This dissertation traces the militant trajectories of Turkish jihadi women. It looks at their lives before, during, and after the territorial collapse of the Islamic State (IS). I argue that women’s participation was a continuation of preexisting networks – cultivated in women-only spaces and ex...
The EU’s ‘geoeconomic turn’ is often taken for a return of the state – perhaps even further EU integration – in reaction to external challenges, and for a shift away from policymaking dominated by economic interest groups and geared towards international markets. Export finance, which represents...
This thesis examines the circular economy theory and its potential application in the housing sector. Housing crises experienced worldwide demand solutions that are both ecological and social in nature. An often-overlooked strength of the circular economy is its capacity to integrate these two d...
Digitalisation, while offering new opportunities for connectivity, also introduces new challenges and unintended consequences for social relationships. My thesis broadly investigates the following question: How does the digitalisation of social relations affect social cohesion? I draw on Durkhei...
The Treaty of Lisbon transformed the EU’s role as a global trade actor. It introduced a constitutional mandate for value-driven external action, which includes the promotion of sustainable development. As the European Commission increasingly seeks to ‘mainstream’ sustainability considerations in...
In the cannon of queer British history, ghettoes and ‘urban dystopias’ (i.e., those areas racialised by ethnic concentration, economic/class failure, social behaviours of ill repute, and combinations thereof) beyond London have remained underexplored. Even in the recent proliferation of works fo...
This thesis is composed of 3 chapters that discuss the role of information frictions in labor market dynamics. A standard model of frictional market of Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching, works on the assumption that the underlying productivity process for generating output is known to wor...
This thesis investigates birth order and sibling influences as within-family processes contributing to educational inequality. While traditional sociological stratification research often focuses on between-family differences, such as socio-economic status, this study shifts attention to the ine...
State consent has traditionally been regarded as the foundation of international law, yet its status as the bedrock of the system has consistently faced contestation. Theorists have raised challenges from various quarters. This thesis shifts away from theoretical discussions by empirically exami...
