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Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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Lessons From Tanzania’S Ujamaa For Smart Settlements In Nepal: Social Justice And Economic Development, Keshav Bhattarai, Ambika P. Adhikari

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

Nepal’s constitutional commitment to a “socialism-oriented” state places social justice, equitable access to resources and housing, and protection of marginalized populations at the center of national development discourse. However, persistent landlessness, informal settlements, unemployment, youth outmigration, and unequal access to infrastructure reveal a significant gap between constitutional aspirations and socioeconomic realities.

This article examines lessons Nepal can draw from Tanzania’s experience with Ujamaa, the African socialist development model initiated by President Nyerere in 1967. Using comparative policy analysis, published research, official documents, and exploratory field observations from selected Tanzanian locations, including the capital and villages in the Iringa Region, the …

Unbroken Sovereignty: Land, Water, Education, And Nakoda And Oc̣Eti Ṡaḳowiŋ Tribes Of The Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 1850–1935, Richard Joseph Maska

History ETDs

This dissertation explores the intersection of sovereignty and development among the Nakoda (Assiniboine) and Oc̣eti Ṡaḳowiŋ (Sioux) Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Methodologically, it draws on a critical reading of archival sources in conjunction with community input. It traces the emergence of reservation policy, government sponsored education, the imposition of allotment policy and private landownership, and the impact of state-sponsored irrigation and other development projects. I argue that the Tribes forged webs of affiliation and kinship to both assert their nationhood and navigate their involvement in such projects. These expressions …

Gradients Of Abandonment, William Tatman

Geography ETDs

As urban-rural disparities drive depopulation in rural areas worldwide, local strategies emerge as pathways for resilience. Research on Ojika, a Japanese island that has lost 75% of its population since the 1960s, reveals an Abandonment Gradient: a nuanced pattern of disuse adapted to modern polycrises. Extending the concept of "lying fallow" to homes and infrastructure, this thesis focuses on abandonment practices that reflect complex realities of labor, capital, and climate uncertainty. Rather than viewing depopulating communities as passive victims of out-migration, this paper argues they are critical sites for generating crisis response. Communally crafted attitudes toward unused space and more-than-human …

Co-Constructing The Common Ground: Responses In American Sign Language Conversation, Deborah Wager

Linguistics ETDs

Common ground between two people consists of the things they both know, that they know they both know. This body of knowledge grows in conversation, through both verbal and nonverbal responses. Responses communicate whether what has been said was accepted into the common ground, and return responses acknowledge this acceptance in turn (H. H. Clark, 1996). In addition to the semantic content of utterances, stance is communicated through a variety of means, and alignment with that stance is also communicated through responses.

This study explores ways in which responses are used in American Sign Language (ASL) conversation to co-construct the …

Documenting Regional And Individual Variation In Taiwan Sign Language, Devin Alexander Tankersley

Linguistics ETDs

Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) has been characterized by a north-south dialectal divide since the beginning of its development in the early twentieth century, further complicated by contact with Chinese Sign Language and with Mandarin. Considering increased interconnectivity across Taiwan, this dissertation asks: does the traditional north-south dialectal distinction still hold? To address this question, fieldwork was conducted across six areas of Taiwan to develop a data set consisting of word elicitations and sociolinguistic interviews. Findings from quantitative and qualitative analyses of these data suggest that TSL is not undergoing straightforward dialect leveling, but rather convergence towards a mixed variety shaped …

Surveyception: An Exploration Of Deceptive Survey Forms, Muhammad Danish

Computer Science ETDs

Survey platforms such as Google Forms and Microsoft Forms are widely used for feedback, data collection, and engagement, but scammers increasingly exploit them to distribute phishing and deceptive attacks. This thesis presents a large-scale study of survey-form abuse across ten major providers. We collected 140,000 forms from three sources: public posts on X, search-engine results, and web pages from the top 10 million DomCop-ranked domains. Using automated filtering and manual qualitative review, we identified 2,645 forms requesting sensitive information and classified 566 as scams. These forms used techniques including phishing, private-secret theft, account and personal-data harvesting, financial deception, and psychological …

You Can't Teach Kids From A Book: Language, Authority And Revitalization In Jicarilla Apache Life, Mariann Skahan

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation examines how Jicarilla Apache is learned, taught, and used across community life, with particular attention to contemporary language revitalization. Based on ethnographic research with elders, educators, language workers, families, and community institutions, it follows language practices across classrooms, culture camps, homes, ceremonial settings, and collaborative archival projects. I show that linguistic knowledge does not carry the same authority or consequences in every setting. Words may be recognized without being taken up, speakers may possess linguistic knowledge without being authorized to teach or correct, and archival texts may preserve linguistic forms without preserving the relations needed to interpret and …

Naturalistic Aided Language Intervention For Children Who Have Multiple Disabilities Including Visual Impairment, Naomi Nattress

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

ABSTRACT

This dissertation examined aided AAC interventions for individuals with multiple disabilities, including visual impairment, across three original studies. Chapter 2, a meta-analysis, found limited rigorous research for this population while showing that individuals at early symbolic stages with diverse visual profiles can successfully engage with AAC when appropriate adaptations are provided. The pilot study in Chapter 3 indicated that caregivers and graduate student clinicians can learn and implement naturalistic AAC techniques and VI accommodations with high fidelity through structured coaching. The mixed methods study in Chapter 4 introduced the ImPAACT-VI program, showing strong outcomes in educator performance, students’ symbolic …

Regenerative Writing: The Rhetorics Of Indigenous Futurisms As Pedagogical Praxis, Madeline R. Mendoza

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation explores how land-based writing and Indigenous Futurisms can reshape writing pedagogy in higher education, focusing on English courses at the University of New Mexico. At the center of this project is the Land Memoirs assignment, which I designed to encourage students to engage land as a living relative and active participant in the learning process. Through the frameworks of Indigenous Futurisms, Land as Pedagogy, Rhetorical Sovereignty, and Pueblo understandings of marking, I analyze the rhetorical choices across student multimodal narratives, reflections, and interviews to examine the assignment’s pedagogical impact. My findings reveal epistemic differences in how Indigenous …

Systematic Errors In Judging The Performance Of Others, Michael J. Benson

Psychology ETDs

The well-documented tendency of people to be poor estimators of their relative abilities can be problematic in real life. These errors in are highly asymmetric: the worst performers dramatically overestimate their relative ability, whereas the best performers underestimate theirs (Kruger & Dunning, 1999). There are two possible causes of this misjudgment of relative ability: 1) participants are poor estimators of their own performance, or 2) participants are poor estimators of the comparison group’s performance. Kruger and Dunning (1999) attributed overestimation in the worst performers to the former problem but attributed the underestimation in the best performers to the latter problem. …

Pragmatic Measures In Aided Language Measurement: Aac Clinical Expert Perspectives, Makayla Hydiea Smith

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Purpose: The augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) discipline currently lacks psychometrically sound aided language measures. This thesis is designed to address one step in developing such measures: to begin to establish the clinical feasibility of three pragmatic measures – communicative intent, independence/co-construction, and imitation/non-imitation. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to identify the useability of these pragmatic measures.

Method: A qualitative approach in the form of a focus group was used to examine the perceptions of SLP practitioners who are experts in AAC. Rapid qualitative analysis (RQA) was used to identify relevant themes and subthemes.

Results: Overall, the themes …

Veribrief: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System For Policy Decision Support, Imane Bahji

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

VeriBrief is a multi-agent retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for evidence-grounded economic policy analysis. The system orchestrates a five-stage LangGraph pipeline, retrieval, research, analysis, synthesis, and critique, to produce cited, structured responses while detecting out-of-scope queries. An empirical evaluation on eight questions drawn from official U.S. macroeconomic releases compared VeriBrief against a single-pass RAG baseline. The multi-agent system achieved 100% refusal precision on unanswerable analytical queries versus 0% for the baseline. Unsupported claims fell substantially on answerable factual questions. A context-propagation defect discovered during evaluation was diagnosed and corrected. Limitations include failure of the evidence gate on policy-counterfactual queries and a …

Notas Críticas (Reseñas), Yandrey Lay, Marzia Dessi

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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“Insurrectas Del Canon: Trayectorias Femeninas En La Escena Artística Mexicana.” Entrevista A Patricia Rosas Lopátegui, Marcos Torres Rodríguez

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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Siguiendo Los Pasos Del Teatro De Mario Vargas Llosa: Homenaje- Entrevista Completa, Mara L. García

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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A Multimodal Analysis Of Conflicting Discourses On New Mexican Identity, Nicholas L. Chavez, Fátima Holguín

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

We analyze two contrasting discourses on New Mexican identity, as represented in political cartoons from Trever (2021) and García (2018). We show how visual and linguistic elements of the cartoons work together to construct identity through metaphor and metonymy. It was found that Trever (2021) relied on cultural symbols such as the Zia Sun symbol as metonyms for various aspects of New Mexico’s identity, while García (2018) subverted established metaphors for American culture such as the melting pot and Uncle Sam to critique governmental influence on Nuevomexicano (‘New Mexican’) identity formation. Using the critical discourse analysis framework of Fairclough (1995), …

Memoria Selectiva Y Resistencia Identitaria En La Lluvia Amarilla (1988) De Julio Llamazares, Alain Pérez Martínez

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

Este ensayo analiza la novela La lluvia amarilla de Julio Llamazares a través del concepto de memoria selectiva como mecanismo de resistencia frente a la desaparición personal y colectiva. El protagonista, Andrés, el último habitante de Ainielle, reconstruye su pasado mediante recuerdos marcados por ausencias: las de su esposa Sabina, su hijo muerto y su amigo Camilo. Estas voces ausentes no son simples evocaciones, sino presencias activas que habitan su conciencia y moldean su percepción del presente. En este contexto, la memoria no se presenta como un archivo fiel, sino como una reconstrucción subjetiva que permite resistir el olvido, prolongar …

Extractivismo Y Resistencias En El Cine Minero Latinoamericano Del Siglo Xx: Hacia Una Definición Crítica, Fernando Martínez Caleano

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

Este artículo propone una definición y delimitación crítica del cine minero latinoamericano como un campo de estudio específico, distinto pero en diálogo con el ecocine. A lo largo del siglo XX, diversas producciones cinematográficas latinoamericanas abordaron la actividad minera como una práctica extractiva con profundas implicaciones sociales, políticas, económicas y ambientales. El artículo analiza cómo estas películas documentan el despojo territorial, la explotación laboral, el activismo femenino, la violencia estatal y las formas de resistencia comunitaria en entornos mineros, especialmente en contextos de agitación social y dictaduras. Se revisan películas clave del cine minero del siglo XX como Salt of …

México Sin Fronteras. Teoría Fronteriza Y Lo Irrepresentable De Los Límites Cartográficos, Rob Lassche

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

Ante una renovada atención en los asuntos acerca de la frontera en la política actual, como un viejo debate en la crítica chicana/latinoamericana sobre los límites geográfico-culturales de América Latina, este ensayo presenta una breve revisión teórica de algunas de las distintas conceptualizaciones que se han dado en esa área a lo largo del último medio siglo. Al atravesar las perspectivas de Américo Paredes y Gloria Anzaldúa, considero que, antes de la popularización de conceptos como el transnacionalismo o el posnacionalismo, se pueden identificar dos vertientes principales en el acercamiento a la presencia mexicana en territorio estadounidense; por un lado, …

Filiación De Período De La Celestina. Un Análisis Temático Cuantitativo, Rubria Rocha De Luna

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

Este artículo tiene como propósito utilizar una metodología cuantitativa de las Humanidades Digitales como un acercamiento diferente al estudio de la filiación de período de La Celestina. Hasta el momento, autores como Claudia Raposo, P.E. Russell, Rosa Navarro y Yolanda Iglesias, han comparado a La Celestina con textos de la Edad Media y han encontrado paralelos entre ambos. Por otro lado, teóricos como D.W. McPheeters, Michael Gerli, Ranka Minic-Vidovic, Laura Puerto y Emma Gatland, por nombrar algunos, encuentran características de género y temática de la obra que la podrían ubicar más cercana al período renacentista. Y otros autores como Ivy …

Cuentos, Jaime Chávez, Elezier Márquez Ramos, Luis Romani, Carla Vilas Castro, Dairen Zamora Carvajal

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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Poemas, Aurélia Gervasoni, Direne Esperanza, Anamaría F. León Barrios

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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Introducción A Intersecciones Hispánicas N.3, Sydney Wilson, Alessio Piras

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

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Colonialidade E Linguística: Uma Perspectiva Em A Febre, Jaciele Souza

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

This study aims to examine the presence of coloniality in the film The Fever (A Febre), directed by Maya Da-Rin, while also addressing linguistic aspects, particularly the interplay between the indigenous Tukano language and Portuguese throughout the narrative. It further explores the relationship between language, identity, and culture. The analysis is grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Carey-Webb (2024), Quijano (2007), Kaká Werá (1998), Othero (2017), Karnal (2024), Bourdieu (1991), and Maher (2010). The results show how the effects of colonization continue to impact Indigenous communities and how forced bilingualism reflects the mechanisms of structural racism. Additionally, the use of …

Las Voladoras: Cuerpos Monstruosos Y Bestialidad Femenina En Mónica Ojeda, Susan Carolina Peñuela Rodríguez

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

Este ensayo aborda el libro de cuentos de la escritora ecuatoriana Mónica Ojeda, quien, en sus escritos, relata con fantasía, inmersión onírica y mitos los procesos histórico-sociales del Ecuador contemporáneo. Se analizarán dos cuentos del texto: Las voladoras (2020), debido a su contenido fantástico; y Sangre Coagulada, por su uso de animales en diferentes contextos cotidianos. Asimismo, cada uno de los cuentos destaca con literacidad y relevancia social, los temores, rechazos, violencia de género y machismo que aún hoy en día se viven en Ecuador y muchas zonas de América Latina.

This essay approaches the book of stories by the …

Del Realismo Capitalista Al Capitalismo Gore En La Narrativa Mexicana Contemporánea, Juan Manuel Acevedo Carvajal, Pedro García Cortes, Alma Alejandra Montiel Meza

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

El presente artículo está atravesado por la exacerbación de las acciones del capitalismo, el narcotráfico, la violencia y el necropoder, acciones que derivan sobre todo en el abuso predatorio sobre los cuerpos que son comerciados como mercancías. Las narraciones que demarcan este terreno de operaciones fronterizas son: Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2009), de Yuri Herrera, y Las tierras arrasadas (2015), de Emiliano Monge. En cada una de estas novelas hay un zumbido espectral y atronador en el que los cuerpos son desplazados de un lugar a otro, al tiempo que las estructuras legales son reemplazadas por las …

“El Hijo Del Vampiro”: Crítica A La Tradición Y Al Sistema Patriarcal, Arely Orozco Ramirez

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

“El hijo del vampiro” de Julio Cortázar es una obra gótica que enmarca y destaca las características del vampiro clásico dentro de la literatura. A través del cuento, Cortázar crítica al sistema patriarcal mediante personajes como Duggu Van, símbolo del patriarcado, el cual abusa sexualmente de Lady Vanda. La violencia física, sistemática y simbólica son ejecutadas por dicho personaje a lo largo del cuento. La historia refleja cómo los roles de género tradicionales perpetúan la misoginia, y cómo esta es heredada en el hijo vampírico, fruto de la violación entre Duggu Van hacia Lady Vanda.

Julio Cortázar's "Son of the …

Lo Femenino Más Allá De Lo Materno. Vínculos Y Rupturas En Animales Domésticos (2003) De Marta Sanz, Alessia De Filippis

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

El presente artículo se dedica a indagar las ambivalencias de la experiencia maternal y el deterioro de las relaciones maternofiliales a partir del retrato crudo e incómodo que Sanz ofrece en las páginas de Animales domésticos (2003). Como es notorio, el papel de la madre abnegada y cuidadosa es el que tradicionalmente se ha asignado a las mujeres. Se presupone que el instinto materno emerge de manera natural y se espera que la experiencia de la maternidad constituye una fuente de gratificación incondicional, excluyendo toda posibilidad de ambivalencia emocional. En consecuencia, se alimenta una visión colectiva de la maternidad evidentemente …