The internet has been used to democratize public discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, two countries that lie in the under-studied zone between liberal democracies and closed authoritarian regimes. Several websites have emerged on the margins of the political system to engage in …
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This study examines the distinctive discourse of reform that animated American antislavery appeals published between the years 1754 and 1776. Examining the relationship between these appeals and the rhetorical, ideological, and civil-religious conventions of revolutionary-era Am…
Political conflict erupted after the fall of the Soviet Union instead of the convergent world that was anticipated. Responding in part to protests and ethnic strife after the Cold War, authors predicted breakdowns in prevailing power arrangements--particularly the nation-state. …
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…
For the last two centuries, much of the ancient Parthenon marble sculptures have been housed in the British Museum. For the past century, the museum has also displayed bronzes from Africa’s western coastal Benin region. These cultural objects have been part of repatriation debat…
This dissertation seeks to provide a framework for engaging with two spatial concepts that have been foundational to theorizing literacy across time but have often been taken for granted as passive backdrops to the social action of literacy practice: the notions of “the local” a…
The Declaration of Independence is a document with a rich history in American public discourse. Countless books, speeches, and films have relied on its rhetoric to argue their points. However, it is not clear what method we should use to apply the Declaration outside of its orig…
Use of the Occitan language in southern France has steadily declined over the past eight centuries, as part of a societal shift toward French. This shift has culminated in the current endangerment of Occitan (UNESCO, Ethnologue). Native speakers are aging rapidly, and according …