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

Creator:

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
Middle Eastern student perceptions of mattering and marginality at a large American university

Creator:

Norris, Kent

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This study aimed to explore the relatively undocumented experiences and perceptions of mattering and marginality among Middle Eastern students attending a large American university, it also sought to inform higher education administration about the unique characteristics of this rapidly noticeable student population and it attempted to narrow the knowledge gap...

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Masters Thesis

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Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks.‖ As Pamela Geller, the executive director of both organizations said