Browsing by Subject "Agency"
Now showing items 1-5 of 5
-
Culture, Capture, and Disease: Shrimp Production in the Age of Industrial Aquaculture
(2019)This dissertation focuses on the relationship of industrial shrimp aquaculture and shrimp diseases, with an emphasis on the agency of disease in shaping the history of shrimp production. Shrimp aquaculture is concentrated ... -
The Dispersion of Power: Thinking Democratically in the 21st Century
(2017)This dissertation identifies a logic of “equal agency” at the heart of a great deal of contemporary thinking about politics. Scholars and citizens alike, I claim, often use some version of this logic in trying to understand ... -
The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology After MacIntyre
(2010)This dissertation begins a conversation between "apocalyptic" interpretations of the Apostle Paul and the contemporary revival in "virtue ethics." It argues that the human actor's place in Pauline theology has long been ... -
‘The Secret is the Power, not the Knowledge’: Reconfiguring the Discourse of HIV/AIDS-related Stigma in Durham, NC
(2014-04-28)What are the conditions in which stigma is held to be a common sense factor of HIV/AIDS, yet is mutable in the ways people experience stigma? My research analyzes the terrain in which this question is precipitated, and I ... -
When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
(2009)ABSTRACTThis study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. ...
