Browsing by Author "Hanson, Holly"
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An Acre of America in Cairo: The American University in Cairo and the Production of Americanized Egypt from 1919-1948
Laguerta, Dianne (2013-07-02)In 1919, after years of planning and earning financial support, the American University at Cairo (AUC) opened its doors to students from the Middle East in a building formally built as a palace turned cigarette factory ... -
Childbearing in Contemporary Africa: Situating Local Realities in Structural Inequality
Cressy, Allison (2011-02-16)The high rate of maternal mortality in Africa has attracted much attention in the form of research and interventions. The dominant perspective on childbearing in Africa focuses on local inequalities and the improvement of ... -
Defoe's Mercantilist Ordeal: Understanding the Demise of Credit and the Rise of Racism
Hu, Xinyi (2019-07-01)British businessman and writer Daniel Defoe’s intellectual trajectory evolved alongside his personal history and British political and economic history. From 1719 to 1722, Defoe wrote about slavery, mercantilism, and racial ... -
Hard Bargains and Precarious Paradoxes: Livelihoods, Governance & Development Discourse in Jinja Uganda s Informal Sector
Lince, Sarah (2011-02-16)Development practitioners have made increasing use of participatory policy designs in response to rising pressure to incorporate local and community-based involvement in poverty alleviation interventions. At the same ... -
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL? Discrepancies of Knowledge and the Realization of Power via Human Rights Education Pedagogies within Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa
Hayat, Esther Ariel (2015-05-18)During the summer of 2014 I was part of the Straight Talk Foundation team as a Training and Development intern. The Straight Talk Foundation (STF) in Uganda, an award-winning HIV/AIDs prevention organization, seeks to ... -
Kenya: Decolonization, Democracy and the Struggle for Uhuru
Meyer, Kathryn (2015-07-01)The former British colony of Kenya achieved independence in December 1963, but separation from the policies and legacy of the British Empire is an ongoing process. In 2011, a British High Court case brought by detainees ... -
Land, Water, Truth, and Love - Visions of Identity and Land Access: From Bain's Bushmen to Khomani San
Schenck, Marcia (2011-02-16)Entitled Land, Water, Truth, and Love Visions of Identity and Land Access: From Bain s Bushmen to Khomani San this thesis situates the current Khomani claims to land in their historical context. Examining the nexus ... -
Panchayats, Seat Reservations and the Women's Question in India: A Historical Trajectory
Nugent, Amelia (2011-05-10)In 1992 the Panchayati Raj Bill passed through the Indian parliament with little fanfare and without serious debate. The bill allocated federal funding to small village governing bodies known as panchayats and reserved one ... -
Performed Belongings: Challenging Displacement through South India's Classical Performing Arts
Chandramouli, Divya (2014-06-04)All over the world, the performing arts constitute a means of communal and individual identity expression, and serve as a platform for societies to exhibit their perceived triumphs, as well as explicitly or implicitly ... -
Power in Schism
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Restorative Justice: Recidivism Reduction and Implementation
Casey-Rutland, Elizabeth (2015-06-01)This paper will explore different methods of restorative justice in an attempt to determine which of these is the most effective at reducing recidivism. The restorative practices that will be explored in this paper are ... -
Transition to Modernity: Political, Economic, and Religious Change Among the Ibo of Nigeria 1900-1930
Brown, Rebecca (2011-06-30)Corruption is a debilitating phenomenon that plagues many sub-saharan African nations today. There are many studies into its causes, behaviors, and possible solutions. For myself, at the beginning of this study I sought ... -
"Unsatisfactory and Unreliable" Witnesses: Reexamining the January 1945 Uganda Strike through the pages of the Uganda Herald
Peebles, Skye L. (2011-02-16) -
Voicing the Feminine in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction
Parker, Rachel (2013-06-14)JM Coetzee, the Nobel Prize-winning South African author, often defies categorization. His thirteen novels vary in style greatly, although all are written with a striking self-consciousness and anxiety of authority. My ... -
"We Hid Books in Bags of Sugar": South African Histories in Opposition
Getz, Maxine (2013-05-05)In this thesis on teacher resistance to apartheid in South Africa, I argue that teaching against the prescribed curriculum constituted a form of subversion to the National Party-led government. Students, teachers and parents ... -
“Where the pillars of the earth are standing:” Centering spiritual, political, and ecological power in Uganda’s Lubigi wetland
Stock, Adele (2019-06-27)While most Ugandans remember that Idi Amin was ousted in a war fought by forces of the NRM led by Yoweri Museveni, the healer and python medium Sekyoka Nalubega Muzana Bemba Musota, describes a different war, fought with ... -
Who is in Charge?: An Evaluation of Lived-Experience in Working-Class Community Organizations and Their Leadership
Zeligman, Zoë (2019-06-03)