The relationship between communities and the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is an expanding area of global research. In Bangladesh, however, few researchers have examined community-level correlates of IPV against women. We addressed this gap in the l…
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This dissertation explores the causes and consequences of capital flight in the U.S. carpet industry. From humble beginnings in the 1820s, carpet manufacture flourished for generations in the mid-Atlantic and New England states. By the late 1960s, however, it was concentrated la…
This dissertation concentrates on two related questions: first, what accounts for politicization in Chinese communities overseas? Second, does political influence stem from group mobilization? Three broad schools of thought are widely cited to explain immigrant political incorpo…
The present dissertation provides an example of how social and political conditions influence people of two descent groups on the southern Fujian coast to claim their ethnic identity. The study deals with identity change in two communities in Jinjiang City and Hui'an County, kno…
This dissertation explores the emergence of an Argentine Jewish identity through the study of the Sephardic minorities that settled in that country. Home to one of the largest Jewish communities outside Israel, Argentina received large numbers of both Ashkenazim and Sephardim st…
In 1846 Virginia courts freed 383 slaves of Roanoke plantation by ruling which will of John Randolph of Roanoke's was valid. Sent to found a free black colony in Mercer County, Ohio, these "Randolph Slaves" were refused entry by a mob of Mercer County whites. The freed people in…
The dissertation addresses the question of the social organization of early Christian communities, c. 50 C.E. to c. 260 C.E. I demonstrate that the primary conceptual and behavioral model for early Christian social organization was the surrogate family (Chapter One). The specifi…
Data warehouse technology has been successfully integrated into the information infrastructure of major organizations as potential solution for eliminating redundancy and providing for comprehensive data integration. Realizing the importance of a data warehouse as the main data …
This study analyses local communities in Caernarfonshire in order to offer new perspectives on Welsh society in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. This has been seen as a period of major change in Wales characterised by economic modernisation and national awakening. Ho…
This study is research into practice, concerned with locating a critical perspectiveinto the possibilities of drama in achieving sustainable development withincommunities.This qualitative research approach draws on action-research paradigms,ethnographic techniques and drama meth…
The economic activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the extractive industries of developing countries produce a myriad of immediate negative social, economic and environmental impacts on communities hosting their operations. Consequently, stakeholders have increasing…
Trade, exchange and other forms of social interaction have long been recognized as important mechanisms for the development of communities and the maintenance of social bonds. How and under what circumstances these networks of communication develop into communities with a shared…
The worsening educational standard of Nigeria schools can be traced to the general social, political, and economic depression of the last 3 decades. The series of reforms that have been adopted by the government have yielded far fewer results than expected and the way forward se…
This dissertation examines the novels of Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, and Nuruddin Farah, paying special attention to the relationship between language and nation, nation and race, as well as culture and language. The study explores how each of these contem…
This research pertains to sexual violence against women (VAW) in contexts of inter-ethnic violence in South-Asia, India, and examines victim and community rape blame attributions made by Muslims and Hindus. Specifically the study focused on assessing attitudes that predict blame…
How are music and identity linked? This question is examined in light of the musical practices of Roman (Gypsy) communities in Western Turkey, which demonstrate the powerful role of music in configuring a sense of community and contesting ascribed social identity. This dissertat…
This dissertation focuses on how different Islamic groups attempt to assert their authority to represent "True Islam" for Muslims living in Europe and how they cope with challenges from rivals with different interpretations. It focused on four Islamic communities ( cemaat ) that…
This project examines the emergence and expansion of Legato, the Turkish collegiate lgbt network, from the perspective of the globalization of digital technologies and lgbt identities. The triple perspectives of globalization studies, research on lgbt youths' use of digital tech…
Communities are powerful, not just as physical or social gathering places, but as idiographs and rhetorical creations; they can bring together many diverse populations. Historically, communities were physically defined; today they can be designated as sites where local rhetoric,…