary study of transnational Diaspora influences on the countries of Turkey and Germany, and the supranational European system. The predominant method used is descriptive an…
The relationships connecting women, war and peace are shifting and tangled. For instance, at this current political juncture, third wave feminism proudly melds scholarly critique, political activism and playful forms of femininity, and the conservative Bush administration claims…
Many observers attribute the United States' continued efforts to isolate the island of Cuba, its on-again, off-again involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its engagement and disengagement in the conflict in Northern Ireland to the influence of well-organized, well…
Since the events of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street took place largely through the Web using social networking and mobile devices, the concept of "cyberactivism" has become a popular topic of discussion and criticism within the media and academia. Cyberactivism, also refe…
This thesis explores how Palestinian prisoners in Israel and across the Middle East organized and mobilized during periods of nationalist revolt since the 1970s. It examines the way prisoners formed internal governing structures and committees that provided order, discipline, an…
The number of people undertaking clandestine migratory journeys to Europe has increased dramatically over the past several years. Particularly following the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015, the borders of Europe have been thoroughly enhanced and militarized in order to contro…
In this study, I examine the characteristics of the reception of Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire’s critical literacy by Building Resources Across Communities in Bangladesh (BRAC) from 1972 to 1981.The central questions of this study are: (1) how Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed, founding m…
This thesis investigates the opposition to military dictatorship in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by students in Santiago's secondary schools, and at the University of Chile, the country's largest and most important teaching, learning and research establishment. It examines three …
This thesis takes a gender-sensitive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and asks whether and how Palestinian women’s different formal and informal political activism in ‘peacebuilding’ and ‘resistance’ can make a contribution to positive sustainable social and politica…
Islands are often represented as remote and exotic paradise destinations in popular imaginaries. Simultaneously, states frequently render island spaces as geo-strategic sites of security and state-building. However, these state-centric narratives of security obscure island lives…