Environmental Studies Commons^™

De La Cadena, Marisol And Blaser, Mario (Eds.). A World Of Many Worlds. Durham And London, Duke University Press, 2018., Sally A. Applin Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Neuman, Tamara. Settling Hebron. Jewish Fundamentalism In A Palestinian City. Philadelphia, Pa: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2018., Ilana Maymind Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Chong, Kimberly. Best Practice: Management Consulting And The Ethics Of Financialization In China. Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2018., Jiangnan Li

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Caglar, Ayse And Nina Glick Shiller. Migrants And City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, And Urban Regeneration. Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2018., Steven Ybarrola Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Rowe, P. S. (Ed.). Routledge Handbook Of Minorities In The Middle East. London And New York: Routledge, 2019., Gennaro Errichiello Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Pace, Michelle & Somdeep Sen (Eds.). Syrian Refugee Children In The Middle East And Europe: Integrating The Young And Exiled. London And New York: Routledge, 2018., Padmini Banerjee Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Wolfgang Schneider, Beate Kegler, And Daniela Koß (Eds.) Vital Village: Development Of Rural Areas As A Challenge For Cultural Policy. Bielefeld (Germany): Transcript, 2017., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

The Death Penalty: The Law Lords Alter Course In The Commonwealth Caribbean, Harold A. Young J.D./Llb, Phd

Journal of International and Global Studies

This article is a critical examination of the decisions of the Judicial Council of the Privy Council (JCPC) in death penalty appeals from the Commonwealth Caribbean from 1966 to 2008. It contributes to our understanding of how court rulings may be influenced by specific aspects of the judicial environment, which is shaped by the majority party in parliament, whose prime minister selects judges and which may make substantive changes in the law. In a quantitative examination of death penalty appeals, I find an increased likelihood that the court will set aside the death penalty when the judicial environment changes.

Helff, Sissy & Stefanie Michels (Eds.). Global Photographies: Memory, History, Archives. Transcript Verlag, 2018., Pramod K. Nayar Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Scott Straus & Barry Driscoll. International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions, And Tensions. Los Angeles: Cq Press (Sage Publications, Inc.), 2019., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Radhika Mongia. Indian Migration And Empire: A Colonial Genealogy Of The Modern State. Durham, Nc.: Duke University Press, 2018., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Michael G. Vann And Liz Clarke, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, And Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam. New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018., Matthew Galway Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long And Lee Wilson (Eds.). Southeast Asian Perspectives On Power. London: Routledge, 2017., Olli Suorsa Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Erlich, Reese. The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran And What's Wrong With U.S. Policy. London And New York: Routledge, 2019., Michele F. Fontefrancesco Phd, Afhea

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Middel, Matthias (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook Of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Uk: Routledge, 2018., Tara Mock Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review

Participatory Action Research And Prospects For Electoral Conflict Prevention In Zambia, Rose Fumpa-Makano Ph.D., Major General Vincent Mbaulu Mukanda (Rtd.)

Journal of International and Global Studies

Although elections are fundamental to democratic consolidation by peacefully electing people to serve in public offices, in many cases they not only bring along ideological contestations but also interparty violent conflicts. Based on a Participatory Action Research (PAR) design, this paper presents field-based lessons on training conducted to curb interparty electoral conflict prior to August 2016 general elections held in Zambia. The study comprised 521 participants from nine political parties which contested in 2016 general elections. Party officials were purposely selected from their provincial, district and constituency level hierarchy. The study aimed at understanding causes for interparty political violence and …

Cultural Renaissance And The Quest For Peace And Development In Nigeria, Olusola Matthew Ojo Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

The phenomenon of elusive peace and its implications for socioeconomic development and political stability have remained a subject of scholarly interest in Nigeria’s post-colonial discourse. There have been diverging and converging opinions over the variables responsible for this, and the prospects for recovery. This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarly process of filling the subsisting gap in the extant body of literature by re-interrogating the role of culture in Nigeria’s quest for sustainable peace and development. Employing qualitative method of data collection, and adopting thematic approach for content analysis, findings reveal that peace and development have remained elusive in …

Ai Camp, Roderic. Mexico: What Everyone Needs To Know (2nd Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017., Javier C. Tapia Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

San Juan, Jr., E. Filipinas Everywhere; Essays In Criticism And Cultural Studies From A Filipino Perspective. Manila, Phil./Brighton, Uk: La Salle University Publishing House/Sussex Academic Press, 2017., Kenneth Bauzon Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Ahmed, Akbar. Journey Into Europe: Islam, Immigration, And Identity. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2018., Raymond Scupin

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Jini Watson & Gary Wilder (Eds.). The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries For The Global Present. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Aesthetic Perception Of Urban Spaces: New York, Timur Pozhidaev

Theses and Dissertations

Aesthetic perception is an important field of interest in many aspects of everyday human life. It affects individual and social unconscious behavior and is strongly related to the decision-making processes in the human mind. The current study can serve as an important prototype for planning purposes and social and environmental justice among the regional units of New York City. With the current scientific sphere lacking a comprehensive methodology for assessing social superstructure, an aesthetic framework has the potential for success in evaluating the aspects of sustainable and resilient urban development.

La Lucha For Home And La Lucha As Home: Latinx/A/O Theologies And Ecologies, Jacqueline Hidalgo

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

No abstract provided.

Teacher Perceptions Of Environmental Science In Rural Northwestern New Mexico Public Schools, Marie Quiahuitl Julienne

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

In this study, I explored what teachers perceive as the factors that impact their teaching of environmental science in rural secondary level schools in northwestern New Mexico. I adapted Bronfenbrenner’s (1994) ecological systems model, based on four environmental subsystem levels (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem), as the conceptual framework to address the major research question of this study, and developed 18 interview questions to explore teachers’ perceptions of factors that influence their teaching of environmental science. I investigated the perspectives science teachers have about environmental science topics and the influences they perceive that affect how they teach environmental science, and …

Coastal Plastics Abatement On Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island: Stakeholder Perspectives And Lessons Learned, Paige Myatt

Sustainability and Social Justice

This practitioner research focuses on the stakeholder perspectives and lessons learned about mitigating plastic pollution in the marine environment of Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island. It uses a mixed method approach of surveys, interviews, focus groups, and active participation in mitigation strategies to answer four main research questions. These questions aim to gather perspectives on the problem from multiple stakeholders in the community, including the general public, the restaurant industry, and local and state governments. This research also investigates what factors make this community a leader in igniting social change and reducing plastic pollution. The active involvement of the researcher via …

Engaged Scholarship For Environmental Justice: A Guide, Chad Raphael

Communication

This guide was written for distribution at the Environmental Justice and the Common Good Conference, hosted by Santa Clara University’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education in May 2019. The conference convened representatives from Jesuit and other universities with a broad range of community organizations to strengthen our common understanding and advancement of community-engaged scholarship for environmental justice (EJ). Given its immediate audience, the guide focuses primarily on the U.S. context, although it also discusses the major global causes and impacts of EJ, and how Americans have been inspired by engaged scholars around the world, from whom we have much to …

Resisting Industrial Food Systems On The Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology For Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis examines the link between how community-based organizations use digital tools with the fundamentally resistance-based philosophy that these organizations have at the core of their mission. It aims to uncover how non-profit organizations (NPOs) that work in community development through food and agriculture use digital tools, and how their digital communication strategies relate to issues of resistance to neoliberalism and industrialization in the food and agriculture sectors.

Using a foundation of existing literature on food and agriculture, climate change and waste management, critical theory, and technology in pedagogy, this thesis will contextualize how non-profits resist neoliberal regimes of de-traditionalization …

Cultural Heritage Preservation In The Context Of Climate Change Adaptation Or Relocation: Barbuda As A Case Study, Martha B. Lerski

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This case study introduces an arts camp methodology of engaging communities in identifying their key cultural heritage features, thus serving as a meta study. It presents original research based on field studies on the climate-vulnerable Caribbean island of Barbuda during 2017 and 2018. Its Valued Cultural Elements survey, enabling precise identification of key tangible and intangible art forms and biocultural practices, may serve as a basis for further studies. Such approaches may facilitate future research or planning as climate-vulnerable communities harness Local or Indigenous Knowledge for purposes of biocultural heritage preservation, or towards adaptation or relocation. I report on findings …

Creating Low-Carbon Communities: Evaluating The Role Of Individual Agency And Systemic Inequality In San Jose, Ca, Erin Jessica Ronald

Helene Lafrance Library Undergraduate Research Award

Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with carbon footprints. Statistical analyses of the 2016 SDG San Jose Dashboard data of city blocks and 2009 - 2013 ACS survey data were supplemented with interviews with eight climate action-oriented community engagement professionals in the South Bay. Boundary limiting socioeconomic conditions for systemic inequalities and human agency, dimensions of Gidden’s Structuration model, were specified. Partially supporting structural inequality theories, socioeconomic resources, primarily, and to a lesser …

Warhols Wake, Tiffany Gilliam

Communication Theses

The world of visual art has devolved into a commercial enterprise. Part of the decline in visual art arises from artist' surrender to media environment influence, as an exploration of the life and work of noteworthy artist Andy Warhol reveals. This study terms such artist surrender Warhols Wake and elucidates its features. However, by examining, through an interpretive biographic method, the life and work of 4 other artists who responded to media environment influence differently, we gain insight into how creative consciousness can gainfully resist Warhols Wake, in a move that Marshall McLuhan calls "anti-environmental."