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Austerity As Enclosure: How Austerity In Ireland After The Global Financial Crisis Acts As A Method Of Inclusion And Exclusion, Taylor Soto
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis argues that the austerity policies in Ireland after the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis acted as a form of second enclosure and increased economic inequality. This thesis uses a Marxian critique of neoliberal market society to analyze the policies enacted after the 2010 Irish Bailout. I situated the concept of enclosure within liberal hegemony arguing that enclosure must be conceptualized as a method of inclusion and exclusion. In addition, I connect Ireland’s history of enclosure with the power relation between land ownership and capital accumulation. I contextualize Ireland’s austerity policies within the neoliberal project and Ireland’s membership in the …
Counter-Narratives And Jonas Hassen Khemiri’S Play Invasion!: Storytelling That Fractures The Orientalist Narrative, Anna Christina Bahow
Counter-Narratives And Jonas Hassen Khemiri’S Play Invasion!: Storytelling That Fractures The Orientalist Narrative, Anna Christina Bahow
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the counter-narratives Jonas Hassen Khemiri constructs to challenge Orientalism in his play INVASION! Khemiri’s use of oppositional narratives and disidentification challenges the narrow confines of Middle Eastern/Arab stereotypes by using story and performance to decenter the White Western lens. By examining the context of Swedishness from which Khemiri’s work grows, the construct of the Orientalized Other, and the play itself, this thesis demonstrates how Khemiri disrupts systemic racism and creates a stage, both literally and figuratively, to address race and national identity in Sweden and, by implication, in the United States. I show how the storytelling in …
Female Cross-Dressing And Fragile Masculinity In Le Roman De Silence And Twelfth Night, Nicole Robilotta
Female Cross-Dressing And Fragile Masculinity In Le Roman De Silence And Twelfth Night, Nicole Robilotta
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This paper explores how fragile masculinity has been portrayed in Medieval and Renaissance literature by analyzing the impact of female-crossing dressing on male characters in Heldris of Cornwall’s Le Roman de Silence and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In the 13th century French Romance that centers on the debate between nature and nurture, Silence is a female raised as a male to circumvent patrilineal inheritance laws who becomes a celebrated knight. In Twelfth Night, Viola cross-dresses as Cesario, an act that results in the unintentional winning of Olivia’s love as well as confused (and ultimately resolved) romantic feelings from Count Orsino. …
The Discovery Of Merlin’S Spirit Within The Trinity Of Robert De Boron’S Le Roman De L’Estorie Dou Graal, Diane Higgins
The Discovery Of Merlin’S Spirit Within The Trinity Of Robert De Boron’S Le Roman De L’Estorie Dou Graal, Diane Higgins
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Before I wrote about Robert de Boron’s text, a purpose of this paper was to examine the literary background of Merlin’s character to search for his connection with any mystical powers, which would validate his commanding role as a facilitator in Robert’s Merlin section of his romance, a role in which I claim he has been given the powers of the Holy Trinity by God. I also wanted to explore the history of cauldrons and other ancient vessels to link determine if I could find any literary base to the Grail Robert assigns to Jesus Christ. I wanted to further …
The Logic Of Imagination: A Spinozan Critique Of Imaginative Freedom, Amanda Parris
The Logic Of Imagination: A Spinozan Critique Of Imaginative Freedom, Amanda Parris
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Taking seriously Spinoza's claims that truth is the standard of both itself and the false and that imaginative thought is in itself true, this dissertation is an inquiry into the truth of imaginative freedom, that is, an explanation of its causes and, more importantly, its effects on life. The Spinozan imagination is a power by which the human being can be disempowered and so I seek to explain what the imagination can do. Starting from the Spinozan image, the thought and affect born of the arrant encounters of the individual in the infinite relation of nature's immanent selfproduction, I identify …
Networks In Nature: Applying Cultural Ecology For Stewardship, Shelby Lasaine
Networks In Nature: Applying Cultural Ecology For Stewardship, Shelby Lasaine
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research is to describe the historical context and systemic structure of the Western agrarian estate model to locate opportunities for strategic solutions to environmental degradation in a way that balances cultivated and conserved natural resources. In part 1, landholders are identified as a point of leverage in the agrarian system. Part 2 goes over the historical development of the Western estate and state traditions, which support landholders by having instituted land administration and information systems to enfranchise their activity. The systemic theory that underlies the Western model is outlined in part 3, describing how social and …
Critique And Neoliberalism In Michel Foucault, Neal Miller
Critique And Neoliberalism In Michel Foucault, Neal Miller
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation argues that Foucault's concept of critique is a practice that principally consists of "desubjection" and the history of the present. Critique thinks the identity of its historical present on the basis of what escapes this identity. It participates in these escapes by exploring how they challenge the concepts of extant critical discourse and illuminate the existing order of things in their contingent historicality. As the limits of a historical present involve the rules of discourse, the forms of power relations, and the production of subjectivities, critical thought must ally itself with that which undoes existing subjectivities by struggling …
Las Curanderas De La Herida Abierta: How Online Communities Of Women Of Color Are Challenging Coloniality, Aracelis Sanchez
Las Curanderas De La Herida Abierta: How Online Communities Of Women Of Color Are Challenging Coloniality, Aracelis Sanchez
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Using Facebook and Instagram pages, women of color create virtual communities for epistemological transformations and community healing. In this thesis, I show that online communities of women of color constitute a decolonial feminist virtual space that serves as a site of knowledge production. I argue that these online communities can be conceptualized as a decolonial project existing and expanding from online spaces to public places and characterized by a deliberate rejection of anti-blackness, a critique of the capitalist/colonial/imperial world system, and liberating conceptions of sexuality and gender. I focus on Latina Rebels, Xicanisma, and Lindas, Libres pero Chingonas in order …
Consulting The Past: A Comparison Of Relations Between Abrahamic Religions In Medieval Spain And Its Reflection In Today’S Israel-Palestine Relations, Morgan Reyes
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
It has been said that the study of medieval Al-Andalus with the purpose to shed light on Middle Eastern relationships in today's world would be a fruitless endeavor. The two worlds are not synonymous, even though Muslims, Jews and Christians continue to live together at present time in a small geographic area. Many are familiar with the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, but many more are unaware of the cohabitation that took place between Christians, Muslims and Jews for over 700 years in Spain, known as Convivencia. This thesis aims to add to the discussion of relations between Abrahamic …
Pauli Murray In The 1930s: Portraits And Post-Soul Eccentricity, Sarah Scriven
Pauli Murray In The 1930s: Portraits And Post-Soul Eccentricity, Sarah Scriven
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
In my thesis I follow the qualities in Murray’s life that suggest contrariety and eccentricity. In particular, I trace Murray’s performances in her portraits from the 1930s, which display her racial, gender, and sex reinvention. I illuminate these portraits as markers of Post-Soul Eccentricity to place Murray in a tradition in which her quare performance can be understood and suggest that her offbeat performances were part of her politics invested in Queer World-Making. I locate these ideas in portraits of Pauli Murray’s scrapbook viewed synchronously with her autobiography, Song in A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage (1987) and biographical sources.
The Telling Is Political & Intentional: Resistance Through Testimonio For Latinas In Higher Education, Fabiola Rosiles
The Telling Is Political & Intentional: Resistance Through Testimonio For Latinas In Higher Education, Fabiola Rosiles
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the challenges, difficulties, and triumphs of Latinas in higher education-the motivation of our families, the feelings of guilt and alienation, and the experiences of discrimination and marginalization. The analysis is developed through a close reading of the 22 testimonies in Jessica De Leon's book entitled Wise Latinas. The argument is that it is important to not only acknowledge the experiences of Latinas in higher education, but to also recognize how the issues, structures, and barriers are tied to larger structures of power and oppression. At the same time, the strategies of resistance and resilience are also grounded …
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: Prometheus Liberated, Bintou Sy
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: Prometheus Liberated, Bintou Sy
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates the influences of Mary Shelley and trace her construction of Frankenstein. While previous studies have researched Mary Shelley or her novel, little attention has been devoted to considering both. This study takes a close look at the life of Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein as a linchpin, reading it as a reflection of Mary’s influences and as a document which itself serves as an influence to others. I examine in what ways the novel impacted English society and could have been read as an allegory for the human condition.
In The Presence Of Suffering: Toward A New Understanding Of Evil, Kristina Lebedeva
In The Presence Of Suffering: Toward A New Understanding Of Evil, Kristina Lebedeva
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
The present dissertation addresses the question of evil and suffering as intrinsically intertwined, linked by the notion of affective temporality, as distinct from ‘clock time.’ Following Adi Ophir, I define evil as superfluity, as what ought not to be, thus divorcing it from any idea of necessity, and its social production that must be reduced or disrupted. The catastrophes that are still happening take precedence over past ones, since the former are still open to reduction, intervention, and alleviation. Here time becomes a key notion that alerts us to the possibilities of responding morally to present disasters. Time reappears again …
The Political Logic Of Destituent Power: Time, Subjectivity, And Revolutionary Violence, Kieran Aarons
The Political Logic Of Destituent Power: Time, Subjectivity, And Revolutionary Violence, Kieran Aarons
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is a study of the relation between time, subjectivity, and violence in revolutionary social transformation. It argues that Giorgio Agamben's theory of 'destituent power' offers a compelling reconception of the meaning and function of revolutionary violence, whose originality is bound up in the theory of time from which it cannot be dissociated. The thesis demonstrates that development of this theory required that Agamben revise his earlier conception of political violence and revolutionary time. While the definition of revolutionary violence remains constant throughout his work (as 'the restoration of participation in the creation of the world'), the nature and …
Diversity And Dissonance: A Narrative Exploration Of Adolescent Transcultural Identity Construction Within The International School, Rachel Conrad Carlson
Diversity And Dissonance: A Narrative Exploration Of Adolescent Transcultural Identity Construction Within The International School, Rachel Conrad Carlson
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This qualitative research study explores how the analysis of identity narratives written by transcultural individuals who attended international high schools can strengthen researchers' and international school teachers' understanding of how to better assist this population in negotiating their multicultural identities. This study examines a sample of eight narratives written by adult transculturals now in their twenties who attended high school at the International Christian School of Vienna (ICSV). The analysis of the identity narratives also aims to shed light on how the power structures present in the international school affect transculturals ongoing identity construction and perception of their agency and …
Extremism, Fake News And Hate: Effects Of Social Media In The Post-Truth Era, Alex Schackmuth
Extremism, Fake News And Hate: Effects Of Social Media In The Post-Truth Era, Alex Schackmuth
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the utilization of social media platforms (particularly Facebook & Twitter) by political actors, contemporary media, and ordinary people to disseminate false or misleading information. Furthermore, it examines how social media have aided in the mobilization of previously unpopular extremist social/political movements in the US. This research provides a rich historical account of news media and its dissemination technology. Additionally, the thesis looks to several theories to show that these events are best understood as examples of larger processes endemic to modern capitalist societies. Utilizing news media and archival records to create event catalogs, this research illustrates how …
Facebook As A Contemporary Public Sphere: Political Consciousness And Agency, Catherine Drake
Facebook As A Contemporary Public Sphere: Political Consciousness And Agency, Catherine Drake
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis argues that Facebook can create the conditions of possibility for a dynamic, deliberative space for human engagement which can potentially lead to the formation of globally networked, active, empowered political subjects. This thesis examines Facebook as a contemporary version of the Habermasian public sphere while tracing the development of political consciousness in a particular person at a particular moment through engagement with Facebook. By using this self-reflective approach, I critically examine my own experiences alongside public sphere and social media literature which both suggest that Facebook may offer a new way to engage politically in ways that are …
Affirmative Action And Bolsa Família In Brazil, Beatriz C. Vigil
Affirmative Action And Bolsa Família In Brazil, Beatriz C. Vigil
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Bolsa Família is an antipoverty program that has gained a great deal of recognition in Brazil, while affirmative action is a controversial race based program with less political support. Affirmative action in Brazil though is usually framed in nonracial terms, specifically in the most important piece of Brazilian affirmative action legislation, the Lei de Cotas Sociais. Conventional wisdom is thus an artifact of discourse, for both programs are framed in universalistic terms, but disproportionately benefit AfroBrazilians. A word frequency analysis of newspaper articles is conducted to examine the media’s framing of affirmative action and Bolsa Família. The investigation demonstrates that …
Occupation And Resistance In Southern Iraq: A Study Of Great Britain’S Civil Administration In The Middle Euphrates And The Great Rebellion, 1917-1920, Scott Jones
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
The topic of this thesis is the complex history of the British occupation of the Middle Euphrates region of Iraq near the conclusion of the First World War and in its aftermath, which culminated in a massive rebellion in the summer of 1920. On the eve of WWI, Great Britain was faced with a combination of the disruption of its commercial pursuits in the Persian Gulf, fears of Russian expansionism in Persia and Central Asia, and German expansionism in Iraq. Seeking the opportunity to secure its imperial interests in Ottoman Iraq, and to join France and Russia in the European …