This thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its consolidated specialised team of transplant coordinators (TCs). The thesis situates donation as an embedded medical practice and traces the practicalities and specificities of making donation a possibility at the hospital. The empirical accounts offer a distinctive contribution that complements and challenges existing social sciences literature about donation. The latter have predominantly focused on donation as a controversial practice through highlighting the emotional experiences of donors’ families and individual medical practitioners involved. This empirical investigation mobilises, and further develops, STS material semiotics tools to provide an account of donation enacted as both procurement and healthcare. Ethnographic insights illustrate the shifting processes of mutual inclusion and exclusion that underpin the trajectory of integrating donation as a routinized hospital practice, along the recurring set of enduring tensions. This is achieved by following the work of TCs along the stages of donor detection, evaluation, maintenance, consent request and organ extraction. Crucially, the analytical focus decenters the individual actors’ perspectives, broadening the scope of the inquiry and making visible the complex sociomaterial arrangements that take place, inside and outside the hospital, which are rendered as a gradual process of assembling donations. Families’ consent to donation is essential but it is decentered, it is neither that which starts a donation process nor the only factor that contributes to the assembling of a donation process. Unlike available anthropological and sociological studies of donation this work is not about documenting the reductionist transition from patient to donor, whole to parts, person to thing and denouncing the fall from subject to object reified in donation practices. The emphasis here is on tracing the overlap between donors as patients, thus the analysis shows the shifting enactments of the embedded donor/patient configuration, which includes the donor/body, donor/person and donor/corpse figures simultaneously along the donation process. The intervention of bodies as active entities is examined through a speculative and pragmatic elucidation on the situated and relational enactments of responsive bodies and organs. This thesis contributes to contemporary re/articulations of materiality and agency through the lens of distributed joint action and entangled actors from a nonanthropomorphic stance. The research also contributes to current policy debates in the UK, and in Scotland in particular, that propose to tackle the national problem of low donation rates with a legislative move to an opt-out system for donation. It offers robust empirical evidence to contest the dominant organ shortage problematisation that is reduced to the legal polarity of either opting in or out of donation. I suggest that questions about increasing donation rates cannot be restricted to the domain of individual choice as this excludes the situated medical practices that enable the choice of donation in the first place.

Com a participação do telefone celular no cotidiano de boa parte da população mundial têm-se uma prótese que amplia espaços, tempos, e formas diferenciadas de significação, a partir de um mecanismo que possibilita a produção de significados nos diversos apetrechos nele hibridados. Surgem então espaços comunicacionais nos quais diversas relações se efetivam. Os sentidos produzidos a partir do aparelho, então, passam a reproduzir o mundo de seus usuários. Nesses espaços celulares é possível assemelhar-se, graças à democratização das tecnologias disponibilizadas para todos, ou diferenciarse e, conseqüentemente, simbolizar a desigualdade. Têm-se, com isso, o instrumento celular como reprodutor de desigualdade. / With mobile participation daily next to part of world population, we have a protease that augmenters spaces, times, and different structures of significance, also for numerous hybrids device him. Arise communications spaces where several possibilities of relationships. The signification produces whit that device reproduces the world of the people. In this cell phone spaces is possible resemble or disagree, and with this, to represent the inequality. We have therefore the cell phone reprinting this inequality.

Évoquer ou convoquer l’animal en art met en perspective et accroît l’œuvre humaine jusque dans les excès et les incohérences qu’elle peut manifester, mais rend également possible un accès à ce qui est extérieur au domaine humain. Les artistes s’inspirent de la symbolique à laquelle donne corps l’animal, de sa morphologie aussi bien que des modes d’expressions qu’il invente et déploie. Il leur arrive même de se laisser tenter par le mimétisme. Les créateurs et les poètes ne disposent-ils pas d’autres outils que les penseurs ou les scientifiques pour atteindre cette étrangeté qui semble pourtant souvent si familière ? Qu’il s’agisse d’œuvres plastiques, de performances, de créations musicales ou scéniques, y convier l’animal offre une matrice infinie de figurations et de reconfigurations. L’expression de ce répertoire corporel et comportemental s’articule comme un véritable langage structuré. Au-delà d'une transposition qui permet de donner à entrevoir l’humanité de l'homme, les artistes peuvent aussi tenter la percée vers la réalité d’autres êtres vivants. Entre confrontation, dialogue et transfert, les pratiques artistiques reflètent la diversité, le polymorphisme même du rapport humain aux animaux, et l’histoire d’une attitude foncièrement ambivalente, prise entre empathie et exploitation. L’expérience de l’animal, voire l’expérience animale, donne lieu à un partage de territoire(s) et de conscience(s), ouvrant sur le dévoilement d’un penser en images. / To evoke or to summon the animal in art puts in perspective the work of mankind, increases its excesses and its inconsistencies as well as it makes possible to open up the door to what is outside the human reach. Artists inspire themselves from the symbolic to which the animal is giving flesh, its morphology up to the ways of communication it creates and deploys. Artists may even be tempted by mimicry. Don’t creators and poets dispose of no other means than this one to address that strangeness that seems however so familiar to them ?To invite the animal in art work, could it be plastic arts, performances, musicals works or on stage, is to offer an infinite matrix for figuring or reconfiguring. The expression of its physical and behavioral repertory is articulated as a structured language. Beyond a transposition that allows a glimpse at human kind’s humanity, artists can also try to break through the reality of other living beings. Half way through confrontation, dialogue and transference, artistic practices mirror the diversity of human relationships with animals and even its polymorphism, as well as they reflect on the history of a human attitude fundamentally ambivalent, torn between empathy and exploitation. The animal experience, the animalistic experiment even, gives rise to a territory and consciousness sharing, opening up to the unveiling of a thinking through images.

The Victorian publishing industry has been frequently analysed, debated and discussed within the fields of book history, publishing history, media studies and literary studies, yet there is a gap within academic business research on the publishing industry from the approach of organisational studies, in particular from the perspective of new institutionalism. This research examines how the business practices of organisations in the British publishing industry - which I refer to as literary businesses - developed in the Victorian era, by exploring the formation of these practices in relation to wider societal influences. My research analyses how authors, publishers and literary agents instigated and reproduced business practices in the industry, examining why these practices became accepted and legitimised. This historically oriented research is constructed around primary and archival sources, in particular trade periodicals, personal letters and business documents.

違規給企業帶來的主要後果是企業名譽的損失。然而，我們對以下問題卻知之甚少：企業在違規事件中是怎樣損失名譽的？為什麼同樣程度的違規給不同企業帶來的名譽損失卻不同？等等。本文綜合了來自犯罪學、財務學和社會心理學方面的文獻，把企業名譽定義為利益相關者對企業的情感，同時把違規事件看成是導致這種情感變化的誘因。 / 本文構建了一個綜合的理論模型，研究企業股東和企業自身的情感和情感變化。首先，本文提出，企業違規違反了股東對企業的道德期望和基本情感，使股東的情感發生偏移，並最終導致企業名譽的損失。在情感偏移的形成過程中，股東傾向于根據違規線索的診斷性特徵，把他們的基本情感用作透視鏡或者參照點來評價違規企業。第二，本文認為，違規企業通過在致歉公告中列出恢復性行動或語言，可以恢復股東對企業的基本情感並且減少企業名譽的損失。然而在情感恢復過程中，股東傾向于將恢復性行動或語言的心理距離與違規線索的心理距離進行比較，並據此調整他們對企業的評價和情感。第三，與其他違規企業相比，那些表達了愧疚感的違規企業在未來會約束自己的行為，降低了反復違規的傾向。但是隨著本次懲罰強度的不同，以及企業直接或間接地被懲罰經歷的不同，違規企業對本次懲罰的目的和道德意義的評價也會不同，並由此影響企業表達愧疚感的傾向。 / 本文的貢獻主要集中在以下四個方面。首先，通過強調情感在企業和股東關係中的重要性，豐富了關於公司治理的研究。第二，本文從情感視角去探討存在于股東和企業在資訊評價中各種的偏見，而這些偏見會影響他們對違規事件的情感和行為反應，以此拓展了集中於經濟視角的企業違規研究。第三，本文通過借鑒解釋層次理論中的觀點來研究企業恢復性行動和語言的特徵以及他們在股東情感恢復和企業榮譽恢復過程中的作用，這豐富了關於企業層的影像管理和危機管理研究。第四，本文通過強調企業內化懲罰在約束企業違規行為方面的作用，這對補充了關於懲罰的研究，並具有現實意義。 / A consequence of corporate fraud studied in the literature is reputational penalty on the fraud firm. However, little is known about how a fraud firm loses its reputation after the fraud incident and why firms receive different levels of reputational penalty given the same level of fraud severity. Integrating literatures from criminology, finance, and social psychology, this dissertation conceptualizes firm reputation as stakeholders’ (mainly shareholders here) sentiment toward the firm and a fraud incident as a trigger of shareholders’ sentiment changes. / In this dissertation, I develop an integrated model that examines the sentiment changes of shareholders and sentiment restoration efforts made by the fraud firms. In the first study, I propose that corporate fraud violates shareholders’ normative expectations and fundamental sentiments toward the fraud firm, which leads to shareholders’ sentiment deflection and subsequently propels them to implement behavioral penalty on the fraud firm, that is, reputational penalty. During the process of sentiment deflection, shareholders tend to use the fundamental sentiment that they have adapted to as reference points to evaluate the fraud firm, depending on the salience of the fraud incident and the salience of the fraud firm. In the second study, I argue that the fraud firm can restore shareholders’ sentiment and minimize its reputation loss by expressing restorative actions in public apology announcement. However, during the process of sentiment restoration, shareholders tend to adjust their evaluation of the firm based on the relative psychological distance of the restorative actions compared with that of the fraud cues and sentiment cues. The third study focuses on guilt sentiments of the fraud firm, which have been found to have long-term impact on the fraud firm by transforming their future behaviors. I propose that fraud firms that express guilt sentiments after fraud punishment are more likely to restrain from repeated fraudulent behaviors in the future. However, variations in punishment intensity, together with the fraud firms’ direct and indirect punishment experiences, will influence their tendency to express guilt sentiments. / This dissertation aims to offer several contributions. First, by underscoring the importance of sentiment in the firm-shareholder relationship, it contributes to the corporate governance literature that mainly uses cognitive frameworks in the analysis. Second, it takes a sentiment approach to explore various biases embedded in shareholders’ and the firm’s evaluation of the informational cues that could influence their sentimental and behavioral reactions to the fraud incident, thus extending the corporate fraud literature that predominantly focuses on economics perspectives. Third, by examining the characteristics of firms’ restorative actions and languages and their effects on shareholders’ sentiment restoration and firm reputational repair, this dissertation contributes to the literatures of corporate turnaround and organizational-level impression management. Finally, it also contributes to the punishment literature by highlighting the internal transformation of the fraud firms, thus providing implications to stock exchange regulator and policy-makers in emerging economies. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Xu, Yuehua. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-137). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.I / CHINESE ABSTRACT --- p.III / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.V / LIST OF TABLES --- p.IX / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.X / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation and Research Questions --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Theoretical Framework and Premise --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Contributions --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of the Dissertation --- p.11 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- STUDY ONE: A SENTIMENT MODEL OF FIRM REPUTATIONAL PENALTY FOLLOWING CORPORATE FRAUD --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2 --- Theoretical Background --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Corporate Fraud and Reputational Penalty --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Sentiment --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Re-conceptualization of Firm Reputation and Theoretical Framework --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Stimuli - Sentimental Reaction - Behavior: The Process from Fraud Detection to Reputational Penalty --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Adaptive Levels of Moral Sentiment and Sentiment Rigidity --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- The Moderating Effects of Cue Diagnosticity and Firm Visibility --- p.30 / Chapter 2.4 --- Methods --- p.34 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Empirical Setting --- p.34 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Sample and Data Collection --- p.35 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Measurement --- p.37 / Chapter 2.5 --- Results --- p.45 / Chapter 2.6 --- Discussion --- p.56 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- STUDY TWO: FIRM RESTORATIVE EFFORTS AND REPUTATIONAL REPAIR AFTER CORPORATE FRAUD --- p.59 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.59 / Chapter 3.2 --- Theoretical Background --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Firm Efforts to Turn Around from Fraud Incidents --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Apology --- p.63 / Chapter 3.3 --- Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Sentiment Restoration and Pragmatic Attitudes toward Restorative Efforts --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- The Construal Level of Restorative Cues --- p.68 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- The Distance of Problem Cues: The Delay of Punishment --- p.70 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Shareholders’ Negative Sentimental Reaction: Media Negative Comments --- p.72 / Chapter 3.4 --- Methods --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Sample and Data Collection --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Measurement --- p.75 / Chapter 3.5 --- Results --- p.79 / Chapter 3.6 --- Discussion --- p.84 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- STUDY THREE: THE EFFECTS OF PUNISHMENT ON FRAUD FIRMS’ GUILT SENTIMENT EXPRESSION --- p.86 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.86 / Chapter 4.2 --- Theoretical Background: Punishment --- p.88 / Chapter 4.3 --- Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses --- p.90 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- The Expression of Guilt Sentiment and Repeated Fraud --- p.91 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Punishment Intensity and Guilt Sentiment --- p.93 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Normalization: The Moderating Effects of Direct and Indirect Punishment Experience --- p.95 / Chapter 4.4 --- Methods --- p.98 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Sample and Data Collection --- p.98 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Measurement --- p.99 / Chapter 4.5 --- Results --- p.102 / Chapter 4.6 --- Discussion --- p.110 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION --- p.111 / Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusion --- p.111 / Chapter 5.2 --- Contributions to Theory and Practice --- p.112 / Chapter 5.3 --- Limitations and Implications for Future Research --- p.115 / REFERENCES --- p.117

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University / A case study of a rural area wage and benefit survey in the Monadnock region of Southwestern New Hampshire, illustrating the conception, development, and scope of the survey and its effect on management practices and procedures in that area.

A presente tese aborda um tipo específico de abastecimento alimentar em que produtores e consumidores se aliam e trabalham de forma colaborativa para o funcionamento da dinâmica. O objetivo central da pesquisa foi compreender como a dinâmica de abastecimento alimentar emerge e se materializa em diferentes locais, evidenciando as práticas sociais envolvidas, bem como a interação cotidiana entre atores, materialidades e subjetividades. A análise é baseada em um estudo em perspectiva internacional, que envolve sete casos localizados em cinco países distintos, a saber: Associação de Integração Campo Cidade, em São Paulo (Brasil); Canasta Comunitaria Utopía, em Riobamba (Ecuador); GAS Testaccio Meticcio e GASPER, ambos em Roma (Italia); na cidade de Valência duas iniciativas, Grupo de Consumo Vera e Grupo de Consumo de Russafa (Espanha) e De Groene Schuur em Zeist (Holanda). A metodologia utilizada foi a abordagem etnográfica multilocalizada, sendo esta complementada por revisão de literatura, análise documental, entrevistas, notas de campo e registro fotográfico Em termos teóricos, a Teoria das Assemblages foi utilizada como uma meta-teoria para explicar a formação das dinâmicas de abastecimento. Além disso, diferentes corpos de conhecimento foram mobilizados para a análise e interpretação das práticas sociais envolvidas em torno de processos organizacionais, relações interpessoais, construção do conhecimento e ativismo alimentar. Os resultados indicam que estas dinâmicas de abastecimento emergem de forma altamente contingencial em distintos países fomentando a emergência de Alianças Alimentares Colaborativas em que os atores trabalham em atividades diversas que vão além do comércio de alimentos e que ao fim buscam a materialização de uma sociedade e um sistema alimentar distinto. Há um forte fluxo e interação entre elementos materiais e subjetivos no surgimento de representações, valores e desejos que são incorporados pelos participantes e coletivos, afetando o cotidiano dos atores e a identidade das dinâmicas de abastecimento. / The present thesis addresses a specific type of food supply in which producers and consumers work together in a collaborative way for the functioning of the dynamic. The central aim of the thesis research was to understand how the food supply emerge and materializes in different locations, highlighting the social practices involved and the everyday interaction between actors, materiality and subjectivity. The analysis is based on a international study involving seven cases located in five different countries, namely: Associação de Integração Campo Cidade, in São Paulo (Brazil); Canasta Comunitaria Utopía, in Riobamba (Ecuador); GAS Testaccio Meticcio and GASPER, both in Rome (Italy); in Valencia two initiatives, Grupo de Consumo Vera and Grupo de Consumo de Russafa (Spain) and De Groene Schuur in Zeist (The Netherlands). The methodology used was a multi-sited ethnographic approach that was complemented by literature review, document analysis, interviews, field notes and photographic register. In theoretical terms, The Assemblage Theory was used as a meta-theory to explain the formation of the supply dynamics Additionally, different bodies of knowledge were mobilized for the analysis and interpretation of the social practices involved in process of organization, interpersonal relationships, knowledge building and food activism. The results indicate that these supply dynamics emerge in highly contingent ways in different countries promoting the emergence of Food Alliances Collaborative in which actors work in various activities that go beyond food, seeking to materialize a particular model of society and a different food system. There is a strong flow and interaction between material and subjective elements contributing to the emergence of representations, values and desires that are incorporated by participants and collectives, affecting the daily lives of the actors and the identity of the supply dynamics.

Ce projet de thèse en Sciences du Langage entend s'intéresser aux discours qui concernent le corps des intersexes. Il s’agit de se pencher sur les discours de la construction corporelle et identitaire chez les personnes intersexes dans la mesure où leurs sexes peuvent difficilement correspondre aux catégories du sexe binaire. Si l’on considère que le sexe et le genre sont construits discursivement selon un processus de différenciation sexuelle, il semble alors pertinent de s’attacher aux formations discursives qui entourent ces corps non-normés. En prenant pour appui un corpus hétérogène d’articles et d’ouvrages médicaux, de prises de parole médiatiques et informelles de personnes intersexes, il sera question d’analyser les processus discursifs qui permettent de produire une identité sexuée. Plus largement il s’agira de dégager une matrice discursive de la construction normée des genres qui passe par un dispositif d’essentialisation de la différence sexuelle. L’objectif de cette thèse est donc d’identifier les structures discursives qui servent à construire des identités sexuées binaires et à naturaliser la différence des genres. Je m’intéresserai aux discours médicaux pour montrer comment ils se situent face aux variations sexuelles et quelles sont les idéologies qui les sous-tendent ; cela me permettra de montrer en quoi ils reflètent et ils produisent une vision dichotomique des sexes. Il s’agira également de montrer comment les intersexes se situent face aux discours qui essentialisent et binarisent les sexes et éventuellement comment ils les déjouent. Il me semble en effet que la construction du genre chez les intersexes est rendue difficile par les stéréotypes sexuels, et qu’étudier les discours qu’ils.elles produisent sur leur(s) identité(s) peut servir à dégager en creux les processus langagiers qui stabilisent la division des sexes. / This thesis discusses how discourses on variations of sex development (intersexuality) couldsometimes produce and maintain a difference between the sexes and sometimes destabilize it.Elaborated within the field of discourse analysis, this thesis unfolds along a twofold theoreticalapproach. First, I seek to establish a dialogue between French Discourse Analysis and GenderStudies, to discuss the concepts of ideology, discursive formations and preconstruct. Secondly,addressing issues of the practices of categorisation and of construction of gender identities, thisdissertation falls within the field of the Gender & Language Studies. My analysis especiallyfocuses on how speakers use semantic, lexical, enunciative and pragmatic resources in order toproduce the meaning of sex. It led me to analyze how they create gender identities but alsohow they produce, spread and contest the ideologies of gender, by both naturalizing anddenaturalizing the sex difference. These analyses are based on a collection of medicaldiscourses (publications, children’s medical files), a collection of on-line activist discourses (fromforums and associations websites), and a collection of pornographic discourse involving atypicalsexes. Carrying qualitative analysis, the dissertation shows that the meanings of sex areunceasingly done and undone through discourses: they are produced by heteronormativity,they are affirmed or subverted by subjective positions, and they are reconfigured in thediscourses of desire.

This dissertation examines two educational piety projects competing for control over popular conceptualizations of piety and what it means to be a good Muslim, as presented by Al Azhar 31 Islamic Primary School and Luqman al Hakim Integrated Islamic Primary School in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Al Azhar 31 promotes an Indonesian Islam, pluralistic and inclusive of multi-tradition approaches to Islam that is flexible in regards to acceptable forms of worship. Luqman al Hakim SIT promotes a transnational Islam, inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and linked to the Indonesian Islamic political party, Prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejatera, PKS). The school's purificationist approach pushes for the removal of local customs and traditions from mainstream Islam and promotes exacting observance of standardized practices. These two schools' disparate approaches to Islam are emblematic of the larger polarizing trends in approaching Islam in Indonesia today. This dissertation has particular significance for understanding the intersection of Islamic movements, Islamic education, and the religious middle class. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this dissertation demonstrates how schooling can be a tool for shaping socio-religious and political climates of a community and country. It adds to the growing literature on the educational spaces developing alongside Islamic piety movements throughout the Muslim world. Additionally, this dissertation provides a rare example of the influence on Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood ideologies on education, rather than politics. It also illustrates how the schools' disparate approaches to Islam shape distinct religious subjectivities within their students. The documentation of the innovation of the extended-day Islamic school model and integrated Islam ideology employed by both schools adds to the rich history of Indonesia's Islamic schooling traditions. Finally, this dissertation demonstrates how middle class parents' classed aspirations and anxieties regarding education, wealth, morality, and corruption coalesce to create ready consumers for a particular type of Islamic school: one that provides a longer school day, strong academics, and a robust religious curriculum focused on Islamic morals and values.

"Afterlife of Empire" explores Ottoman cultural, social, and political continuities in Bosnia Herzegovina during the Habsburg administration (1878-1914). The research focuses on the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire - an influence perpetuated both by the efforts of the Ottoman imperial state, and by the former subjects in Bosnia Herzegovina itself to explain the lingering aftereffects of the Ottoman Empire in the province. At the core of this dissertation is the argument that the Ottoman subjects and the former territories did not stop being Ottoman in any significant sense immediately after the separation from the empire, and that the break with the empire was not that of rupture, but characterized by enduring features of the empire that evolved to respond to diplomatic and strategic interests in the region. A shift from the common inclination to analyze the Habsburg period as the introduction of modernity, and a focus, not on the national/ethnic framework constructed around identity, but on the overlapping, multiple loyalties in this study convey a more accurate representation of the period and an assessment of what legitimacy and sovereignty meant in this region. By drawing on Ottoman and Bosnian archival sources in focusing on Bosnia's overlapping imperial, regional, religious, linguistic, and cultural frameworks, this dissertation demonstrates the importance of considering the Ottoman context after its formal departure, and the significance of incorporating Islamic intellectual history in understanding the past and present of Bosnia Herzegovina and Southeastern Europe in general.