This document will undertake a comparison of the urban spaces and the narrative subjects that inhabit them in Maghrebian autobiographical narratives of childhood of the latter half of the twentieth century. The postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha has suggested that one of the m…
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This research provides one account of the complex relationship between differentiated experiences of deprivation and the dominant poverty construct in the Jamaican context. It is based on research conducted over a period of nine months in a Jamaican 'squatter' community, Windsor…
My research for this thesis focusses on the concepts of representation and space in order to demonstrate their theoretical and practical co-implications. Discussing various theorists of space in the first part and analyzing a number of artists and artworks as case studies in the…
This dissertation analyzes the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxes in an economy with multiple tax collecting authorities when both the taxes are subject to evasion and to what extent the tax compliance behavior of individuals in the United States are persistent and spatial…
The ‘Third Balkan Wars’—as the sequence of wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia is sometimes referred to in the vast sociological, political, and journalistic body of works published since 1991—took place in a ‘new’, post-1989 Europe that was haunted by feelings of fear and ins…
Cinemas and Cities: Spatiality in Taiwanese, Mexican, and Iranian Urban Films examines a paradigmatic shift of aesthetic norms that occurred in these three cinemas in the 1990s. As Taiwanese cinema gradually turned away from a nostalgic retrospection of the rural past toward a k…
A key question for Internet commerce is the strategic implications of technological advancements that distinguish the Internet channel from the traditional channels. One important distinction is that website technologies lead to a lower search cost on the Internet. Consequently,…
Understanding why protests grow in size and scale in some places but not in others is an often asked question for which there are numerous potential explanatory factors. This dissertation focuses on the influence that spatiality has on the underlying mechanisms at work in the pr…