This dissertation examines the representation of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamāl al-Ghītānī, Muhammad al-Bisāt ̇ī, ‘Abd al-Hakīm Qāsim, Bahā’ Tāhir, Yahya Tāhir ‘Abdallah, Ibrāhīm Aslān, and Sun‘allah Ibr…
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In this dissertation, I examine the process through which Turkish immigrants and their children made themselves at home in West Germany from 1961 to reunification in 1990. Originally coming to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) through a temporary foreign worker program in th…
Pressure to standardize curriculum, assessment, and instruction is rapidly whittling perceptions of what counts as literacy in public schools. Educators risk fostering compliance and cementing preconceived categorization of students, rather than critical thinking when orderlines…
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork over three years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Mombasa, Kenya, this dissertation examines the significance of everyday practice and shared narratives in response to mass crisis. Elaborating on established elements of trauma re…
Extant literature on the Palestinian-Israeli separation wall privileges the wall's function in border-making, while ignoring other discursive and spacial functions it fulfills. My thesis reaches beyond the border-making function of the wall, resituating it as a node among differ…
Thul and LaVoi (2011) conducted a study in 2008, titled "Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Immigrant Adolescent Girls," to learn about barriers facing this underserved population. The purpose of the study was to explore Eas…
Amidst post-Soviet Central Asia's economic stagnation and political instabilities of the 1990s, Uzbek men in the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, interpreted a wide range of current events and trends through the frame of a political imagination about what an ideal postsocialist state lo…
In Detroit, African Americans constitute over eighty percent of the population, and the black community has a firm grip on municipal political power in the city. But among African Americans there is still a pervasive sense of disenfranchisement at the hands of large corporate, a…
The purpose of this research is to interpret economic behavior at the medieval settlement of Salemi, Italy. The specific issues that I will address are: What are the spatial patterns of economic distribution in the city? What areas in the city were distribution centers of materi…
This work is about boundaries in architecture. It explores the order of producing boundaries (or borders) in contemporary buildings in Egypt. In this work, I understand a border to be a space that lies between various social domains and in which these domains—divergent overlappi…
This thesis begins with the examination of the five multilateral space law treaties from perspectives of the developing countries. Next, the genesis and scope of international cooperation in space activities, in relation to the expectations of the developing countries is explore…
The Thais of Kelantan live in a borderland. Although politically Malaysian citizens, they are also privy to the discourses of cultural standardization that emanate from the Thai nation-state just across the international frontier. The bi-polarity of their geo-political location …
The thesis sets out to examine conceptions of time and space, individual and social identity, and their relation to ideological structures and constructive practices, both as employed at Rome, and in their effect on modern attitudes to ancient Roman society. Chapter One: explore…
Multiplicity is a key challenge and opportunity of world politics, yet scholars continue to struggle to do it justice. One way of reducing the challenge multiple times and spaces present us with has been to organise them allochronically, to align spatial difference in temporal s…
This practice-based thesis explores the possibilities presented by dissonant relations between site and text in site-specific theatre. Identifying the under-examination, and so under-theorisation of site/text relations in site-specific scholarship, the thesis pursues an enquiry …
This research builds on three projects that aim to investigate and explore innovation patterns adopted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past 15 years. The research proposes solutions to overcome observed issues, challenges and barriers facing emerging space countries, …
This research calls for a reconsideration of the notion of rubbish; one that does not consider disposal as the final act of the production-consumption cycle but, instead, appreciates the practices enacted around rubbish as constitutive of value creation. Drawing on Henri Lefebvr…
This research explores the production of informal spaces in England. Informal spaces are those used by people who do not own the land. The research focused on how such a space is produced, through a variety of processes and activities. The use and function of informal spaces is …
On account of their supposed link to nature, women in post-revolutionary France were pigeonholed into a very restrictive sphere that centred around domesticity and submission to their male counterparts. Yet this thesis shows how a number of women writers – Cottin, Genlis, Krüden…