This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
Why don't old and new democracies immediately respond to health epidemics? And especially within large, highly decentralized federations, why don't central governments create effective bureaucratic …
Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema …
How should liberal democracies craft citizens through civic education in schools? This dissertation offers a new answer to this pressing question. Typically, responses must negotiate …
This dissertation investigates the promise and peril of the concept of vulnerability in contemporary ethical and political thought. Many strands of modern Western thought castigate …
O estudo realizado nesta dissertação debruça-se sobre a relação incontestável entre o escritor e o militante político no contexto revolucionário africano, por via do caso …