This dissertation explores how technologies and infrastructures for promoting control and cohesion have interfaced with the social and political history of Lesotho over the longue durée . This approach allows for tracing lines of historical continuity and change during a period …
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This dissertation examines the history and development of social control and policing in Nigeria within the framework of the hypothesis that the colonial, and later the postcolonial, police were organized mainly to serve the capitalist and economic needs of colonialism. Adopting…
Burma was already a failed state when the military seized power in 1988 after brutally quashing the democracy movement. Yet, without improving the social and economic conditions, and despite a lack of capacity and legitimacy to govern, the military regime managed to survive and …
My thesis argues that the New Right (NR) sought to manipulate state education as a mechanism of both social transformation and social control in the UK between 1979 and 1992. This is investigated by employing a 'critical realist' perspective which is located within a wider 'neo-…
This dissertation offers a general theory of genocide. Genocide is defined here as organized and unilateral mass killing on the basis of ethnicity . While many have focused on genocide as a type of deviance, most genocide is also social control—a response to behavior itself defi…
This dissertation aims to contribute to a better understanding of the changing relations between government and general populace in Ottoman Istanbul during the late eighteenth century. The wide-spread treatment of the eighteenth century as one of decentralization, decline and ap…
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa is the largest in the world, based on both the cumulative number of AIDS cases and the current number of HIV infections, but there is enormous variation in its spread. Differences in sexual behavior patterns is one possible explanation…
The social control of protest can be carried out by a number of agents; among them are the police, legislators, organized countermovements, and the news media. This research examines how the tactics and strategies of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have been shaped an…
This dissertation explores the changing terrain of Turkish prison politics in the last three decades. I focus on the inherent links between the prison society and the broader society outside the prison walls through examining the long term reform movement that institutionalized …
This research examines the unbroken historical link and connection of policing as an institution in the African American community. From slavery to the present there has always been a history of police malevolence in African American communities. Although African Americans are n…
This dissertation argues that surveillance and social control in North Korea was always more complex than often depicted, even in the decades preceding the famine of the 1990s and early 2000s. At the same time, disobedience and resistance among the grassroots population did not …
In 2014, Chinese citizens living in mainland China and Hong Kong received different narratives and interpretations of the Umbrella Movement's events based on the administrative regions they lived in and the news sources they had access to. State-controlled and market-based media…
Contemporary young women would appear to enjoy greater freedoms to consume alcohol and socialise in bars, pubs and clubs than their predecessors. However, concern about women’s level of alcohol consumption, drink spiking and drug-assisted sexual assault have contributed to a ren…