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This dissertation examines the recent phenomenon in Indonesia of provincial proliferation. Given the relatively constant number of provinces and districts during the New Order period, provincial proliferation is puzzling. The puzzle can be disaggregated into three inter-related …

This study explores the roots of the first conquest of Muslim territory accomplished by the united principality of Catalonia and Aragon, known today as the Crown of Aragon, and the course of incorporation and consolidation by Christian rulers and settlers over one-hundred fifty …

This research builds on theories of geopolitics as discourse in examining how popular media are implicated in the production of emerging state forms in the context of the War on Terrorism. The world is increasingly marked by movement, flows, and communication that transcend poli…

Art occupies a controversial place in processes of gentrification. The role art has in gentrifying neighborhoods plays out uniquely in Los Angeles where cultural erasure is prominent through practices of ‘white-washing’ in a city dense with public art. ‘White-washing’— where art…

This dissertation explores connections between geography and missiology to understand territoriality in Christian faith and mission. Andrew Walls and Lamin Sanneh have stated that because Christendom has ended, Christianity is no longer territorial. To evaluate Walls’ and Sanneh…

Since the 1990s, dominant imageries of what constitutes the Turkic World (i.e., what places and spaces are Turkic) have undergone significant transformations and emerged as omnipresent symbols in Turkey's cultural and political landscape. These Türk Dünyasi (or "Turkic World") c…