Today, a “High-carbon Energy compleX” (HEX) of fossil-fuel enterprises and their allies hold the future captive, attempting to indefinitely preserve global reliance on carbon- emitting energy. Emergent social forces offer alternative futures, from ‘climate capitalism’ to energy …
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This dissertation consists of three substantive essays. Each essay is rooted in the experiences that I had in conducting a qualitative study on survival within `precarious contexts', using Palestine/Israel as the geographical context. Essay One (Chapter 2) explores, through a co…
This study tries to understand how the postcolonial state in India has treated its religious minorities since independence (1947-1997) by examining the official policy of secularism which, in the Indian context, stands for 'equal respect for all religions.' I argue that since th…
The phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States has been attributed to a number of factors, including punitive legislation, neo-liberal economic policies, and a "culture of control" that supports continual carceral growth. Little research has examined how these nationa…
Two geopolitically important and petroleum-rich countries are Iran and Venezuela. The modern history of these two countries has been greatly influenced by the fact that both countries lie on top of large petroleum reserves. Each country experienced political coups d'état that we…
This dissertation examines the specific problem of North and South Yemen's 1990 unification as a case study of power-sharing in a regionally divided country. At the same time it investigates the more general problem of hegemony in all power-sharing arrangements. Power-sharing th…
This dissertation explores the concepts of “hegemony” and “utopianism” in the conceptualization of a “technopole” in a Southeast Asian state. I describe how “cybernetics” flow transculturally and is inscribed onto human consciousness as illustrated in the case of Malaysia's gran…
International monetary and financial crises have punctuated US hegemony since 1945. With US hegemony likely to endure and crises likely to recur, we need to understand how the US reacts to such events: benevolently or exploitatively? Using a case study of US behaviour during the…
In 2009, the IASB published IFRS for SMEs, extending their work beyond standard setting for listed entities. This thesis investigates the IASB's political processes in the development of IFRS for SMEs. The board's discourse presents an image of technocratic expertise, which acts…
My thesis argues that the New Right (NR) sought to manipulate state education as a mechanism of both social transformation and social control in the UK between 1979 and 1992. This is investigated by employing a 'critical realist' perspective which is located within a wider 'neo-…
In this dissertation, based on German-language primary documents found in the German and Tanzanian National Archives, I examine the spatial strategies of resistance in the colony German East Africa. I argue that German policies on transportation, labor, Islamic practice, and edu…
The present dissertation offers a critical study of how two contemporary U.S. women writers critique, resist, dismantle and disrupt the hegemonic discourse that represents U.S. Third World women as a monolithic and homogeneous category. The unsettling of the monolithic image of …
AB -Türkiye ilişkileri genellikle Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birliği (AB) üyeliği perspektifinde değerlendirilip müzakerlerin ve siyasi süreçlerinekseninde incelenmiştir. AB– Türkiye ilişkilerini ekonomik temelde ele alan çalışmalar ise, siyasi süreçlerin ilişkileri etkilemesi gerçeğini…
This project highlights an alternative method for reading the biblical presentation of Jerusalem temple leadership in the cultural and historical context of Achaemenid Judah. This study provides further nuance to Hebrew Bible studies by stressing close attention to the Persian i…
My thesis, in one sentence, is that the entire political discourse in Denmark (and in many parts of Europe) has moved to the right through the debate on immigration in the last two decades. The left/right distinction is pushed to the background and a cultural one - the "Danish p…
Abstract: This study tests two interventions conducted in Afghanistan: The USSR's between 1979 and 1989, and that of the United States from 2001 to the present day. Using Paul Kennedy's hypothesis of Imperial Overstretch as a guideline, an analytical understanding of the hypothe…
This study seeks to explore the link between foreign policy and the rise and decline of political hegemonies in Turkey. It offers a poststructuralist foreign policy analysis that rests on two basic premises. First, in contrast with the mainstream view of foreign policy, which fo…
This dissertation explores how three social movements deployed an anti-neoliberal master frame during the course of a multi-movement protest wave. Using ethnographic content analysis. I examine the Global Justice (GJM), Antiwar (AWM), and Immigrant Rights movements (IRM) of the …