This dissertation concerns two interrelated areas of cultural policy in Turkey: the curation of an official broadcast repertoire of folk music at the state broadcasting …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
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, …
Advances in Urban Science, particularly Urban Scaling Theory, have begun to uncover and explain urban dynamics shared by cities across time and place. This thesis …
This dissertation investigates Estonian hip-hop artists’ engagement with concepts of national suffering, character, and anxieties by examining the play of collective social norms and individuality …
My dissertation challenges both the assertion and dismissal of identity politics in the humanities through a queer-diasporic overhaul of the concept of "narcissism." Both the …
Why do developing country governments support the creation of domestic multinational corporations (MNCs)? I argue that governments can use the outward foreign direct investments of …
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 …
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
In recent decades, the djembe has become a global commodity. Originating as a local ceremonial drum in rural Mande communities, the djembe has since proliferated …
This dissertation investigates Turkish redefinitions of traditional gender norms through the re-contextualizations of transnational American culture in the period between 1988 and 2009. Through an …
