Browsing Culture and Politics Honors Theses by Title
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Another East Bay Night: Occupy Wall Street, the Port of Oakland, and the Coloniality of Global Logistics
(2022-05-02)The November 2 and December 12, 2011 blockades of the Port of Oakland by the Occupy Wall Street movement represented radical and messy attempts to reconstitute public space beyond the reaches of neoliberal capitalism. In ... -
The Anti-Border "Imagination Battle": An Examination of the European Neighborhood Policy in Morocco
(Georgetown University, 2020-04-20)This thesis examines the ways in which borders are enforced and imagined. The author uses public EU documents, expert interviews and anti-border scholarship to explore the oppressive nature of borders. Specifically, she ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
The "For-Profit Panopticon:" Huawei, and the British Surveillance State
(2020-04-20)A 5G network and the innovations it supports will lead to a radical shift in surveillance. The economic impact of such a network makes it an attractive prospect to many nations, fueling a race to rapidly implement the ... -
From Slavery to Kafala: British Colonialism and Its Impact on Labor Governance in the Persian Gulf 1800 - 1950
(Georgetown University in Qatar, GU-Q, 2021)There is not yet a coherent narrative on how British colonialism influenced the institution of labor in the Persian Gulf. This study challenges this narrative by looking at labor governance in the Gulf through the lens of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Impact of Identified Individual Victims on Funding in Humanitarian Crises
(2022-05-13)In humanitarian crises, when faced with evidence of large-scale suffering—or when such suffering is presented numerically to an audience over an extended period of time—the empathic activation of an individual or population ... -
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 ... -
Jeel Al-Taybeen: Reimagining Narratives of Heritage and Identity in Qatar
(Georgetown University in Qatar, GU-Q, 2021)Qatari identity today is based on reductive narratives of the past, such as that of jeel al-taybeen – which can be translated as ‘Generation of the Good’, a nostalgic term. However, there is a much more nuanced history of ...
