This dissertation explores the ideational underpinnings of the rise of the west through a comparison of ancient Greek geometry, medieval Arabic algebra, and early modern European calculus. Blending insights from Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, and William H. Sewell, I assert that …
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This thesis explores the 'theories of Bataille and Baudrillard' in relation to the problem of extreme violence. The particular events of concern are the death of James Bulger, the Dunblane massacre and the 'serial killers' Frederick and Rosemary West. The thesis argues that domi…
Current studies on the intellectual exchanges between the West and the Third Worldhave tended to focus either on the phenomenon of the birth of the Third World in thepost-War period or have concentrated instead on a political reading of theseexchanges. The first group of studies…
Between the two world wars, French-run schools in West Africa experienced a change in structure, purpose and curriculum. Reversing a decades old trend of a liberal arts education that aimed to assimilate all Africans into French culture and society, state-sponsored schools inste…
This thesis argues that disagreements and/or agreements between transatlantic partners will continue depending on the issue at stake. Both the United States and Europe will manage their relations on a 'pick and choose' basis. This is a process that started in the aftermath of th…
The second French colonial empire (1830–1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own so as to govern them better. Overlooking the contributions of many of these colonial officials, most historians have located…
This study focuses on the Welfare Party elite's conceptualisation of modernity during the party's last 4-5 years before its closure in 1998. Since the party was the most important Islamist organisation in Turkey. it was at an important point of interaction between Islamism and m…
The American Western narrative has historically not had time for ghosts. In its dominant historical form, the Western prescribed a white, male, civilizing discourse while acting as the “nation-building” narrative for the United States. Especially in the latter context, the genre…
Over the last twenty years, once it was commonly understood that a significant number of Muslim immigrants had created a stable presence in the West, most European and North American governments felt the need to find individuals and organizations that could be identified as repr…
This study examines the works of five non-western writers whose fiction is primarily concerned with the relationship between Islam and the West, and historical and cultural constructions of Muslim and western identities. The works of Tariq Ali, Assia Djebar, Amin Maalouf, Kanan …
Islam and the West, a dualistic phrase that gained sudden ascendancy following the events of September 11, 2001, is used variously to refer to the mutual relationship between Muslims and those living in a sometimes ill-defined region called "the West." The binary phrase in quest…