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Narcocorridos: Mexican Immigrant Women and Chicano Youth Identities (1970s to Present)
(2015-04-06)The narcocorrido is a popular genre of music that has crystallized with the formation of the narcocultura or drug culture, caused by the US-Mexican drug war. I examine the formation of the narcocorrido from the 1940s onward ... -
Nature for Money: The Configuration of Transnational Institutional Space for Environmental Governance (The Gloss of Harmony: The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations.)
(London: Pluto Press, 2014)In this chapter I link the translocal spaces and actors involved in a seemingly simple conservation project in northern Pakistan to stress that a focus on the scalar dimensions of power relations is integral to understanding ... -
The Nature of Laminations in Cores from Kongressvatnet, Svalbard, Norway
(2009-07-14)Emme studied a thin section of a core recovered from Lake Kongress in order to characterize the lamination stratigraphy. Her work suggests that the varves are chemical in nature. -
Navigating an Unfamiliar Industry
(2014-06-06)This summer, I interned in the newsroom at WAMC, an affiliate of National Public Radio based in Albany, NY. I will talk about why I chose WAMC despite having no background in radio; what working in a newsroom was like; and ... -
Negotiating the Nagoya Protocol: Indigenous Demands for Justice
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)On October 29, 2010, following two weeks of intense negotiations, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the Tenth Conference of Parties (COP10) in Nagoya, Japan, adopted the Nagoya Protocol on Access ... -
New Albion: Adaptive Reuse of a Holyoke Mill
(2011-07-26)This thesis project examines the possible impact of an adaptive reuse project in Center City Holyoke. The city of Holyoke faces a number of challenges, including poverty and crime, which are particularly prevalent within ... -
New device architectures for lead sulfide colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics utilizing metal oxide transport layers and electrodes
(2011-07-01)Colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics are a class of third generation solar cell with the potential to harness greater amounts of solar energy than their silicon predecessors. These devices operate on the basis of electron ... -
New Device Structures for Organic Photovoltaics Using Transfer Printing
(2015-07-01)Organic photovoltaics provide an inexpensive and lightweight alternative to conventional silicon solar panels. However, low power conversion efficiencies, mainly due to low open-circuit voltage (VOC) prevent them from ... -
New Media Art: Moving Beyond the Visual
(2013-06-30)New media/digital art is a genre that contains references to ‘traditional’ forms of visual art but also extends far beyond the solely visual because it combines moving images, sound, and installed elements that contribute ... -
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Nikkei-ness: A Cyber-Ethnographic Exploration of Identity Among the Japanese Peruvians of Peru
(2011-02-16)Transnational migration has led to a situation in which humans can no longer form an identity based on location. The nikkei of Peru, or Japanese immigrants and their descendents, are an example of this circumstance. ... -
Nineteenth-Century Italian Flute Culture
(2020-06-18)Italy is often neglected in the histories of the flute, where the focus is primarily on France, Germany, and England. Additionally, what little has been written about Italian flutes is almost exclusively in Italian. In ... -
No Guts No Glory: Dissecting Flesh With Paint
(2011-06-01)The human body is a finely tuned organic machine that man has learned to gainfully disturb through modern medicine. In embroidering, making prints and painting, I pictorially expose these disruptions while simultaneously ... -
No Longer Creatures of Habit: American Women Religious and Conflicts of Obedience
(2013-05-22)In the 1960s, a group of American women, Religious, separated from the Roman Catholic Church following a prolonged conflict. These women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Los Angeles, were women of integrity and dedicated ... -
No Name Women Write Back: Silence and Transnational Subjectivity in Asian American Women's Literature
(2017-06-30)This thesis focuses on silence wrought and refracted through transnational Asian American gender formation in the works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Rupi Kaur, and Tarfia Faizullah. Experimentation with the genres of memoir ...