Dissertation: War at the Grassroots: The Nationalization of Civic Life

Abstract: This dissertation examines the civic consequences of wartime mobilization in three small communities in Canada, Ireland and the United States during the First World War. I emphasize how the state's mobilization for war produced a kind of nationalist awakening in each of these communities that, in varying degrees, generated the seemingly opposite tendencies of greater civic participation and heightened civic intolerance.

• Civil Society
• Globalization
• Nationalism
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Theories of the State
• War and Society
  
  
  

• Boundaries and Belonging (edited by Joel Migdal)

Abstract. 
A theoretical and empirical examination into the formation, evolution, and dissolution of social boundaries.  My contribution focuses on the way in which the First World War reconfigured and transformed the boundaries of civic participation in the small mining town of Rossland, British Columbia.  

For more information regarding this project, contact Joel Migdal at migdal@u.washington.edu

• The State Reframed: Public-Private Partnerships and the Changing Nature of Governance
  
  Abstract:
  How has the explosive growth and development of public-private alliances affected the character and power of the modern state? This project aims to suggest that business partnerships between government entities and private businesses are radically changing the state, but that this should not be regarded as a dimunition of state power.
  
  
  

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