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Bodies Of Water: Politics, Ethics, And Relationships Along New Mexico's Acequias, Elise Trott

Anthropology ETDs

Growing public attention to global economic and environmental instability and collapse have brought new urgency to a classic activity of anthropology: looking for alternative economic and environmental models in other ways of life. This dissertation is a case study of the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which New Mexico’s acequias (communally-managed irrigation ditches) are produced, experienced, and contested as an alternative form of living, creating community, and relating ethically to the environment. Drawing on over six years of participant observation and in-depth interviews with Nuevomexicano (Spanish- and Mexican-descendant), indigenous, and non-indigenous acequia users and organizers in North-Central New Mexico …

Building Virtual Communities Of Practice For Health, Bruce Struminger, Sanjeev Arora, Sarah Zalud-Cerrato, David Lowrance, Tedd Ellerbrock

Project ECHO Bibliography

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Is Central America Headed Toward Militarized Security?, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Drinking Our Stories:Food Sovereignty In Ecuador And Amazonian Runa Relations With Manioc And Guayusa, Jacqueline Michelle Kramer

Latin American Studies ETDs

Food sovereignty and the role of the state, international organizations, and social movements in its defense have been deeply researched. However, the role of small-scale farmers who continue traditional agricultural methods reflecting tenets of the food sovereignty movement, has been neglected in its relation to food sovereignty. This work aims to connect the plant-based ecological relationships with small-scale farmers using food sovereignty as an analytical discourse. Specifically, this thesis explores the relationship between Ecuadorian Amazonian Quichua people and two staple crops: manioc and guayusa. Through a gendered and epistemological analysis of food sovereignty, it argues that under the politics of …

Wagon Tracks. Volume 6, Issue 1 (November, 1991), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 7, Issue 4 (August, 1993), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 10, Issue 1 (November, 1995), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 11, Issue 4 (August, 1997), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 15, Issue 2 (February, 2001), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 16, Issue 1 (November, 2001), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 17, Issue 1 (November, 2002), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 19, Issue 4 (August, 2005), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 21, Issue 3 (May, 2007), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 22, Issue 3 (May, 2008), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 22, Issue 1 (November, 2007), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 26, Issue 2 (February, 2012), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

SFTA News

1 Wagons Ho! Bent's Fort

1 Rendezvous 2012

2 President's Column

2 Letter to Editor

3 Manager's Column

4 News

5 PNTS

17 In Memoriam

17 Editor's Note

25 Chapter Reports

27 Membership Renewal

28 Events

Articles

7 The Sibley Expedition

9 Ft. Larned Visitor Father Colleton

10 25 Years on the Santa Fe Trail

24 Dr. Rowland Willard

Columns

21 NPS: Certification

18 The Trail Today: Point of Rocks

22 Young People on the Trail

23 Books

23 Footlights in the Foothills

Reproducing The Ghanaian/African Subject: Ideological Tensions And Queer Subjectivities In Postcolonial Ghana, Godfried A. Asante

Communication ETDs

Same-Sex sexual relationship continues to be a criminal offence in Ghana under the carnal knowledge clause instituted by the British during colonization. Although the law does not specifically mention same-sex sexual relations, carnal knowledge criminalizes all forms of non- heterosexual sexual activities. The criminalization of same-sex sexual relations has sparked an intense debate about African subjectivity. On the one hand, many African nationalists and most Christian organizations argue that same-sex sexual relations is unAfrican; this enables them to both subjugate queers while not having to defend their views more explicitly. Others (typically academics) have explored the existence of diverse sexual …

Without A Trace: The Becknell Five, Craig Crease

Wagon Tracks

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 28, Issue 4 (August, 2014), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover: Ranch at Cimarron Crossing
4 President’s Corner
5 Joanne’s Jottings
6 Rendezvous 2014
8 News Along the Trail
10 Seen on the SFTA Facebook Page
15 Not Yet, But Plan Now: Membership
25 Pilgrim on the Santa Fe Trail
26 Books: Merchants of Independence by William Patrick O'Brien, reviewed by Dr. Leo Oliva
27 Books: That Broad and Beckoning Highway, by Michael L. Olsen, reviewed by Steve Schmidt; Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike by Jared Orsi, reviewed by Tom Pelikan
28 Activities Along the Trail
28 Chapter Reports

The Impact Of Climate And Elevation On The Growth And Mortality Of Piñon Pine, Alice M. Fretz

Biology ETDs

The Southwestern United States is currently experiencing severe drought, resulting in the mortality of many tree species. Piñon-juniper woodlands are an extensive biome in the Southwest, and are highly vulnerable to extended periods of drought that lead to tree mortality. Specifically, Pinus edulis populations are decreasing due to increasingly arid conditions. I used dendrochronology to investigate how tree growth rings of Pinus edulis reflect severe drought in living and dead trees. I also investigated how severe drought affects Pinus edulis along an altitudinal gradient. Tree core samples were taken from currently living and dead trees, as well as from trees …

Measuring Accommodation On Facebook Between Single-A Minor League Baseball Teams And Facebook Users, Michael James Stocz

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The following research was designed to introduce CAT into a practical setting for social media managers while primarily examining Minor League Baseball (MiLB) at the Single-A level. Single-A baseball has not been examined solely in a social media setting, which was why this level of MiLB was selected. Study A was designed to measure the levels of accommodation across various posting strategies (neoliberal, social, team related, open code) and the subsequent number of likes and number of comments accompanying each post. The accommodation scores, measured through the Language Inquiry and Word Count software (LIWC, pronounced “Luke”), accompanied by a series …

Embodying The West: A Literary And Cultural History Of Environment, Body, And Belief, Julie E. Williams

English Language and Literature ETDs

My dissertation challenges the dominant narrative identity about Western embodiment and opens the field of Western literary studies as it explores what the West looks like to women writers for whom it is not a space of regeneration through violence. I argue that women’s writing reconceptualizes Western literature, creating a counter-narrative about American identity by shaping a space for and a discourse about the embodied experiences that have been marginalized, silenced, and ignored. Through examining discourses of health and embodiment in women’s writing about the American West from the 1880s to the present day, my study brings together a diverse …

The Ivory Tower, Urban Growth, And State Subjugation: An Historical Analysis On The Construction Of Student Identities And The Public Good During University Generated Redevelopment Projects, Jacob R. Wolff

Geography ETDs

Having become almost cliché in academic discourses, the term gentrification offers a conceptualization of sociospatial transformation too narrow for contemporary understandings of inequality within the post-industrial city. Generalizations of a wealthy populous displacing working-class and marginalized populations fail to address the diversity, complexity, and scope of economic hollowing-out and fail to fully account for other incoming subpopulations such as the emergent “creative class,” comprised of university-educated individuals who are not necessarily considered affluent by traditional economic measures. To this end, scholars in the United Kingdom have identified university neighborhood formation as a significant yet distinct process of place production that …

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

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Rules And Values In Virtual Optimization Of California Hydropower, Sonya F. P. Ziaja

Natural Resources Journal

Optimization models for California’s hydropower system are designed to be decision-support tools and aids for climate adaptation decision-making. In practice, they fall short of this goal. One potential explanation is that optimization models are not more successful because they are built on, and depend on, a misrepresentation of law and politics. The legal reality of California’s hydropower system is a web of networked jurisdictions of multiple federal and state agencies, with varying levels of coordination, long periods of legally obligated stability with rigid rules, and prone to conflict, but with multiple procedures for conflict resolution. Barriers to climate adaptation from …

Introduction, Natural Resources Vii Journal

Natural Resources Journal

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Hydropower Development In India: The Legal-Economic Design To Fuelgrowth?, Surabhi Karambelkar

Natural Resources Journal

Economic liberalization beginning in the early 1990s has represented a paradigm shift in policy discourse in India, from social welfare to economic growth. With its potential benefits of generating power for the growing economy and significant revenue through electricity sales and royalty payments, hydropower development has received center-stage in the hydrorich but economically weaker Himalayan states of India. Using an institutional approach to examine the evolution of laws and policies on electricity, land, environment, and water, this article seeks to uncover how prevailing legal and economic systems prioritize hydropower generation over other water uses. It argues that federal and state …

2016 Annual Report, Joseph A. Cook

Annual Reports

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Digitized Archival Primary Sources In Stem: A Selected Webliography, Amy Jankowski

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Popular connotations of archives and special collections are most closely aligned with the arts and humanities fields, with history being the most seamless affiliation. However, archival documentation extends far beyond common disciplinary assumptions, with strong holdings relevant to the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, as well as medicine and other allied disciplines. These archival collections provide largely untapped educational, enrichment, and research opportunities for STEM students and researchers.

Given the profound influx of digitization during the last two decades, many archival primary source materials have been digitized and are now freely available online, with more assuredly in progress. …

Family Emotional Literacy: A Critical Education Curriculum For Mental Health Promotion, Anna L. Dinallo

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This narrative study documents the experiences of seven Latina community educators through focus groups, interviews, and artifact data. Given the stigma of mental health (Bayer, 2005), a lack of culturally centered emotional curriculums (Boler, 1997; Boler & Zembylas, 2003) which are removed from structural oppression (Collins, 2002,1989; Crenshaw, 1991, 1993; hooks, 2014), educators, parents, and communities are in need of mental health promotion tools. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2015), approximately 70 million Americans annually are diagnosed with mental health issues that disable daily functioning. More relevant to the study population was the loss of three middle school-aged …