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Informal Vending and the State in Kampala, Uganda
(2018-06-30)This thesis examines how the agency of informal vendors in Kampala, Uganda, is shaped by the state. It argues that efforts by the President and the NRM to monopolize political power have dramatically restricted the agency ... -
Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism
Read throughout the world, H. G. Wells was one of the most famous political thinkers in the early twentieth century. During the early 1900s he elaborated a bold, idiosyncratic, and controversial cosmopolitan socialist ... -
Children's Capabilities and Education Inequality: How Types of Schooling Play a Role in Pakistan
(2018-05-01)This research is an application of the Capabilities Approach to a southern educational context, aiming to answer how children’s capabilities differ across different types of schooling (public, private and religious) in ... -
Pragmatic Utopianism and Race: H. G. Wells as Social Scientist
H. G. Wells was one of the most celebrated writers in the world during the first half of the twentieth century. Famed for his innovative fiction, he was also an influential advocate of socialism and the world state. What ...
