This thesis examines the significance of a micro-level approach to the Israeli-Palestinian water conflict. By rethinking scale of analysis and examining local insecurities, Palestinian experiences reveal how water conflict plays out in latent and discursive ways. In a step-by-st…
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Several scholars have written on the relationship between local and national approaches to integration in the Netherlands. These authors have concluded that while the Dutch national government has become more assimilationist in its approach to migrant groups, local governments h…
The disappearance of a Cappucine priest, Father Thomas, and his servant, Ibrahim Amara, in 1840 in Damascus, produced consequences far beyond the local scene, affecting the policies of the great powers, the rivalry between Muhammed Ali of Egypt and the Ottoman Sultan, and Jewish…
Sangin District, in Helmand Province, was once described by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates as “the most dangerous not only in Afghanistan but maybe the whole world.” Nevertheless, Afghan Government officials received a written offer of peace from the principal local grouping …
This thesis is the first to focus on grassroots political opposition to fracking development in a city-region. It examines the political space opened by activists in Greater Manchester between 15th November 2013 and 12th April 2014, situating their political struggle in a broade…