Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with.

This thesis explores the lives of those whose experience as ordained ministers, psychological therapists or adult educators leaves them feeling marginal within their respective professions. The Introduction recounts an epiphanic experience in the researcher’s praxis which made him question received professional wisdom. Chapter One traces the labyrinthine contours of qualitative research and.

THE INFORMAL ECONOMIES OF THE UKRAINIAN-ROMANIAN BORDERLANDS. by. KATHRYN LOUISE CASSIDY. A thesis submitted to the. University of Birmingham. for the degree of. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY. Centre for Russian and East European Studies. School of Government and Society. College of Social Sciences. University of Birmingham. July 2011.

Analysing the processes and relationships of political territoriality and collective identity in the American borderlands, this thesis examines the narrative and material dimensions of policies increasingly favouring securitised border 'control'. This 'reterritorialisation' contrasts markedly with concurrent moves to increase economic integration under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The aim of this thesis is to explore the informal economies of post socialism as they are practiced in two rural communities on either side of the Ukrainian-Romanian border, which are now dependent on migrant worker remittances, cross-border small trading and consumption and a wide range of non-market economic practices for not only daily but also long-term survival or social reproduction.

This thesis examines secessionist sympathy and activity in the borderlands of Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, which stems from the historical legacy of the secessionist Rwenzururu Movement. The Rwenzururu Movement led to a quasi-independent, albeit unrecognised, kingdom-state in the.

In Gloria Anzaldua’s book Borderlands La Frontera, The New Mestiza, she shares her experience in a post-colonial world as a Chicana, a lesbian and a woman who grew up in a cross-cultured area trying to understand her identity but also to make us rethink about what a border is and what are the consequences which come with it.

The research that grounds this thesis is therefore situated in the under-explored field of the anthropology of domestic violence. Through the use of ethnography, this work elucidates Polish women’s lived experiences of domestic violence and service engagement, but also the nature of the British borderlands, in which Polish women are emplaced.

However, despite his profound and lasting influence on the study of Spanish Borderlands, Bolton never advocated or articulated a clear “Borderlands” thesis. In fact, Borderlands historiography remains less theory-driven than many other fields of historical inquiry.

Turner, the Boltonians, and the Borderlands. DAVID J. WEBER. FORMUCH OF THIS CENTURY, Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis has been regarded as a most useful, if not the most useful, concept for understanding the distinctive features of American civilization.

Turner, the Boltonians, and the Borderlands DAVID J. WEBER FOR MUCH OF THIS CENTURY, Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis has been regarded as a most useful, if not the most useful, concept for understanding the.

Cherns, Lesley (1977) The palaeoecology of the lower Leintwardinian (Upper Silurian) of the Welsh borderlands and Wales. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Full text available as.