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African Water: An Experience With Project Management In Bulima, Tanzania, Robert Sharp
African Water: An Experience With Project Management In Bulima, Tanzania, Robert Sharp
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Details the author's experiences researching, designing, and implementing a water system for a boarding school in Africa.
The Role Of Norms In Un Peacekeeping Operations: European Union Member States And Collective Identity Formation, Sarah Gates
The Role Of Norms In Un Peacekeeping Operations: European Union Member States And Collective Identity Formation, Sarah Gates
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No abstract provided.
L’Immigration Aux Etats-Unis Et En France: Discours Politiques Et Realités Sociales, Katelyn Wannage
L’Immigration Aux Etats-Unis Et En France: Discours Politiques Et Realités Sociales, Katelyn Wannage
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No abstract provided.
Migration, Food And Cultural Production Across Changing Afro-Ecuadorian Geographies, Amelia J. Swinton
Migration, Food And Cultural Production Across Changing Afro-Ecuadorian Geographies, Amelia J. Swinton
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The human geography of Ecuador is changing. Urban Afro-Ecuadorians now outnumber those living in the two rural regions that have been the ancestral homelands of the population. This physical transformation assaults Ecuador's historically racialized geography, which conflated cities, modernity and white-mestizo identity. Though Afro-Ecuadorians living in the rural north had previously been physically and figuratively located outside of the national project, Ecuador’s new constitution has sought to reverse this institutionalized exclusion. National belonging has been reframed through the concept of interculturality, which recognizes diversity and equality at the same time. I conducted two periods of fieldwork in the north-central Chota …
Erasing The Steps Of Kingdom: Indigenous Autonomy In Chiapas, Mexico And The Zapatistas' Re-Conception Of Power, Tara Brian
Honors Theses
Although the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994 emerged from a long history of guerrilla struggle in Central America, the indigenous movement offered something new: a bold re-conception of power and a novel approach to revolution that shifted the locus of struggle away from state capture to the realm of civil society, opened the revolution to previously excluded participants, and conceived of innovate means to manage power within Zapatista autonomous zones. In this thesis, I begin with a discussion of the ways in which the Zapatistas’ rhetoric of revolution and power has inspired theorists and activists around the world …