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"Comic"Ally Calling For Cultural Competency: Using Graphic Narratives To Teach Social Justice In The Writing Classroom, Travis Moody

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Renegotiating Liminal Spaces: Catholic Nuns As Spiritual And Feminist Activists, Emily M. Lauletta

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The objective of this thesis is to recognize the critical work being done by the women in two Sister-led organizations, Talitha Kum, and Network. Throughout this thesis, I make note of how the actions of these groups of nuns align with several values attributed to spiritual activism. Simultaneously, I discuss the complications that arise from doing social justice work within the confines of an institution that has perpetuated settler colonialism and white supremacy. My analysis is grounded in three theoretical frameworks; spiritual activist theory as articulated by Gloria Anzaldúa, Indigenous Feminism(s), and Womanism. In reference to the nuns' status as …

The Heirloom As Evidence: Investigating The Colonial Trace Preserved Within My Family’S Sandalwood Box, Olivia Meehan

Pitzer Senior Theses

This paper accompanies my senior art exhibition Picturing the Colonial Trace. Pulling from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars, I theorize the practice of critical white auto-ethnography through visual interrogations of family heirlooms. The heirloom as evidence holds within its form a colonial trace. I investigate this trace through my creative practice, revealing the environmental, economic, and interpersonal histories of the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. My art disrupts my family’s narrative of a benevolent British Empire and redirects attention to the silences of my family archive. This thesis proposes a potential model for white scholars of Environmental …

Mcnair Scholars Research Journal 2022, Haleigh R. Hicks, Naponi Jada, Justine Phan, Promise Robinson, Rocio E. Vegamartinez, Paula Currie, David Antonio Diaz, Alexia J. Hartzell, Ariana Hernandez, Kayla Meyers, David O.T. Ogidan, Jose David Perez Vela, Riley Wiland

McNair Scholars Research Journal-Archive

No abstract provided.

Leviticus 25’S History Of Inspiring Freedom As A Moral Challenge To Literary-Historical Interpretation, James Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

Though Leviticus 25’s description of the Jubilee sounds unrealistically utopian to many biblical scholars, the Jubilee ideal has stimulated many movements for freedom and economic reform in the last 500 years. It most famously motivated enslaved people to resist and abolitionists to challenge the institution of slavery. Today it continues to inspire reform movements for land redistribution and fair housing, for sovereign debt relief, and for developing environmentally sustainable economies. The contrast between scholarly assessments of the chapter’s meaning in its literary and ancient historical contexts and its proven power to inspire movements for freedom that were unimaginable to its …

Settler Colonial Origins Of Intimate Partner Violence In Indigenous Communities, Maia C. Behrendt

Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Indigenous women in the United States experience disproportionately higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Through a framework of settler colonialism, this article examines how settler colonial gender practices disrupted and eroded generational patterns of gender roles and power relationships within Indigenous communities, contributing over time to today's higher levels of IPV perpetrated against Indigenous women. I argue that future research on IPV must attend to the historical, contemporary, and legal impacts of settler colonial policies and laws that contribute to increased rates of violence within marginalized and racialized communities. In this article, I first …

What Do We Long For? Reflections On Feminist Movements For Social Justice, Aman Agah, Emerson Barrett, Libia Marqueza Castro, Val Chang, Patti Duncan, Adrianna Nicolay

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In this collective essay, we contemplate tipping points including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, and gendered and racialized forms of state violence through our reflections on shifting meanings of and movements for social justice, shaped by our own lived experiences. Inspired by the writings of feminist scholars and activists including Grace Lee Boggs, adrienne maree brown, Dean Spade, bell hooks, and others, we grapple with the meanings of social justice in contemporary contexts.

Covid As Glitch: (Re)Visioning And (Re)Crafting A Feminist Future, Farrah M. Cato

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Many scholars and commentators argue that the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the ways in which feminism has failed women. While women, particularly in marginalized communities, have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, I contend that we should approach it as an opportunity to reenvision, and even shape, what feminist futures can look like. The pandemic provoked an increased interest in crafting, both because of quarantine conditions and the need for many requiring masks to slow viral transmission. The COVID-19 pandemic, then, serves as the tipping point by which craft can and does function as resistive and transformative feminist work with the …

Eco-Material Rifts In South Asian Anglophone Fiction, Muhammad Manzur Alam

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

I examine how South Asian Anglophone fiction represents the evolution and derangement of postcolonial ecologies, especially how unrelenting colonial and capitalist interventions affect the symbiotic relationship between subaltern people and nonhuman entities. The conceptual methodology develops from Karl Marx’s theory of “metabolic rift,” which illustrates how capitalist exportation of crops causes loss of important soil nutrients because the nutrients are consumed in distant locations and not returned to the original soil. My concept of “eco-material rifts” extends Marx’s idea to contend that the “rifts” have grown into more complicated and difficult to remediate modes of material rifts today. I scrutinize …

Archiving Feminist Truth In Trump’S Wake Of Lies, Julie Shayne

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

This article is about an assignment I do in one of my Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies social movement classes. I revised the assignment the first time teaching the class after Trump lost the 2020 election. For the assignment, students work in groups to research local feminist and gender justice organizations and deposit all of their original materials – recordings, photos, flyers, etc. – into a digital, open access archive I co-created several years ago with librarians and staff on my campus. In 2021 I had my students do the “post-Trump” edition where they researched local organizations about how their …

Eco-Tya: An Exploration Of Youth Agency And The Role Of Environment In Creating Balanced Theatrical Collaborations, Sage Tokach

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Systems of power in traditional theatrical and educational models may lead to controlled, efficient classrooms, but they do not help us facilitate creative, collaborative spaces. These power structures privilege some people over others and all people over environmental concerns. Eco-theatre artists emphasize the agency of more-than-human materials and encourage us to see our environment as a collaborator. Using eco-theatre theories in a synthesized methodology, this thesis explores how facilitators might interact differently with students and surroundings to disrupt power structures and lead to more inclusive collaborations. What tools and practices help students embrace challenges and work through tensions on their …

Food Desert To Food Oasis: An Engagement With The Community Through Evidence-Based Methods, Phillip W. Zawarus, Lisa Ortega

Creative Collaborations

The state of Nevada has the 12th highest percentage (12.8%) of households living with food insecurity compared to the US average of 11.1% according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1). Economic and environmental benefits of urban forests have been well documented to address issues of climate change, urban heat islands, and fragmented ecologies, however, in a period of social inequities, urban forests can serve a vital role in providing environmental justice through agroforestry for communities identified within a food desert.

According to Kyle H. Clark & Kimberly A. Nicholas, “urban food forestry can be an efficient way to consistently …

Re-Storying Grant Creek: A Case Study Of Relational Dynamics On A Degraded Montana Stream, Seamus Rucci Land

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration began in 2021, and after a history of contentious ethical debates, ecological restoration is increasingly portrayed as a viable framework for combating environmental degradation and supporting more healthy and stable social-ecological systems. The proposed ecological restoration of Grant Creek, a degraded stream near Missoula, Montana, offers an opportunity to connect a restoration site to the broader, rapidly growing field of restoration practice. It also allows the opportunity to forward the ‘relational turn’ proposed by many in the sustainability sciences as an ontological and methodological means to move beyond positivist portrayals of social-ecological systems, which …

Contributors - Quaker Religious Thought, No. 138, Jon R. Kershner

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

การออกแบบโฆษณายั่วยุสำหรับการรณรงค์เพื่อสังคม, ณวัฒน์ อินทอง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์คือ 1) เพื่อหาแนวทางในการออกแบบโฆษณายั่วยุสำหรับการรณรงค์เพื่อสังคม 2) เพื่อหาวิธีประยุกต์ใช้แนวทางการออกแบบโฆษณายั่วยุสำหรับการรณรงค์เพื่อสังคม โดยมีวิธีวิจัยคือ 1.ทำการรวบรวมชิ้นงานโฆษณาแนวทางปฎิบัติอันเป็นเลิศจาก2สถาบันคือ D&AD และ The One Show ปี พ.ศ. 2560 - พ.ศ. 2564 มีจำนวนทั้งสิ้น 203 ชิ้น ทำการตรวจสอบคุณสมบัติชิ้นงานที่ใช้ศึกษาโดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญโดยการสัมภาษณ์แบบกลุ่ม จากนั้น 2.ผู้วิจัยศึกษาและรวบรวมข้อมูลแนวคิดการยั่วยุอารมณ์เพื่อกำหนดคำสำคัญจากร่วมกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านจิตวิทยาเพื่อสร้างเครื่องมือที่1 สำหรับคัดเลือกกลุ่มตัวอย่างภาพโฆษณาที่มีลักษณะยั่วยุอารมณ์ 3. ทำการคัดเลือกกลุ่มตัวอย่างโดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านจิตวิทยา และ ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านสื่อประชาสัมพันธ์ จากนั้น 4. ผู้วิจัยนำกลุ่มตัวอย่างจำนวน 63 ชิ้นมาวิเคราะห์ร่วมกับแนวคิดการออกแบบโฆษณา 6 แนวคิดได้แก่ 1) กลยุทธ์การสร้างสรรค์สารโฆษณา 2) แนวคิดจุดจับใจในงานโฆษณา 3) การนำเสนอความคิดสร้างสรรค์ 4) แนวคิดด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์ 5) แนวคิดรูปแบบการสร้างสรรค์ภาพ 6) แนวคิดวิธีการเล่าเรื่อง 5. นำผลวิเคราะห์ไปตรวจสอบความถูกต้องของการวิเคราะห์โดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้วยวิธีการสนทนากลุ่ม และสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก ผลสรุปงานวิจัยพบว่าคำสำคัญของการยั่วยุอารมณ์มีทั้งหมด 12 คำ การใช้กลยุทธ์การสร้างสรรค์สารโฆษณา คือ 1) สารประเภทอารมณ์ 2) สารประเภทการอ้างเหตุผลสนับสนุน 3) สารประเภทการใช้ข้อมูล แนวคิดจุดจับใจในงานโฆษณา คือ 1) จุดจับใจความกลัว 2) จุดจับใจอารมณ์ 3) จุดจับใจทางเพศ แนวคิดการนำเสนอแนวความคิดสร้างสรรค์คือ 1) รูปแบบการสร้างอารมณ์ร่วมให้รู้สึกตื้นตัน เศร้าใจ 2) รูปแบบการอุปมาอุปไมย 3) คำให้การและคำรับรอง แนวคิดวิธีการเล่าเรื่องคือ 1) รูปแบบการเริ่มต้นด้วยความผิดพลาด 2) รูปแบบการเริ่มต้นด้วยประโยคที่สร้างความสนใจและแรงบันดาลใจ 3) รูปแบบการเล่าเปิดประเด็นไว้แล้วนำเสนอเรื่องอื่น แนวคิดการนำเสนอแนวความคิดสร้างสรรค์ และ แนวคิดวิธีเล่าเรื่อง แนวคิดด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์ คือ 1) รูปแบบการก้าวเข้าสู่สีเอกรงค์ 2) รูปแบบการใช้ภาพถ่ายและภาพวาดร่วมกัน 3) รูปแบบและพื้นผิว แนวทางการใช้แนวคิดรูปแบบการสร้างสรรค์ภาพ คือ 1) รูปแบบภาพการใช้รูปแบบ …

Toolkit Of Methods For Feminist Participatory Action Research: Empowering Women, Transforming Systems, Trimita Chakma, Naomi Joy Godden, Kavita Naidu

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This Toolkit was developed following a series of training workshops on Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) concepts and methods with Oxfam Cambodia’s Inclusion Project 2 (IP2) partners from Lao, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The training provided targeted capacity support and technical assistance to the IP2 partners to develop gender-responsive advocacy activities on water governance in the Mekong region.

This Toolkit was developed to provide guidance to IP2 partners on how to use FPAR methods in their ongoing activities and advocacy. However, FPAR is a process and is not issue-specific. As such, the Toolkit can also be used by communities, …

A Guide To Everlasting, Jona L. Pedersen

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 56, No. 16, December 6, 2021, Grand Valley State University

Volume 56, August 2, 2021 - April 18, 2022

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Sin Yen Ling, Sin Yen Ling

Oral Histories – Student Projects

Sin Yen Ling was born in Chinatown, Manhattan, she is daughter of immigrant parents who arrived to the U.S in the early 70s and worked in garment factories and restaurants. She's a former staff attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) where she spent six years advocating for anti-Asian violence, racial profiling, and the deportations and detentions made against immigrants post 9/11. She founded ASPIRE, the first pan Asian undocumented youth group in the country. She is now the director of the Immigration Project, member of the New York State Bar and of the American Immigration …

The Year Of Brood Viii, Jona L. Pederson

Greenway Press Chapbooks

No abstract provided.

Shopping For A Cause: Social Influencers, Performative Allyship, And The Commodification Of Activism, Emily Mckellar

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Since the early 2010s, social media has been a powerful tool for protestors and activists throughout the world. In times of crisis and political uprisings, users have pulled out their phones and taken to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and, more recently, Instagram, to capture “the revolution” in real time. Although originally intended for networking purposes, social media has provided people with a digital space to share their stories, disseminate resources, and broadcast live, allowing them to share their efforts with millions.

While social media has helped assemble protests, amplify marginalized voices, and educate the public, it has also become a …

Transboundary Air Quality Governance: A Case Study Of The Paso Del Norte Air Basin 1940-2000, Laura Margarita Uribarri

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

For thousands of years, the Paso del Norte region which today includes Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, El Paso, Texas, and Sunland Park, New Mexico, has been a strategic location by virtue of its geographic positioning at the lowest and easiest passage across the continental divide. During the 19th and 20th centuries as railroad networks connected the region to the far reaches of the U.S. and the interior of Mexico, it became a nexus for natural resource and labor extraction. Mining and smelting industries were later joined by agriculture and manufacturing to benefit from the transportation network and the abundance of labor. …

Anthropocentrism: More Than Just A Misunderstood Problem, Helen Kopnina, Haydn Washington, Bron Taylor, John Piccolo

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

Anthropocentrism, in its original connotation in environmental ethics, is the belief that value is human-centered and that all other beings are means to human ends. Environmentally-concerned authors have argued that anthropocentrism is ethically wrong and at the root of ecological crises. Some environmental ethicists argue, however, that critics of anthropocentrism are misguided or even misanthropic. They contend: first that criticism of anthropocentrism can be counterproductive and misleading by failing to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate human interests. Second, that humans differ greatly in their environmental impacts, and consequently, addressing human inequalities should be a precondition for environmental protection. Third, since …

The Pandemic, Environmentalism, And Re-Thinking Social And Political Philosophy: Pandemic 2: Chronicles Of A Time Lost, Edward Sandowski, Betty J. Harris

International Dialogue

In Pandemic!2-Chronicles of a Time Lost, Slavoj Žižek continues his discussions, written and performed in multiple media, of the pandemic that has severely afflicted the world for what seems so very long. And there are more trials coming, into the indefinite future, possibly, at worst, he imagines, terminated by a grand climate/ecological crisis and its consequences, which may, admittedly, end humanly experienced time altogether.

Leveraging Standardized Testing To Transform Curriculum Through Arts Integration: Effects Of Shadow Puppet Theater On Reading Fluency Among Elementary School Students, Nancy B. Parent

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

This paper presents findings from a reading fluency study conducted by Flock Theatre (Connecticut Higher Order Thinking Schools Teaching Artists) on the effects of a shadow puppet theater program in an elementary school setting. Data collected in this study show an increase in fluency scores among students who perform as narrators in the program. This paper highlights the role of teaching artists in leveraging standardized assessments to transform curricula and student learning through arts integration. Positionality of teaching artists, classroom teachers, and my role as a social scientist in this context is considered, as well as a discussion of the …

Volume Cxxxx, Number 5, October 22, 2021, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Bryant University Day Of Understanding, Justice Begins With Us, Office Of Institutional Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

Day of Understanding Programs

No abstract provided.

Civil Rights Enforcement And Fair Housing At The Environmental Protection Agency, Jennifer Thomson

Faculty Journal Articles

This article analyzes the EPA within the broader history of federally-sponsored residential segregation, as well as the criminalization of and disinvestment from urban areas contemporaneous with the agency’s founding. It offers a detailed analysis of EPA’s first decade of recalcitrance regarding its own obligations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The EPA developed a pattern of responding to scrutiny by rearranging its internal office structure and launching new initiatives tangential to the substantive issues of civil rights. Through this detailed interpretation, the article demonstrates how EPA’s first ten …

Spiritan Mission In Asia, Pat Palmer C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Soil Not Oil: An Assessment Of The Role Of Earth Jurisprudence In Restoring Biodiversity Conservation In The Indigenous Bagungu Community, In Uganda, Joslyn Primicias

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

An Earth-centered way of living is essential in Western Uganda, along with many more repressed regions affected by giant corporate evils. The purpose of this study was to assess the contribution of Earth Jurisprudence in the restoration of conservation in the Indigenous Bagungu community. More specifically, this study examines the customary laws and rituals used by the Bagungu, the strategies used to decolonize their culture, and their perspectives on foreign influence and globalization. Key-informant interviews were conducted with seven custodians and questionnaire-led interviews were administered to thirty-one clan members from the districts of Buliisa and Hoima. The study sample size …