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Envisioning Utopia: The Aesthetics Of Black Futurity, Sydney Haliburton
Envisioning Utopia: The Aesthetics Of Black Futurity, Sydney Haliburton
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines the ways in which black women are addressing and healing from trauma through acts of envisioning the future. The ways in which space, connectivity, and gesture function throughout Solange Knowles' "Cranes in the Sky" music video exemplifies the ways in which "performance of futurity [is] embedded in the aesthetic" (Muñoz 87), Kelela Mizanekristos' "Take me Apart" evokes a queer black vulnerability through a conceptual "hauntology," and Tierra Whack's "Whack World" utilizes black camp as a creative and expansive tool to create worlds that act as a vessel for meaning making. These contribute to an analysis of how …
Religious Identities And Allegiances In The Transformation Of Ukrainian National Consciousness 2013-2018, Julian Hayda
Religious Identities And Allegiances In The Transformation Of Ukrainian National Consciousness 2013-2018, Julian Hayda
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Although the 2013-2014 Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine was an expression of Ukrainian sovereignty and agency, a number of issues like the war in Donbas, dispute over Crimea, debilitating corruption, and the worst economic crisis since independence have left Ukrainians disenfranchised and seeking change elsewhere. The most visible vehicle for this was Ukrainians' turn to particular religious institutions, revisiting religious identity as an expression of agency. While Ukrainian state democracy has struggled, Ukrainians are democratizing vis-à-vis religious allegiance. This culminated, in part, in the 2018 decision to combine two of Ukraine's Orthodox Churches into a united Church recognized for the first …
Climate Change, Environmentally Displaced Persons And Post-Sovereignty: An Assessment Of Normative Gaps And Potential Solutions In International Law, Thais Pinheiro Birriel
Climate Change, Environmentally Displaced Persons And Post-Sovereignty: An Assessment Of Normative Gaps And Potential Solutions In International Law, Thais Pinheiro Birriel
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyses the impact of natural and anthropogenic environmental disruptions in the dynamics of migration as well as its social, legal and political implications in the context of disasters and climate change. The complex case of environmentally displaced persons is examined and the capacity of existing international legal frameworks to address the needs of these group is reviewed. In this scenario, the study explores gaps and limitations of contemporary international law that directly relates to environmentally-induced displacement and concludes that the current international law regime is insufficient to protect environmentally displaced persons. Additionally, the thesis critically evaluates to what …
Towards A Classification Of Continuity And On The Emergence Of Generality, Daniel Rosiak
Towards A Classification Of Continuity And On The Emergence Of Generality, Daniel Rosiak
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation has for its primary task the investigation, articulation, and comparison of a variety of concepts of continuity, as developed throughout the history of philosophy and a part of mathematics. It also motivates and aims to better understand some of the conceptual and historical connections between characterizations of the continuous, on the one hand, and ideas and commitments about what makes for generality (and universality), on the other. Many thinkers of the past have acknowledged the need for advanced science and philosophy to pass through the “labyrinth of the continuum” and to develop a sufficiently rich and precise model …
Emotional Labor And Care Delivery: Interviews With Obstetrical Nurses, Kelly O'Meara
Emotional Labor And Care Delivery: Interviews With Obstetrical Nurses, Kelly O'Meara
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Using a qualitative approach, twenty long-format interviews with registered nurses with experience working in obstetrics (OB RNs) were conducted using a structured, open-ended question guide to investigate occupational culture, the impact of societal forces on work, and the role of emotion in nursing. Audio-recordings of the interviews were analyzed for themes, using grounded theory. Within the culture of OB RNs, the duty of providing safe care was embedded throughout conversations as a duty, a safety imperative. Since OB RNs saw their job in terms of safety foremost, friction arose when others held differing expectations, influenced by medical dominance and the …
Searching For Sustainable, Intergenerational, And Multiracial Coalitions On The Neoliberal Campus: A Case Study, Victoria Agunod
Searching For Sustainable, Intergenerational, And Multiracial Coalitions On The Neoliberal Campus: A Case Study, Victoria Agunod
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This case study tracks the repercussions and re/productions effected by the alt-Right agitator Milo Yiannopolous' visit to DePaul University's campus on his “Dangerous Faggot Tour” and the consequential riot he led through campus in 2016. Looking closely at the relational positionalities and responses of the student protesters, the university administration, and the antiracist student affairs practitioners who supported the protesters, the analysis seeks to answer how the neoliberal university strategically prevents coalition-building among marginalized students, staff, and faculty, especially when the matter deals with, race, racism, and antiracism. The study unravels the structural and rhetorical strategies of neoliberalism that the …
Revolutionary Bodies: William Blake And The Struggle For Transcendence, Anthony Madia
Revolutionary Bodies: William Blake And The Struggle For Transcendence, Anthony Madia
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Throughout the course of his work, William Blake used bodies in order to express a desire for a transcendent revolution. This paper examines the different ways that Blake employs bodies to enact revolutionary change. In doing so, the paper discusses how bodies are written, write, and labor. Moreover, the paper refers to the societal constraints placed on the body, be they limits regarding gender, sex, race, or class. By engaging in a discussion of the body's limitations and capabilities coupled with Blake's relationship with the body, it becomes clear that Blake chooses to depict bodies struggle against the normative structure …
Migration, Multilingualism And Adaptation: Language As Social Capital In A Present-Day Mexican Ethnic Enclave In The U.S., Citlali Ochoa
Migration, Multilingualism And Adaptation: Language As Social Capital In A Present-Day Mexican Ethnic Enclave In The U.S., Citlali Ochoa
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
As the Spanish language continues to thrive in the U.S., so do the linguistic needs of immigrants. This study investigates, from a sociolinguistic perspective, the Spanish language within a Mexican immigrant enclave in Chicago, Illinois. Language use was investigated within four business and translators there in. It aims to uncover valuable insight into the understanding of the specific linguistic use of the businesses within this enclave and how it may, or may not, be contributing to the language maintenance and language shifts of the Spanish language in the U.S. The study also examines the effects of globalization and immigration policies …
Developing Resilience Through Local Food, Erika Coble
Developing Resilience Through Local Food, Erika Coble
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Using resilience from the perspective of the two-book series on the subject by Brian Walker and David Salt, the following is an illustration of how the conventional food system, in the way its production is disconnected from the local environment and the people it serves, creates instability and uncertainty in that which we depend on for our survival. Following the discussion on the unstable nature of the industrial model and its impact on our well-being, is a portrait of an alternative approach for the cultivation of food based on people connected to the local ecosystem where in which fissures begin …
From Typology To Aesthetics In American Literature, Lisa Parzefall
From Typology To Aesthetics In American Literature, Lisa Parzefall
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis traces changes in the use of typology in American literature from the Puritans through the twentieth century of American literature. In particular, this project takes a closer look at major works of John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville in order to investigate how typology was employed by each of them and develops into modern symbolism. This thesis documents some stages in the origins of symbolism and its usage in American literature as the latter increasingly proclaimed stylistic independence from European intellectual traditions and became a highly admired form in literature. I show …
Obscurity And Involvement On The Unconscious Of Thought In Leibniz, Spinoza, And Hume, Gilbert Morejon
Obscurity And Involvement On The Unconscious Of Thought In Leibniz, Spinoza, And Hume, Gilbert Morejon
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation I argue for the central metaphysical importance of unconscious dimensions of thought in philosophical systems of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, and analyze how these unconscious dimensions inform how each conceives of freedom and volition. I show that they develop robust accounts of unconscious perceptions, beliefs, desires, and habits of thinking, all of which participate significantly in shaping the processes by which we consciously make decisions. I claim that attention to this aspect of their philosophies, which has often been neglected, sheds important light on their reflections concerning whether and how individual freedom is possible. I show that, …
China’S Investment In The Democratic Republic Of Congo: The Impact Of The 2007 Sino-Congolese Agreement In A Postwar Period, John Bintu Bantu Kafarhire
China’S Investment In The Democratic Republic Of Congo: The Impact Of The 2007 Sino-Congolese Agreement In A Postwar Period, John Bintu Bantu Kafarhire
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Over the past 10 years, China has become a major actor in African politics and development process. It has invested significant amounts of money in infrastructure in mineral-rich countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. In return, China secures the exploitation of main resources, necessary for its own economic development, such as cobalt and copper. In 2007, a consortium of Chinese enterprises signed a ‘resource for infrastructure’ agreement with the Congolese government. The parties agreed that China would export and sell Congolese cobalt and copper and, in return, China would build a number of infrastructure projects in the Congo. …
Strangers At Home: Guido Deiro And His Accordion In The American Vaudeville Theater, Yu Hao Chen
Strangers At Home: Guido Deiro And His Accordion In The American Vaudeville Theater, Yu Hao Chen
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
My thesis considers the influence of vaudeville on the popularization of the accordion in America between the 1910s and 1920s. Scholarship on the accordion has tended to echo historical caricatures of the instrument as a consequence of folkloric, lowbrow, and even indecent class mores. In this paper, I explore the accordion as a thoroughly modern and complex cultural symbol through the locus of Guido Deiro (1886–1950), an Italian accordionist who first introduced the piano accordion to the American vaudeville in 1910. To reconstruct and contrast various facets of Guido’s vaudeville career, I use archival materials, historical sources, and recordings that …
Intertextual Abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, And The Print, Politics, And Language Of Slavery, Jake Spangler
Intertextual Abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, And The Print, Politics, And Language Of Slavery, Jake Spangler
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
t is the design of this project to suggest that Frederick Douglass' novella, "The Heroic Slave," both pulled from and was a catalyst in the field of emancipatory discourse and debate, most notably through the links between Douglass' and Byron's work found in the epigraphs to the novella. These links offered Douglass a means of harnessing past conversations on slavery. Douglass' ability to access these communicative environments is made possible due to the intertextual nature of literature. Through the use of adaptation and word play, Douglass was able to access and use a separate narrative voice from that which he …
Critical Race Theory In Education: Analyzing African American Students’ Experience With Epistemological Racism And Eurocentric Curriculum, Sana Bell
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This literature review presents an analysis of race ideology within U.S. society and schools in order to understand how such ideologies are transmitted to African American students through Eurocentric curricula and thus can perpetuate racism. Recognizing that American curricula originates from social control elements and that schools are institutions responsible for preparing students for the world they live in (Apple, 2004; Apple & King, 1983; Giroux, 2001; and Giroux & Penna, 1979); I focus on African American students’ experience with a Eurocentric curriculum and how this curriculum influences their social identity and ability to successfully navigate society. Essentially, the literature …
The Fan Fiction Reading Guide: The Use Of Multimedia And Comments As Close Reading Tools, Lauren Rouse
The Fan Fiction Reading Guide: The Use Of Multimedia And Comments As Close Reading Tools, Lauren Rouse
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This paper considers the benefits of including multimedia in fan fiction multimedia and its effects on the close-reading and critical analysis skills of readers. By completing an illustrative and cumulative case study with three fan fiction authors who are currently writing and publishing a new fiction (fic), the author was able to view the production and promotion of fan fiction and its accompanying multimedia. Additionally, this research analyzed the comments from these works through topic modeling and term frequency as well as other data analysis methods. Through both the data analysis and the interviews, several conclusions were discovered, including the …
Land And Land Grabbing: The Case Study Of The Neumann Kaffee Gruppe In Uganda, Carolyn Vertin
Land And Land Grabbing: The Case Study Of The Neumann Kaffee Gruppe In Uganda, Carolyn Vertin
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyzes the dynamic of North-South relations and food politics in relation to the trend of “land-grabbing” by foreign investors in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis focuses on the conceptual and discursive “ecology” surrounding food and land security in the post-colonial, globalized world. The image of post-colonial Africa has been made to show a continent plagued with turmoil, yet filled with expanses of underutilized land that are ripe for cultivation. I argue that land lease relationships between governments of less developed countries and organizations, companies or agencies from more developed countries affect peasants and local communities more than- or more …
White Wilderness: Race, Capitalism, And Alternative Knowledges Of Natural Space, Jamie Corliss
White Wilderness: Race, Capitalism, And Alternative Knowledges Of Natural Space, Jamie Corliss
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This project investigates discourse about American wilderness, from the first European explorers through contemporary outdoor recreation, to reveal that wilderness is a socially constructed concept. By uncovering nine essential myths, this project argues that wilderness discourse is both influenced by and perpetuates American settler colonialism and racial capitalism. Section One traces a history of wilderness discourse to demonstrate that wilderness discourse establishes whites as citizens, as civilized, as courageous conquerors, as rightful owners to land, as protectors of space, and as beneficiaries of any potential profit. Section Two uses a content analysis of contemporary outdoor recreation websites to argue that …