Browsing by Subject "Cultural anthropology"
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A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
(2020)Despite decades of study, the question of how to achieve sustainable small-scale fisheries is unresolved. Because small-scale fishing is diverse and hard to control, one management approach places fishers at the center of ... -
Beyond “Revolutionary Humanitarianism”: Chinese Doctors in South Sudan
(2019)The transnational movement of medicines and medical professionals to post-war settings has given rise to various forms of caregiving, expertise and ethics. However, little is known about the broad range of actors and agents ... -
Brewing Development: Multinational Alcohol Companies, the Neo-Concessionary State, and the Politics of Industrialization in Ethiopia
(2019)This dissertation examines the politics of industry and industrialization in Ethiopia. I analyze how multinational alcohol companies and the Ethiopian state are brewing development, meaning spurring the creation of industrial ... -
Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
(2017)Iraqi academics have had a pivotal role in shaping and building Iraqi society, identity, and national structures, since the country’s independence from British colonial rule. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, ... -
Can a Hindu be Black?: A Study of Black Americans and Hinduism
(2021)Nearly half a century ago, acclaimed jazz musician Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), marital partner of saxophonist John Coltrane, began disseminating Hindu (Vedanta) teachings and jazz-inflected bhajans (songs of praise) in her ... -
“Conquest without Rule: Baloch Portfolio Mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.”
(2008)The central question this dissertation engages with is why modern states in the Persian Gulf rely heavily on informal networks of untrained and inexperienced recruits from the region of Balochistan, presently spread across ... -
Crafting an Egyptian Evangelicalism: Revolution, Revival, and Reform
(2020)This dissertation research explores the practices and aspirations to national belonging among Evangelical Egyptians, converts to a distinctively Euro-American form of Protestant Christianity through the proselytizing efforts ... -
Cultural Concepts of Negative Emotion: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Nepali Adolescents
(2017)Background: Emotions are shaped through the internalization of culturally relevant values. Contextualized systems of meaning influence an individual’s experience of emotion, the consequences of a given response, and their ... -
Culture in the Age of Biopolitics: Migrant Communities and Corporate Social Responsibility in China
(2013)This dissertation examines the conjuncture of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and migrant social life in the urban space of Beijing as a problematic of what Foucault called biopower, where distinct logics of market ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Dignity and Dionysus: Doing Wildness on the West Coast of Scotland
(2018)This is a dissertation about attachment and survival in a cult tourist destination on the West Coast of Scotland: a tiny village on the edge of a vast landscape, a scenic area valued for its exceptional remoteness and wildness. ... -
Edible Cultures: The Politics and Ethics of Recuperating Food Waste
(2020)On a planet with shrinking natural resources and a rising population, who will have enough to eat? This research studies the people and policies involved in an emergent citywide system of food waste recuperation in the E.U.’s ... -
Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan
(2014)Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of ... -
Global Sport, Territorial Ambition: How Professional Soccer Remade Turkey
(2020)Based on fieldwork in Bursa and archival research, this dissertation investigates the historical interplay between professional soccer, nationalism, and globalization in Turkey. The dissertation makes the case that the globalized ... -
Governing the Air: Regulation of Commercial Aviation in the Middle East
(2020)This dissertation project explores airspace as an anthropological space in a century when the sky is becoming more and more connected with everyday life on the ground. It argues that the 20th century’s technological and ... -
Haunted Borderland : The Politics on the Border War against China in post-Cold War Vietnam
(2014)This dissertation deals with the history and memory of the Border War with China in contemporary Vietnam. Due to its particularity as a war between two neighboring socialist countries in Cold War Asia, the Border War has ... -
Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
(2015)My dissertation project is an ethnographic history of "homes of capital," merchant homes located in port-cities of Gujarat in various states of splendor and decrepitude, which continue to mark a long history of Indian Ocean ... -
Listening at the Edges: Aural Experience and Affect in a New York Jazz Scene
(2014)In jazz circles, someone with "big ears" is an expert listener, one who hears the complexity and nuance of jazz music. Listening, then, figures prominently in the imaginations of jazz musicians and aficionados. While jazz ...
