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Colonial Patronage: Evolutions In The Critique Of Sartre’S “Orphée Noir”, Gus Huiskamp Jan 2020

Colonial Patronage: Evolutions In The Critique Of Sartre’S “Orphée Noir”, Gus Huiskamp

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

One of the most interesting and controversial episodes in the history of the Négritude literary and philosophical movement came when two white, French authors prefaced the texts of two of the movement’s most significant authors. Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Orphée noir” is one of these texts in question, and it served as the preface for Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Anthologie de le nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française. In one sense, one might characterize Sartre as a friend to the Négritude movement, exposing it to the francophone mainstream and thereby helping it gain traction in Western academia. Viewed a different way, …


Theoretical Perspectives Of The Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution In A Social–Ecological Research Project, Steward T. A . Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso, Matthew E. Baker, Lawrence E. Band, Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Elena G. Irwin, Sujay S. Kaushal, Shannon L. Ladeau, Charles H. Nilon, Michele Romolini, Emma J. Rosi, Christopher M. Swan, Katalin Szlavecz Jan 2020

Theoretical Perspectives Of The Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution In A Social–Ecological Research Project, Steward T. A . Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso, Matthew E. Baker, Lawrence E. Band, Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Elena G. Irwin, Sujay S. Kaushal, Shannon L. Ladeau, Charles H. Nilon, Michele Romolini, Emma J. Rosi, Christopher M. Swan, Katalin Szlavecz

Advanced Science Research Center

The Earth's population will become more than 80% urban during this century. This threshold is often regarded as sufficient justification for pursuing urban ecology. However, pursuit has primarily focused on building empirical richness, and urban ecology theory is rarely discussed. The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) has been grounded in theory since its inception and its two decades of data collection have stimulated progress toward comprehensive urban theory. Emerging urban ecology theory integrates biology, physical sciences, social sciences, and urban design, probes interdisciplinary frontiers while being founded on textbook disciplinary theories, and accommodates surprising empirical results. Theoretical growth in urban ecology …


Planty For The People: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach To Healthy, Plant-Based Food Access In The Border Region, Marina Villegas Jan 2020

Planty For The People: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach To Healthy, Plant-Based Food Access In The Border Region, Marina Villegas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Access to food is an issue for many across the U.S., especially in low-income and high minority areas (Gallinar, et al., 2017). The border region of El Paso, Texas has several designated areas without access to supermarkets where residents may purchase food within a walking or short driving distance (HFAC, 2010). Researchers have linked food insecurity to nutritionally inadequate diets, which are shown to lead to obesity or other disorders like heart disease, diabetes, etc. (Marks, 2015; Craig and Mangels, 2009; Bartolotto, 2013). Food insecurity leads to an array of issues down the line that negatively affects not only health …


El Impacto Del Covid 19 En La Industria Maquiladora Y La Nueva Normalidad, Daniela Salas Molina Jan 2020

El Impacto Del Covid 19 En La Industria Maquiladora Y La Nueva Normalidad, Daniela Salas Molina

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Given the current pandemic facing the entire world in 2020, this study focuses on how workers in the maquiladora industry in Ciudad Juárez were affected by this virus. This work seeks to respond to what was the impact of COVID 19 in the maquiladora industry and how workers and their families were affected? And what role did workers play in requesting protection and what measures did companies implement to protect their employees? The interest of Chihuahua and Mexico is that the maquiladora industry returns to normal as soon as possible and its production levels increase, the United States puts pressure …


Border Crossing On Sacred Grounds: An Indigenized Decolonized Educational Research Paradigm For Use In Contemporary Globalized Schooling Systems, Estella Valles Jan 2020

Border Crossing On Sacred Grounds: An Indigenized Decolonized Educational Research Paradigm For Use In Contemporary Globalized Schooling Systems, Estella Valles

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Presented in this work is an adapted quantitative research paradigm for use in the field of education, specifically designed for work with Indigenous/marginalized populations coined "Diachronic Research Methodology" (DRM). The model is grounded in a post-positivist, decolonization-model, that is embedded in feminist and critical race theory. DRM is presented as a counter-approach to the traditional empiricist, research methods; a process which, historically, has allowed for a limited and biased understanding of Indigenous/marginalized populations. DRM challenges Western epistemologies and worldviews which have promoted the idea of one-grand-narrative for all humans, a view argued as beyond problematic and unethical, particularly for Indigenous …


Seed Conflicts In Colombia: Ethnorace, Territory, And Violence, Nathalia Hernandez Vidal Jan 2020

Seed Conflicts In Colombia: Ethnorace, Territory, And Violence, Nathalia Hernandez Vidal

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This dissertation follows the theoretical approach of the food regime scholarship (Friedmann and McMichael, 1989) to understand the process of privatization of seeds and the social and material processes associated with it, known as the Corporate Seed Regime (CSR). the CSR is a transnational regime of governance over the bios (life) born in the post- World-War II period, imagined and enforced by and through the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Bank (McMichael, 2013). in this work, I explain how a corporate seed regime (CSR) has taken form in Colombia. Extant sociological studies on the formation of CSRs explain …


การเปลี่ยนผ่านของสัญศาสตร์แห่งชนชั้นในพิธีการไหว้บรรพบุรุษในเทศกาลเช็งเม้ง: กรณีศึกษาคนไทยเชื้อสายจีน อำเภอเบตง จังหวัดยะลา, อธิพร เรืองทวีป Jan 2020

การเปลี่ยนผ่านของสัญศาสตร์แห่งชนชั้นในพิธีการไหว้บรรพบุรุษในเทศกาลเช็งเม้ง: กรณีศึกษาคนไทยเชื้อสายจีน อำเภอเบตง จังหวัดยะลา, อธิพร เรืองทวีป

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการศึกษาการเปลี่ยนผ่านของสัญศาสตร์แห่งชนชั้นในพิธีการไหว้บรรพบุรุษในเทศกาลเช็งเม้ง: กรณีศึกษาคนไทยเชื้อสายจีน อำเภอเบตง จังหวัดยะลา การศึกษานี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ โดยมองผ่านมุมมองสัญศาสตร์และชนชั้นทางสังคม กลุ่มตัวอย่างพิจารณาจากคนไทยเชื้อสายจีน 2 กลุ่ม คือ กลุ่มเจเนอเรชันเบบี้บูมเมอร์และกลุ่มเจเนอเรชันเอ็กซ์ในอำเภอเบตง จังหวัดยะลา ใช้การสัมภาษณ์และการสังเกตการณ์อย่างไม่มีส่วนร่วมเพื่อเก็บข้อมูล ผลการวิจัยพบว่า การให้ภาพสัญญะและการให้ความหมายภายใต้การประกอบพิธีเช็งเม้ง มีการให้สัญญะจากอัตลักษณ์ของความเป็นกลุ่มชาติพันธุ์จีนกวางไสในพื้นที่เบตง สิ่งนี้นำไปสู่ความเฉพาะทางวัฒนธรรม ทั้งเรื่องอาหาร การใช้ภาษา ความเชื่อ ขั้นตอนการประกอบพิธีและลักษณะเฉพาะของสุสานตำบลยะรม สัญญะภายใต้การประกอบพิธีเช็งเม้งจึงแตกต่างจากพื้นที่อื่น ซึ่งสร้างชนชั้นทางสังคมจากการมีทุนที่แตกต่างกัน อันนำไปสู่การเปลี่ยนผ่านการประกอบสร้างความหมาย การวิจัยพบว่าการเปลี่ยนผ่านเป็นผลมาจากการปรับตัวตามการเปลี่ยนแปลงของยุคสมัยที่มีปัจจัยทางสังคมที่แตกต่างกัน ส่งผลทำให้เกิดการเปลี่ยนผ่าน 4 ประเด็น คือ 1) การลดขั้นตอนการทำพิธี 2) ประเภทอาหาร 3) การฝังศพสู่การเผาศพ 4) ป้ายฮวงซุ้ย นอกจากนี้ผลการวิจัยยังพบว่าชนชั้นทางสังคมที่แฝงอยู่ภายใต้การประกอบพิธีเช็งเม้ง เป็นชนชั้นทางสังคมภายใต้ข้อจำกัดในเรื่องทุน ซึ่งส่งผลทำให้เกิดการให้ความหมายสัญญะต่อสิ่งของ วัตถุและบทบาททางเพศที่ต่างกัน จากปัจจัย 4 ประการ คือ 1) การประกอบอาชีพ 2) ฐานะทางเศรษฐกิจ 3) ระดับการศึกษา 4) การเปลี่ยนแปลงของสังคมและเทคโนโลยี อย่างไรก็ตามสิ่งของบางประเภทไม่ได้มีนัยยะสำคัญในเรื่องชนชั้นทางสังคมในทุกครอบครัวของคนไทยเชื้อสายจีน การศึกษานี้จึงสะท้อนให้เห็นว่าสัญญะและชนชั้นทางสังคมที่อยู่ภายใต้การประกอบพิธีเช็งเม้ง ควรพิจารณาปัจจัยทางสังคม ความแตกต่างของพื้นที่และอัตลักษณ์ของชาติพันธุ์จีนที่ต่างกัน


การป้องกันปัญหาอาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม: กรณีศึกษาผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุด, กรณัฏฐ์ อัครธนบูลย์ Jan 2020

การป้องกันปัญหาอาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม: กรณีศึกษาผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุด, กรณัฏฐ์ อัครธนบูลย์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาสภาพปัญหาและผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศ สาเหตุและปัจจัยที่ก่อให้เกิดปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในมุมมองอาชญาวิทยาสิ่งแวดล้อม เพื่อเสนอแนวทางการป้องกันและแก้ไขปัญหาอาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุดอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพและยั่งยืน ผู้วิจัยได้ทำการวิจัยเอกสารและสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกกลุ่มตัวอย่างแบบเฉพาะเจาะจง 6 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ ประชาชนในเขตเทศบาลเมืองมาบตาพุด ผู้นำและตัวแทนชุมชนรอบนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุด เจ้าหน้าที่หน่วยงานราชการและรัฐวิสาหกิจ นักวิชาการอิสระ องค์กรพัฒนาเอกชน (NGOs) และบุคลากรในกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญา รวมทั้งสิ้นจำนวน 24 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า สภาพปัญหาและผลกระทบจากมลพิษทางอากาศส่งผลต่อ (1) สุขภาพของประชาชน โดยประชาชนยังคงมีความเสี่ยงต่อโรคทางเดินหายใจ โรคมะเร็ง และภาวะความผิดปกติต่างๆ อันเนื่องมาจากการสูดดมมลพิษทางอากาศเข้าไป และ (2) สิ่งแวดล้อม ซึ่งจากการตรวจวัดคุณภาพอากาศพบว่า ยังคงมีสารมลพิษถูกปล่อยออกมาจากโรงงานอุตสาหกรรมอย่างต่อเนื่อง และมีค่าสูงกว่าค่ามาตรฐานกำหนด โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งสารประกอบอินทรีย์ระเหยง่าย (VOCs) บางประเภท สาเหตุและปัจจัยที่ก่อให้เกิดปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศ เป็นผลมาจาก (1) การพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจที่ไม่สมดุลกับสิ่งแวดล้อมหรือระบบนิเวศ (2) การบริหารจัดการของภาครัฐและหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องไม่เป็นไปตามหลักธรรมาภิบาลสิ่งแวดล้อม (3) มาตรการและระบบตรวจวัดคุณภาพอากาศไม่สะท้อนข้อเท็จจริง และ (4) การบังคับใช้กฎหมายและการบังคับโทษไม่ชัดเจน โดยสาเหตุการกระทำผิดของผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียในมุมมองอาชญาวิทยาสิ่งแวดล้อม ได้แก่ (1) ภาครัฐ ดำเนินนโยบายทางเศรษฐกิจที่สร้างความเสียหายต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมและส่งผลต่อสุขภาพของประชาชนซึ่งเป็นทั้งเหยื่อทางตรงและทางอ้อม (2) ผู้ประกอบการหรือผู้ก่อมลพิษ ไม่รู้ตัวว่ากำลังก่ออาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อมอยู่ หรือ จงใจกระทำผิดเนื่องจากเห็นว่าได้รับประโยชน์จากช่องโหว่ของกฎหมายมากกว่าได้รับโทษจากกฎหมาย (3) ผู้ได้รับผลกระทบ หรือ เหยื่อทางตรงที่เป็นมนุษย์ ได้รับความเสียหายจากการก่ออาชญากรรมสิ่งแวดล้อมทั้งในระยะสั้นและระยะยาว เนื่องจากการพิสูจน์หาตัวและจับกุมผู้กระทำผิดทำได้ยาก (4) ประชาชนทั่วไป หรือ เหยื่อทางอ้อมที่เป็นมนุษย์ ขาดความรู้ความเอาใจใส่ปัญหาสิ่งแวดล้อม เนื่องจากไม่ได้ตระหนักในสิทธิการดำรงชีวิตอยู่ในสิ่งแวดล้อมที่ดี แนวทางป้องกันและแก้ไขปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศ พบว่า ภาครัฐควรให้ความสำคัญกับการควรปรับปรุงและบูรณาการกฎหมายสิ่งแวดล้อมให้มีการบังคับใช้และบทลงโทษที่ชัดเจนควบคู่กับการส่งเสริมให้โรงงานอุตสาหกรรมตระหนักถึงการดูแลและใส่ใจสิ่งแวดล้อม ซึ่งสามารถจำแนกเป็นรูปธรรมได้โดย (1) ประสานความร่วมมือกันระหว่างหน่วยงานภาครัฐ ภาคเอกชน และภาคประชาชนในการจัดการกับปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในนิคมอุตสาหกรรมมาบตาพุดอย่างจริงจัง (2) ใช้หลักทางวิศวกรรมในการแก้ไขปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศควบคู่กับการควบคุมมาตรฐานในการปล่อยทิ้งอากาศเสีย (3) มีระบบบริหารจัดการแนวทางการแก้ไขปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศทั้งในระยะสั้นและระยะยาว


Picture The Magic: Exploring Black Girl Identity Using Photovoice, Leha Anaya Hawkins Jan 2020

Picture The Magic: Exploring Black Girl Identity Using Photovoice, Leha Anaya Hawkins

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Using a youth-led participatory action inquiry and photovoice methodology, this study investigated the self-perceptions of Black girls in a suburban area of Northern California. The objective of the project was to explore the perspectives and lives of Black girls. It is through gained insight from their lived experiences that we can come to understand their needs and develop approaches to advance their own holistic empowerment. By gathering self-perceptions of Black girls using photovoice, the project aimed to inform youth workers, educators, and youth-serving organizations such as Magic Black Girls Leadership Institute (MBG) on how to meet the needs and cultivate …


Sharing A Place-Based Indigenous Methodology And Learnings, Sandra Wooltorton, Len Collard, Pierre Horwitz, Anne Poelina, David Palmer Jan 2020

Sharing A Place-Based Indigenous Methodology And Learnings, Sandra Wooltorton, Len Collard, Pierre Horwitz, Anne Poelina, David Palmer

Nulungu Journal Articles

Building on a methodology of Cooperative Inquiry, the outcomes of five interconnected place-based learning projects from Australia are synthesised and elaborated in this paper. The methodology can facilitate the everyday living and sharing of an Earth-based consciousness: one that enriches Transformative Sustainability Education (TSE) through recognising meanings and stories in landscape, and celebrates Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. Indigenous-led environmental education is shown to link with one of the longest continuous environmental education systems in the world and it is contended that because of its ongoing history, environmental education carries a cultural obligation. In Australia, every landscape is …


A Girl Is A Girl Is A Girl, Paige Lizbeth Morris Jan 2020

A Girl Is A Girl Is A Girl, Paige Lizbeth Morris

Theses and Dissertations

It is well known that Western society uses men’s visual pleasure as a means to determine womxn’s value; her success is dependent on her compliance with culturally determined beauty standards. This process turns womxn into commodities and reinforces notions of gender complementarity, perpetuating a lifetime of servitude to patriarchal ideologies. It reminds the non-male that she is incomplete, insufficient, insignificant, and so easily dismissable. It forces her to be dependent, to shut up, to sit down, and to enjoy it.

In an effort to reject these presumed histories and narrow connotations of womxn, I have analyzed my gender performance in …


It’S Funny Because It’S True: The Transmission Of Explicit And Implicit Racism In Internet Memes, Tabitha Fairchild Jan 2020

It’S Funny Because It’S True: The Transmission Of Explicit And Implicit Racism In Internet Memes, Tabitha Fairchild

Theses and Dissertations

Video games are traditionally seen as the domain of heteronormative white males. The purpose of this study is to explore how racism is transmitted and reproduced within digital communities, and how humor is being used to frame racist discourse in virtual spaces. Digitally, internet memes are widely used rhetorical vehicles, reaching large and broad audiences. The roles these artifacts play in the reproduction and transmission of racist ideology is often obfuscated by the perception that internet memes are "just jokes." This study analyzes internet memes collected from 16 months of communication between members of Discord servers that self-identify as communities …


Black Women And Body Image: Implications Of The Racialized Beauty Aesthetic, Rachel L. Boutte Jan 2020

Black Women And Body Image: Implications Of The Racialized Beauty Aesthetic, Rachel L. Boutte

Theses and Dissertations

Black women have the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity relative to any other demographic group in the United States, however current weight management interventions appear least effective for them. Although several hypotheses have been proposed to explain these outcomes, few studies have collected data to evaluate how well they fit the lived experiences of Black women. In particular, the potential roles of body image and body dissatisfaction in the development and maintenance of overweight and obesity in Black women are not well understood. Extant literature largely reports that Black women are inoculated from body dissatisfaction due to cultural factors, …


Changing Seasons Of Resistance: Impacts Of Settler Colonialism And Climate Change In Indigenous Worlds, Elizabeth Jackson Jan 2020

Changing Seasons Of Resistance: Impacts Of Settler Colonialism And Climate Change In Indigenous Worlds, Elizabeth Jackson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This paper looks at the relationship between neoliberal capitalism, genocide, the biopolitics of settler colonialism and the impacts of climate change on the cultures and traditional lifeways of Indigenous communities. It also explores Indigenous modes and methods of adaptation and resilience. Climate Change is almost certainly the most urgent social problem in the history of human life on planet Earth. Many Indigenous people are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to marginalization and their commitment to land-based practices. Using in depth interviews with Indigenous Peoples, primarily from the Pacific Northwest, and the analysis of existing literature, this …


Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The Mountains: Hip-Hop, Exclusion, And The White Wilderness, Leonard Alexander Henderson Jan 2020

Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The Mountains: Hip-Hop, Exclusion, And The White Wilderness, Leonard Alexander Henderson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The expectations of normative behavior in outdoor recreation are often taken for granted and naturalized within dominant cultural narratives about human/nature interactions. In particular, expectations of silence and an absence of evidence of humans and human sounds (anthrophony), are grounded within an understanding of nature and a wilderness/urban paradigm framed by whiteness. Hip-Hop provides an interesting point of analysis for thinking about the binary opposition of wilderness and urbanness. The intersection of Hip-Hop and wilderness is also the starting point for my research. This research aims to speak to just a few ways that white and masculine social norms in …


Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (Nasis) 2020 Winter Methodology Report, Bureau Of Sociological Research Jan 2020

Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (Nasis) 2020 Winter Methodology Report, Bureau Of Sociological Research

Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (NASIS)

No abstract provided.


Feminist Action Against Pornography In Japan: Unexpected Success In An Unlikely Place, Caroline Norma, Seiya Morita Jan 2020

Feminist Action Against Pornography In Japan: Unexpected Success In An Unlikely Place, Caroline Norma, Seiya Morita

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

In late 2016 a feminist movement against problems of commercial sexual exploitation, and especially issues of coerced pornography filming, arose in Japan. This article describes the history of this movement as it mobilized to combat human rights violations perpetrated by the country’s pornographers. The movement’s success came not spontaneously or haphazardly; in fact, it was orchestrated earlier over a full decade-and-a-half by activists who persevered in researching and highlighting pornography’s harms in a civil environment of hostility, isolation and social derision, even among progressive groups and individuals. The Anti-Pornography and Prostitution Research Group (APP) was particularly prominent in this history. …


On The Proposed Legalization Of Commercial Surrogacy: I Thought We Had Abolished The Sale Of Human Beings, Phyllis Chesler Jan 2020

On The Proposed Legalization Of Commercial Surrogacy: I Thought We Had Abolished The Sale Of Human Beings, Phyllis Chesler

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

No abstract provided.


The Elephant And The Felon: A Look At Criminal Sentencing And Treatment Through The Lens Of Jonathan Haidt's Moral Matrices, Samantha Horkott Jan 2020

The Elephant And The Felon: A Look At Criminal Sentencing And Treatment Through The Lens Of Jonathan Haidt's Moral Matrices, Samantha Horkott

Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects

Criminal sentencing in the United States has shifted over the years. This paper outlines the current role morality plays in the sentencing and punishment of criminals. Recent work in moral psychology points the way to a better approach. Jonathan Haidt’s moral matrices, from his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, provide a signpost for more efficacious treatment of those on parole or under community supervision, overall contributing to the reduction of recidivism. In sum, Haidt’s work in moral psychology could lead to fairer sentencing and more effective treatment.


Building Renewed Relevance: Portraits Of Ceos Rebranding Iconic Nonprofit Organizations, Helen A. Lowman Jan 2020

Building Renewed Relevance: Portraits Of Ceos Rebranding Iconic Nonprofit Organizations, Helen A. Lowman

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

In the United States, we often refer to the social sector as one leg of a three-legged stool. The private and public sectors support the other two legs. The social sector made up of nonprofit, nongovernmental, and charity organizations, contributes to the development of American society by focusing on social good rather than the desire to make profit. For decades, the sector has functioned as the social conscience of our society. However, many iconic, legacy nonprofits have struggled to keep their relevance in today’s world: their creation tied to a past societal problem, their mission and brand no longer germane …


In Pictures And Words: A Womanist Answer To Addressing The Lived Experience Of African American Women And Their Bodies—A Gumbo Of Liberation And Healing, Yolandé Aileen Ifalami Devoe Jan 2020

In Pictures And Words: A Womanist Answer To Addressing The Lived Experience Of African American Women And Their Bodies—A Gumbo Of Liberation And Healing, Yolandé Aileen Ifalami Devoe

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Whether it is claiming a radical self-love for one’s body or dissatisfaction of one’s body, the experiences of African American women and their bodies cannot be divergent from the sociocultural contexts in which they live. Seeking to reveal how gender, race, and sexual orientation impact the lived experiences of African American women and their bodies, this study will bring attention to and provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical and sociocultural ramifications of the Black female body. Historically, inadequate attention has been given to an intersectional approach to understanding the experiences of the Black female body. It is understood …


Therapeutic Approaches To Recovery In West Virginia, Rachel A. Wattick Jan 2020

Therapeutic Approaches To Recovery In West Virginia, Rachel A. Wattick

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Substance use disorder (SUD) is a prevalent problem in the United States, with 19.7 million Americans aged 12 and older battling an SUD in 2017. Multiple factors influence the risk that someone will develop an SUD, including family history, childhood trauma, community factors, and poverty. West Virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation, and individuals in WV are at high risk of SUD due to the aforementioned risk factors. There are a variety of treatment options available to someone with an SUD. These include outpatient or inpatient treatment, detoxification, therapeutic communities, and collegiate recovery programs. Despite …


Crime In Televised Presidential Campaign Ads: The Making Of Visual Metaphor, Lisa A. Kort-Butler Jan 2020

Crime In Televised Presidential Campaign Ads: The Making Of Visual Metaphor, Lisa A. Kort-Butler

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

In televised campaign advertisements, political rhetoric potently combines with visual metaphors. Drawing on a digital library of presidential campaign ads from 1952 to 2016, the qualitative media analysis scrutinized how crime rhetoric became visual metaphor. Crime images were positioned and manipulated alongside other content to craft a story about crime and the candidates. Across all ads, two tactics emerged: depicting crime as a problem akin to other social ills – a dark stain; and posing crime as the sinister side to an otherwise vibrant society – a lurking shadow. Candidates were branded as janitors and sheriffs who could rally against …


A Review Of Nyoongar Responses To Severe Climate Change And The Threat Of Epidemic Disease—Lessons From Their Past, Francesca Robertson, Jason Barrow Jan 2020

A Review Of Nyoongar Responses To Severe Climate Change And The Threat Of Epidemic Disease—Lessons From Their Past, Francesca Robertson, Jason Barrow

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Nyoongar people have lived in the South West of Western Australia for at least 50,000 years. During that time, they experienced significant climate change, including wide variations in temperature and rainfall, and hundreds of metres’ difference in sea levels. Nyoongar people have a long memory, and climate change is described in their stories and in the knowledge they hold about how life was lived in earlier times. There are artifacts and places that have been manipulated to be productive despite severe drought. COVID-19 disrupted the writing of this article, and the authors felt it appropriate to include Nyoongar responses to …


Leveraging Technology To Blend Large-Scale Epidemiologic Surveillance With Social And Behavioral Science Methods: Successes, Challenges, And Lessons Learned Implementing The Unite Longitudinal Cohort Study Of Hiv Risk Factors Among Sexual Minority Men In The United States, H. Jonathon Rendina, Ali J. Talan, Nicola F. Tavella, Jonathan Lopez Matos, Ruben H. Jimenez, S. Scott Jones, Brian Salfas, Drew Westmoreland Jan 2020

Leveraging Technology To Blend Large-Scale Epidemiologic Surveillance With Social And Behavioral Science Methods: Successes, Challenges, And Lessons Learned Implementing The Unite Longitudinal Cohort Study Of Hiv Risk Factors Among Sexual Minority Men In The United States, H. Jonathon Rendina, Ali J. Talan, Nicola F. Tavella, Jonathan Lopez Matos, Ruben H. Jimenez, S. Scott Jones, Brian Salfas, Drew Westmoreland

Publications and Research

The use of digital technologies to conduct large-scale research with limited interaction (i.e., no in-person contact) and objective endpoints (i.e., biological testing) has significant potential for the field of epidemiology, but limited research to date has been published on the successes and challenges of such approaches. We analyzed data from a cohort study of sexual minority men across the United States, collected using digital strategies during a 10-month period from 2017 to 2018. Overall, 113,874 individuals were screened, of whom 26,000 were invited to the study, 10,691 joined the study, and 7,957 completed all enrollment steps, including return of a …


Green Public Spaces In The Cities Of South And Southeast Asia: Protecting Needs Towards Sustainable Well-Being, Marlyne Sahakian, Manisha Anantharaman, Antonietta Di Giulio, Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Dunfu Zhang, Rupali Khanna, Srikanth Narasimalu, Abigail Marie T. Favis, Cherie Audrey Alfiler, Sumana Narayanan, Xin Gao, Chenxin Li Jan 2020

Green Public Spaces In The Cities Of South And Southeast Asia: Protecting Needs Towards Sustainable Well-Being, Marlyne Sahakian, Manisha Anantharaman, Antonietta Di Giulio, Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Dunfu Zhang, Rupali Khanna, Srikanth Narasimalu, Abigail Marie T. Favis, Cherie Audrey Alfiler, Sumana Narayanan, Xin Gao, Chenxin Li

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

The significance of green public spaces is well documented in relation to social inclusiveness, human health, and biodiversity, yet how green public spaces achieve what Gough (2017) has termed "sustainable wellbeing" is less understood. This contribution presents preliminary results from a study of green public spaces in four mega-cities of South and Southeast Asia: Chennai (the Republic of India), Metro Manila (the Republic of the Philippines), Singapore (the Republic of Singapore), and Shanghai (the People's Republic of China), cities that have climates ranging from tropical, to subtropical and temperate. The conceptual framework brings together social practice theories with human development …


Human Relationships With Domestic And Other Animals: One Health, One Welfare, One Biology, Ariel M. Tarazona, Maria C. Ceballos, Donald M. Broom Dec 2019

Human Relationships With Domestic And Other Animals: One Health, One Welfare, One Biology, Ariel M. Tarazona, Maria C. Ceballos, Donald M. Broom

Human-Animal Relationships Collection

Excessive human population growth, uncontrolled use of natural resources, including deforestation, mining, wasteful systems, biodiversity reduction by agriculture, and damaging climate change affect the existence of all animals, including humans. This discussion is now urgent and people are rethinking their links with the animals we use for clothing, food, work, companionship, entertainment, and research. The concepts of one health, one welfare, and one biology are discussed as a background to driving global change. Nothing should be exploited without considering the ethics of the action and the consequences. This review concerns domesticated animals, including those used for human consumption of meat, …


Factors Behind Dissuasion To Green Products Among Young Consumers: A Qualitative Study, Anitha Acharya Dr. Dec 2019

Factors Behind Dissuasion To Green Products Among Young Consumers: A Qualitative Study, Anitha Acharya Dr.

The Qualitative Report

The current estimated market share for green consumption is less than five percent worldwide, therefore it is very important to understand the factors that stimulate non green consumption among young consumers since this can promote environmental thinking at an early age and also to increase the demand for green products. In these circumstances, emerging countries like India have contributed very less to the consumption of green products and environmental effects. India is among the fastest growing economies in the world. With the increase in population as well as in disposable income, India is expected to see a growth in green …


Agronomic Or Contentious Land Change? A Longitudinal Analysis From The Eastern Brazilian Amazon, Stephen Aldrich, Cynthia S. Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Robert T. Walker, Fernando Michelotti, Edna Castro Dec 2019

Agronomic Or Contentious Land Change? A Longitudinal Analysis From The Eastern Brazilian Amazon, Stephen Aldrich, Cynthia S. Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Robert T. Walker, Fernando Michelotti, Edna Castro

Department of Earth and Environmental Systems

Since 1984, nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the Brazilian Amazon due to land conflicts stemming from unequal distribution of land, land tenure insecurity, and lawlessness. During this same period, the region experienced almost complete deforestation (< 8% forest cover by 2010). Land conflict exacts a human toll, but it also affects agents’ decisions about land use, the subject of this article. Using a property-level panel dataset covering the period of redemocratization in Brazil (1984) until the privatization of long-term leases in the eastern Amazon (2010), we show that deforestation is affected by land conflict, particularly in cases of expropriation of property for agrarian reform settlement formation. Deforestation on these settlements is much greater when soils are poor for agriculture and when the land has been the object of past conflict. Deforestation and conflict are episodic, and both agronomic drivers and contentious drivers of land change are active in the region. Ultimately, the outcome of these processes of contentious and agronomic land change is substantial deforestation, regardless of who was in possession and control of the land.


Agricultural Service Firms: Organizational Characteristics And Linkages To Production Agriculture, Thomas A. Lyson Dec 2019

Agricultural Service Firms: Organizational Characteristics And Linkages To Production Agriculture, Thomas A. Lyson

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Using data from the 1978 Census of Agriculture and the 1978 Census of Agricultural Services, this paper examines some of the organizational characteristics of firms in seven agricultural service industry subgroups. Using the 48 contiguous states as units of analysis, an ecological analysis attempts to identify structure characteristics of farm systems that give rise to, and foster development of, off-farm agricultural service firms. Results show that considerable variation exists in the organizational and labor force characteristics across the seven industry subgroups. Other findings indicate that the spread of agricultural services in a state is positively associated with the proportion of …