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This dissertation analyzes everyday practices of externalization of African migration control beyond and within Europe's geopolitical limits, in sites such as detention centers in Libya, but also in Rome; in dinghies adrift at sea among herds of sophisticated military vessels, b…

In this dissertation, I investigate the ways in which the phenomenon of racial and cultural hybridity inform and alter the social, political and cultural fabric of three creole cities of significant colonial influence, namely Saint-Louis of Senegal, Saint-Pierre of Martinique an…

The fiction of Algerian writer Assia Djebar, from La Soif (1957) to La Femme sans sepulture (2001) is set in cities, notably Algiers, the legendary White City which, like the blank page, provides space for Djebarian characters to inscribe their new history, but which also repres…

This study looks at the recent rise of the public relations profession and its influence on national news production in Britain. Simply put, has public relations undermined the notion of the fourth estate media in Britain and has it advantaged certain kinds of news source over o…

This study explores the contemporary collective significance of over seventy London markets in the 'long' eighteenth century. Markets are loosely defined as those institutions which were publicly recognized as places of regular trade in basic commodities: meat and livestock, fis…

This thesis examines the fiction of Neil Bartlett, Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, considering how they write missing voices of sexuality, gender and class back into history through re-imagining the city space. It examines the ways in which traditional, linear narratives and…

Cinemas and Cities: Spatiality in Taiwanese, Mexican, and Iranian Urban Films examines a paradigmatic shift of aesthetic norms that occurred in these three cinemas in the 1990s. As Taiwanese cinema gradually turned away from a nostalgic retrospection of the rural past toward a k…

'Turkish Republican citizenship and rights to the city' explores the significance of the city in the constitutions, contestations, and transformations of Turkish citizenship. While it focuses on the republican era after 1923, it also takes into account the nineteenth century ref…

Classical education played an integral role in defining elite social relationships in the ancient world. In the later Roman Empire, it was a commodity that was often controlled by pagans. This made it controversial. Despite persistent imperial and ecclesiastical efforts to under…

Göçebe/kır hayatından yerleşik/kent hayatına geçiş, birçok insani olgunun ve mekânsal çehrenin dönüşümüne neden olur. Modernleşme sürecinin sonucu olarak modern zamanların öne çıkan yerleşim alanlarından olan kent, içinde barındırdığı kişilerin dünyayı algılamalarında da önemli …

ReGen: Detroit will look to occupy a unique space between the delicate balance of old and new in the Motor City. American post-industrial cities, were once leveled and left vacant, act as the ideal design “tabula rasa” and architectural stage. The architect can project their own…

Republics throughout history have relied upon the active participation of citizens. Citizens act within particular traditions that can become corrupted or forgotten over time. For that reason, the imitation of particular exemplars has been of crucial importance for political lif…

While the general notion of madina is largely familiar to a broad audience, its central importance to the making of the modern city and its sustainability as a dynamic component of the process of urbanization is often overlooked and deserves closer attention . A close scrutiny o…

The urban form of cities is continuously changing and its final form reflects the life and character of its people. The physical setting, the political and socioeconomic environments, the cultural behavior of the society, as well as the administrative system, are factors that af…