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Preference Conflict And Peace Studies: The Line Between Disagreement And Violence, Frederic R. Kellogg May 2024

Preference Conflict And Peace Studies: The Line Between Disagreement And Violence, Frederic R. Kellogg

Peace and Conflict Studies

Broadening the definition of conflict defines more comprehensively the condition of peace, focusing on how unresolved shared disagreements can lead to, or avoid, polarization and violence. The line between general disagreement and violent conflict lies in the adjustment of shared preferences. Matters like reproductive rights, medically assisted death, race and gender discrimination, while subject to political polarization, are open to peaceful redress through what John Dewey called the transformative continuum of inquiry, in which the crucial social response to shared problems includes dispute and conflict. Resolution of controversial social problems requires preference adjustment and habit change, often, if not always, …


Sustainable Development: What’S The Problem Here? A Post-Structural Discourse Analysis Of The Global Reporting Initiative, Jenniffer Barnett May 2024

Sustainable Development: What’S The Problem Here? A Post-Structural Discourse Analysis Of The Global Reporting Initiative, Jenniffer Barnett

Master's Theses

The purpose of the study was to critically analyze how the problem of sustainable development is constructed in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and identify what underlying assumptions and historical events produced the problematization as the GRI aims to guide global behavior. The study explored how governing took place by identifying what was silenced in the problem representation and the discursive effects and subject positions it produced. Carol Bacchi's (2009) "What’s the problem represented to be?" (WPR) facilitated this Foucault-influenced poststructural discourse analysis. The interrogation revealed that (a) sustainable development is characterized as a problem of corporate transparency, and (b) …


Professionals, Not Laborers: Historical Contingencies Impacting Faculty Prestige And Unionization, Camden M. Webb Apr 2024

Professionals, Not Laborers: Historical Contingencies Impacting Faculty Prestige And Unionization, Camden M. Webb

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Some higher education faculty believe that unionization is beneath their status, despite lacking ownership of the means of production. While higher education experienced increasing importance in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, faculty unionization saw periods of both growth and decline. From a macro-level framework in social structures of accumulation (SSA) theory, with additions from Marx, the Ehrenreichs, Bourdieu, and Simmel, my research develops a theory to explain the impact of changing social structures on status reproduction and faculty unionization. SSA theory explores the historical contingencies that impact relationships between institutions and capital accumulation. Marx’s class relationships, …


The Role Of Mayors In Achieving Brunei Darussalam’S Wawasan 2035, Lessons From China, Brice Tseen Fu Lee, Ayidana Asihaer, Juan Pablo Sims Jan 2024

The Role Of Mayors In Achieving Brunei Darussalam’S Wawasan 2035, Lessons From China, Brice Tseen Fu Lee, Ayidana Asihaer, Juan Pablo Sims

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

Brunei Darussalam's national vision, WAWASAN 2035, sets forth ambitious goals for the nation's development, emphasizing a centralized governance paradigm. However, the potential of decentralized governance, as exemplified by China's mayor-led districts, offers a compelling model for achieving national aspirations. This research explores the feasibility and potential benefits of introducing mayors in Brunei's districts, drawing insights from China's successful decentralized governance structure. By fostering inter-district competition and allowing for localized policy tailoring, Brunei can enhance its adaptability and responsiveness to local nuances. Drawing from China's experiences, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of how Brunei might optimize its governance structure to …


Identifying Youth Appeals In Alcohol Alternative Social Media Content Through Framing, Melina Oneal Jan 2024

Identifying Youth Appeals In Alcohol Alternative Social Media Content Through Framing, Melina Oneal

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Proposed regulations for alcohol advertising prevent beverage companies from targeting people under the legal drinking age. However, similar regulations for alcohol alternative beverages are less explored, which could allow alcohol alternative products to create awareness for alcoholic beverages among youth. Alcohol alternatives beverages, including no-alcohol and low-alcohol products, are increasing in popularity and can function as compliments to alcoholic products to decrease the total alcohol volume consumed or as substitutes for alcoholic products. Framing theory can be operationalized through the Content Appealing to Youth Index, an index of content elements found in research literature to be appealing to youth, to …


Review Of Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, Ava L. Corey-Gruenes Oct 2023

Review Of Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, Ava L. Corey-Gruenes

Feminist Pedagogy

Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, by Hilda Lloréns, highlights Black Puerto Rican women’s efforts to create equitable futures for their communities in the face of capitalism, racism, colonization, and ecological collapse. This review covers key concepts in Making Livable Worlds, including matriarchal dispossession, decolonizing ethnography, the myth of a homogenous Puerto Rico, and myths of inherent economic self-interest. Analyses of these concepts through an absence lens are suggested to enrich formal and informal feminist learning spaces.


Greenwashing “Brown Gold”: A Critical Analysis Of Anaerobic Digesters And California’S Neoliberal Environmental Programs In Wisconsin’S Dairyland, Sarah Emily D'Onofrio Aug 2023

Greenwashing “Brown Gold”: A Critical Analysis Of Anaerobic Digesters And California’S Neoliberal Environmental Programs In Wisconsin’S Dairyland, Sarah Emily D'Onofrio

Doctoral Dissertations

Large dairy farms, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), have turned to anaerobic digesters as the industry is increasingly pressured to find ways to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. Digesters are machines that turn animal waste from CAFOs into electricity and fuel which are then sold as “credits” in California’s market based climate change mitigation programs such as cap and trade and the low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) program. However, this dissertation not only challenges the assertion that digesters are “green,” but also that these programs are doing what they claim to do in a deregulated and re-regulated …


Back Pages Jul 2023

Back Pages

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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The Language Of English, Sasha Ortiz Bazan Jul 2023

The Language Of English, Sasha Ortiz Bazan

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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This Is Me, Kimberly Piñon Jul 2023

This Is Me, Kimberly Piñon

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Querida Niña, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey Jul 2023

Querida Niña, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Being Part Of The Lgbtq+ Community, Genevive Cerda Jul 2023

Being Part Of The Lgbtq+ Community, Genevive Cerda

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Nopayele, Cayele Ameyalli Esteva Jul 2023

Nopayele, Cayele Ameyalli Esteva

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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El Primer Dia, Erick Esparza Jul 2023

El Primer Dia, Erick Esparza

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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From Roots To Wings, Anonymous Author Jul 2023

From Roots To Wings, Anonymous Author

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Here We Stand, Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco, Chelsea Rios Gomez Jul 2023

Here We Stand, Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco, Chelsea Rios Gomez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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I Am, Kyra Alway Jul 2023

I Am, Kyra Alway

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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I Am Who I Am, Claudia Lopez-Hernandez Jul 2023

I Am Who I Am, Claudia Lopez-Hernandez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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¡Viva México!, Diego Vega, Georgina C. Salvarrey Jul 2023

¡Viva México!, Diego Vega, Georgina C. Salvarrey

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Mis Motivadores, Eduardo A. Moreno-Ortiz Jul 2023

Mis Motivadores, Eduardo A. Moreno-Ortiz

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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No Effect On Me, Brenda Santos Jul 2023

No Effect On Me, Brenda Santos

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Our Need For Space, Alicia Lopez Jul 2023

Our Need For Space, Alicia Lopez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Por Mi, Destiny Rodriguez Jul 2023

Por Mi, Destiny Rodriguez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Remembering My Home, Brittany Arzola Jul 2023

Remembering My Home, Brittany Arzola

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Rosa Parks, Isabella Garcia Figueroa Jul 2023

Rosa Parks, Isabella Garcia Figueroa

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Summer: An Accordion Poem, Kyra Alway, Paolo Bosques-Paulet Jul 2023

Summer: An Accordion Poem, Kyra Alway, Paolo Bosques-Paulet

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Fruit Salad, Nayali Abarca Jul 2023

Fruit Salad, Nayali Abarca

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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The Puzzle Of Me, Matt Aung Jul 2023

The Puzzle Of Me, Matt Aung

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Our Connection, Maria C. Rodriguez Jul 2023

Our Connection, Maria C. Rodriguez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Agua Bendita, Jessica Aguirre Jul 2023

Agua Bendita, Jessica Aguirre

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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