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Description:: International media immediately lambasted plans to build a Louvre and a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the whimsy of wealthy sheikhs using oil money to “buy culture.” The museums are part of a $27b development project called Saadiyat Island. While Saadiyat is spectacular, dismissing it...
Keyword:: critique, art, culture, museums, and politics
Subject:: Art history, Middle Eastern studies, and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Derderian, Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14736 and etdadmin_upload_674378

Description:: “Speculative Justice” asks how U.S. terrorism cases with numerous indicators of entrapment prevail in federal court despite case law designed to prevent these very policing practices. Drawing on a combination of two case studies, an original archive of digital court filings from over 250 defendants, and a collection of over...
Keyword:: entrapment, narrative, culture, preventative policing, terrorism, and law
Subject:: Criminology and Sociology
Creator:: Degenshein, Anya
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_685823 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14816

Description:: This dissertation explores the role and relation of capitalism in contemporary political life, with the aim to reveal the inherent oppression of what I refer to as capitalist culture. To this end, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to identify the widespread and pervasive nature of capitalist culture (2)...
Keyword:: feminist, culture, oppression, social, politics, and capitalism
Subject:: Philosophy, Gender studies, and Political science
Creator:: LoTempio, Christina Frances
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_673759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14733

Description:: This dissertation presents a program of research on cultural cognition of the natural world, involving long-term research with indigenous Ngöbe partner communities (Panama) and selected comparisons to Western samples (US). In two series of experiments focused on agency concepts, we show that cultural frameworks recruit distinct principles for inferring agency...
Keyword:: Indigenous, folk psychology, folk communication, culture, agency concepts, and folk ecology
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Bethany L. Ojalehto
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2018
Date Modified:: 04/18/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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