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Subjects Of Scale / Spaces Of Possibility: Producing Co-Operative Space In Theory And Enterprise, Janelle Terese Cornwell
Subjects Of Scale / Spaces Of Possibility: Producing Co-Operative Space In Theory And Enterprise, Janelle Terese Cornwell
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This dissertation addresses key questions raised in Human Geography and Economic Geography concerning scale and the production of space, alternative economic geographies and co-operative economic development. It is the product of a five year ethnographic investigation with co-operative enterprises in Western Massachusetts and the broader Connecticut River Valley of Western New England. It explores neglected questions about how subjects are producing co-operative economic identities, enterprises and development strategies amid capitalist cultural dominance; and how structural, financial and governmental aspects of their enterprises participate in cultivating the desire and capacity to expand co-operative space. In line with poststructuralist feminist perspectives within …
Reading Landscape: Mid-Century Modernism And The Landscape Idea, Jeffrey David Blankenship
Reading Landscape: Mid-Century Modernism And The Landscape Idea, Jeffrey David Blankenship
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This dissertation traces the recovery of the landscape idea during the middle decades of the 20th century by a group of public intellectuals, scholars and designers responding to the everyday realities of the modern American built environment. That recovery served as a corrective to modernism's construction of landscape as either abstract utopian space or retrogressive historical tableau. The primary catalyst for this renewed interest in landscape as a representation of human cultures and their complex relationship with the natural world was the essayist and critic John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) and his magazine Landscape. During the years of Jackson's editorship (1951-1968), …
Lacustrine Records Of Holocene Climate And Environmental Change From The Lofoten Islands, Norway, Nicholas L. Balascio
Lacustrine Records Of Holocene Climate And Environmental Change From The Lofoten Islands, Norway, Nicholas L. Balascio
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Lakes sediments from the Lofoten Islands, Norway, can be used to generate well resolved records of past climate and environmental change. This dissertation presents three lacustrine paleoenvironmental reconstructions that show evidence for Holocene climate changes associated with North Atlantic climate dynamics and relative sea-level variations driven by glacio-isostatic adjustment. This study also uses distal tephra deposits (cryptotephra) from Icelandic volcanic eruptions to improve the chronologies of these reconstructions and explores new approaches to crypto-tephrochronology. Past and present conditions at Vikjordvatnet, Fiskebølvatnet, and Heimerdalsvatnet were studied during four field seasons conducted from 2007-2010. Initially, each lake was characterized by measuring water …