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Preserving The Oral History Of Modern America : A Collection Development Initiative At The University Of South Florida, St. Petersburg, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Goodbye To All That!: Juried Ethnodramatic Performance For The 35th Annual Ethnography In Education Research Forum, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Vanover, C. & Babson, A. (2014). Goodbye to All That! : A Teacher’s Last Year in the Classroom. Juried performance for the 35th Annual Ethnography in Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Performance by Alexandra Miletta, Mercy College, Brandi Slider Weekley, West Virginia University & Charna Lacey, Saint Mary’s Public Schools. Score and musical performance by Andrew Babson, University of Pennsylvania. Written and Directed by Charles Vanover, University of South Florida Saint Petersburg. March 1, 2014, 4:30-5:15 pm Room 121 GSE

This session uses verbatim theatre techniques (Favorini, 1995; Saldaña, 2011) to expand stories from four narrative interviews shared by an …

The Expertise In Urban Teaching Project: Interview Instruments, Pilot Study, And Other Materials, Charles Vanover

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Materials from Charles Vanover's dissertation, The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project. The major download file includes the original interview instruments for The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project's four interview guides along with the study's recruitment letters. Data generated from these interviews were used for Inquiry Theatre productions such as "System Failure," "They Will Only Steal Your Cars," "Goodbye to All That!" and "Listening to the Silences". The record contains two additional files: The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project's IRB forms and the oral history interview instrument Charles Vanover used to pilot the larger study. These pilot …

The Challenge Of Supreme Court Biography: The Case Of Chief Justice Rehnquist, Christopher W. Schmidt

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

Book Review of The Partisan: The life of William Rehnquist. By John A. Jenkins. New York, NY.: PublicAffairs. 2012. Pp. xxi + 330. Reviewed by Christopher W. Schmidt.

Modeling Collapse: Analysis Of The Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition At Two Near Eastern Sites, William Nutt

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

This project tests a three-step model for archaeological collapse, by analyzing assemblages from two museum collections, Alisar Hüyük and Tell el Fakhariyah. Focusing on three categories of artifacts, namely biological remains, tools and weapons, and objects of personal adornment, the model evaluates change over a brief time in order to investigate the transitional period during a collapse. As the sites used for this research were excavated during the first half of the twentieth century, the project assesses the possible utility of old museum collections in light of probable biases.

Growing Community By Growing Food: A Comparative Study Of Two Community Gardens In North Texas, Rebekah Rupel

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

Community Gardens are a burgeoning trend in the U.S., blooming in many different cities and for different reasons including social activism, sustainability, health, education, ecology, and community. Their popularity also reflects a current trend where people are more attentive to their relationship with food and concerned about where it comes from. This thesis examines two community gardens in North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington Community Garden in Arlington and Deep Ellum Urban Garden in Dallas. Despite community gardens' popularity, no studies on community gardens have been done in Texas. However, North Texas is home to the 4th largest metropolitan …

How Does The Sudden Impact Of A Disability Within The Immediate Household Affect Siblings?, Vanessa Lashae Cantu

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship amongst siblings when they are impacted with a crisis. The crisis in this paper is a spinal cord injury. The theoretical framework for the paper is based on family systems theory. This theory incorporates how the self, roles and identities are created and impacted by the family in how they interact and communicate with one another. The paper examines how the family interacted and communicated prior to the crisis, during the crisis and how they currently interact and communicate. Respectively these time periods are labeled as; prior to crisis, onset of disability and adjustment phase. …

Legislating Innovation: Why Charter Schools Can't Fix Public Education, Richard Cordrey

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

How do we account for the fact that, despite myriad school reform and counterbalancing resistance efforts, the education system in America seems to be in a constant state of disrepair? Some observers attribute this to the introduction of accountability measures and voucher programs, while others claim that common curriculum standards, and accompanying standardized tests, are to blame. In the face of constant opposition to non-traditional educational venues by various special interest groups, there are a growing number of educational leaders opening schools that aim to challenge institutional norms and ever-growing numbers of parents choosing to enroll their children in those …

Motivating Martial Artists: An Examination Of The Drives And Lessons Learned Among Taekwondo Students, Gordon M. Block

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

There are a large number of martial art schools operating in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, teaching a variety of martial arts. Of all of those schools the students at the Texas Black Belt Academy chose their school, despite a lengthy travel time for some of the students. In an effort to find out why the students chose this particular school, I joined and investigated the Texas Black Belt Academy, investigating what the students were getting out of both the lessons and environment of the school. I found that the students came most often to learn self-defense, however they stayed for …

African American Families' Expectations And Intentions For Mental Health Services, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Richard Thompson, Barbara L. Dancy, Tisha R. A. Wiley, Sylvia P. Perry, Jason Wallis, Yara Mekawi, Kathleen Knafl

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

A cross-sectional qualitative descriptive design was used to examine the links among expectations about, experiences with, and intentions toward mental health services. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 32 African American youth/mothers dyads. Content analysis revealed that positive expectations were linked to positive experiences and intentions, that negative expectations were not consistently linked to negative experiences or intentions, nor were ambivalent expectations linked to ambivalent experiences or intentions. Youth were concerned about privacy breeches and mothers about the harmfulness of psychotropic medication. Addressing these concerns may promote African Americans’ engagement in mental health services.

Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg

Societies Without Borders

Sometimes the mechanisms that are in place to protect human rights lead to human rights violations. Drawing on data from ten months of fieldwork at a homeless shelter’s women’s program in a New England city. The authors trace the compromise of human dignity that accompanies one shelter’s effort to help clients fulfill their human right to housing.

Political Battles On Women’S Bodies: Post-Election Conflicts And Violence Against Women In Internally Displaced Persons Camps In Kenya, Roseanne Njeri Njiru

Societies Without Borders

The Kenya 2007 December presidential election results were violently challenged. For months, political protests accompanied by violent attacks and violent reaction by government security forces, led to “ethnic cleansing” particularly in the Rift Valley region resulting in deaths of more than 1,500 people and internal displacement of about 450,000 others. Women and young girls experienced various forms of gender violence during and after the conflicts in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. Using in-depth interviews with women living in a camp, NGOs and government agencies, this article focuses on the continuing bodily violence that internally displaced women face in their everyday …

Insiderness, Outsiderness, And Situated Accessibility – How Women Activists Navigate Un’S Commission On The Status Of Women, Daniela Jauk

Societies Without Borders

The goal of this article is to explain micro-political aspects of women’s participation within the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) by explicating how NonGovernmental Organization’s (NGO) representatives negotiate and perceive their work. Data from ethnographic participant observation of CSW meetings between 2009 and 2012 demonstrate the simultaneity of both clear insider/outsider distinctions as well as blurred and permeable boundaries between the intergovernmental body of the CSW and civil society in the form of women’s rights activists who attempt to shape CSW outcomes. Concepts of fluid insiderness and outsiderness (Naples 1996) help explain that women activists perceive themselves simultaneously …

Pride In Istanbul, Susan C. Pearce

Societies Without Borders

In June of 2013, Istanbul, Turkey held its annual Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Pride parade. This year’s parade was performed in a particular historical context: in the midst of an anti-government uprising that had begun in Istanbul and spread throughout Turkey. This context loaned a particular flavor to the Pride parade, and there was a reciprocity between the recent protest movement and LGBT activism. These field notes describe the June 2013 parade and its relationship to the socio-political context, drawing from these observations some preliminary conclusions regarding human rights and gender as Turkey interacts with transnational human rights regimes such …

Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its “Others” By Janet M. Conway, Manisha Desai

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.

Review Of Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, And Memory By Rene Lemarchand (Editor), Nicole Fox

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.

Review Of Heart Of Sky, Heart Of Earth Directed By Frauke Sandig And Eric Black, Beth Williford

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.

Indigenous Methodology In Practice: Starting A Community-Based Research Center On The Yakama Reservation, Michelle M. Jacob, Sarah Augustine, Corey Hodge, Mary James

Societies Without Borders

In our paper, we examine the process, possibilities, and tensions of building a new community-based research center at a small liberal arts college on the Yakama Reservation. We view our work with the Center for Native Health & Culture as an example of human rights-based educational transformation, as our work is about honoring indigenous land, community, and values. This mission stands at odds with Western educational approaches, which typically view indigenous peoples, cultures, and well-being as a side note to frequently marginalized campus diversity initiatives. Our work to establish the new research center takes up the challenge of placing indigenous …

“It Is Laced With Faults”: American Indians, Public Participation And The Politics Of Siting A High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository, Jesse P. Van Gerven

Societies Without Borders

In this article I analyze American Indian claims made during the siting process for a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. By utilizing the concepts of distribution and recognition (Fraser 2003) to analyze American Indian claims for financial compensation, cultural artifact/resource protection, and environmental justice I reveal the existence and extent of both objective and intersubjective obstacles preventing greater public participation in environmental decision-making. Through a textual/discourse analysis of public documents associated with the Yucca Mountain Project, my analysis demonstrates how distributive and recognitional injustices impede democratic participation in environmental decision-making, which contributes to the continuation of environmental …

The Rise Of Human Rights Education: Opportunities, Challenges, And Future Possibilities, Lindsey N. Kingston

Societies Without Borders

Human rights education (HRE) has gained increasing support as a tool for promoting social responsibility and global respect for international human rights standards. Many schools and universities include HRE in their curricula in an attempt to foster a sense of global citizenship among students, yet educators still grapple with how to most effectively include human rights in undergraduate programs. In an attempt to provide resources and to promote effective HRE, this article examines the rise of human rights education and analyzes its potential for positive change. In particular, high impact learning practices (such as community partnerships and short-term study abroad …

Making Visible The Invisible: Nighttime Lights Data And The Closing Of The Human Rights Information Gap, Xi Chen

Societies Without Borders

War, poverty, geographical remoteness and political isolation all contribute to unreliable or non-existent data for developing regions of the world. As a consequence, research within these areas has been hampered by an abject lack of data in underdeveloped regions. The satellite-based nighttime lights data introduced here may hold the potential to overcome this problem by providing a proxy measure for large numbers of variables dealing with second and third generation human rights issues. The images presented here represent some of the newest forms of data available to social science investigations and those interested in human rights studies, and are already …

Review Of A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’S Resurgence, From The Middle East To America By Leila Ahmed, Mohammand Salehin

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.

Review Of Torture: A Sociology Of Violence And Human Rights By Lisa Hajjar, Jared Del Rosso

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.

Addressing Abusive Conduct In Youth Sports, Judith G. Mcmullen

Marquette Sports Law Review

No abstract provided.

Literacy Narratives Of African-American Community College Students: Implications For Curriculum Alignment, Instructional Design, And Entry-Level Assessment, Roderick S. Brown

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated potential causes of developmental English placement among recent African-American high school graduates enrolled at a community college. Participants were four men and five women from lower- and lower-middle economic backgrounds who had completed an entry-level writing assessment prior to enrollment. An electronic survey was administered to all participants and included questions about literacy experiences in elementary, middle, and high school. Using an ethnographic approach to thematic narrative analysis, the author compared the literacy narratives of students who had tested into college-level composition with those who had tested into developmental English. Results indicated that participants who had tested …

Feminism And Romance Novels, Abigail Brennan

Theses & ETDs

Over the past forty years, romance novels have been subject to much debate among feminists about whether they are patriarchal, feminist, or unrelated to gender politics. In this study, qualitative interviews of feminist-identified romance novel readers explore the strategies they use to interpret romance novels in the light of their political beliefs. Three strategies commonly used by readers are discussed: the escapist strategy, which says romance novels are unrelated to gender politics; the critical engagement strategy, which examines and rejects sexist novels; and the actively feminist strategy, which highlights aspects of romance novels considered feminist. In addition, many readers see …

Intellectual Property Rights: Understanding Policy Formation, Policy Division, And State Action, Wyatt Weisenberg

Theses & ETDs

This thesis portfolio outlines the manner in which intellectual property rights (IPR) policies form, evolve, and are diffused into the international regime. It advances that the formation and evolution of IPR policies occur largely as a function of the economy. This process is evident both domestically and internationally, with a major policy division occurring between industrialized and developing states. This portfolio juxtaposes the evolution of the patent system in the United States of America with increases in economic activity from the Colonial period until 1930. Turning towards the international sphere, this thesis portfolio explicitly details the international IPR policy division …

Empowering Women In China: The Role Of Women’S Organizations And Civil Society, Amany Khodair

Political Science

Egypt and china share cultural, constitutional and historical similarities make it possible for Egypt to benefit from the Chinese Model of women empowerment. The ALL-China Women Federation (ACWF) has succeeded to negotiate an effective and instrumental role in the development of the status of women and their empowerment in China through its collaborative efforts with both the Party and the Government. The Egyptian National Council for Women (NCW) can follow in its foot-steps and adopt similar approaches to develop incremental long-term empowerment achievement programs.

Review Of The Oxford Handbook Of Quaker Studies, Ann Riggs

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Movement As A Means Of Social (Re)Production: Using Gis To Measure Social Integration Across Urban Landscapes, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Kristin Landau

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

This paper contributes to the archaeological study of movement in urban environments where built forms and natural features worked together to play a key role in structuring human mobility.We propose an analytical method using least cost analysis in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to empirically measure social integration. The method defines mobility as the potential for pedestrian movement, and identifies locations where people were most likely to walk to or through in a landscape. The calculated mobility data are then employed to identify with whom people were most likely to interact and the degree to which they were socially connected …