This dissertation is a study of the mixed race population who inhabited the port city of Saint Louis, Sénégal. It examines the society and identity that this group created and addresses the strategies they developed to respond to French rule between 1870 and 1920. Located at the…
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Significant attempts have been made by national governments to provide services and information on the Internet via information and communication technologies. However, the accomplishment of these efforts strongly depends on how the targeted users, such as citizens, trust, use a…
This thesis presents a consideration of the ways in which the experiences and meanings of young people's activities contribute to their positioning towards the political, and as such give the political meaning (McNay 2014; Hay 2007; Arendt 1958). This thesis takes a qualitative,…
This study examined how the mass media depict democratic citizenship, how individuals think about what it means to be a democratic citizen, and how the two are related. To address these issues a content analysis of television news, cable talk news, late night comedy news, and ne…
The sovereign power of the nation to police who has the right to live or work within its territory is experienced and undone everyday by Muslim immigrants and their children who struggle to find jobs and a safe place to raise their families in France while facing social, economi…
This dissertation examines the diasporic lives of two groups of Somalis in Cairo: refugees and citizens of Western countries (émigrés). The former are refugees who either lived in other Middle Eastern countries before relocating to Cairo in the late nineties, or arrived from the…
In the liberal democratic tradition, dominant nationalist discourses articulate citizenship as the domain of the nation-state, functioning as a mechanism for dispensing rights and claims through political membership. However, in the wake of heightened globality, national paradig…
The "rebordering of the Mediterranean" refers to the extension of European frontiers to include southern European countries in the mid-eighties, and to the construction of new social boundaries in the innerland. This dissertation explores the construction of social difference in…
The idea that the Turkish nation is a "military-nation" has been one of the foundational myths of Turkish nationalism. This dissertation argues that this myth is a historical production, an artifact of a century of militarized practices and discourses. Based on two and a half ye…