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Ten Peaks In The Great Eastern Alpine Zone: A List Of Great Mountains Expands Old Ideas Of Boundaries, Michael T. Jones, Lisabeth Willey

Appalachia

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Appalachia Winter/Spring 2012: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Ethical Extensionism Defended, Joel P. Macclellan

Between the Species

Ethical extensionism is a common argument pattern in environmental and animal ethics, which takes a morally valuable trait already recognized in us and argues that we should recognize that value in other entities such as nonhuman animals. I exposit ethical extensionism’s core argument, argue for its validity and soundness, and trace its history to 18th century progressivist calls to expand the moral community and legal franchise. However, ethical extensionism has its critics. The bulk of the paper responds to recent criticisms, including (1) environmental ethicists’ objection against its austere conception of moral value (2), feminist ethicists’ claim that extensionism fails …

Not Damsels In Distress: Women And The Video Game Industry, Abby Jayne Pucik

Student Theses and Dissertations

Men often designed video games as a masculine technology, but there is nothing innately masculine about video games. Games have been socially constructed in design rooms, advertisements, and by the users. The work of the earliest women game designers pushed the boundaries of game making as a form of human technological expression, proving that video games were socially constructed. Despite those efforts, marketers failed to portray women in gaming. Early gaming advertisements used women as background decoration in arcade flyers that catered to men consumers. This objectification of women stimulated a culture in which men perceived themselves to be the …

Research

Appalachia

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Beyond ‘Rising Tides’ And ‘Lying Flat’: Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth In Urban China, Diego Gullotta, Lili Lin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article, “Beyond ‘Rising Tides’ and ‘Lying Flat’: Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth in Urban China”, Diego Gullotta and Lili Lin examine how Chinese youth are positioned within the dominant culture, how young people appropriate space in their emergent cultural practices, and how they negotiate meaning-making. The article first analyses the rising tides (houlang) video, sponsored jointly by the state and the private sector, and argues that it reduces youth to a homogenous subject inscribed into the discourse of “China’s rise” (zhongguo jueqi) via emotional mobilization. The “lying flat” phenomenon represents young people’s negative response to …

Breadtube Rising: How Modern Creators Use Cultural Formats To Spread Countercultural Ideology, Jj Sylvia Iv, Kyle Moody

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article, “BreadTube Rising: How Modern Creators Use Cultural Formats to Spread Countercultural Ideology,” J.J. Sylvia IV and Kyle Moody analyze the rise of BreadTube. Scholars have argued that YouTube’s algorithms lead to greater radicalization (Ribeiro et al.) and bad actors have weaponized algorithms to draw users into conspiracies (boyd, What Hath We Wrought?). This article adds to this by linking these practices to the commodification of social media that spread misinformation as adaptations of socially and rhetorically mediated technologies. It analyzes how the economics of YouTube and other platforms demand that user-generated content fit within paradigms of …

Biopolitics In The Twenty-First Century: India And The Pandemic, _ Swatie, Rashee Mehra

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Swatie and Rashee Mehra discuss in their "Biopolitics in the Twenty-first Century: India and the Pandemic”, the rise of the biopolitical state in India in the 2020s. The article emphasizes the relevance of Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics for the pandemic in India. The biopolitical governmentality of the Indian state operates at several levels to politicize ‘life itself’: racism (the notion that sections of the population are disposable), economics (the notion of privatization of care), and the logic of contagion (based on ideas of threat perception and risk). The article engages with biopolitics in the 21st century and looks at …

When The Queer East Met The American West: How The Same-Sex Relationship Between A Syrian “Princess” And Her “Secretary” Destabilized Orientalism In The Early Twentieth Century, Matthew Champagne

Madison Historical Review

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Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Students Experiencing Homelessness And Substance Use In The School Context: A Statewide Study, Hadass Moore, Kris De Pedro

Education Faculty Articles and Research

PURPOSE

This study explored differences between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB)-housed and homeless students regarding substance use patterns on and off school grounds and the unique contribution of homelessness to substance use in school.

METHODS

Data were from the 2013-2015 California Healthy Kids Survey, a statewide survey of school protective factors and risk behaviors. A representative sample of 9th- and 11th-grade students (N = 20,337) was used. Comparisons between housed (n = 19,456) and homeless (doubled up: n = 715; acute homeless: n = 166) LGB students were conducted. We used chi-square tests to compare rates of lifetime, past-30-day, and …

Without Permanence: Mapping Multi-Genre, Cross-Disciplinary Frameworks For Trans* Studies, Jesse Jack

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project takes a cross-disciplinary and multi-genre approach to Transgender (Trans*) Studies to proliferate diverse and ambiguously-gendered representations of trans* experiences across time. It identifies the emergence of rhetorical intertextuality in recent trans* literatures as a discursive response to the biopolitical regulation and erasure of ambiguously-gendered, trans* experiences. It identifies the intersecting influences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century medical paradigms, surveillance apparatuses, popular trans* autobiographies, and archives in representing and exceptionalizing certain trans* experiences over others. In contrast, this project engages in a close reading of Pajtim Statovci’s Crossing (2016) and Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl …

'Bleeding-In-The-World': A Qualitative Study Of Self-Cutting And Blood, Sadie Mohler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is an existential, phenomenological study of the role and meaning of blood in self-cutting. Using in-depth, open-ended interviews with participants who self-cut, the author gathered data on the multisensorial experience of blood and bleeding in self-cutting. Data analysis was organized around the lifeworld existentials of corporeality, temporality, spatiality, communication, and relationality. The impact of blood and bleeding across each lifeworld dimension emphasized highly relevant, and previously unstudied, aspects of the lived experience of self-cutting. The six themes identified and explored are (a) blood as an animate abject; (b) bleeding and control; (c) bleeding is a process and the …

Documenting Difficult Cases: A Mixed Method Analysis, Thomas Daniel Knight

History Faculty Publications

This Special Issue of Genealogy examines the use of evidence, documentation, and methodology in family history and genealogical studies, and welcomes case studies that examine how to document individuals and relationships. A critical component of scholarly research focusing on the study of particular individuals or groups entails correctly identifying those individuals Historians, genealogists, historical demographers, and scholars in other disciplines sometimes undertake this sort of analysis. Often, research is uncomplicated if the research subject remained in a particular geographical area, or left a clear evidentiary trail, but what happens when historical documents do not clearly identify the research subject? Utilizing …

Heart-Berry: A Modern Woman Rambles Through A Season With Thoreau, Kristen Laine

Appalachia

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Human Mobility, Hospitality, And Tourism Industries: A Perspective On Catastrophes, Asif Hussain

Journal of Sustainability and Resilience

The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a significant reduction in peoples’ movements, migration and trade at both local and global levels. Lockdowns and travel restrictions all over the world have led to a rapid retrenchment of the world’s hospitality and tourism sector. This is not new. Historically, catastrophes impacted human mobility. Drawing from the historical connections between catastrophes, especially health crises, this paper highlights the impacts of catastrophes on the hospitality and tourism industries. This research shows that the relationship between pandemic and tourism is turbulent, and it explores the implications of the current health crisis for the travel industry …

Books Of Note

Appalachia

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Why Walk? An Excerpt From The New Book Walking Distance, Robert E. Manning

Appalachia

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Skiing On Copper And Coal: With Heavy Hearts, Five Friends Explore Land Scheduled For "Fracking" And Open-Pit Mining, John Gioia

Appalachia

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2013: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Research

Appalachia

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The Night Life: Many Animals Are Becoming Increasingly Nocturnal In An Effort To Avoid Humans, Dawn Stover

Appalachia

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The Wolf Called Or7: The First In California Since 1924, Jane Braxton Little

Appalachia

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Books Of Note

Appalachia

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The Phenomena Of Dimming And Its Effect On The Agricultural Production In Iraq, Dr. Ammar Mohammed Zakariya, Dr. Hatem Hamoodi Hassan

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

In the current time there is an increase in the global interest concerning the atmospheric changes in the world, threatening for a vanishing to the botanical and biological environments from the surface of the globe. The increase in pollution phenomena due to the development and the exaggeration in utilizing the natural resources and using methods and agricultural techniques both botanical and animal, show an environmental imbalance in increasing CO2 in air and an increase in the non responsible human activities resulted an increase in the desertification area and the shortage in the rain quantity and the increase of the hidden …

دور الخصائص النفسية والاجتماعية للبيئة الأسرية في اضطراب فرط النشاط الحركي لدى تلاميذ المدارس الابتدائية, م.د. عدنان علي حمزة

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تشير الدراسات حديثاً وجود مشكلة فرط النشاط الحركي لدى نسبة من الأطفال بأعمار ما قبل المدرسة وأثنائها ، ويؤكد أخصائيو الصحة المدرسية، فضلاً عن عيادات الطب النفسي إلى تسببها بمشكلات نفسية وصحية وتربوية واجتماعية وقانونية، وتقدر نسبة وجودها عالمياً بـ(6-9%)، كما تقدر الخسائر المادية بـ(98) مليون دولار سنويا، وإن نسبة(23%)من هؤلاء الأطفال يذهبون ضحايا أو يتسببون بنسبة مماثلة من الوفيات للآخرين جراء سرعتهم وضعف انتباههم، وفي الوقت الذي تعطي فيه الدراسات البيولوجية نسبة(43%) من السببية للوراثة، فإن الدراسات في ميدان النفس اجتماعي أعطت الدور الأكبر للتنشئة الأسرية، وقد دلَّ المختصون في الشأن النفسي العراقي مؤخراً على وجود مشكلة سلوك فرط …

فاعلية برنامج قائم على التفكير التأملي في تنمية مهارات التفكير فوق المعرفية والاتجاه العلمي لدى طالبات الصف الرابع عام في مادة الاحياء, أ.م.د. بتول محمد جاسم

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

هدف البحث الحالي الى قياس اثر برنامج قائم على التفكير التأملي في تنمية مهارات التفكير فوق المعرفية والاتجاه العلمي لدى طالبات الصف الرابع عام في مادة الاحياء، للتحقق من هدف البحث تم صياغة الفرضيتين الصفريتين الاتية:

1- لا يوجد فرق ذو دلالة احصائية عند مستوى (05، 0) بين متوسط الفرق درجات الطالبات اللاتي درسن باستخدام برنامج قائم على التفكير التأملي ومتوسط الفرق درجات الطالبات اللاتي درسن باستخدام طريقة الاعتيادية فيمقياس مهارات التفكير فوق المعرفية القبلي والبعدي .

2- لا يوجد فرق ذو دلالة احصائية عند مستوى (05، 0) بين متوسط الفرق درجات الطالبات اللاتي درسن باستخدام برنامج قائم على التفكير …

الرسائل الجامعية المجازة فـي كلية التربية للعلوم الصرفة في جامعة ديالى للفترة (1995 - 2005 م) : دراسة ببليومترية, م.م سلام جاسم عبدلله العزي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

هدف البحث الى التعرف على الخصائص البنائية للنتاج الفكري في مجال علم الحيوان والنبات والاحياء المجهرية من خلال تحليل الاشارات الببليوغرافية الواردة في الرسائل الجامعية والتي تضمنت التوزيع اللغوي والتوزيع الوعائي والتوزيع الشكلي ، فضلا عن التعرف على اهم الدوريات في هذه المجالات ، وقد استخدم الباحث المنهج الببليومتري التحليلي القائم على تحليل الاشارات الببليوغرافية الواردة في الرسائل الجامعية لكلية التربية للعلوم الصرفة للمدة الزمنية المبحوثه (2005-2010) والبالغ عددها (33) رسالة جامعية وبلغ مجموع اشاراتها (4600) اشارة ببليوغرافية ، واهم ما توصل البحث اليه هو ان الكتب قد استحوذت على اهتمام الباحثين في استخدامهم لها ، فضلا عن قلة اهتمام …

(Re)Constructing Homescapes: “Archaeological Remote Sensing” And Ground-Truthing Of The Walker Place Homestead At Spirit Hill Farm, Tate County, Mississippi, Gabriel Griffin

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on an early nineteenth-century homestead known as the Walker Place homestead at Spirit Hill Farm in northern Mississippi. The goal of this thesis is to conduct a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and shovel test survey to explore how changing landscapes simultaneously (re)create and destroy senses of place or Homescapes. Homescapes have received little attention in the field of archaeology and have not been applied to Euro-American Homescapes. I apply this theoretical construct in a novel way as a venture to further develop an avenue in archaeology to be collaborative and understand the past in a way that accurately …

Feminism, Femininity, And Arkansas First Ladies: Hillary Rodham Clinton And Janet Mccain Huckabee, Spencer A. Hurlbut

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

Through the 1970s and into the 2000s, Hillary Clinton and Janet Huckabee served as first ladies. Their husbands were elected and ran campaigns for Arkansas Governor and President of the United States. While the two men were the elected officials that constituents cast their votes for on election day, Hillary and Janet were beside the men playing a tremendous role in securing or discouraging votes. Third wave feminism ran rampant throughout these two decades and resulted in higher numbers of women in the workforce, later years of marriage, less children, and greater awareness of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Hillary …

Office Files, 1960-2020, Provost's Office

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.