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Waste Traffic(ing): An anthropological analysis of one situated event in the environmental justice discourse
(2011-02-16)This narrative examines the repercussions of the proposal to build a solid waste facility in an environmental justice community. It documents one solid waste transfer station s permitting process required by Massachuse ... -
"Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink": The Impact of Commodification of Water through Social Business on Poverty Alleviation in Rural Bangladesh
(2013-06-18)Water is an abundant natural resource in Bangladesh. Yet around 57 million people living in the Bengal basin lack access to potable water. Pollution and arsenic contamination of groundwater, especially in the rural ... -
"We are strong as men and we cannot be bent": The impact of women's political activism on the transition from British trusteeship to Nigerian self-government between 1914 and 1960.
(2016-06-09)British colonial indirect rule mediated through ethnic divisions, "native" courts, and warrant chiefs led to the deterioration of women's political, social and economic influence in southeastern Nigeria between 1914 and ... -
"We Hid Books in Bags of Sugar": South African Histories in Opposition
(2013-05-05)In this thesis on teacher resistance to apartheid in South Africa, I argue that teaching against the prescribed curriculum constituted a form of subversion to the National Party-led government. Students, teachers and parents ... -
"We Must Shape the Next Future": The Role of Buddhist Temples in Japan's LGBTQ Activism
(2022-07-01)In June 2021, a proposed bill on LGBTQ anti-discrimination failed to pass in the Japanese Diet. Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party adamantly rejected the bill by publicly stating homophobic and transphobic ... -
Welfare Reform and Abstinence-Only Sex Education: The Discursive Production of American Ideal Citizenship
(2011-02-16)WELFARE REFORM AND ABSTINENCE-ONLY SEX EDUCATION: THE DISCURSIVE PRODUCTION OF IDEAL CITIZENSHIP Meredith Munn What does it mean to be an American? This query speaks to the heart of American identity: who belongs, ... -
What Does Public Health Outreach Mean in a Developing Environment?
(2018-03-26)Roberta Duarte’s summer internship was with the National Malaria Eradication Center (SENEPA), a technical agency of the Paraguayan Ministry of Health. As an assistant Public Health Project Coordinator, Roberta analyzed, ... -
What is Behind the Process of Drug Development?
(2018-03-26)Have you ever stopped to think about what goes into the tiny pills that you take? How much time and money went into that pill? What was done to prove its safety for consumption? How was the writing on the label determined? ... -
What Is The Effect Of Conflict & Displacement On Fertility? A Case Study Of Northern Uganda
(2016-05-11)The purpose of this thesis is to explore how fertility patterns are affected during conflict. Thus, the question under consideration is: What is the effect of conflict and displacement on fertility patterns? A Case Study ... -
What is the sound of fear?: behavioral responses of white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophryus) to synthesized nonlinear acoustic phenomena
(2013-06-20)Fear and anxiety may be adaptive responses to life-threatening situations, and animals may communicate fear to others vocally. Nonlinear phenomena—sounds produced by the desynchronization of vibrations in a sound production ... -
What to Expect When You’re Existential: The Politics of Reproduction During Times of Climate Crisis
(2021-06-08)Climate change represents an existential crisis demanding human response, whether it be actively preparatory or reactively passive. This thesis project is aimed at understanding and analyzing the complex intersectionalities ... -
What We Forget to See
(2018-07-02)The world is constructed and built around structures that often go unnoticed. My research revolves around the elements that are the basis of our daily environment. Initially inspired by artists who combine science with the ... -
When Does Warmness Become Warmth? An Investigation of Children's Vocabulary Acquisition Through Their Writing
(2011-02-16)This study examined differences between third and fifth graders in the use of morphologically complex words in written and oral storytelling, as well as how morphological awareness predicted the use of morphologically ... -
"When I Get Home, I'm Fixin' to Stay:" Gender and Domesticity in Post-World War II Musical Westerns
(2011-02-16)Immediately after World War II, Hollywood's major studios released a series of films that can be defined as both musicals and Westerns. Although the Western is a decidedly male-oriented genre, it opens up unprecedented ... -
When poisons overtake your home: how the Atlantic killfish adapted to the toxicants in its environment
(2018-03-26)The Atlantic killifish inhabits both pristine and polluted environments. Interestingly, populations that inhabit areas contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have developed a resistance to these toxicants that ... -
"When We Fight, We Win": Analyzing the Chicago Teachers Union's Practice of Social Movement Unionism from 2010-2020
(2021-05-12)In 2012, when the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) took to the streets for their first strike in decades, some scholars hailed their practice as an example for unions across the country to follow in order to combat the threat ... -
Where are the Unmarried Women? The Impact of Truth Commissions on Post-Conflict Gender Relations
(2017-05-08)A recent trend in the field of transitional justice has been the inclusion of a gendered perspective to ensure that women’s experiences during war are addressed effectively. For truth commissions in particular, this has ... -
“Where the pillars of the earth are standing:” Centering spiritual, political, and ecological power in Uganda’s Lubigi wetland
(2019-06-27)While most Ugandans remember that Idi Amin was ousted in a war fought by forces of the NRM led by Yoweri Museveni, the healer and python medium Sekyoka Nalubega Muzana Bemba Musota, describes a different war, fought with ... -
Who Do You Trust?: The Effects of Meditation on Perceived Trustworthiness of White and Asian Americans Through Stress and Visual Attention Using a Virtual Reality Method
(2022-07-01)Many studies have been done to look at general trustworthiness between in-group and out-group members using trust and investment games. However, the effects of meditation on trustworthiness towards White and Asian Americans ...