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- ItemAjaja Gbara Eni: Exploring Citizen Rebellion in Post-Colonial Nigeria(2019) Tettey-Tamaklo, Elom; Wing, Susanna D.This thesis explores citizen rebellion in post-colonial Nigeria using Fela Anikulapo Kuti as the primary case study. The main question of this thesis is: "How did Fela Kuti rebel against the Nigerian post-colonial state between 1977 and 1997 and what was the significance of employing those specific methods of resistance." This thesis employs various schools of thought about rebellion in order to contextualize Fela Kuti's rebellious tactics. The analysis of Fela's rebellion in relation to the post-colonial Nigerian state provides commentary on citizen participation in post-colonial African states and ideas about the citizen-state relationship in Africa.
- ItemArt in Publics' Spaces(2014) Rushmore, Michael; Wing, Susanna D.Art in Publics' Spaces examines why individuals or groups actively resist public art. Previous scholars answered similar questions with specific practices for organizing successful and democratically run projects, rather than answering why people react the way that they do. I show how public art controversies are about identity groups asserting themselves to maintain power over public spaces. By determining the identity groups, people brought together by a common mutually identifiable aspect of their identities, invested in a given location and showing them respect, artists and organizers of public art can minimize controversy while executing projects with more artistic freedom. This thesis includes case studies of public art projects by three contemporary American public art organizations. Each organization faced controversy and arguably overcame it. In each controversial case, the issues can be traced back to an identity group or groups that felt invested in the space where public art was going to be installed, but also felt that the project did properly not acknowledged that investment. In each successful end result, I show how all invested identity groups were respected. Artists and public art organizers must consider potential public art sites as places where people have already invested meaning rather than blank canvases ready for paint. Organizers have to find who those people are and what the site means to them. Similarly, organizers have to be prepared to use a variety of methods to respect what already exists at those sites. No single method is a best fit in all cases. For some projects, that may mean that everyone on the block has a say in the design and helps paint the mural. With others, it may mean simply getting the property owner's permission and painting something that brings them business. The process may or may not be democratic. "Difficult" public art with maximum artistic freedom and minimal controversy can be successful as long as there is mutual respect cultivated by identifying and respecting the identity groups invested in a given site.
- ItemBroken Promises: A Theoretical Assessment of Water Provision in South African Development(2020) Golson, Kenyatta; Wing, Susanna D.In 2018, Cape Town South Africa experienced the worst drought-induced municipal water failure in modern history? What political causes led to a disparity of the water provisions among poor and middle class communities when compared to higher class citizens? In lieu of Apartheid was historical causes have had implications on the political production of Cape Town? How has South Africa worked to ensure the water provision for all citizens as outlined in its 1994 Constitution? What does the future of the provision look like in the country? This research aims to analyze historical, racial and political causes for the Cape Town Water Crisis. An event the writer and orchestrator of this paper lived through.
- ItemCARICOM and OECS States: Which Path is Best for The Caribbean To Follow To Development?(2004) Matthews, Janelle; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemCitizenship and hegemony : the politics of accommodation and control in the Jewish state(2004) Wolff, Ben; Wing, Susanna D.I wish to focus here on Israel's system of government with specific attention to the idea of citizenship.
- ItemConstructions of Belonging: Immigrants and Minority Nations in a Globalized Era(2004) Levy, Rebecca; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemDefining Democracy: Cuban Style(2003) Wolf, Sara; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemENGENDERING TRUTH: PROSPECTS FOR TRUTH COMMISSION POLICY IN ADDRESSING GENDERED VIOLENCE(2018) McGlynn, Sophie; Wing, Susanna D.**Content warning: gendered violence, sexual violence** This thesis is grounded in theory around the neglect of women in political science and by political institutions, which contributes to their continued experience of violence even in post-conflict societies. I conduct analyses of three truth commissions – in Ghana, South Africa, and Sierra Leone – in order to derive a set of policy approaches for designing truth commissions that are sensitive to the experiences of women participating in them, and that produce reports in which gendered violence is recognized through detailed findings, and confronted through specific recommendations. The thesis concludes with a discussion of what truth commissions can and cannot be expected to achieve in terms of addressing gendered violence.
- ItemGender Quotas and Representation in Government in Rwanda and France(2022) Schwam, Isabel; Wing, Susanna D.In the last thirty years, various countries have implemented gender quota laws to require a percentage of legislative bodies to be women. However, the process of the adoption of gender quotas differs in countries around the world. This thesis aims to explain why the process of gender quota adoption occurs and if it functions as a mechanism to increase women's substantive representation in the case studies of France and Rwanda. With France being a democracy and Rwanda being an authoritarian state, one might assume that France's process to adopt quotas was based in the desire to increase equity. In contrast, it might be assumed that Rwanda would not be interested in adopting quotas due to the absolute rule of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). This thesis provides evidence for the opposite outcome: Rwanda boasts the highest number of female representatives in a legislature in the world while France has struggled to meet gender parity and support women in the legislature. Another significant piece of the question is to what extent gender quotas have affected women's substantive representation. In the Rwandan case, there were significant changes to substantive representation for women, including the creation of women's governmental groups that interacted with the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the French case, the changes to women's substantive representation in government were minimal. However, gender quotas led to the breakdown of gender norms in other sectors of public life in both countries.
- ItemGovernment Care Versus Government Neglect: Reconciliation in Northern Ireland through Education(2021) Pearson, Sally; Wing, Susanna D.In Northern Ireland, education is separated along the contentious Catholic and Protestant divide. Overall, 93% of students attend a predominately Protestant or Catholic school. The degree of separation within these schools is substantial; in 2015, only 6.6% of students in Protestant schools were Catholic and only 1% of students in Catholic schools were Protestant. The long history of division and conflict between communities in the region has created concern that educational separation perpetuates inter-community conflict and prevents reconciliation. Integrated education and shared education are the leading policy solutions to this separation. Both programs bring together students from the two communities, are effective at improving attitudes between groups, and are publicly popular, but shared education has grown faster and larger than integrated education. While existing research had identified a lack of government support as an explanation for integrated education's low growth, few studies had used shared education as a comparative case to evaluate explanations for growth, specifically. Furthermore, while government policies have been identified as important for the growth of integrated and shared education, research has overlooked the implementation of policies and the role of the bureaucracies like the Department of Education. Thus, taking for granted that general value statements in support of one program translate into substantive action. This thesis contributes to this discussion by analyzing the degree to which shared and integrated education's growth is explained by government action, where government action includes both official policy and its implementation. I conclude that greater government action in support of shared education as compared to integrated education explains some of the disparate growth between the programs. The government's relative inaction on integrated education is a result of pressure from the churches, the zero-sum nature of politics in Northern Ireland, the monetary cost of integrated education, and competing education policy goals.
- ItemGovernment Solutions to Create a Sustainable Future for Air Conditioning in Nigeria(2022) Avrahami, Gilad; Wing, Susanna D.Air conditioning (AC) is growing in popularity worldwide, and as it fills the homes and offices of the global middle class, it carries with it a set of complex dynamics. As a hot country with a growing middle class and weak electrical system, Nigeria is currently unprepared for the wave of air conditioners that will enter buildings and become part of the infrastructure in the next few decades. This project seeks to analyze the possible government actions that would be best designed to minimize the risks posed by AC while still ensuring the benefits that air conditioners create. The findings included four major areas demanding government attention. First, the government can work to ensure the purchase of air conditioners that are more energy efficient, such as split or central AC systems. The second area that engages directly with air conditioners is the continued use of damaging greenhouse gases as refrigerants. In its current work focusing on Stage II of the Montreal Protocol, the Nigerian government must not follow the path of least resistance in which they transition from using refrigerant R-22 to using R-410A, an action that will create more problems for their eventual need to work on the terms of the Kigali Amendment and cause unnecessary damage to the environment in the meantime. Thirdly, simple features of buildings such as light-colored paint, roof overhangs, and orientation along an east-west axis reduce the indoor temperatures of buildings, and government involvement in construction projects can be an opportunity to implement those changes. Finally, connecting solar power with air conditioners in offices and in public spaces would be a way to significantly decrease energy waste and would not be dependent on imposing a financial burden on those who could not afford solar panels. The combination of these four approaches would go a long way toward preparing Nigeria for the cooling challenges it will face in the coming decades.
- ItemHegemonic Stability Theory in the Form of Regionalism: The Key to Stability in sub-Saharan Africa(2006) Rogers, Christopher; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemHow the Irish Became Black: The Comparison of the Northern Irish and American Civil Rights Movements(2003) Olmos, Margaret; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemInterstate Peace and the Transcendence of Anarchy: A Regionally-Constructed Theory of State Security in Africa(2005) Wakely, Jonathan R.; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemIntervention and Its Impact on Islamist Extremist Organizations in Africa: A Positive Correlation(2020) Krupnick, Emily; Wing, Susanna D.This thesis examines the impact of foreign intervention on Islamist extremist organizations in Africa. It analyzes different forms of intervention – military, humanitarian, and ideological – and studies the impact of such interventions on terrorist activity in Africa. It looks at military intervention in Mali and Somalia, humanitarian intervention in Somalia, and ideological intervention in Nigeria. The schools of thought for this project are derived from theories behind and connections between intervention and Islamist extremism. The thesis examines the effectiveness of extremist organizations with respect to their activity and evaluates how this has been impacted by distinct interventions in the regions in which they operate. Ultimately, by examining fundamentalist trends in relation to interventions, a positive correlation between intervention and Islamist extremist activity is drawn. In analyzing the impact of interventions on extremist organizations over time, the thesis culminates in a policy proposal to facilitate the success of future interventions in the African region.
- ItemIs Decentralization at Odds with Democracy?: The Implications of Decentralization in the Democratization Process of Developing Countries(2016) Lujan-Hernandez, Alesia; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemIs There Slum Upgrading that Works?: State-NGO Relationships in Kenyan Slum Development(2014) Neumann, Julia; Wing, Susanna D.An estimated 1 Billion people in the world live in slums. The creation of adequate housing for urban residents is a perpetual challenge that people all over the world are interested in solving. Large International Government Organizations, such as the World Bank, and Non-Governmental Organizations, such as UN-HABITAT, have started investing their vast resources into the process of slum development, but they don't do it alone. Instead, they are following trends of cooperative development and working with the state to achieve these goals. But these projects are often fraught with difficulty, and having two different leaders with different goals can cause problems. Who has power in the now inevitable collaboration between international NGOs and the state, and how does that affect the outcome of these projects, especially as it relates to their ability to reach their intended recipients? To try and answer that question, this paper looks at the progression of two different large-scale slum-upgrading projects in Kenya, in order to understand how changes in the structure of the cooperative relationship affect the outcomes. Additionally, it looks to understand how these relationships affect the success of these projects in the eyes of their intended benefactors–slum dwellers.
- ItemMapping a Hidden Landscape: Relating the Wartime Experiences of Women in Bosnia to the Discourse of International Relations(2005) Lewis, Courtney Childs; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemMuslims' Political Influence in Secular France: A study of the Laic Republic and its Muslim Community(2010) Manasseh, Joya; Wing, Susanna D.
- ItemNationalism and European Unification in the 20th Century: The Experiences of France and Germany(2006) Reese, Kate; Wing, Susanna D.
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