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Discourses Of "Cruelty-Free" Consumerism: Peta, The Vegan Society And Examples Of Contemporary Activism, Andrea Springirth Sep 2016

Discourses Of "Cruelty-Free" Consumerism: Peta, The Vegan Society And Examples Of Contemporary Activism, Andrea Springirth

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This paper draws upon the principles of critical discourse analysis in order to examine the production of capitalist and consumerist discourses within contemporary nonhuman animal rights activism. The analysis presents evidence to suggest that the discourses being produced via the websites of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and The Vegan Society are consistently being constructed through market-centric ideologies that treat activists mainly as middle-class consumers. This paper argues that the consistent presence of neoliberal discourse signals an instructive entanglement with broader sociopolitical issues. Specifically, there are concerns as to how this discourse relates to what is thought …


The Effects Of Job Characteristics On Home Care Workers’ Well-Being And Job Performance: Understanding The Psychosocial Effects Of Relational Care, Emily C. Franzosa Sep 2016

The Effects Of Job Characteristics On Home Care Workers’ Well-Being And Job Performance: Understanding The Psychosocial Effects Of Relational Care, Emily C. Franzosa

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Home care workers are the lowest-paid and most precarious segment of the health care industry. Although these workers provide critical, non-medical support that allows elderly and disabled individuals to remain in their homes, the workforce is highly unstable, due to low wages, a lack of supportive benefits like health coverage, paid leave and retirement support, poor working conditions and a physically and emotionally demanding workload. But a lack of consensus around the nature and value of home care has made “quality”, in terms of both jobs and care provision, difficult to define, measure or improve. While home care is a …


Producing Discursive Change: From "Illegal Aliens" To "Unauthorized Immigration" In Library Catalogs, J. Silvia Cho Sep 2016

Producing Discursive Change: From "Illegal Aliens" To "Unauthorized Immigration" In Library Catalogs, J. Silvia Cho

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Recent debates on immigration policies have included a discursive contest over the representation of unauthorized immigrants, in both the news media and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), a subject indexing system administered by the Library of Congress. Using a mixed methods approach from a critical discourse analysis perspective, I examine the responses of the news media and the Library of Congress to societal pressures for change, showing how the Library’s complex institutional position can constrain its responses. Those obstacles, when combined with the characteristics of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) as a linguistic tool for information …


Can We Talk? On College Campuses - Including Mayflower Hill - Free Speech Collides With Political Correctness, Kate Carlisle Sep 2016

Can We Talk? On College Campuses - Including Mayflower Hill - Free Speech Collides With Political Correctness, Kate Carlisle

Colby Magazine

In a world where thoughts can pour directly out of our heads and onto another person’s computer screen, and insults can circle the globe in the time it takes to tap send, these kindergarten admonishments are taking on added resonance on American college campuses.


Nation And History In The Mobilization Of Collective Identity Among Lgbt Czechs, Cleo M. Spencer Sep 2016

Nation And History In The Mobilization Of Collective Identity Among Lgbt Czechs, Cleo M. Spencer

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

Social movement theories are often built on Western and US-centric understandings of civic life and the values that underpin it. Studying participation in the LGBT movement in Prague, Czech Republic provides one context for complicating such underlying assumptions. Within theory on mobilization, collective identity is said to act as a conduit for developing personal investment through individuals’ identities. Interviews with LGBT people in Prague, however, show that there is little sense of or desire for collective identity among these potential participants. Czech national history contextualizes respondents’ distinct descriptions of the role of civic life and activism, value of private life, …


Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, Mathew Schmalz Sep 2016

Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

Contributors to Indian Catholicism: Interventions and Imaginings, the inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism.


Authority, Representation, And Offense: Dalit Catholics, Foot Washing, And The Study Of Global Catholicism, Mathew Schmalz Sep 2016

Authority, Representation, And Offense: Dalit Catholics, Foot Washing, And The Study Of Global Catholicism, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

In reflecting on a sharp scholarly exchange at a conference, this article explores issues of authority, representation, and offense in global Catholic and South Asian Studies. Focusing on the act of foot washing by Dalit Catholics, the article examines how scholarly offense is linked to particular claims of representational authority. The article also puts this discussion within the context of contemporary debates about Western portrayals of Indian culture and society.


The Tying Of The Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis Of “Ritual” And “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics In India, Sonja Thomas Sep 2016

The Tying Of The Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis Of “Ritual” And “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics In India, Sonja Thomas

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article presents a feminist analysis of patriarchy persisting in Catholicism of the Syro-Malabar rite in Kerala. The article specifically considers the impact of charismatic Catholicism on women of the Syro-Malabar rite and argues that it is important to interrogate this new face of religiosity in order to fully understand how certain rituals are allowed to change and be fluid, while others, especially concerning female sexuality, are enshrined as “tradition” which often restricts the parameters for women’s empowerment and may reinforce caste and patriarchal hegemonies preventing feminist solidarity across different religious- and caste-based groups.


Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz Sep 2016

Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article examines three Catholic home shrines in a Dalit community in North Indian and argues that it is misleading to think that home shrines and other collections of material objects are somehow static conveyors of meaning. “Meaning” can mean many things or nothing at all, depending upon the terms we are using and the scholarly methods we deploy. The crucial aspect of Dalit Catholic home shrines is that they are literally open to interpretation and reinterpretation, to touching and being touched. Their significance—their meaning—depends not on decoding their structure or symbolic logic, but interacting with them as part of …


The Grace Of God And The Travails Of Contemporary Indian Catholicism, Kerry P. C. San Chirico Sep 2016

The Grace Of God And The Travails Of Contemporary Indian Catholicism, Kerry P. C. San Chirico

Journal of Global Catholicism

This essay discusses the challenges faced by Indian Catholicism, particularly as it seeks to adapt to and in contemporary, post-colonial India through the process or program of what is called inculturation, a self-conscious program of adaptation to Indian religion and culture. Since Indian Catholicism is constituted by so many irreducible persons-in-relation, the article focuses on the life of the Catholic priest, Swami Ishwar Prasad in whose life we may chart something of the inculturation movement and the Catholic tradition as it is found in North India region, in one rather long and rich lifetime connecting two centuries. The article seeks …


Found Poem Dos, Mitchell Mcgowan, Mateo Ramirez Yelton Sep 2016

Found Poem Dos, Mitchell Mcgowan, Mateo Ramirez Yelton

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Found Poem Uno, Patricia Cortés, Mireya Ortega, Cynthia Paredes, Javier Rojas Sep 2016

Found Poem Uno, Patricia Cortés, Mireya Ortega, Cynthia Paredes, Javier Rojas

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pantoum Six, Karla Amaya, Arturo Arce, Mondserrat Ortiz, Cynthia Rojas Sep 2016

Pantoum Six, Karla Amaya, Arturo Arce, Mondserrat Ortiz, Cynthia Rojas

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pantoum Five, Idette Lopez, Tyree Love, Luna Uch, Katrina Uribe Sep 2016

Pantoum Five, Idette Lopez, Tyree Love, Luna Uch, Katrina Uribe

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pantoum Four, Jacqueline Barrera-Pacheco, Magdalena Cortez, Lei Hou, Amy Núñez Sep 2016

Pantoum Four, Jacqueline Barrera-Pacheco, Magdalena Cortez, Lei Hou, Amy Núñez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pantoum Three, Jonah Platt, Elizabeth Rosales, Monique Yzaguirre Sep 2016

Pantoum Three, Jonah Platt, Elizabeth Rosales, Monique Yzaguirre

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pantoum Two, Briana Corona, Susana Padilla, Dakota Porter Sep 2016

Pantoum Two, Briana Corona, Susana Padilla, Dakota Porter

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pantoum One, José Manuel Hernández, Zitlaly Macías, José Manzo, Catherine Sanchez Sep 2016

Pantoum One, José Manuel Hernández, Zitlaly Macías, José Manzo, Catherine Sanchez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Full Collective Poetry Sep 2016

Full Collective Poetry

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Heart(H), Monique Yzaguirre Sep 2016

Heart(H), Monique Yzaguirre

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


In My Dreams..., Mateo Ramirez Yelton Sep 2016

In My Dreams..., Mateo Ramirez Yelton

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Turning Soil, Katrina Uribe Sep 2016

Turning Soil, Katrina Uribe

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Ya No Está En Mi Vida, Luna Uch Sep 2016

Ya No Está En Mi Vida, Luna Uch

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Música Y Mi Hermanito, Luna Uch Sep 2016

Música Y Mi Hermanito, Luna Uch

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Con La Música, Te Recuerdo, Catherine Sanchez Sep 2016

Con La Música, Te Recuerdo, Catherine Sanchez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Reflection, Elizabeth Rosales Sep 2016

Reflection, Elizabeth Rosales

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


The Sauna On The Roof, Javier Rojas Sep 2016

The Sauna On The Roof, Javier Rojas

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Christopher, Cynthia Rojas Sep 2016

Christopher, Cynthia Rojas

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Shame, Jacqueline Ramirez Sep 2016

Shame, Jacqueline Ramirez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


¿Dónde Está Shame?, Jacqueline Ramirez Sep 2016

¿Dónde Está Shame?, Jacqueline Ramirez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.