This research is concerned with the problems and possibilities of combining diverse forms of peacebuilding in the same peacebuilding space. It analyses patterns of interaction between various forms of peacebuilding using a framework of hybridity. Within debates on peacebuilding …
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Unexplained variations in organisational performance in healthcare are a continued focus of research, political, and public interest. Regulatory agencies are always seeking new ways to reduce variation and improve performance, and the use of approaches to develop improvement cap…
The Hybrid Identities Project (HIP) investigates the professional role and identities of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) as hybrid professionals. Hybrid professionals are professionals of mixed origin who operate within broad knowledge areas with competence develope…
This research seeks to address the issue of media consumption and the formation of diaspora identity within second and third generation British-born residents of Pakistani origin. In recent years there has been much debate centred on this group within the context of domestic and…
There is a wealth of existing literature on the importance of student organizations both at the secondary and post-secondary level; however, very little is known about Muslim female youth and their experiences in Muslim student groups in secondary schools. This study focuses on …
This thesis contends that the colonial and postcolonial anthropological and ethnomusicological disciplines promoted “African rhythm” and, by extension, the “African drum” as the ultimate canon of study in Africanist ethnomusicology and as the defining parameters of authenticity …
Although the term hybrid has gained much traction in literary analyses of contemporary experimental poetry, there is a notable divide within scholarly discourse wherein its uses pertain to either form or content. The term has been used by literary critics and anthologists to cat…
This thesis focuses on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mauritius. This thesis illustrates the implications and pressures of the Church trying to globalize the faith, correlating Mormonism with and conforming it to cosmopolitan communities such a…
The purpose of this study is to analyze William Hajjar’s single-family houses in State College, Pennsylvania, home of the Pennsylvania State University’s main campus, by using shape grammar as a computational design methodology. Shape grammar is used to verify and describe the i…
This thesis explores the working lives of British Born South Asian Ethnic Minorities (BB SAEMs), critiquing the homogenous identities ascribed to them in previous research. Its methodology is life-story interviews analysed using Nvivo. This identified four hybrid categories emer…
This dissertation seeks to understand how a historically subaltern group negotiates family and societal power dynamics as they emerge from voicelessness into varying degrees of empowerment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 young women, identifying as Indo-Guyane…
This dissertation examines the various meanings of modernity in the history of Korean pop music, focusing on several crucial turning points in the development of K-pop. Since the late 1980s, Korean pop music has aspired to be a more advanced industry and establish an internation…
Most scholarly accounts of Dravidian nationalism have focused on tracing the socio-economic and political dimensions of the movement. This primary emphasis has precluded scholarly interest and a deeper understanding of the important regional, socio-cultural and religious roots o…
This dissertation is focused on developing a contextual-hybrid ministry approach in the context of the Melanesian understanding of spiritual power. In order to do so, I have explored two perspectives; namely the Melanesian approach to spiritual power (or pawa as known in Papua N…
Invoking the Conscience: Revising Jatra in Bengal as a tool for Representation, Restoration, and Revolution, draws from the evolution of the Bengali performance form Jatra from a religious celebration to a secular and provocative form of theatre both socially and politically cha…
This dissertation interrogates the assertion in postcolonial scholarship, especially from the work of Homi Bhabha that the construction and performance of hybrid identities act as a form of resistance for marginalized communities against structures of oppression. While this stud…
This dissertation explores the ways in which a place-based perspective that emphasizes the interconnectedness of physical environments and social worlds contributes to an understanding of some of the complex ways that refugees integrate into and resist their new environments pos…
This dissertation study explores the rise of Irish women poets of the twentieth century, in particular Eavan Boland from the southern Republic of Ireland and Medbh McGuckian from Northern Ireland. It investigates the birth of Irish Feminist Literary Theory and Irish Postcolonial…
A long thought entirely contingent upon its discursive context, which, here, does not exceed two decades of uninterrupted memory. Before that, the ocean. Central discursive formations include: family life; church and religion; higher education (post-structuralism); the so-called…