Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "European studies"
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Affecting Lives: The Politics of Biography in Modern Italy, 1850-1881
(2013-08-09)This study examines the spread of in-life biographies (biographies written and published while their subjects were still alive) in Italy during the later years of the Risorgimento and the early years of Unification. These ... -
Banlieue Stories: Mapping the Paris Suburbs On Screen, 1958-2012
(2014-02-25)The substantive la banlieue does not simply describe a geographical territory, but rather names a particular articulation of images and narratives that constitute the ‘banlieue question’. This dissertation ... -
Heritage Welsh: a study of heritage language as the outcome of minority language acquisition and bilingualism
(2014-06-06)This dissertation analyzes the language used by 20 adult heritage Welsh speakers now living in London, i.e., bilinguals who shifted to English dominance in childhood, and whose Welsh proficiencies now show divergences from ... -
Identity politics, old and new: Party-building in the long twentieth century
(2023-11-21)This dissertation seeks to explore the diverse ways that political outsiders construct boundaries of group membership and narratives of social conflict as they carve out a foothold in democratic politics. Across the twentieth ... -
Not Just Friday Muslims: A European Sufi Order and the Search for Spiritual Realisation and Public Recognition in the Modern World
(2020-09-28)This dissertation considers the place of Islam in contemporary Europe. Specifically, it historically and geographically situates the Ahmadiyya Idrisiyya Shadhiliyya Sufi order in the European context. The order was founded ... -
Pedagogies of Flesh: Sexuality, Race, and Value in the Sex Education of Postcolonial Germany
(2023-04-17)This dissertation is an ethnography of White German sexual pedagogues in Berlin, a city where ideas of open sexuality and progress are coupled together. Although sex education is mandatory in schools in Germany, it is ... -
Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
(2013-10-18)This dissertation explores the relationship between state, citizen and public culture through an ethnographic and historical examination of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in northern Greece. In the two-year ... -
Resurgent Ecologies of Care: An Ethnography from Deanuleahki, Sápmi
(2022-05-13)This dissertation examines indigenous Sámi experiences of transformations in caregiving practices and relations in Sápmi, the transborder indigenous Sámi homeland, since the Second World War. It is based on 28 months ... -
Taming the Gypsy: How French Romantics Recaptured a Past
(2014-10-21)In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the Gypsy trope in Romantic French literature at a time when nostalgia became a powerful aesthetic and political tool used by varying sides of an ideological war. Long ... -
Technical Difficulties: Abstraction’s Entanglements in the World, 1918–1933
(2023-05-10)This dissertation reexamines abstract art in Russia and Germany during the interwar period, proposing an alternative vision of the practice’s worldly relations and political stakes through a novel focus on its modes of ... -
When Cities Fight Back: Minorities, Local Politics, and Conflict in Europe
(2013-10-08)What explains minority-state urban conflict across Europe? When, how and why do some localities seem more prone to turn the political expression of grievance into a blood sport, while others avoid this fate altogether, ...