University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses April 2021 Cyclones, Spectacles, and Citizenship: The Politicization of Natural Disasters in the US and Oman Tyler Schuenemann University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the American Politics Commons, Comparative Politics Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Political Theory Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Schuenemann, Tyler, "Cyclones, Spectacles, and Citizenship: The Politicization of Natural Disasters in the US and Oman" (2021). Doctoral Dissertations. 2138. https://doi.org/10.7275/20155937 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2138 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CYCLONES, SPECTACLES, AND CITIZENSHIP: THE POLITICIZATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE US AND OMAN A Dissertation Presented By Tyler Schuenemann Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2021 Department of Political Science © Copyright by Tyler Schuenemann 2021 All Rights Reserved Cyclones, Spectacles, and Citizenship: