History
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/4929
2024-03-28T13:35:41ZEmpire of Tomorrow: Seattle and the Making of Global Capitalism in the 1970s
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/51187
Empire of Tomorrow: Seattle and the Making of Global Capitalism in the 1970s
Hedden, Andrew
This dissertation recounts the history of Seattle as an imperial city, and in doing so chronicles a larger story about the fate of American global supremacy in the late twentieth century. Whereas the city began the 1970s in economic and political turmoil, it ended the decade as a paragon of new American urbanism, “the most livable city in the United States.” And American power, once found strictly in manufacturing strength and military prowess, was being recomposed in new professional service sectors of trade, research, and technology – sectors that heavily favored Seattle. By examining how working people, community activists, unions, politicians, and business experienced these transformations, this dissertation argues that the fates of both the city of Seattle and American empire were deeply entwined. Faced with crisis, their renewed fortunes required new formations of class and race that would allow American elites to defeat the strength of organized labor and social movements while tapping into growing circuits of global capital.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2023
The Archive Performs: Malay Performance Traditions as Vessels for Islamic Histories and Identities in Sumatra
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50840
The Archive Performs: Malay Performance Traditions as Vessels for Islamic Histories and Identities in Sumatra
Chaterji, Katia
This dissertation explores the history of Islam in maritime Southeast Asia, focusing on the transmission of Islamic knowledge to Indonesia’s island of Sumatra through pathways mobilized by the arts – journeys made possible by singing and dancing. Looking at dakwah (Islamic proselytization) performance generally and two Sumatran dakwah traditions specifically (salawat dulang and zapin), my research shows how Islamization in the Malay archipelago demanded local individual agency in the formation of Malay Islamic cultural identity. Chapter One discusses the emergence of racialized Malayness in colonial discourses that set a persistent image against which Malay artisans and their traditions were assessed; Chapter Two considers the organization of self-identifying Indonesian Islamic artists and their responses to how the arts fit into changing religious and national identities at the cusp of violent anticommunism and a regime change in the 1960s; and Chapters Three and Four focus on the history and development of two specific dakwah traditions, salawat dulang and zapin, as embodied and oral traditions employed by practitioners to reflect local understandings of Islam in numerous ways. This dissertation contributes new ways of thinking about the performing arts as sites of Islamic cultural knowledge production, the permissibility of art within Islamic practice, and the global diversity of Islam not only through regional variation but also through the varying representations of Islam as performed tradition. In addressing such issues, this project engages a combined methodological approach drawing upon archival analysis, oral history, and dance ethnography to interrogate textual sources and performing bodies together. This approach brings together material from London, Jakarta, and the Indonesian provinces of West Sumatra and Riau in Sumatra.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2023
Resistance Nationalisms: Vietnamese Political Identities and Refugee Narratives in the United States, 1945-1995
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50841
Resistance Nationalisms: Vietnamese Political Identities and Refugee Narratives in the United States, 1945-1995
Nguyen, Gia-Quan Thi Anna
This project explores how Vietnamese Americans across the political spectrum manipulated and subverted narratives surrounding displaced people before, during, and after the Vietnam War. In doing so, I argue, they advanced their own anticolonial agendas to contest dominant notions of race, war, and empire in both the United States and Vietnam. The dissertation consists of three parts, each of which covers a political movement in the United States spearheaded by Vietnamese nationalists. The first part disrupts the typical timeline of Vietnamese American history by tracking the rise of a left-wing Vietnamese political tradition in the United States from 1945 to 1975. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s when Vietnamese seamen formed the Vietnam-American Friendship Association to campaign for the U.S. recognition of Vietnam’s independence from France, this political tradition drove South Vietnamese exchange students to join the U.S. antiwar movement in the 1960s and 1970s. This largely forgotten history of prominent Vietnamese left-wing activists in the United States demonstrates that anticolonialism shaped Vietnamese American political identities across the second half of the twentieth century. The second part focuses on the Homeland Restoration Movement, an anticommunist and anticolonial struggle organized by Vietnamese refugees in the 1980s to overthrow the Hanoi regime. A direct response to Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia in 1979 that ousted the Khmer Rouge and established a new Vietnamese-backed government in its place, the movement, I argue, encompassed and integrated anticommunism and anticolonialism among Vietnamese Americans. The third part explores how Vietnamese advanced their political agendas by cultivating, exploiting, and appropriating narratives surrounding U.S. POWs and MIAs in Southeast Asia. In the 1980s and 1990s, Vietnamese refugees routinely returned to the American POW/MIA Movement to advocate on behalf of Vietnamese POWs and to intervene in debates over the normalization of U.S.-Vietnamese relations.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2023
"Don't We All Have a Responsibility?”: Authority, Agency, and the Reframing of Jewish Life in East Berlin before and after the Fall of the Wall
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/49690
"Don't We All Have a Responsibility?”: Authority, Agency, and the Reframing of Jewish Life in East Berlin before and after the Fall of the Wall
Schatte, Katja
This dissertation examines the ways in which individuals, particularly women, identifying as Jewish in East Berlin between 1945 and 2016 articulated their Jewish identity and sense of community in the aftermath of the Holocaust, under state socialism, and in response to the social and political changes of the reunification period. It argues that we can understand this trajectory only if we develop an understanding of Jewish history that lifts up marginalized and less-heard voices. In practice, this means taking seriously the idea of a multiplicity of perspectives and re-examining the question of what constitutes the center, and the margins, of Jewish life. This dissertation thus combines the examination of state and congregation documents with analyses of memoirs, essays, literary works, and oral history interviews to address issues such as the experiences of Jews of different national origins, the impact of reunification on the personal and professional lives of East Berlin Jews, and the ways community members documented their lives.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2022