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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present

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    This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this recordThis is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/Manifestos Ancient Present)This volume brings together the work of practitioners, communities, artists and other researchers from multiple disciplines. Seeking to provoke a discourse around displacement within and beyond the field of Humanities, it positions historical cases and debates, some reaching into the ancient past, within diverse geo-chronological contexts and current world urgencies. In adopting an innovative dialogic structure, between practitioners on the ground - from architects and urban planners to artists - and academics working across subject areas, the volume is a proposition to: remap priorities for current research agendas; open up disciplines, critically analysing their approaches; address the socio-political responsibilities that we have as scholars and practitioners; and provide an alternative site of discourse for contemporary concerns about displacement. Ultimately, this volume aims to provoke future work and collaborations - hence, manifestos - not only in the historical and literary fields, but wider research concerned with human mobility and the challenges confronting people who are out of place of rights, protection and belonging

    UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024

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    The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp

    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    UMSL Bulletin 2022-2023

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    The 2022-2023 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1087/thumbnail.jp

    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2022-2023

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    Grounds for a Third Place : The Starbucks Experience, Sirens, and Space

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    My goal in this dissertation is to help demystify or “filter” the “Starbucks Experience” for a post-pandemic world, taking stock of how a multi-national company has long outgrown its humble beginnings as a wholesale coffee bean supplier to become a digitally-integrated and hypermodern cafĂ©. I look at the role Starbucks plays within the larger cultural history of the coffee house and also consider how Starbucks has been idyllically described in corporate discourse as a comfortable and discursive “third place” for informal gathering, a term that also prescribes its own radical ethos as a globally recognized customer service platform. Attempting to square Starbucks’ iconography and rhetoric with a new critical methodology, in a series of interdisciplinary case studies, I examine the role Starbucks’ “third place” philosophy plays within larger conversations about urban space and commodity culture, analyze Starbucks advertising, architecture and art, and trace the mythical rise of the Starbucks Siren (and the reiterations and re-imaginings of the Starbucks Siren in art and media). While in corporate rhetoric Starbucks’ “third place” is depicted as an enthralling adventure, full of play, discovery, authenticity, or “romance,” I draw on critical theory to discuss how it operates today as a space of distraction, isolation, and loss

    The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000

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    The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline

    Football fandom, glocalisation and the ‘Man United in Pidgin’ Twitter community: a study of the glocal village created through the social media practices of aTwitter account dedicated to West African Manchester United Football Club’s fans

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    This thesis on ‘Man United In Pidgin’s (MUIP’s) Twitter account discusses how the glocalisation of ManchesterUnited Football Club (MUFC) made possible via that account assists the construction of a postcolonial WestAfrican masculine online identity or fandom. MUIP is an unofficial MUFC’s social media fan account created bya Nigerian fan of MUFC that provides readers with the team’s news updates in Pidgin English, a lingua francaspoken in many West African countries. In this thesis, the concept of West Africa mainly refers to West Africancountries where West African Pidgin English is spoken (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, andEquatorial Guinea). Thus, this study addresses two questions: which discursive features do MUIP’s tweetsemploy? In what ways do these features help create a West African online identity among MUIP’s followers? Adiscourse analysis of 107 MUIP’s tweets and readers’ replies to these tweets is used as the principal method toinvestigate these questions. An interview with the founder of MUIP and an online survey assessing MUIP’sfollowers on Twitter also provide some preliminary production and consumption contexts to this discourseanalysis. This research predominantly addresses the relation between media or cultural texts and identityconstruction, looking at how West African MUFC’s consumers, through the MUIP community, resist to andrework Western media coverage of MUFC and Premier League Football to produce new forms of meanings. Itexamines what is produced by the MUIP community, how it is produced, what it means, which groups of peopleit represents, and how MUIP’s audience interpret MUIP’s texts. Through a discourse analysis of the MUIPcommunity’s tweets, this thesis engages with some West African systems of knowledge and unpacks theirmeanings’ construction. The discourse analysis indicates that MUIP’s content creator, and to an extent MUIP’saudience, mainly give meanings to their utterances via personal pronouns (‘we/us’ or ‘una’) and figures of speech(humour, metaphors, and rhetorical questions). MUIP’s followers build twenty-seven semantic networks inresponse to the main MUIP’s tweets analysed. The reality constructed by MUIP’s tweets for the readers are mainlythose of information and entertainment. This thesis concludes that this account enables its founder to create asense of belonging to a Nigerian and West African imagined cyber community within his online community andan environment similar to Football Viewing Centres, thereby creating virtual stadiums that entertain, inform, andfoster socialisation. This thesis’ findings contribute to discovering how football is covered and followed on socialnetworking sites in Nigeria and West Africa. New insights are provided by investigating how the participatoryculture enabled by this account via the involvement of its readers in content creation is producing, shaping, andexposing a West African masculine online identity. The account’s author and readers perform identities which aredecentred, multiple, and sometimes fragmented between numerous shades of local cultural characteristics and iiivarious global cultural ones. This thesis builds on McLuhan’s (1962, 1964) concept of ‘global village’ and arguesthat while the global media reach of the English Premier League and MUFC has created a global village, thatvillage consists of a series of ‘glocal villages’ with unique and specific (cultural) characteristics – MUIP is anexample of such villages. This thesis also builds on Igwe et al. (2021) idea that the glocalisation of EuropeanFootball Leagues in Nigeria creates a sense of communal belonging for those watching these leagues’ matches atFootball Viewing Centres by highlighting the discursive practices creating that sense of belonging to a commoncultural identity. Besides, while Igwe et al. conducted an offline investigation of such glocalisation, this thesisinvestigates the glocalisation of MUFC fandom within a West African online community thereby addressing theconcern raised by Onyebueke (2018) that the study of online football fandom in West Africa is significantlyoverlooked. Ultimately, this thesis builds on postcolonial theorists’ contentions that there is a profound globalinequity in how frameworks of knowledge and understanding are defined (Young, 2020). Academic research oftenprioritises the experiences of Western Europeans and North Americans, and their views of the rest of the world.This research is an investigation by a West African of an online community that matters to West Africans. Itinvestigates this global football industry transformed within a West African context and invested with newmeanings that re-assert a distinctive West African identit
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