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Femicide In Buenos Aries: Social Change Through Interpersonal Education, Mckinley Bleskachek , '16
Femicide In Buenos Aries: Social Change Through Interpersonal Education, Mckinley Bleskachek , '16
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This paper explores the trajectory of social thought concerning femicide, particularly as it relates to the 2015 #NiUnaMenos movement in Buenos Aires. Through framing gender as a social construct, this paper illuminates the connection between cultural, structural and personal violence. In this framework, individual murders become a social phenomenon. The critical consciousness fostered by the #NiUnaMenos movement reveals the potential of interpersonal education to effect social change.
Embodying Tibet: Negotiating Tibetan-American Youth Identities At The Tibetan Children's Village Summer School Program, Lekey S. Leidecker , '16
Embodying Tibet: Negotiating Tibetan-American Youth Identities At The Tibetan Children's Village Summer School Program, Lekey S. Leidecker , '16
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My research illuminates the ways that the Tibetan Children’s Village Summer School program, despite its positive intentions, does in fact reinforce a fixed Tibetan identity by intertwining authenticity with a specific set of embodied experiences that do not match that of Tibetan youth living in the United States. Drawing on MacPherson’s (2011) “Fallacies About Language Sustainability” and recommendations for cultural preservation education, I evaluate the summer program’s curriculum as insufficient for promoting new articulations of Tibetan identity that reflects participants’ lived experiences in the United States, and argue that the current system in fact is exacerbating the difficulties that these …