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Description:: This study in media anthropology uses participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, and recorded broadcasts to analyze how people use FM radio technology in the Koutiala area of southeast Mali, and particularly how they use FM radio to produce locality by relating audience members to one another, to the dominant national culture,...
Keyword:: technology, cultural representation, Media anthropology, Africa, politics, and language ideology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Craig Tower
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/19/2018
Date Modified:: 09/19/2018
Date Created:: 2008-06-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The renewed scholarly interest in the connections between taxation, state building efforts, and long-term economic development has revitalized the study of historical tax systems. How did today’s states initially acquire ‘fiscal capacity’, and why was this process more successful in some places than in others? Since African tax systems are...
Keyword:: colonialism, Africa, forced labor, and taxation
Subject:: History
Creator:: Marlous van Waijenburg
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/11/2019
Date Modified:: 01/30/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation takes up Islam’s relationship to Black nationalism across the Atlantic diaspora of Muslims that I call “the Fugitive Islamicate.” Scholars most often have described this relationship as commencing in the twentieth century with the rise of “Black Muslim religion,” a U.S. religious movement that begins with Noble Drew...
Keyword:: Race, Black Muslims, America, Religion, Islam, and Africa
Subject:: African American studies, American history, and Islamic studies
Creator:: Caldwell, William
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14451 and etdadmin_upload_626228

Description:: Economic growth in contexts of state weakness presents a puzzle. If the state’s provision of property rights is necessary for financial investment and related pro-growth behaviors, then why do we observe private investment and commercial transactions in settings where state institutions are far from reliable property guarantors? This study addresses...
Keyword:: Adaptive Practices, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Institutional Development, and Property Rights
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Peyton, David Michael
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_812342 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15515

Description:: Historians have long argued that humanitarianism—what Thomas Haskell once described as “alleviating the suffering of distant strangers”—first emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as part of a complex set of perceptual changes involving capitalist growth, Enlightenment ideas, and Christian values. Given these claims, it is no coincidence that humanitarianism has often been...
Keyword:: humanitarianism, refuge, Acholi, Africa, Uganda, and aid
Subject:: African history
Creator:: Edwards, Mitchell
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1012977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16733

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