Browsing Culture and Politics Honors Theses by Creation Date
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Ibn Dayfulla's Tabaqat: An Analysis of Proto National Identity under the Funj Sultanate (1504 - 1821)
(2014-04-17)In order to provide a better understanding of the current internal conflicts and political national identity of Sudan, this thesis examines the historical process of Islamization and Arabization of the region. It argues ... -
Living and Imagining City Spaces: The Case Study of Beirut
(2014-09)“Schein und Sein,” is a baroque German proverb that literally translates to image and reality or the illusionary and the real. The dichotomy between the image and the real, the imagined and the lived, served as the initial ... -
Kenyan-Asians in Civil Society: Expanding the Imagined Community
(2016-07-24)Please refer to the full thesis posting. -
Mythrophrenia: Constructions of Modernity in Contemporary Arab Discourse
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Fanfiction and the Transgression of Fandom Communities
(2016-07-25)Fanfiction, i.e. stories written online by fans, is often characterized as transgressive by the fans who write it and by those who are familiar with the phenomena. This paper attempts to understand what about fanfiction ... -
Beirut is Burning: Drag in the Creation of Queer Lebanese Identities
(2019)This thesis analyzes the role of drag performance in constructing a queer Lebanese identity and creating queer spaces and a queer community in Beirut, bound by a sectarian and communal context but also subjected to global ... -
Suicide Memes: Internet Users’ Anti-Future Expressions
(2019-04-09)An internet meme refers to a modern type of humor that usually comes in the form of an image layered with a funny caption. Such an image would only be considered an internet meme if it spreads across the internet and is ... -
Investigating Accountability: Language Ideologies & Internalization at a New Mexican High School
(2019-04-11)This thesis considers the extent to which dominant language ideologies have become internalized in the attitudes of students and teachers at a New Mexican high school. Due to New Mexico’s multicultural past, its student ... -
Caring for 'The Least of These': An Analysis of Social Justice Activism in the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century
(2019-04-15)During slavery, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Church played a significant role in providing African Americans a platform through which they could fight for freedom and civil rights, and it served ... -
Dismissed: How Rent Courts Process and Punish Low-Income Tenants in Washington, DC
(2019-04-15)Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork in court, long-form interviews with tenants outside court, case law review, and a preliminary analysis of administrative court records, this research examines the central ... -
Theatres of Resistance: Reclaiming Narratives of Agency in Post-Colonial India and Palestine
(2019-04-29)Within the current international system, post-colonial states construct narratives by imagining their histories and conceptualize what it means to be a state and who belongs within it. They have the political and institutional ... -
Making Space: Muslim-Americans and “Progressive” Gender Activism in Mosques after 9/11
(2020)This thesis analyzes Muslim-American post-9/11 activism on women’s mosque spaces by examining progressive and mainstream Muslim activists’ and organizations’ efforts to achieve gender justice. The thesis presents the ... -
Beyond Activity & Passivity: The Oral Life History of an Afghan Refugee Woman in Pakistan
(2020)This thesis narrates a refugee woman's story and through her experiences, preferences, aspirations and her own understanding of her circumstances, it challenges the stereotypical representations of Muslim and Afghan ...
