Browsing by Subject "Mobility"
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Architectures of Aliveness: Building Beyond Gravity
(2015)In the context of today's global mobility, information, bodies and goods are circulating across the globe, and even further into outer space. However, we face a paradox: the more we move, the more we become sedentary. The ... -
“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 ... -
Geographies of Freedom: Black Women's Mobility and the Making of the Western River World, 1814-1865
(2018)Geographies of Freedom explores the ways in which free and enslaved black women pursued freedom for themselves and their families in the middle Mississippi River Valley using the law and uniquely gendered access to forms ... -
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 ... -
Mobile Ethnicity: The Formation of the Korean Chinese Transnational Migrant Class
(2013)This dissertation, Mobile Ethnicity, examines the formation of a transnational ethnic working class and the dynamics of remittance development in the context of Korean Chinese labor migration between China and Korea. I conducted ... -
Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
(2015)This dissertation ethnographically examines the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Yachen, a mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist ...
