Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
The purpose of this study is to examine the Leaving Certificate Applied programme (LCA) as it is lived out and experienced today and to investigate whether or not these experiences continue to marry with the original aims of the programme. The Leaving Certificate Applied Program…
Kant’s essay ‘Project for Perpetual Peace’, written in 1795, was seminal in the relationship it constructed between the individual, national governance and international relations. Peace became a rallying cry after the Napoleonic wars and for a century, societies for peace sprou…
In this dissertation I analyze the development of contemporary US welfare policy with special consideration given to the importance of race and gender. In the introductory chapter I outline how the development of the American welfare state has continuously neglected the needs of…
Literature on the southern Philippines region of Mindanao has a longstanding gender gap, with relatively little attention paid to the role of women either in history or in the contemporary era, despite international and national concern about gender in the recent peace process i…
Responding to developments within the field of British nuclear culture, this thesis uses the concept of the sociotechnical imaginary (STIM) to trace the social and cultural history of the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria between 1945 and 1990. Drawing upon oral histories of…
This dissertation is devoted to exploring Armenian Üsküdar (an Anatolian side municipality of Istanbul) and its surroundings within the lenses of “conviviality” as conceptualized by Freitag (2014). Armenian neighborhoods in Üsküdar had all its relevance within the Ottoman rule i…
Evidence from NGOs and the charitable sector suggests that people who are refused asylum in the UK lead highly marginalised lives, experiencing levels of deprivation that flout UK and international human rights legislation. However, the number of studies engaging with this large…
This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…
This thesis examines the deep interconnections between classical learning and modern international relations among three early-twentieth-century British internationalists, Gilbert Murray, Arnold J. Toynbee and Alfred Zimmern. These intellectuals began their careers as classical …
Small Wars, Asymmetric Wars, Insurgencies, Guerrilla Wars. They have been occupying a larger and larger share of violent conflicts over the last two centuries, and have posed more significant challenges to status quo states as time has gone on. The approach of brutal repression,…
Why did teachers’ long campaign to fund schools with progressive income taxes on the rich fall short? Labor-liberals hoped to equalize opportunity for students by shifting school taxes from local communities like Detroit and Los Angeles to the states. Businessmen and conservativ…
O presente Trabalho Final de Mestrado desenvolve um detalhado plano de negócios para uma unidade de alojamento no centro histórico de Viana do Castelo. Requer a reabilitação de um edifício devoluto e a instalação de oito confortáveis suites. Este Boutique Suites prestará um serv…
O Brexit tem provocado alguma incerteza nos mercados, nomeadamente no europeu. Muitos estudos, estimativas e especulações foram feitas sobre os impactos económicos, no investimento, em termos sociais e até políticos. No âmbito da minha atividade profissional numa instituição fin…
This thesis seeks to utilize a distant reading of seventeen essays written by James Baldwin alongside sustained close readings of three topics within those essays in order to understand why Baldwin has maintained increased popularity when the original historical context of the e…
The southern Indian city of Bangalore is extolled as India's "Silicon Valley," emerging over the past decade as a premier site for capital flows into India's Information Technology (IT) sector. In the dominant narrative of globalization Bangalore is lauded as an aspiring "global…
The experiences and responses of individuals living in mineral enclaves command a lot of scholarly attention. Such attention is evident in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where neoliberal oil exploration has gone on for the past five decades. Yet missing in the delta narratives is th…
Nigeria's police force is in a developmental phase as it moves away from a traditionally tribal, corrupt, disorganized, and localized operation toward a higher level of professionalism. Accordingly, Sutherland's social disorganization theory, which posits that criminal behavior …
Militias specializing in kidnapping oil workers and vandalizing oil infrastructure purportedly as a form of protest against marginalization by the state and transnational oil corporations are rife in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This study interrogates the interstitial spa…