Theses - Sociology
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
The digital labour debate has produced manifold insights into new forms of work and class relations emerging within digital capitalism. So far, however, most research has either focused on tech entrepreneurs or the highly ... -
Kurdish Politics in the Cauldron of the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq from Post-Invasion 2003 to the 2017 Independence Referendum
This thesis aims to critically analyse the political system of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), with a particular focus on the 2017 independence referendum to see why its government (the KRG) has lost strength internally ... -
Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
I investigate the philosophical and sociological backdrop against which Theodor W. Adorno conceives of aesthetic theory in his late work, asking how such a theory may provide an opening for rethinking the role of critical ... -
Making Futures, Making Selves: The Future-Oriented Subject in Eco-Political Documentary Films
The core interest of this dissertation is the constitution of the future-oriented subject in eco-political documentary films. While the genre of feature-length eco-political documentaries has been proliferating since Al ...