Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Sociology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 278-291). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR45990

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Elizabeth L Keating. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Thesis (M. Ed.) -- University of Alberta, 2010. / "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta." Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on January 14, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. A.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: David Levenson, Florida State University, School of Social Sciences, Dept. of International Affairs. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 18, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains v,119 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

In this dissertation, a collective of eighteen Israeli and Palestinian former and current students and staff of two music education-encounter dialogue programs in Israel-Palestine engaged in participatory action research to reflect upon their former experiences in these shared society programs, while imagining and enacting designing of what they could be (Bashir & Goldberg, 2018; Escobar, 2018; Hess, 2018). At large, this research was a curriculum studies dissertation in retrospect that took a decolonial and music education activism approach to narratively understanding Israeli-Palestinian shared society music education spaces that exist within the greater contextual setting of settler colonialism and power asymmetries, deep within the borderlands (Anzaldúa, 1987; Lavie, 2011). The initiator of research and member of the collective also utilizes a narrative approach through memoir in the writing of this inquiry in which to embody the socio-historical-cultural context of this research. This intergenerational research collective with multiple identities (Maalouf, 2001) across the national binary of Israeli and Palestinian identities co-researched over a ten-month period within small inquiry communities, or dialogue research circles. The dialogue research circles were formed by eliciting research questions from the collective. Upon entering the dialogue research circles, co-researchers revisited experiences within Israeli and Palestinian musical spaces through narrative witnessing and testifying of stories of these spaces. Co-researchers then considered how these stories as curricular artefacts (Sonu, 2020) could offer insights into a multitude of alternative ways of co-constructing Israeli-Palestinian shared society spaces. The content of the stories told included looking at the interaction of multiple narratives and histories to collective memories and everyday realities, in addition to our experiences learning and teaching music in multicultural, multilingual, multireligious, multi-ethno-national-affiliated spaces. The findings presented in this dissertation are organized as three themes embedded with curricular tensions and decision points. Furthermore, these themes are presented through vignettes that attempt to portray on another level the different phases of the dialogue research circle’s group dynamics interconnected with the research process and timeline. The themes include the processes and structures of co-constructing Israeli-Palestinian participatory researching spaces, negotiating the complexities and conceptualizations of safe space within these programs, and finally, exploring the implications of, and decentering of, the national binary dominance of Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms present within the binationalism of shared society programs.

This thesis examines political mobilisation into secular groups within Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It focuses on context and identity in order to find out why and how Palestinians in the camps mobilise into these groups. The thesis uses a framework that incorporates three levels of analysis: structural; organisational; and individual. An ethnographic methodology is deployed involving interviews and participant observation in refugee camps in Lebanon. The thesis starts by looking at what sort of theoretical framework is necessary in order to understand the three key levels of analysis, including literature focusing on opportunities and constraints; human needs; resources; recruitment; social construction; and identity. The next focus is on context, looking at both the legal issues surrounding refugees - international, regional and local - as well as the historical context. The last three chapters examine the three levels of analysis individually, using them in conjunction with ethnographic research data to find out why and how Palestinians in the camps mobilise. The conclusion shows that, contrary to what one would imagine from most of the mobilisation literature, the Palestinians in the camps are not mobilising as would be expected. Instead the ethnographic research results found that the political groups within the camps are not as politically and militarily active as would be presumed. Mobilisation into these political groups is happening for different reasons than in previous findings – focusing instead on solidarity and social issues. This change has happened for contextual and financial reasons, including the end of the Civil War and the Palestinian Revolution in Lebanon, as well as a severe lack of resources available to the political groups. The research results found that although there is still mobilisation into the political groups, there was also disillusionment among many youths at the political groups' inability to facilitate their return to Palestine from Lebanon, as well as dismay at what they saw as disunity between the Palestinian political groups.

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