Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisville, 2008. / Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology. Vita. "August 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-166).

Texte remanié de: Doct-diss.--Philos.--Evanston, Northwestern university's graduate school, 1979. / Bibliogr. p. 224-228. Index.

This study employed narrative methods to explore how two Somali-Canadian women formed and understood their identities as first-generation university students. In conceptualizing identity, the study draws on sociological literature that frames identities as a collection of social roles that are performed. Within this framework, university student is a cultural object related to specific kinds of capital. The data are presented in narrative form, based in life history and life story approaches. Within their narratives, participants recounted the ways in which their attempts at developing a university student identity were complicated by their identities as Black, Muslim, economically marginalized individuals from refugee backgrounds. The tension at the heart of each participants’ narrative was not how to perform the university student role, but the cost of that performance on other parts of their identity. These findings reveal the narrow definition university student within the Canadian imagination and its consequence for the lives of marginalized communities.

Region 5 is one of the most impoverished and insecure regions of Ethiopia. For decades, the region has suffered from a multitude of armed conflicts involving state and non-state actors. Region 5 is also one of the most underserved states of Ethiopia with some of the lowest levels of human development indicators nationwide. Although the adversities of poverty and conflict are widely acknowledged in their own respect, there has been little or no inquest into why poverty and conflict have prevailed under the same space for decades. Poverty and conflict have often been seen as separate phenomena that are dealt with using different sets of theories and practices in the real world. Nonetheless, a closer look at poverty and conflict in Region 5 reveals that both are strongly connected to each other. The poverty-conflict trap has been an on-going cycle in the region for the last five decades. The main intent of this research paper is analyzing the two-way relationship between poverty and conflict in Region 5. By studying this relationship, this analysis seeks to contribute to a new framework that brings peacebuilding and development closer.

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Mäkwännǝn Wäldä-Mikaʾel (1852-1906) est un officier du règne de l’empereur d’Éthiopie Menilek II. Gouverneur de Harär en 1887, il est en contact avec les Occidentaux et est en charge de la sécurité du territoire éthiopien, sa province étant limitrophe des colonies européennes de la Corne de l’Afrique. Conseiller diplomatique, il est désigné pour accomplir deux missions officielles à l’étranger en même temps qu’il combat efficacement à Adwa. Son habileté politique et militaire, ses capacités d’administrateur, son sens de la diplomatie, son style personnel, construisent une personnalité publique, sur qui la plupart des textes, tant européens qu’éthiopiens, sont élogieux. Dans cette perception de Mäkwännǝn apparaît le premier écueil d’une approche historique du personnage : Mäkwännǝn est le père de Täfäri / Haylä-Sǝllase, dont le règne impérial organise une mise en spectacle du pouvoir, à laquelle le culte de la mémoire de Mäkwännǝn participe. Cette commémoration prend notamment la forme biographique. Deux biographies amhariques connues à ce jour sont le matériau à partir duquel nous nous efforçons d’analyser la perception du pouvoir en Éthiopie. La première œuvre publiée en 1946, intitulée Yälǝʾul ras Mäkwännǝn tarik, est le travail d’un spécialiste des textes sacrés du christianisme. L’autre biographie, écrite par un auteur proche de la cour est publiée en 1960-61. Nos documents qui relèvent de l’historiographie éthiopienne qui traite du pouvoir à travers l’individu, en dehors des éléments propres à la culture éthiopienne et des incursions vers le genre hagiographique, fournissent des informations de premier ordre sur la façon dont la société perçoit le monde extérieur ainsi que des valeurs qu’elle attribue au pouvoir en place. Les biographies amhariques produisent un modèle de gouvernement idéal qui trouve cependant des correspondances en Afrique de l’Est et en Europe-même. / Mäkwännǝn Wäldä-Mikaʾel (1852-1906) is an officer of the reign of Menelik II. Governour of Harär in 1887, he is in contact with Westerners as diplomat, while also being charged with the security of the Ethiopian territory. Indeed, the province he rules has common boundaries with the expanding European colonies of the Horn of Africa. However, Mäkwännǝn’s political and diplomatic ability as well as his military skill fuel the eulogistic currents which run through his public image, often represented as that of a good prince according to Erasmus’ conception of power. Two Amharic biographies have allowed us to deepen our understanding of the values Ethiopian society attributes to the man of power embodied in Mäkwännǝn and the perception of the outside world in parallel. One is written by a specialist of the Scriptures, the author of the other one being close to the imperial court of Haylä-Sǝllase, ras Mäkwännǝn’s son. The cultural elements these documents carry do not blind us to the pitfalls of hagiographical packaging in an analysis of the quest for ideal power through the celebration of a just government which echoes not only in East Africa, but also in Europe.