Power, Knowledge, And Environmental Justice: The Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy,
2026
Bowling Green State University
Power, Knowledge, And Environmental Justice: The Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy, Mya Chapman
Honors Projects
In a time of rife political conflict and debate, it is important to understand the underlying power dynamics that permeate our society in America. As devised by French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, power and knowledge are mutually constitutive forces that shape our social relations. Through the actions of certain discourses, distinct truths are cultivated that in turn, reinforce existing power structures. In this study, these concepts are applied to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy in the form of a Foucauldian discourse analysis to understand how the pipeline remained operational in the face of great opposition. Written discourse in the …
Organizing To Engage: A Framework For Conflict Strategy,
2026
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Organizing To Engage: A Framework For Conflict Strategy, Paul Mason Carpenter
Dissertations
Conflict strategy can be exceedingly complex. While many of the basics are simple, even the simple can be highly complicated to execute. The Schlieffen Plan in World War I appeared straight forward, but execution was a great deal more complex. It failed and the result was years of trench warfare. In addition, leaders entering conflict may not fully appreciate the full context, its effect, and the need for a long term result--a better state of peace.
Strategy and tactics may be challenging to transform as an engagement evolves. In addition, strategists must often commit to courses of action within very …
Identity Restoration Theory: Reclaiming Cultural Identity As A Pathway To Reintegration,
2026
Walden University
Identity Restoration Theory: Reclaiming Cultural Identity As A Pathway To Reintegration, Sigifredo Castell Britton
Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
This article introduces Identity Restoration Theory (IRT), a new theoretical framework that explains what formerly incarcerated individuals need to reconnect with disrupted cultural identities as a pathway to reintegration. Grounded in qualitative fieldwork with Raizal ex-offenders and community leaders on San Andrés Island, Colombia, IRT is designed to conceptualize reintegration, not as institutional resettlement, but as a culturally rooted process of re-embedding identity within community and place. The framework delineates five interdependent constructs—cultural memory, place reconnection, narrative repair, communal belonging, and agency activation—that emerged inductively from participant narratives. Anchored in the postcolonial context of an Afro-Caribbean island society, IRT provides …
Storytelling,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Storytelling, Henry D. Juarez
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Heternormativity,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Heternormativity, Erandi Hernández Aguilar
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Sin Título,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Sin Título, Daisy Camacho
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Journal Entry #1,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Journal Entry #1, Erandi Hernández Aguilar
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Pain Into Anger!,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Pain Into Anger!, Davion Holman
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Amá Always Said. Apá Only Knew.,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Amá Always Said. Apá Only Knew., Venus Elizalde
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
A Letter To My Juror,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
A Letter To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Memories Are Like Clues: A Message To My Juror,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Memories Are Like Clues: A Message To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Mi Deseo,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Mi Deseo, William Hopeau
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Living Vicariously Through The Fading Childhood Memories Of Home,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Living Vicariously Through The Fading Childhood Memories Of Home, Gina Muñoz
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
More Than A Brown Girl,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
More Than A Brown Girl, Mia Rose Rios
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Mamadas,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Mamadas, Erandi Hernández Aguilar
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Namesake,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Namesake, Adrian Garcia
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Tik Tok,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Tik Tok, Francisco Vallejo
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Xonecuilli (Blue Worm),
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Xonecuilli (Blue Worm), Benjamin Perez
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Untitled,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Untitled, Ethan Pena
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Untitled,
2026
Cal Poly Humboldt
Untitled, Paul Zargosa
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
