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Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

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Barbour, Nancy Staton

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This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...

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Masters Thesis

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, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon Abstract approved: Patti L. Duncan This
Transnational feminism and the microfinance (r)evolution : excavating microlending from neoliberalism

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Ireland, Heather Montes

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This study employs interdisciplinary methods to make transnational feminist sense of the microfinance phenomenon. Drawing upon a combination of discourse approach, textual analysis, political economics and critical theory construction, I fused a feminist critical discourse approach to excavate microfinance from neoliberalism. I designed an economic justice framework and executed an...

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Masters Thesis

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: Excavating Microlending from Neoliberalism. Abstract approved: Patti L. Duncan This study