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This dissertation explores how representations of Israel/Palestine became lodged in contemporary United States imperial culture. From the figure of the “city on the hill” forward, these representations produced a variety of settler-colonial and messianic narratives. In the early…

This study examines the historiography of International Refugee Law; specifically, the defining moment, 1951, when the Refugee Convention was drafted. The field of Refugee Studies, much like International Relations and International Law has been dominated by the 'classic' Westph…

Balochistan, the largest Province in Pakistan, where more than ninety percent of births are attended by traditional midwives—outside of hospitals—functions as a site whose geography and population are racialized across multiple scales in colonial and postcolonial Pakistani state…

This thesis investigates the contemporary multicultural Dutch context and how a cultivation of the European self is affirmed in the proliferating discourses around scientific studies, policy papers and mainstream popular feminist arguments on integration and emancipation of the …

This dissertation is a theological interpretation of the social conflict between two sociopolitical forces as represented by the conservative and the liberal blocs in South Korea and a theological criticism of social exclusion performed by these two blocs as revealed in their na…