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Fall 2023

Green, Dawn

Public engagement is an important part of democratic municipal decision-making, but determining what motivates citizens to participate has not been well researched. This research used a 10-question online survey (N = 36), followed by semistructured individual interviews (N = 7) and focus groups...

Spring 2010

Gordner, Matthew

In this thesis I address the topic ‘Islam and democracy.’ I argue that rather than asking whether Islam and democracy are compatible, Western theorists should be seeking out how Muslims practice democracy. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to present a groundwork for meaningful and inclusive...

Fall 2011

Otiono, Nduka

This study unravels the curious politicization of everyday life in Nigeria. It tracks and redefines a seemingly simple and commonplace but peripheralized genre of everyday life, “street stories,” that is taken for granted as rumours, gossip, and myths, and examines its interrelation to...

Fall 2023

Zaamout, Noureddin Mahmoud

The transformation of the crisis in Syria from a peaceful uprising, into a geopolitical proxy war, shifted scholarly attention away from Syrian society to other issues such as security, geopolitics, and the refugee crisis. While these topics are important, more research is required to better...

Spring 2012

Hwami, Munyaradzi

The dawn of independence in Zimbabwe in 1980 was received with high hopes and expectations by the people but after twenty years of black majority rule, the crisis of the post-colonial condition, well documented in other African countries began to be repeated in Zimbabwe. After experimenting with...