This dissertation examines the relationship between literature, empathy, and human rights in historical and contemporary novels from the Americas. Paying particular attention to racial injustice …
My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
This thesis will seek to address the scope of violence that migrants encounter in transit on the Central American Migrant Trail and evaluate the effectiveness …
This dissertation examines how states and international organizations (IOs) can be held democratically accountable for respecting human rights. Political theorists have criticized the democratic deficit …
This dissertation presents three empirical papers on the politics of punishment, vigilantism and justice attitudes in Mexico. It combines original interviews, surveys, focus groups, and …
In the last decade, millions of immigrants in the United States have been the subject of discursive violence engendered and perpetuated by policy and the …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between learning how to speak and learning how to die, between the discovery of eloquence and the experience of death. …
This study examines an extraordinary citizenship project that helped transform the meanings of rights and democracy in twentieth-century São Paulo. It tells the story of …
This dissertation examines the causes of forced displacement—the phenomenon wherein individuals leave their homes due to violence—within and from cities in the Global South. Non-state …
Climate change and the difficulty of addressing displacement are not future problems: they are challenges the international community faces and has been facing for some …
