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Raptured Relationships with Rivers: The Failure of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Against the Invasion of Hydroelectric Development in Guatemala
(2023)From its conception in Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization: the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, the right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) has been a site of negotiation between ... -
Gender in the Jasmine Revolution: State versus Female Protester's Conceptions of the Idealized Woman
(2023)The Tunisian Arab Spring saw high rates of female participation in the protests, which was taken by many as a result of the high level of gender equality in the country, relative to the rest of the Middle East and North ... -
“El problema estético del arte comprometido”: Marxist Notions Of Committed Art In Spanish Criticism, 1959-1975
(2023-05-02)The dictatorship of Francisco Franco from 1939 to 1975 came at a moment in Western cultural history where artifacts like art and literature were being reconceptualized as political tools. This thesis argues that Vicente ... -
Contested National Memories: Competing Narratives of ‘Comfort Women’ in Contemporary South Korea
(Georgetown University in Qatar, GU-Q, 2022)This study presumes that the fight for comfort women's memory is done by spontaneous acts of public memorialization and not by organized civic action. In most approaches, the memory of comfort women in South Korea has been ... -
Legalized Patriarchy: An Examination of Qatari Women’s Lived Realities in the Private/Public Spheres
(Georgetown University in Qatar, GU-Q, 2022)This study provides a deep perspective on the lived realities of Qatari women that arise from their experiences living under patriarchal laws and norms in the State of Qatar. This research is motivated by an observation ...