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This dissertation project examines the social phenomenon of minjung in South Korea, as observed within the convergence of Christian radicalism and transformational politics during the 1970s and 1980s. Minjung, a marker for a "class" of marginalized social groups which emerged in…

This thesis explores how 'home', as both an idea and a physical space, operated in the formation and expression of popular political radicalism in late-eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. With a regional focus on London and the South Pennine areas of Lancashire and …

This thesis analyses the emergence of Cuba as a sovereign nation, and the political corruption that plagued the republic. It investigates in detail, not only the independence movement that established this republic in its various wars against the Spanish empire, and its fracture…

The dissertation examines the rise of radical Islamist and Kurdish movements in Turkey and considers their possibility to moderate and integrate into plural political systems. In contrast to popular views, ethnic or religious demands are not always superior to economic interests…

This dissertation traces the interplay between understandings of the Argentine nation and constructs of Jewish ethnicity between 1955 and 1983. It begins with the celebrations surrounding the supposed triumph of the "liberal nation" after the overthrow of Juan Perón in 1955, and…

This dissertation traces the full intellectual history of the Third World Turn: when theorists and activists in the United States began to look to liberation movements within the colonized and formerly colonized nations of the ‘Third World’ in search of models for political, soc…

This dissertation outlines the literature and processes used to create the self-MADE Group, a group therapy intervention designed specifically for college-aged, first generation, Muslim-American men who may potentially be at risk for future maladaptive behaviors. The acronym MAD…

Red Lives is a side-by-side social and intellectual biography of Claudia Jones, Emma Tenayuca, and Ah Quon McElrath, three working-class women who came-of-age during the Great Depression, and whose lifelong commitments to grassroots organizing and radical politics emerged from t…

This dissertation examines the relationship of the Latin poet Catullus to the preceding Latin poetic tradition, particularly to the pre-eminent figure of that tradition, pater Ennius. Classical scholarship has long thought the nature of this relationship settled: in a surge of r…

Boko Haram (BH) terrorism in Nigeria has persisted for over a decade, and the attacks continue to get more sophisticated, deadly, and well-coordinated with each passing year. Given the sect’s focus on religious institutions, especially churches and mosques considered not to be p…

The Netherlands brought in guest workers from Morocco and Turkey to fill low wage positions. These immigrants have experienced discrimination by Dutch natives due to their religious beliefs and culture, resulting in low integration. This has led to socioeconomic disadvantages, p…

This dissertation asserts that Heschel’s work ought to be viewed as affective and emotional. Understanding Heschel’s work as both creating and encouraging particular affects enables a more robust and fuller understanding of American Jewish postwar life. Specifically, American Je…

In the work of experimental poets and formalists, ex-Communists and African American people’s poets, queer feminists and veterans of the Spanish Civil War, Radical Afterlives traces poetic modernism’s “radical afterlives” from the Great Depression to Civil Rights. A generation o…

Due to its workings as a global financial nexus, activists critical of capitalism have used the City of London to stage a number of large-scale direct actions since the 1983-84 Stop the City protests. By examining protest at this renowned site of intensified observation, I argue…

Using research from the history of the Victorian novel and recent media, I demonstrate the value in re-examining the critical importance of the antihero. Using a methodology of combining neo-Marxian analysis, adaptation studies, and a re-thinking of what constitutes novels and t…

The countercultural back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s was the third wave of an antimodern tradition that stretched back to the late nineteenth century. This study places the hippie back-to-the-land movement within this larger context and follows the intergeneratio…

The Politics of Lyric: A Social History of Shelley’s Forms analyzes, from the standpoint of class politics, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s central role in the Romantic shift in the hierarchy of genres, the development of theories of the lyric genre, and the effects of these developments…

This study traces the root causes of terrorism in West Africa, focusing on Nigeria, Mali and Niger. This exploration is conducted within the framework of the relative deprivation and the greed and grievance theories. The relative deprivation theory is often used to analyse conte…

Italian Americans were a key constituency of the white-ethnic voting bloc that formed one of the main pillars of the New Deal coalition. However, few historians have looked at motives for the group’s allegiance beyond economic necessity and machine politics. This approach has fa…

This dissertation describes the anti-colonial revolutionary activities of South Asians in Europe, East and West Asia and North America during the first few decades of the 20th Century, in the context of world-historical shifts wrought by the First World War and the Russian Revol…