This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re)configurations of resistance and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial conflict in contemporary African literatures. These concepts operate at various levels of the narr…
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This dissertation seeks to develop a novel account of the responsibility members of a group bear for transgressions in which they did not participate. More specifically, the dissertation argues that individual members of a group may be blamed for group transgressions independent…
This thesis analyzes the social responsibility multinational oil and gas enterprises have with respect to the societal and environmental impact of their operations. Historically, these firms have exploited natural resources in regions around the world without adhering to any str…
The particularity and concrete determinacy of Christian confession of faith In Jesus Christ necessarily comes at the cost of a certain inevitable sacrifice with regard to an ethical relation to Jews and Judaism—an irreducible theological dissonance, or conflictual difference, in…
This thesis focuses on the figure of an abyss residing at the heart of metaphysics, and argues that thinking in light of its destabilising connotations opens up the possibility of attempting to take responsibility for the violence immanent to any and all politico-philosophical p…
This thesis sets out to critically examine the field of higher education development, as one which is focused on socio-economic inequality and welfare, and determines educational purpose in poorer, or ‘developing’, countries accordingly. My question is whether mainstream develop…
This research is based on an agreed definition approved by the European Social Marketing Association (ESMA), Australian Association of Social Marketing (AASM), and the International Social Marketing Association (ISMA). It acknowledges that the creation of effective partnerships …
The concept of causation is essential to ascribing moral and legal responsibility since the only way an agent can make a difference in the world is through her acts causing things to happen. Yet the extent and manner in which the complex features of causation bear on responsibil…
In his ethical treatises Aristotle offers a rich account of those conditions that render people’s behaviour involuntary, and defines voluntariness on the basis of the absence of these conditions. This dissertation has two aims. One is to offer an account of the significance of t…
As the scope of liberal democracy expands globally, and its attendant legal apparatus engages increasingly varied kinds of subjects, mental illness remains a resistant, troubling, unaccountable experience, generating confused claims of responsibility for a "vulnerable population…
Informed by the ethical relation to the Other as articulated by the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Alphonso Lingis, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and James Hatley, the dissertation emerges through a series of provocations put to me in the field by a Bosnian Serb so…
Discourses of trauma are sometimes a prominent ingredient of genealogies of ascriptive identity and of their political articulations, both in Western democracies and in the Middle East. Moreover, trauma has recently become a recurrent category of analysis and of normative engage…
This dissertation examines cultural parallels as found in the literature of Greece, Mesopotamia and Anatolia. Of specific interest is the question of cultural influence exerted by these ancient civilizations on each other. One of the geographic points of intersection common to t…
The present study investigated differences in the impact of attributions of responsibility on young (5 to 10 1/2 years old) sexual abuse victims' adjustment to the abuse within the frameworks of perspective taking and self-concept, because the literature suggested that the relat…
This dissertation confronts a contradiction that has come to define human life over (at least) the past quarter millennium: though we have, collectively, become the first species to inscribe ourselves into the geological record, we have, individually, diminishing power over the …
This paper seeks to examine how registered, 501(c)3 short-term medical missions (STMMs) create and define accountability, responsibility, and success within their organization. To explore this question, a survey measuring volunteer motivations was cross-analyzed with volunteer-w…