Through an ethnography of African migrants in the United States, this dissertation approaches economy, law and politics as performative contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Since currency replaced gold as the epicenter of international trade in the 1970s, finance has emerg…
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Secondary narratives are most easily defined as narratives deemed non-essential to the primary interpretation goals of a historic site. Given the established significance criteria in the United States, secondary narratives are currently undervalued and are challenging to address…
The study of ancient Egyptian funerary art tends to focus almost exclusively on objects of the royalty and high elite, ignoring works created for lower classes. There was, in fact, social and religious pressure on most, if not all, levels of Egyptian society to prepare and displ…
In today's competitive environment, where all students have many options opened to them, factors that enable educational institutions to attract and retain students should be seriously studied. Higher education institutions, which want to have competitive edge in the future, may…
Through the years, the concept of Value has been widely discussed covering diverse fields of knowledge, such as marketing, business management, strategy, engineering, design, and the like. Within the construction industry field, highly praised management approaches have been use…
Could shareholder primacy, with its assumed short-termist practices, have had its day when it comes to managerial activity centered on creating corporate value? Many business and opinion leaders appear to take this position, not least Jack Welch who famously declared 'shareholde…
This research aimed to examine how young people negotiate positive social value within an institution which continually stratifies them, and to consider the impact that category memberships such as social class and gender may have on the negotiation of value. Social value is neg…
Widespread car usage of around 800 million of cars travelling 30 billion of kilometres on a daily basis has led to many benefits but also to significant environmental and societal impacts such as congestion, air and noise pollution and urban sprawl. This thesis aims to investiga…
This thesis is concerned with the problem of designing Mobile Location Services (MLS) - also commonly termed Location-Based Services - that meet user needs. MLS are applications that users access via a portable device such as a mobile phone. They provide services (i.e. informati…
The marine environment provides essential ecosystem services that are critical to the functioning of the earth’s life support system and the maintenance of human well-being. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are recognised as being the mechanism though which marine natural capital m…
This thesis is a study of the theories of pleasure as proposed in Plato’s Philebus, Aristotle’s EN VII.11-14 and EN X.1-5, with particular emphasis on the value of pleasure. Focusing on the Philebus in Chapters 1 and 2, I argue that the account of pleasure as restorative process…
The objective of this research is to investigate service quality attributes along with a measure of perceived value and satisfaction to determine the direct and indirect effect on bank customer's loyalty. The study also seeks to identify the most important attributes/cues in ban…
Arguing against narrowly political approaches to the West Bank settlement movement, this dissertation analyzes settlement dynamics as a configuration of neoliberal capitalism. In contrast to the common perception of settlements as the direct or politically mediated realizations …
This dissertation deals with integrity understood as a state of the psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show th…
This thesis considers the importance of livestock in the household economy of the Ahl al Jebel Bedouin in the arid Badia region of north east Jordan. The principal objective of the study is to provide development planners working within the Badia region with information on how l…
Italian coral beads as dress are the focus of this study, which examines the construction and cross-cultural exchange of value and preciousness. I document the coral bead industry in Torre del Greco, Italy's leading global exporter of coral beads and jewelry. Within an interpret…
Based on extensive field and archival research conducted in Cuba and the United States, this dissertation explores two overlooked musical traditions practiced in Cuba, Chinese lion dancing in Havana and Afro-Cuban conga culture in Santiago. In it, I examine the activities of mar…
I don't think an object starts and ends within the object itself. This essay investigate objects and narratives and the different utilities attributed to both. Through sculpture, photography and installation I investigate how we through the development of time has managed to not…
The purpose of this thesis is to reveal the potential value created through the use of tactile consciousness in design, beyond visual value developed through ocularcentrism. This study fits into the field of industrial design as it aims to broaden the approach of tactile design …