This PhD by publication derives from a body of research which examines how material drawn from reality -that is, subjects, images or stories founded in ‘documentary’- can be used to visualise and interpret unpresented subjective spaces-thoughts, feelings, dreams- which I term th…
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This dissertation proposes that transcorporeality offers an alternative to Cartesian dualistic modes of embodiment in Walker Percy’s, The Moviegoer, Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Richard Wright’s, Native Son, and Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hun…
This project explains Polish non-violence and Algerian violence under martial law following peaceful protests against comparable material deprivation and authoritarian political exclusion. From narratives of state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evoluti…
Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, this dissertation examines the relationship between Leban…
In this paper I consider work in the cognitive science of religion in light of anthropological work by Saba Mahmood and Charles Hirschkind on the formation of religious subjects in contemporary Egypt to highlight how Foucault's historical constitution of the subject involves the…
My objective in this dissertation is to theorise processes of subjectivity formation among English-speaking Western women living in Gilgit, the largest town and international development headquarters in Pakistan's Northern Areas. I draw on various poststructural, postcolonial, a…
As discussions about the hijab circulate in twenty-first century Western Europe, it seems as though few lawmakers are looking to the narratives and experiences of Muslim and South Asian women to give voice to the practice. This thesis looks at the poets Kamala Das, Imtiaz Dharke…
This document will undertake a comparison of the urban spaces and the narrative subjects that inhabit them in Maghrebian autobiographical narratives of childhood of the latter half of the twentieth century. The postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha has suggested that one of the m…
This dissertation is an ethnography of citizenship. It analyzes affect, political identity, moral structures and social organization among a non-assimilating minority community Palestinian citizens of Israel in Nazareth, the largest all-Arab city in Israel. This study elucidates…
This dissertation focuses on the historical representations and social practices in terms of which Banda Eli, an Eastern Indonesian village, is defined as a distinct cultural entity. In scholarly history and colonial records the founders of the village are consistently identifie…
Values matter in both legal decision (lawmaking and lawapplying) and discourse (lawshaping and lawinfluencing). Yet, their purported subjectivity means that gaining or improving knowledge about values (whether they be epistemic, legal, moral, ethical, economic, political, cultur…
This thesis makes a historically grounded theoretical contribution to an emerging “critical” approach to refugee studies. Utilising the insights of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, it seeks to reconceptualise academic and policy understandings of what has come to be known as “…
This thesis constitutes an interpretive ethnography of children’s educational experiences in rural Rwanda. It advances a theoretical argument for conceptualizing subjectivity, one which attends to how impersonal forces of political economy and history converge to inform children…
This thesis examines the ethical implications of writing about music, focussing on the analysis of tonal art music. While some recent publications have studied various ethical situations involving music, none has taken the theoretical engagement with Western Art Music as its sta…
This thesis explores EU borders and bordering in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the context of the 2004 EU enlargement, the 2007 extension of the Schengen zone and the 2004 Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) that, in 2009, was upgraded to the Easte…
This thesis explores why gender hierarchy remains resilient and entrenched in contemporary political life, despite efforts to challenge and transform it. I approach this question by focussing on the reproduction of gendered subjects, which I argue is integral to the reproduction…
MySpace is a social network site (SNS) that forms an essential part of modern online communication. The creation of a personal profile in MySpace allows a user to connect with a global network of friends and communicate in a number of different ways. This thesis sets out to expl…
Using cultural production from post-Cold War cultural producers from Argentina, the United States, Europe (Spain) and Morocco, my project analyzes the role and representation of different mobilities in the construction of subjectivity, citizenship and processes of identity forma…