The construction industry represents a significant part of the Gross Domestic Product, (GDP) in the UK. It employs around 1.4 million people and has averaged around 7.5% of GDP over recent years. Although the industry is of major importance to the UK economy, it still under achi…
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My dissertation is based on eighteen months of research conducted in Jimma, Ethiopia, a city of 120,000. Jimma is typical of urban Ethiopia in that unemployment rates for youth are close to fifty percent. The dissertation examines the manner in which unemployed and working youth…
This dissertation is a literary study of how four different writers employ the Indonesian Archipelago as a setting in which to conceive of human civilisation as a movement away from the material reality of Darwinian natural selection. The writers featured are the nineteenth-cent…
The dissertation is dedicated to studying myths related to the intersection of technology and progress. Its primary focus is on Malaysian myths concerning the progressive powers of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Drawing upon academic research from the fields …
“Engineering Progress” is a comparative study of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century regional development. It situates nature, technology, and culture within the wider global processes by which an abstract but universal ideal of progress spread around the world. In theor…
In this study I examine the history of El Salvador during the years 1948 to 1978. Current narratives regard this period as part of a sequence of oppression and underdevelopment under military rule that existed in this nation since the early decades of the twentieth century and t…