This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
This dissertation reveals how the US military played a decisive role in the development of global capitalism since World War II. During the Cold War, …
“Crisis and Confidence” uses the sweeping transformation of post-1960s New York City to understand the broader economic and political remaking of the United States in …
Abstract of FRONTIER ONTOLOGIES: LAND, AGRARIAN GOVERNANCE, AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRITISH INDIA’S NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST, 1840-1930, by ABHILASH MEDHI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2020 This …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
In the first half of the twentieth century, the canned salmon industry brought Asian migrants and Northwest Coast Native peoples together in fishing and canning …
This dissertation investigates the creation of “life,” meaning the transformation of a static into a dynamic organization, in what I call works of animation. Although …
My research addresses the fundamental question of why certain socio-economic development projects take hold in a given context among competing alternatives. The dissertation investigates the …
This project is an interdisciplinary analysis of radical care and its employment as a strategy for community resistance. It explores the scholarship of radical care …
