National infrastructure form the bedrock for economic growth and social security, both of which lowers conflict risks. This encourages states and international organizations to invest heavily in post-conflict infrastructure reconstruction efforts, believing that infrastructure p…
Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…
Current approaches to post-war state reconstruction are primarily dominated by the liberal peace thesis. These approaches tend to ignore the indigenous institutions, societal resources and cultural agencies of post-conflict societies, although such entities are rooted in the soc…
This thesis examines the evidence for the decline and survival of historic landed estates since the end of the nineteenth century. The focus is on the processes of adaptation undergone by those estates that have survived over the post-war period. These processes are described in…
The purpose of the study was to improve the understanding of the present situation and the key problems regarding the conservation of designed landscapes of the recent past. Another aim was to investigate roles and initiatives undertaken by key stakeholders and recommend key are…
This thesis examines continuity and change in the three Black Country localities of Pensnett, Tipton and Sedgley between 1945 and c1970. The dominant historiography of the period suggests that the prosperity of post-war British society, the safety-net of state welfare provision …
This dissertation examines how the urban poor in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) cope with trauma and rebuild their lives in a new post-war state and economy. The dissertation is based on twenty months of fieldwork with relief agencies and their beneficiaries. I carried out p…
This study is an in-depth analysis of the case of post-civil war planning in Lebanon through the personal accounts of urban planners living and working there. Interviews with these planners engender a deeper understanding of the issues facing public participation on the ground i…
Located at the intersection of literary, journalistic, and socio-historical discourses, “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” looks at diaristic texts in Post-War German Literature through the lens of news reporting and mass media. Since the 1970s, diaristic texts in German emerged …