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Images Of Cairo And Its People As Seen By Women Sojourners Of The 19th Century (1829-1892), Azza Abbas El Rakhawy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Invited Perspective - Nutritional Needs And Implications For Children In Subsistence Marketplaces, Nagendra Rangavajla

Subsistence Marketplaces

Today, while the number of stunted children is decreasing in all geographies, the progress is not consistent. Moreover, there is an increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescent. Globally, about half of all children under five do not receive essential nutrients, often unnoticed until too late. On the other end of the spectrum, the incidence of overweight and obesity in 5-19 year old has increased from 4% in 1975 to 18% in 2016 ¹. These trends reflect a ‘triple burden of malnutrition’, a burden that impacts the survival, growth, and development of children, and in turn, …

Striving Towards Authenticity In The Self Through Dress And Appearance: Stories Of Latina Adolescent Immigrants, Mary Alice Casto, Jennifer Paff Ogle, Maricela Demirjyn, Amanda Morales, Sarah Silvas-Bernstein

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

We sought to explore how Latina adolescent immigrants experience immigration across adolescence as they seek to know and express their authentic selves through dress and appearance. Our work was informed by theories of acculturation, identity, and authenticity. Participants included 12 immigrant women who identified as Latina and who immigrated before age 16. Open-ended interviews focused on participants’ memories of their immigration experiences during adolescence. Data were analyzed using constant comparison processes. Findings revealed that, for participants, the typical challenges of adolescence were complicated by immigration that included constructing an authentic identity at the intersection of two cultures. Immigration produced a …

A Walk-Through Tijuana: An Ethnographic Reflection On The Daily Life And The Migrants’ Caravans’ Impact In Tijuana, Baja California, México, Victor Vázquez, Mariana Gutiérrez

Departmental Papers (S&A)

The following article presents an ethnographic and urban reflection focused on the daily life and the main problems including: the impact of the Migrant Caravans, and the lifestyle observed in Zona Norte of Tijuana during the years 2018 – 2021. Furthermore, the article discusses other important issues such as: the COVID-19 pandemic impact, and the historical socio-cultural patterns developed to survive the economic inequality conditions in Tijuana. Methodologically, the article utilized a qualitative approach based on fieldwork experience including participant observation, and multiple interviews conducted with residents and workers during my visits to Tijuana, Baja California, México between 2018 – …

Visionary Art As Evolving Consciousness, Azul Delgrasso

Journal of Conscious Evolution

Visionary art is art that is not confined by form, it argues that the artist who creates spiritual art allows the spirit to guide them, rather than relying on traditional form or technique. This can result in art that is incredibly unique and expressive, as it comes from a place of pure creativity and intuition. It also examines the visionary art of Alex Grey whose works offer a gateway into a different state of consciousness, where the viewer can access new insights and perspectives. In in a world that is becoming increasingly disconnected from the creative body, visionary art can …

Ambiguous Appalachianness: A Linguistic And Perceptual Investigation Into Arc-Labeled Pennsylvania Counties, Crissandra J. George

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

The Appalachian Regional Commission (2022) designates 52 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties as Appalachia, excluding only the southeast portion of the state. Matthew Ferrence, in Appalachia North, states that his "home is sometimes called Appalachia, sometimes Rust Belt, other times Midwest, even though very few who live there would accept any of those labels as correct" (xi). This ambiguous and fluid identity is due to the shaping, forming, and changing of Pennsylvania’s role within society from a founding colony to a thriving state with industry, unselfishly spoiling others, to the grounds of converging identities (Ferrence xi). This ambiguous identity makes …

Comparison Of Chinese And Western Arts Mirroring The Evolvement Of Consciousness, Rui Peng

Journal of Conscious Evolution

A few researchers of consciousness in the West demonstrate that the development of western art mirrors the evolvement of human Consciousness since human civilization emerged. This paper explores the differences in art development between China and the West by comparing the artworks in the same era. Furthermore, discussing why the Chinese scholar art over two thousand years does not reflect the same structures of Consciousness that western researchers defined.

The Ukrainian Immigrant Experience In South Carolina, Nataliya S. Vykhovanets, Alexander Lorenz

University of South Carolina Upstate Student Research Journal

The following paper focuses on the Ukrainian immigrant community living in the Upstate region of South Carolina and the vast differences in immigrant experiences of former and more recent Ukrainian Immigrants. Ukrainians have been migrating to the US since the late 1800s, but unfortunately, there are few studies available on this ethnic group.

To give readers a background on the topic, this paper first documents the history of Ukrainian immigration to the US by describing and comparing the four waves of Ukrainian migration to the United States. The following section introduces a questionnaire, created to collect data on the Ukrainian …

A Grounded Approach To Integral Art Therapy: Initial Reflections On Art Materials, Natalia Gómez-Carlier

Journal of Conscious Evolution

Art therapy has the power to bring healing and wholeness as it expands globally, an awareness of the integral structure of consciousness can benefit an adaptation of this profession that is both integrative and respectful of multiple perspectives and cultural views. The art-making process in art therapy can ground experience, and art materials can serve as vehicles through which different structures on consciousness are elicited, experienced, documented, and integrated. Integral art therapy can study the use of art materials to activate an integral structure of consciousness. Integrality is defined by its ability to play simultaneously from all structures of …

Aesthetic Altruism: Consciousness Of Street Artists, Melanie Cheng

Journal of Conscious Evolution

In the past few decades, many street artists have gained international recognition and now straddle the worlds of actual street art – art in the streets, art in the public domain – and fine art – art that is perceived to be of a particular quality, shown in galleries or museums. Despite perhaps “transcending” the streets, most successful street artists choose to continue creating artwork in public spaces, both legally with permission, or illegally without. Street art is different from public art, which is categorically created through a public process; while some street art, if not created aesthetically or …

The Isolated As The Revolutionary: How “Leftover” Men In China Challenge Heteronormativity, Ruwen Chang

Theses and Dissertations--Gender and Women's Studies

In contemporary China, demographers estimate that 30 million men are single because there are simply not enough women in the Chinese population, and the 2020 Chinese census shows that there are 34.9 million more men than women. These men are called guanggun, which can be directly translated to “bare sticks/branches,” a slur that indicates a lack of marriage and sex. In this project, I demonstrate that guanggun’s singlehood marks them as the marginalized at the intersection of heteronormativity, patriarchy, globalizing capitalism, and pronatalist governmentality. In a highly heteronormative and patrilineal culture, guanggun are branded as abnormal/incomplete. However, because …

Wilderness And The Geotag: Exploring The Claim That "Geotagging Ruins Nature" In The Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Wa, Mara Gans

All Master's Theses

This research explores the claim that “geotagging ruins nature” by quantifying and qualifying patterns in geotag use and visitors’ experiences in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, in Washington, United States. Many have raised concerns that geotags increase recreational visitation to public lands, which subsequently contributes to negative resource impacts. Others, however, claim that geotagging has made the outdoors more accessible to less privileged communities and raise concerns that condemning geotags will perpetuate the exclusion of certain groups from outdoor recreation. This debate is studied within federally designated Wilderness, which is legally defined as “untrammeled by man,” a definition rooted in problematic …

Deep Roots In Eroding Soil: Building Decolonial Resilience Amidst Climate Violence And Displacement In A Louisiana Bayou Indigenous Community, Lia Mcgrath Kahan

Senior Independent Study Theses

The Pointe-au-Chien Indigenous community of coastal Louisiana is fighting for survival as climate change and socio-political factors threaten to displace them from their ancestral home. This project takes an ethnographic and historical approach to exploring how colonization and climate change have influenced Pointe-au-Chien tribal members’ ability to stay on their ancestral land. Climate projections estimate that the bayou this community has lived alongside of for generations will soon be unrecognizable, leading to potential displacement and devastating cultural loss. Due to the increasing severity of climate change, it is crucial to look to the experiences of frontline Indigenous communities to support …

“ขอเป็นเด็กเลวในประวัติศาสตร์ไทย”: การร่วมเวลาและการรื้อถอนเขตแดนเวลาในการเคลื่อนไหวทางการเมืองของนักเรียนมัธยมผ่านแคมเปญของเครือข่ายกลุ่ม “นักเรียนเลว”, กันต์ นาเมืองรักษ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้ได้ทำการศึกษาความเปลี่ยนแปลงในการรับรู้ประวัติศาสตร์ของสังคมไทยจากปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมเชิงเวลาที่กลุ่มนักเรียนเลวได้สร้างขึ้นในสังคมไทยผ่านแคมเปญและกิจกรรมทางการเมืองต่างๆ โดยงานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ได้ใช้มโนทัศน์ “การร่วมเวลา” และ “เขตแดนเวลา” ที่เกิดจากการบรรจบกันของปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมภายใต้พลวัตของ "ความเป็นสังคม” แบบสมัยใหม่ที่แยก “ความเป็นประวัติศาสตร์” และ “ความเป็นประวัติการณ์” ออกจากกัน และใช้ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาเชิงสถาบันที่ใช้จุดยืนทางสังคมของผู้ถูกศึกษาอย่างกลุ่มนักเรียนเลวและแนวร่วมเป็นวิธีวิทยาหลักในการสืบเสาะกระบวนการทางสังคมและเล่าผ่านการเขียนวิทยานิพนธ์ชิ้นนี้ จากการศึกษาปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมในระดับต่างๆ ของกลุ่มเครือข่ายนักเรียนเลวและแนวร่วม ผู้วิจัยได้ทำการเล่าออกมาเป็น 3 บท โดยการใช้การข้องเกี่ยวทางสังคมเชิงเวลา 3 แบบเป็นแกนในการเล่า ได้แก่ ความทรงจำของการเป็นนักเรียน การต่อสู้สิทธิเสรีภาพเหนือเรือนร่างของนักเรียน และสถานะของนักเรียนในฐานะเยาวชนในการเมืองระดับชาติ อันสะท้อนถึงการร่วมอดีต ปัจจุบัน และอนาคตในการต่อสู้ทางการเมืองร่วมสมัย ซึ่งกลุ่มนักเรียนเลวได้ใช้กลวิธีและทรัพยากรต่างๆ ในการเคลื่อนไหวได้อย่างโดดเด่น จนทลาย "พรมแดนเวลา" ของการเติบโตทางความคิดเกี่ยวกับความเป็นผู้เยาว์แบบอนุรักษ์จารีตนิยมในวัฒนธรรมไทยได้สำเร็จ ซึ่งมีนัยยะสำคัญต่อแนวคิดเรื่องความก้าวหน้าทางสังคม แต่ก็ทำให้เห็นถึงการแบ่งขั้วทางเวลาที่เข้มข้นขึ้นในสังคมไทยไปด้วย ส่งผลให้ความเป็นผู้เยาว์กลายเป็นวาระทางการเมืองในสังคมไทยไปโดยสมบูรณ์

จิตอาสาใต้โลกแห่งความเสี่ยงทางสิ่งแวดล้อม: การคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและการสื่อสารของนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครในประเทศไทย, จุฑามณี สมบูรณ์สุทธิ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่อง "จิตอาสาใต้โลกแห่งความเสี่ยงทางสิ่งแวดล้อม: การคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและการสื่อสารของนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครในประเทศไทย" มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับของนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการเปลี่ยนแปลงของสื่อ 2) ศึกษาสาเหตุ ปฏิบัติการการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและการตอบโต้ของนักดำน้ำต่อสถานการณ์สังคมเสี่ยงวิกฤตทะเลไทย และ 3) ศึกษาสังคมเสี่ยงของการท่องเที่ยวที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อนักดำน้ำและการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับ ปรับตัว วิธีการวิจัยใช้การสัมภาษณ์ระดับลึกควบคู่กับการเข้าไปมีส่วนร่วมทำงานเป็นนักดำน้ำอาชีพ นักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครและเข้าฝึกเพื่อเป็นนักดำน้ำเพื่อการอนุรักษ์ในค่ายทหาร พื้นที่หลักในการศึกษา ประกอบด้วย เกาะเต่า จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานีและเกาะพระ จังหวัดชลบุรี กลุ่มตัวอย่างประกอบด้วย นักดำน้ำอาชีพ นักดำน้ำอาสาสมัคร ผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียและหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้อง รวมจำนวน 53 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า การนำเสนอข่าวสังคมความเสี่ยงของสื่อส่งผลให้เกิดการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและนำไปสู่การเปลี่ยนแปลงรูปแบบการดำน้ำให้เป็นนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครในบริบทต่างๆ นอกจากนี้ ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลให้นักดำน้ำเกิดการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและผันตัวเป็นอาสาสมัครใต้ทะเล ประกอบด้วย ประสบการณ์ตรงจากการลงไปสัมผัสโลกใต้ทะเล ความขัดแย้งทางทะเลและการเข้าร่วมอบรมด้านการอนุรักษ์ นักดำน้ำใช้วิธีจัดการปัญหาสังคมเสี่ยงและโต้ตอบผ่านสื่อด้วยการทำหน้าที่เป็นนักสื่อสารพลเมืองใต้ทะเล โดยใช้กล้องถ่ายรูปใต้น้ำควบคู่กับเครือข่ายสังคมออนไลน์ วิธีปรับตัวของนักดำน้ำภายใต้สังคมเสี่ยงแบบทุนนิยม คือการพัฒนาทักษะความรู้ สร้างจุดเด่น สร้างความเชี่ยวชาญเฉพาะด้านและนำความรู้มาใช้ในงานอาสาสมัครเพื่อเคลื่อนไหวสังคม

Sheltered Cohort: A Restorative Approach To Relational Conflict And Disempowering Policies At A Men’S Homeless Shelter, Shaun A. Sletten

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Although homeless shelters provide refuge, they also present several challenges that can negatively affect an individual's sense of internal and external control. A mix-method design was used to explore and address these challenges. Participants (N = 12) were recruited from a men’s homeless shelter via the snowball method. To identify the challenges, in-person, semistructured interviews were conducted. Participants discussed barriers that included being around others who displayed abnormal and deviant behavior, and disparaging policies that censored and restricted basic decision-making processes. Once the challenges were identified, a restorative technique called circles was utilized to increase participants' self-efficacy and satisfaction …

Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan As A Feminist Anti-Colonial Methodology, Vanessa Wintoneak, Mindy Blaise

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The paper voices Derbarl Yerrigan, a significant river in Western Australia, through three imperfect, non-innocent, and necessary river-child stories. These stories highlight the emergence of a feminist anti-colonial methodology that is attentive to settler response-abilities to Derbarl Yerrigan through situated, relational, active, and generative research methods. Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan influences the methodological practices used as part of an ongoing river-child walking inquiry that is concerned with generating climate change pedagogies in response to the global climate crises and calls for new ways of thinking and producing knowledge. In particular, the authors found that voicing as a methodology includes listening and …

Invited Perspective - Engaging Aspirations To Nurture Communities, Kentaro Toyama

Subsistence Marketplaces

For subsistence communities, the question is whether aspirations can be applied to motivate behavior that is, on the one hand consistent with people’s aspirations, but which might otherwise be difficult to elicit. Could poorer households be encouraged to save, to spend more on their children’s education, or to act against unhealthy social norms? A couple of examples suggest this is not only possible, but highly successful in contexts where other appeals fail.

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Statement From The Indiana Academy Of The Social Sciences And Board Of Directors, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Author Biographical Notes

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Mission And Editorial Policy, Mssj Staff

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Editors' Note, Nirupama Devaraj, Bharath Ganesh Babu

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Human-Nature Relationships In Raja Ampat: How Tourism Development In Coastal Areas Affects Residents’ Local Wisdom And Social Wellbeing, Timoti Tirta

International Journal of Islands Research

This article illustrates residents’ local wisdom and social well-being regarding tourism development in a coastal area. Tourism development is believed to cause various impacts in various aspects of residents’ life, such as economic, socio-cultural and environmental. This article will explain how those impacts, added to residents’ local wisdom, result in different perceptions from them. The research which was conducted for this article used qualitative methods, involving 18 informants in semi-structured interviews in Saporkren and Sawingrai, Raja Ampat. The research sought to elaborate the relationship between impacts, residents’ perceptions and their social well-being in the context of tourism development. The findings …

Improving Networking Supports For Women In The Workplace, Karen E. Pennesi, Javier Alvarez Vandeputte, Zsofia Agoston, Rawand Amsdr

Anthropology Publications

This report describes findings from research on networking activities and strategies among women in executive and leadership positions in Canadian organizations. The project was carried out by graduate student researchers in collaboration with the Women's Executive Network. Networking is defined as the creation and maintenance of a community of diverse interests, through in-person and online engagements, that can be mobilized for the benefit of oneself or other members of one’s network. We found that the shift to primarily online networking activities due to COVID-19 removed some existing barriers related to age, gender and location, while introducing others related to family …

Performing Amish Agrarianism: Negotiating Tradition In The Maintenance Of Pennsylvania Dairy Farms, Nicole Welk-Joerger

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Amish people have a reputation for being ecologically and environmentally conscientious. As numerous scholars in Amish and Plain Anabaptist studies have demonstrated, Amish views of the environment are diverse and ultimately anchored in the understanding that God made nature for human use. In these cases, Amish views of the environment could be described as much more anchored in traditional philosophical notions of “agrarianism” than “environmentalism.” In this article, I explore how some Amish approach agrarianism with a turn from more traditional farm life toward necessary economic engagement with multi-faceted operations and diversification. Based on intensive ethnographic research and participant observation, …

Manila’S Black Nazarene And The Reign Of Bathala, Antonio D. Sison

Journal of Global Catholicism

A consideration of how the dynamics surrounding Manila's Black Nazarene express crucial themes in the Filipino psyche. The article specifically addresses the importance of "felt-experience" (pagdama) in devotion to the Black Nazarene as well as its connections to indigenous Filipino religion.

Catholicism In Context: Religious Practice In Latin America, Gustavo Morello Sj

Journal of Global Catholicism

A critical problem to study Catholicism in the context of Latin American modernity, is that the conceptual tools we use to study religion were designed to understand the transformations that modernity provoked in European religiosity. Studies on the religion of Latin Americans have largely explored the religiosity of the population through surveys that measure attendance, adherence and affiliation. While some anthropologists have explored religious practices among particular groups, we do not know how ordinary, urban Latin Americans practice religion. To fill this gap, a group of researchers from Boston College, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Catholic University of Córdoba, and …