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Wang, Liming. "The Making Of New Farmers In Chinese Risk Society." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556470.
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My research investigates the making of new farmers in Chinese risk society. I argue that the socialist peasants are in the transformation into neoliberal new farmers. I define the "new farmers" as a dispositive agricultural population that embodies neoliberal ideologies and practices. The purpose of making the new farmers is to counterbalance the instabilities and risks in post-socialist China and to distribute and redistribute power, wealth and risks via new channels such as new farmers' organizations and enterprises. The new farmers are in the making by different forces to address a variety of risks fermented in post-socialist China. The new farmers are recognized by their education, knowledge of agriculture and social responsibilities; they are categorized by their participation in new farmers' organizations and enterprises; they are promoted and cultivated by the Chinese government; and they are identified and represented via mass media. The individualization of the new farmers serves as a governing tool that turns systemically produced risks into individual risks. It also serves as a normalization strategy that the new farmers build their lives in a do-it-yourself way. Their individualized decisions and choices result in their normalization or marginalization in the making of new farmers in Chinese risk society.
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Gratz, Steven Jon. "Factors influencing supervised agricultural experience earnings of Ohio FFA state degree recipients as reported on the Ohio FFA state degree application." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1080302672.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 166 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: James J. Connors, Dept. of Agricultural Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-134).
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YUEN, Cheong Wai. "America new China policy : the hedgagement approach." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2009. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/pol_etd/1.
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In the past few decades, the rise of China has shifted the political landscape in the Asia Pacific region. China has succeeded in economic development since the reform in 1979. It is transforming its growing economic strength into military power by substantially increasing military expenditure. According to the estimation of Global Trends 2025, by 2025 China will be the second largest economic and military power if current trend persists. The emergence of China has inevitably altered its international role when it is becoming the great power. With increasing economic interdependence and the anti-terrorism, the Sino-U.S. relations have become more complicated than ever before. On one hand, China has been an economic cooperator of the United States. The United States is calling for further economic cooperation between them, especially after the outbreak of Financial Tsunami. On the other hand, China is simultaneously the potential competitor. The United States is misgiving about overtaking from China in the 21st century. It worries the rise of China will constitute the same type of security threat to it that Germany did to Britain in the two World Wars. To respond the rise of China, Joseph Nye remarked that the development of Indo-U.S. strategic ties would be able to dissuade the future ambition of China and thus encourage China to be a “responsible stakeholder” in the international system.
The objectives of this research are to identify the nature of the current China policy towards the U.S. and the feasibility of this strategy. To understand the current China policy it is crucial that we understand how the United States has coped with the rise of China. In order to test the current nature of Chinese policy, it will be necessary to compare the engagement and containment policy. The United States is implementing a two-pronged policy towards China that combines “engagement” and “hedging”. The term “engagement” means integrating China into the existing international system through economic cooperation and institutionalization. The term “hedging” means preserving enough dissuasive power to prevent the emergence of aggressive China in future. The strategic goal of this policy is to engage China while dissuading it from challenging the United States militarily in future. However, until now, there is still a question over how does the United States cope with the rise of China as the essence of U.S. two-pronged policy is still uncertainty. The controversy is whether the branch of hedging equals to the containment or not. To analyze the essence of U.S. hedging policy, this policy will be compared with U.S. containment policy towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War era as well as U.S. foreign policy towards other rising powers, such as India and Brazil. Then, India will be used as a case study in order to test the feasibility of U.S. two-pronged foreign policy toward China.
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Pang, Leo. "New farmers, multiple modernities and alternative social worlds in Shanghai." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2018. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30296/.
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In the face of rampant food safety scandals and environmental pollution affecting the Chinese food supply, a new breed of farmer has appeared in China: Middle-class farmers who gave up white collar jobs in the city to return to peri-urban farmland to grow produce without using synthetic fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides and without organic certification. The farmers' produce has potential to be both a lucrative solution to the problem of food safety and also a means to build an alternative future for the farmers themselves and those who share their passion for their produce. Through participant-observing the way these farmers sell their produce, I shed light on the farmers' views on consumers, the strategies that they use to attract potential customers and who they choose to collaborate with to sell their produce and why. I show how these farmers are seeking to create a social world with their customers that is an alternative to the consumerist society based on instrumental and utilitarian relations that much of middle-class China inhabits. The farmers' goals are reflected in their judgments of potential customers, and the challenges that they face when they engage with different collaborators from activists to businessmen and marketing and public relations executives in order to sell produce. The different practices of the farmers compared to their collaborators in selling their produce are indicative of different views of modernity - either as an alternative to consumerism, a continuation of conventional capitalistic modernity or a combination of both. The farmers' navigation of different visions of modernity and their aspirations to build an alternative social world shows that growing and then selling ecological produce is an ongoing challenge of negotiation between often contradicting beliefs about Chinese society and China's path of modernity.
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Jensen, Mari N. "Cultivating Edible Seaweed in Hawaii: New technique helps local farmers." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295866.
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Rinzler, Daniel Scott. "New directions for assisted housing mobility in America." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80909.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-155).
Assisted housing mobility programs aim to help low-income families leverage tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) to move to areas that provide basic ingredients for security and socioeconomic mobility. Although attractive in principle as a way to compensate for the uneven geography of risk and opportunity in metropolitan housing markets, mobility programs have proven difficult to design and implement effectively enough to deliver intended social benefits. After two decades of experimentation, research, and shifting theories around mobility, efforts are underway to develop a new generation of programs. In a shift in institutional context, Public Housing Authorities (PHAs), rather than federal or nonprofit agencies, are taking the lead. Critically, PHAs are for the first time attempting to integrate substantial mobility supports in their TBRA programs, which comprise the largest form of federal housing aid to low-income families. I analyze how staff at these PHAs are making program design decisions and how effective those decisions may be. Broadly, I aim to determine what PHAs' design decisions mean for the future of assisted housing mobility as an approach for improving the lives of the poor, and what they suggest about mobility's viability in the context of the day-to-day political and operating environments of those who deliver housing assistance. I use a three-case comparative approach, including two PHAs currently developing mobility programs - the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development and the King County Housing Authority - and one established program in Baltimore, which emerged as a desegregation remedy in the Thompson v. HUD lawsuit. Data collection for each case included key-informant interviews, observations of program design meetings, and review of publicly available program documents. First, I review research on assisted housing mobility, social policy design, and trends affecting PHAs as delivery agents for federal housing policy. Second, I outline factors that set the stage for program design at each site, including: motivation for pursuing mobility; agency context for mobility; factors that have enabled mobility; and problem identification and theories of change. Third, I detail each mobility effort's major design decisions, for both the programs and the delivery systems: establishing goals and success metrics; targeting of clients and places; and more. On the positive side, I find that program designers are working to incorporate lessons of mobility research, especially with regard to program targeting, intensity of client coaching, and follow-ups. On the other hand, pressure to ensure program success has translated to narrowly conceived mobility initiatives, which cuts against broad-based reforms to administering rental assistance. Notably, both PHA-originated efforts are very focused on children's educational outcomes, eschewing an earlier focus on helping their parents get ahead. In addition, some innovators are pushing to mainstream mobility and "change the default" in how agencies administer rental assistance. In terms of lessons for future policy and practice, current efforts provide new examples of the range and depth of impact that is possible, particularly for disadvantaged children. PHAs' discretion also appears to offer more room for innovation beyond what has been possible in stand-alone mobility programs of the past. However, mobility could easily be marginalized within these agencies, so both organizational strategy and political management on the part of staff will be critical.
by Daniel Scott Rinzler.
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Batchelor, Bob. "Running toward the apocalypse : John Updike's new America." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003213.
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Batchelor, Bob. "Running Toward the Apocalypse: John Updike’s New America." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1845.
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My dissertation explores two critical points in understanding John Updike's recent career. First, I examine him from a perspective outside the heavily-studied Rabbit tetralogy. Focusing on Updike's novel Terrorist, I attempt to counter the misperception that he offers little beyond the chronicling of middle-class, suburban America. Instead, this work digs for a deeper understanding of Updike.
Next, I consider Updike's role as an artist, professional writer, and celebrity to draw out a sense of the writer's life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using him as a case study enables the analysis to include his changing role as a literary writer who also had major bestsellers, as well as his standing as a celebrity and public intellectual. Rather than dismiss these cultural influences, I explore how they intersect with audiences, readers, and critics. Piecing together his commentary regarding fame and celebrity creates a model of the public Updike for scholars to examine.
The central task of this dissertation is a close examination of Terrorist, including the themes Updike addressed and literary techniques he employed to advance those ideas. From this textual analysis, Updike's vision of America and the world in the twenty first century emerges.
By reassessing Updike's evolution as a writer, both in subject matter and literary technique, one realizes how his work reflects an increasing preoccupation with global issues, from American imperialism to terrorism. This study broadens the general conceptualization critics and scholars hold regarding Updike's work by exploring the themes and literary devices he used to portray the broader world.
Focusing on Updike the writer and Terrorist, his final standalone novel, this dissertation helps Updike scholars and critics address a central point that may well define his historical reputation: Is there an Updike beyond the Rabbit novels and is there an Updike beyond suburban nostalgia? I argue that Terrorist reveals a great American writer at his full powers as the world around him undergoes a watershed moment.
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Humphries, Courtney (Courtney Elizabeth). "Side effects : the new age of AIDS in America." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39435.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2004.Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-32).
When the cocktail of AIDS drugs called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) was introduced in 1997, it radically changed the picture of HIV and AIDS in the U.S. Deaths from AIDS plummeted by two-thirds. Now, far fewer people are progressing along the once-inevitable path to illness and death. The impact of new therapy has been both dramatic and double-edged: it has spared tens of thousands from death, but has complicated their lives in countless ways. This newspaper series in five parts examines the new landscape of AIDS in the aftermath of success - a success that is still incomplete as there is still no cure. The new therapies carry literal side effects - the toxicities of drugs that infected individuals must take everyday for the rest of their lives. But the drugs have also created social and political side effects as AIDS is transformed to an increasingly chronic disease. The series relays the stories of HIV-infected individuals, clinicians, social workers, and AIDS service and prevention workers in Boston and examines how their lives and work have changed now that AIDS is no longer seen as a "crisis" in the U.S.
by Courtney Humphries.
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Bryant, Bradley Wayne. "History of the Virginia FFA Association." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26640.
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Part of this research focused on the predecessors of the FFA by outlining the history and purposes of agricultural organizations formed since the late 1700s. The past two centuries of American agricultural history is rich with efforts to educate and improve agricultural practices through organized groups of farmers and other rural leaders. Early in the development of agricultural societies, experimentation and successful practices were shared with others in the local organization and works were often published in journals or newspapers for educational and informational purposes. Regular meetings and fellowship were also a major focus of the early groups. The national organizations that formed later such as the Grange, included the fraternal, social, and educational aspects while maintaining a focus on the economics of farming.
The boys’ and girls’ club movement provided opportunities for youth to meet, learn, and participate in agricultural competitions. The center of activities for youth organizations quickly shifted from community groups to agricultural education programs in the public schools. Clubs that formed within agricultural education programs in Virginia soon united to create the Future Farmers of Virginia. The FFV and FFA that followed initiated the use of certain symbols, colors, and ritual ceremonies that can be traced directly to the agricultural societies. This research identified many agricultural societies and youth clubs that had a profound influence on the development of the National FFA Organization.
The major purpose of this study was to describe the establishment of the Future Farmers of American and to document the accomplishments of Virginia FFA members at the state and national levels. The objectives of the study were:
To describe the historical events and circumstances that led to the establishment of the Future Farmers of Virginia and the Future Farmers of America,
To document Virginia FFA history by recording achievements of members and chapters at the state level,
To document the achievements of Virginia FFA members and chapters at the national level, and
To provide a history of the Virginia FFA Association from 1925 to the present.
The Virginia FFA Association is rich with historical information that ranges from the formation of the Future Farmers of Virginia in 1925, the forming of a national organization in 1928, and 75 years of accomplishments by Virginia FFA members.Ph. D.
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Loth, Christine. "The inherent right policy: a blending of old and new paradigm ideas." Ottawa, 1996.
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Hole, Heather. ""America as Landscape" Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, 1918-1924 /." View this thesis online, 2005. http://libraries.maine.edu/gateway/oroauth.asp?file=orono/etheses/37803141.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.Title from PDF title page. Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 282-286). Also issued in print.
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Chang, Robert Tsai-Chin. "Biblically helping the new immigrant Chinese elderly in North America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. "New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. http://a.co/82Y1HDA.
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Introduction: the "gloomy night of democracy": Federalist opposition to the Three-Fifths Clause -- 1. "Have these Haytians no rights?": restricting maritime commerce to safeguard slavery (1805-1806) -- 2. "Indissolubly connected with commerce": nonimportation, southern sectionalism, and the defense of New England -- 3. "Squabbles in Madam Liberty's family": Jefferson's embargo and the causes of Federalist extremism (1807-1808) -- 4. "O grab me!": the justification for disunion (1808-1809) -- 5. "Sincere neutrality": war, moderates, and the Federalists Party's decline (1810-1820) -- Epilogue: Old Romans: Federalist activism and the antislavery legacy (1820-1865).https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1123/thumbnail.jpg
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Scales, Jason A. "Assessment of teachers' ability to integrate science concepts into secondary agriculture programs." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4717.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 29, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Brown-Waithe, Antionette B. "Òyötùnjí Village: Making Africans in America." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/68.
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Òyötùnjí: The Making of Africans in America examines the impact of self-identification with African culture and the impact it has on African identity within social and Black Nationalist movements. More so than the Civil Rights movement, the Black Nationalist movement has influenced the ways in which African Americans self identified as a group and as individuals. Comprised primarily of African nationalists, Òyötùnjí Village was considered the vanguard in re- introducing the African ideology into Santeria, and giving birth to what is now considered the Ifa/Yoruba tradition. As the intentional community of Òyötùnjí grew, the Ifa tradition spread as well because of its porous population. To explore the relationship between identity and social movements, this paper examines the motivation behind the formation of Òyötùnjí Village and the formation of an independent community.
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McGinley, Susan. "Analyzing Crop Insurance Rates: Research Offers New Ways to Set Premiums for Farmers." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622241.
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Roberts, Kenny. "Relationships between Business Planning and Reaching Forecasted Sales Objectives for New England Farmers." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2331.
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Over the last 100 years, more than 3 million small farming operations have been replaced by large factory farms in America. This shift toward food production by conglomerations has led to severe environmental issues, food security hazards, and economic hardship in farming communities nationwide. This study investigated the extent to which a written business plan could help small farming operations meet their sales objectives and ultimately continue to operate; this study also examined the perceptions of farm owners regarding the ability of a business plan to affect sales objectives. The sample consisted of 71 Maine Farms for Future (FFF) recipients and 71 randomly selected New England farmers as identified by the Maine Department of Agriculture. The study used a mixed methods approach. Quantitative data were analyzed using a Mann-Whitney U test to determine the extent to which creating a business plan corresponds with the ability to meet sales objectives. Qualitative data were analyzed using inductive and open coding techniques to determine the extent to which farmers perceive business planning as having value. Quantitative data analysis showed the differences between the groups to be statistically significant and that a written business plan corresponded with farmers meeting sales objectives. The qualitative analysis showed that the majority of both groups identified business plans as having value due to its ability to affect sales objectives. These findings confirm resource-based theory as a valid predictor of why farmers write a business plan. This study may positively impact social change by providing small farming operations a way to increase sustainability and reduce the food security risks that are commonly caused by large factory farming practices.
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Barros, Mauricio Rands Coelho. "Conquering citizenship : labour relations and the new unionism in contemporary Brazil." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307419.
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Cheng, Siu Kei. "Adopting a new lifestyle : formation of a local organic food community in Hong Kong /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?HUMA%202009%20CHENGS.
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Brink, Paul William. "Resources for church planters in urban Latin America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Linker, Adam Roush Chris. "Labor's last stand dispatches from the new union movement in America /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,873.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication." Discipline: Journalism and Mass Communication; Department/School: Journalism and Mass Communication, School of.
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Biegon, Rubrick. "Reconstituting hegemony: US power and the New Left in Latin America." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654100.
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, and in stark contrast to the immediate postCold War period, Latin American politics was defined by the ascendency of leftist and centre-left forces. The emergence and consolidation of the 'New Latin Left', as this thesis terms these governments, signalled a profound challenge to the longstanding hegemony of . the United States in the Western hemisphere. In their foreign and domestic policies, the countries of the region began distancing themselves from Washington's geopolitical and economic agenda. This thesis examines the ways in which US foreign policy responded to the counter-hegemony manifested in the New Latin Left. Defining hegemony as an asymmetrical and dialectical relationship patterned by multiple and overlapping fOlIDS of power, it investigates US efforts to reconstitutJ its hegemonic position in the Americas. Building on Gramscian historical materialism, it Situates US hegemony alongside the political economy of the Post-Washington Consensus. The analysis utilises the taxonomy of power developed by Barnett and Duvall to examine the interplay of the different facets of US hegemony in Latin America, which, as the argument goes, are inextricably interlinked with on-going processes of neoliberalisation. Empirical chapters focus on: the coercive leverage of US compulsory power; as realised through. the Pentagon's resources and strategy in the region; the institutional power of the Organization of American States in relation to newly-created and Latin American-led mechanisms ofmuitilateral cooperation; the structural power of the US's multi-track free trade agenda; and the productive power expressed in the discursive construction of Latin American populisrri. By exploring the different facets of US power in the region, the thesis brings clarity to what remains an open and contested process of hegemonic reconstitution. In doing so, it contributes to critical International Relations/International Political Economy scholarship on US hegemony, US foreign policy and contemporary US-Latin American relations.
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Dempsey, Amy Jo. "The friendship of America and France : a new internationalism, 1961-1965." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369820.
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Slate, Björn Robert. "Toward new tracts for America : the house and its serial deployment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70298.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97).
This thesis is a proposition for suburban tract housing in the United States. A brief critical history of the production of suburban housing and some precedents for architecturally motivated responses to its shortcomings provide the basis from which a set of design principles is established . These principles are then applied to the (re)design of a block and a half of Levittown, NY and a prototypical pair of houses which comprise it. Working within the immutable system of land subdivision and its resultant seriality of minimal houses, the goal is to create a condition that supports habitability and flexibility of spatial, constructional and programmatic systems at all levels, from house to neighborhood .
by Björn Robert Slate.
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Arrieta, Gabriel. "New Protectionism? : The role of Free Trade Agreements in Latin America." Politai, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/92718.
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After the accession of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the recent protectionist trade environment is guarantee that the American trade policy could affect Latin American countries, due to the importance of United States as trading partner. These policies would not only affect Latin American countries, but also their main trading partners as China, that could respond with other protectionist policies, which could lead to the beginning of a domino effect, where the biggest loser could be Latin America. Taking into account the current international context, in this article it will be making policy recommendations on Free Trade Agreement issues aimed to reducing the possible impacts of American trade policies in Latin American countries (especially, considering the recent United States’ withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal).Dado el reciente ambiente comercial proteccionista suscitado tras el ingreso de Donald Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos, se presenta una gran posibilidad de que las políticas comerciales que se puedan aplicar en Estados Unidos repercutan sobre los países de América Latina, dada la importancia de Estados Unidos como socio comercial. Estas políticas no solo afectarían a los países latinoamericanos, sino también a sus principales socios comerciales (i.e. China), los cuales podrían responder con mayores políticas proteccionistas; esto podría llevar al inicio de un efecto dominó donde el gran perdedor sea América Latina. Por tal motivo, tomando en cuenta el actual contexto internacional, se buscará, en el presente artículo, realizar recomendaciones de políticas en temas de Acuerdos de Libre Comercio, orientadas a reducir los posibles impactos de las políticas comerciales norteamericanas en la región de América Latina (especialmente considerando la reciente salida del Trans-Pacific Partnership).
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Turner, Julie D. "To Make America Over: The Greenbelt Towns of the New Deal." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1270068260.
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Thurman, Heather Victoria. "Slumming America: Exploring Childhood Experiences in Nineteenth Century New York City." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1591283630830989.
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Iwasaki, Narumi. "New Directions For Kabuki Performances in America in the 21st Century." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4942.
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Transitions from the first kabuki performance abroad in Russia in 1928 to the recent performances around the world show various changes in the purpose and production of kabuki performances overseas. Kabuki has been performed as a Japanese traditional art in the U.S. for about 60 years, and the United States has seen more kabuki than any other country outside of Japan. Those tours were closely tied to national cultural policy of both Japan and the USA in the early years. The first kabuki tour to New York in 1960 helped to reestablish the U.S-Japan relationship after the war.
However, recently kabuki performances in the US have shifted into entertaining and educational events with regional rather than national import. This thesis will investigate productions of large scale Grand Kabuki (Shochiku corporation performers and management) and small scale kabuki related events in the United States, demonstrating how the purposes and the productions have changed throughout the 21st century as compared to the 20th century. The investigation will focus on (1) event management (2) program selection (3) technology (4) audiences' knowledge and experience.
After Chapter Two introduces international kabuki tours in the early stage, Chapter Three will explore the two large-scale U.S. tours in the 20th century: the first U.S. tour in 1960 and the 1990 tour which covered widest area in the USA. In the 21st century, three large scale productions came to the U.S. over six times. Heisei Nakamura-za (troupe) visited New York in 2004, 2007 and 2014. Chikamatsu-za came to three cities in 2005. Kabuki joined the Japan kabuki festival in Las Vegas in 2015 and 2016 with two different productions. Chapter Four will investigate these large-scale tours and Chapter Five will look into small scale Shochiku-related kabuki events using Portland, Oregon as a sample city. Shochiku organized kabuki events in Portland in 2002, 2009, and 2017. These events included dance performances, make-up demonstrations, and in 2017 a costume exhibition. Research on small scale events is also important to understand new ways to present kabuki abroad.
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Usman, Abdullah. "Socio-economic factors influencing farmers' adoption of a new technology : the case study on the groundwater pump irrigation in Lombok, Indonesia." Title page, Abstract and Contents only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09A/09au86.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 146-153. This thesis analyses factors influencing farmers use of groundwater pump irrigation in Lombok, Indonesia. It aims to identify the determinants of the speed of technology adoption, to identify factors affecting the levels of water use and to estimate the state of water use by comparing the actual water use to the estimated optimal water use.
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Bartley, C. M. "The accountability of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board to farmers from 1922-1985." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Political Science, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10818.
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In 1982, the New Zealand Meat Producers Board took control of all
New Zealand sheep producers' meat for export. Although the Board had
the statutory authority to control meat marketing when it was formed in
1922, this authority had not been exercised previously. The move
raised a number of questions, both with regard to the desirability of
monopoly control over export sheep meat : marketing, and the degree to
which the Board took account of producers' interests in this decision.
The stimulus for this thesis came from a well-qualified analyst of
the meat industry who commented that the one group within the meat
industry with the least understanding of, or influence upon, the Board's
decision to become the sole marketer of meat, was the producers. This
seems ironical when the Board is commonly perceived to represent
producers' interests. Thus, this thesis represents an attempt to examine
the evolving relationship between the Board representatives, and their
constituents, all sheep and beef producers of meat for export, between
1922 and 1985. In particular, it reviews the question of whether
the Meat Board's decision-making structure has provided primarily for a
representation of producers' interests and if not, why not? If not,
what other interest groups have influenced the Board?
In an attempt to answer these questions, it is argued that the Meat
Producers Board has, since its formation in 1922, developed in such a
way that it has been less able to fully represent the interests of its
constituents, meat producers. As Mascarenhas commented of producer boards
generally: 'though they derive their authority by statute, and have been established by government, they are less amenable to either the interests
of primary producers or the public interest'.
It will be argued that this development is partially the result of
the Board's evolving status as a corporate interest group where it has
had a close and continuing relationship with government. A useful
definition of corporatism as it applies to interest groups is offered by
Caws on: 'An organisation's capacity to represent its members' interests
and to discipline them as part of a negotiated interaction with other
groups'.
The Meat Board is formally recognised by government as the central
representative institution in the meat industry, but increasingly in
return, it has been required to consider a range of interests in the
industry before formulating its policy to present to government. This
is associated with the declining political influence of producers
generally, the Board's increasing commercial activities, and the
increasing political influence of certain vertically integrated meat
companies. Therefore while the formal responsibility and accountability
of the Meat Board has remained primarily to farmers, in reality they .are
only one of' a number of groups which the Board is obliged to take into
account in its dectsion-making process. Other groups with potential to
influence the Board include shipping lines, meat processors, and
exporting meat companies.
While the Meat Board's corporatist nature has strengthened since the Second World War under the predominantly National governments, recent
formal and informal challenges by the 1984 Labour government to the
concept of 'producer control ' of the various agricultural sectors, through
the producer boards, suggests the corporatist trend in the meat industry
could be in danger of breaking down.
It is not the function of this thesis to debate the political and
commercial advantages of 'producer control'. Rather it is to challenge
the common assumption of sheep and beef producers, that the mere existence
of a producer board secures their control of the meat industry.
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Dreisbach, D. L. "The New Christian Right in America and attitudes towards church and state." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371628.
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Nguyen, An Tuan. "Luggage to America: Vietnamese Intellectual and Entrepreneurial Immigrants in the New Millennium." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368535151.
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Olivares, Concha Eduardo Alberto. "Party system institutionalisation in new democracies of Latin America, Europe and Asia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/party-system-institutionalisation-in-new-democracies-of-latin-america-europe-and-asia(ac03c40e-841f-4379-9113-c4a92dced8a5).html.
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This thesis examines why party systems of some developing countries become deeper and more quickly stabilised than others. Drawing on the scholarship of party system institutionalisation in third wave democracies, the thesis argues that the field can be strengthened by looking to three factors that the current literature has taken for granted: the role of cleavages, the function of personalistic politics, and the requirement of legitimacy to assess party systems. This thesis addresses these issues and in so doing provides a novel view of how, when and why party systems in newer democracies from Latin America, Europe and Asia consolidate over time. The research considers three case studies from three regions of the world, following the most similar approach method of comparison. One country per world region has been chosen for study in detail: Chile (Latin America), Estonia (Central and Eastern Europe) and South Korea (East and Southeast Asia). They all have party systems which have become more stable over time, but they exhibit different trajectories and speeds of consolidation. The thesis uses a variety of methods. In order to infer the causes of different processes of institutionalisation from party systems’ own participants, more than 120 elite interviews were conducted in the three countries over 13 months. To evaluate the overall legitimacy of the stabilisation process, this works presents the results of almost 500 face-to-face interviews with randomly selected individuals from the population. Quantitative analyses based on secondary public opinion surveys are used to test implications and observations, and offer potential generalisations. The findings suggests: 1) Where the ideological cleavage (left-right) is a strong determinant of party support the party system is more stable, and the stronger the ideological cleavage becomes over time, the more consolidated the party system is. Here, an ideological trauma can be at the core of the limitations of the left-right scope development. 2) Party systems with personalistic leaders can consolidate, contrary to the received wisdom, if charismatic figures build their parties around programmatic lines. And 3) legitimacy should not be regarded as a dimension for the Theory of Party System Institutionalisation, because it does not contribute in any way, positive or negative, to the stability of party systems. The thesis concludes that theories of party system institutionalisation should be reconsidered with respect to cleavages, personalism and legitimacy. In so doing, the growing literature on party system institutionalisation can benefit from a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities of party systems in new democracies from different regions of the world.
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Jowitt, Claire Elaine. "Old Worlds and New Worlds : Renaissance voyages of discovery." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296146.
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Walz, Marta E. "A new war cry : a rhetorical analysis of the Native American social movement." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864929.
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Chapter one began with an introduction to the Native American social movement. The history of relations between the United States and the Native Americans was given, as well as a description of the origins of the Native American social movement. A literature review of communication studies was given which detailed the contributions of Randall Lake to the understanding of Native American rhetoric and the Native concept of time, along with the contributions of Richard Morris, Philip Wander, and Gerry Philipsen. Two research questions were presented dealing with the rhetorical confrontation of the movement and the success of the movement since 1969.Chapter Two detailed the functional approach to social movements schema that was developed by Charles Stewart, Craig Smith, and Roger Denton. Stewart et al. identify five functions that must be fulfilled in order for a social movement to exist and succeed. The functions are: 1) transforming perceptions of history, 2) altering perceptions of society, 3) prescribing courses of action, 4) mobilizing for action, and 5) sustaining the social movement.Chapter Three contains analysis of the four representative events of the progress of the NativeAmerican movement since 1969. The four events are: 1) the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz, 2) the 1973 takeover of wounded Knee, 3) the 100 year anniversary observance of the Wounded Knee massacre, and 4) the protests surrounding the celebration of the Columbus Day quincentennial.Chapter Four contains the summary and conclusions drawn from the analysis of the four events. The findings in terms of the research questions are that the movement has deemphasized the confrontational nature of its activities and this deemphasis has contributed significantly to the movement's newfound successes in the 1980s and 1990s.Department of Speech Communication
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Thompson, Gregory W. "Characteristics and implications of integrating science in secondary agricultural education programs /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9823332.
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Harris, Jonathan. "The New Deal Arts Projects : a critical revision : constructing the 'national-popular' in New Deal America 1935-1943." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1986. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/10180/.
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The thesis is an analysis of the creation, operation and eventual ending of the Federal Art Project, inaugurated by The United States Government in 1935. It situates the Project in the context of the Great Depression and the provision of social security for the American people. Through an extensive reading of policy statements, press releases and administrative directives produced by the staff and artists of the Federal Art Project, the thesis accounts for the functions served by the Community Art Centre programme, the mural projects and the Index Of American Design. It argues that these operations of the Federal Art Project were intended to construct a coherent national identity in the United States and assert the role of the Government in ordering the lives of the people. The thesis presents an interpretation of the political context within which the Federal Art Project became discredited in the late 1930s and was abolished during the Second World War. Though the experiment of the Federal Art Project was not repeated) the thesis argues finally that the role of the State in the culture of twentieth century American society has developed in a number of ways smnce the 1930s. In contrast to existing work on the Federal Art Project, this thesis concentrates on the particular nature of the State in America, rather than on the employment of artists or the relation of the art to general histories of twentieth century American culture.
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Cutterham, Thomas G. "Gentlemen revolutionaries : power and justice in the new American Republic, 1781-1787." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bbaf0e32-45f5-4f13-8688-ffd86968fe44.
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In the aftermath of the American revolution, elites sought to defend their power and status against newly empowered popular governments and egalitarian demands. They developed new discursive and political strategies, transforming pre-revolutionary ideas about authority and legitimacy, moving from traditional forms of hierarchy based on deference and allegiance, towards a structure of power relations based on the inviolability of property and contractual rights. A new American ruling class began to constitute itself through these strategies and ideas during the 1780s, replacing structures of British imperial rule. It did so in response to threats from popular and (white male) egalitarian politics—that is, class struggle and class formation drove each other. Both, in turn, generated identities and ideologies that were central to the development of capitalist ideology in the following century. This thesis gives an account of that process from the perspective of a variety of American elites, focusing on the fragmented and contradictory nature of elite discourse and strategy as well as on the emergence of commonalities and the role of class interests. It deals with the formation and early controversy around the Society of the Cincinnati; with the development and debate over new conceptions of public education; with the elaboration of various legal and discursive mechanisms for the defence of property rights; with the interrelated roles of land claims, banking, corporations, and the rights of contract; and with the elite sense of the dual threat posed both by state legislative democracy (tyranny) and by rural insurrection (anarchy). It also assesses the role of the 1787 constitutional convention within this process, as a radical move that can be seen as both a culmination and a break from prior elite strategy.
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Earle, Rebecca. "The restoration and fall of royal government in New Granada, 1815-1820." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/104927/.
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This thesis studies Spain’s failure to halt the revolution which led to Colombia’s independence in 1822. After Napoleon’s occupation of the Spanish peninsula in 1808, most of Spain’s South American colonies removed themselves from European control and functioned as sovereign states. The thesis explores, first, the activities of royalists in the Viceroyalty of New Granada during this period. It then turns to events after 1815. In that year, following the defeat of Napoleon, Spain’s restored monarchy despatched a substantial army to Venezuela and New Granada, in an effort to return the viceroyalty to Spanish control. This expedition, while initially successful, failed ignominiously in its task. The thesis examines the reasons for Spain’s defeat, which was more the result of Spanish error than Colombian patriotism. To begin with, Spain’s policies for solving the American problem suffered from several fundamental defects. All attempts at ending the American insurgencies were based on an inadequate understanding of American realities. Moreover, the only policy to which Spain committed itself wholeheartedly, namely military reconquest, was seen by many as merely exacerbating the problem, and was further restricted by financial considerations. Spain thus lacked a coherent policy for counter-revolution, and failed to carry through those plans it succeeded in putting into operation. New Granada saw the effects of this non-policy. Colonial officials there, like officials in Spain, disagreed profoundly in their proposed cures for the insurgency. Furthermore, mutual distrust between members of the civil administration and the royalist army at times overshadowed efforts to defeat the insurgents. Disagreement over policy was but one strand of the royalist crisis in New Granada. Equally serious was the chronic shortage of money suffered by both the army and the civilian administration. Their continual demands for food, funding and supplies wore away Neogranadans’ initial support for Spain’s reconquest, as did the arrogant and offensive behaviour of royalist troops. Perennially short of cash, the army and the administration relied on forced loans and confiscation to keep afloat. These proved an unstable base for a reimposition of Spanish control. The effect was that the inhabitants of New Granada, most of whom had welcomed the royalist army in 1816, by 1819 gave enthusiastic support to Simón Bolivar’s campaign against Spain’s General Morillo. The thesis examines these issues, setting them in the context of Spain’s effort to restore its authority in New Granada. It then charts the consequent collapse of royal government from 1819 to 1822. It concludes with an assessment of the Spanish response to the loss of the American colonies.
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Scroop, Daniel Mark. "Jim Farley, the Democratic Party and American politics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365516.
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Witham, Nicholas David. "After the New Left : U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14112/.
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After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to rethink the question of the relationship between radical culture and activist politics.
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Van, Dyck Brandon Philip. "The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11221.
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Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative organization and aggregating the interests of powerful societal groups. Yet we continue to know relatively little about the conditions under which strong parties form. The dominant theories of party-building are mostly based on historical studies of the United States and Western European countries, almost all of which developed stable party systems. Drawing on this literature, a segment of the early scholarship on party-building in third-wave democracies optimistically took "party development" for granted, assuming that parties would follow from democracy, cleavages, or certain electoral rules. Yet party-building outcomes in third-wave democracies fell short of scholars' initial, optimistic expectations. In many third-wave polities, social cleavages, attempts at electoral engineering, and decades of democratic competition did not produce durable parties. On the other hand, in numerous third-wave democracies, new political parties did take root. What accounts for the variation in party-building outcomes observed across the developing world? More generally, under what conditions does party-building succeed?Government
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Williams, Grant Tank. "Re-Imagining America : rural futurism, speculative fiction, And reckoning with a new era." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108954.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156).
At the close of 2016, the United States finds itself deeply fractured, caught between clinging to a nostalgic past and pushing for progressive possibility. As we stand divided, a set of emerging great challenges threaten to rapidly change the world as we know. At such a juncture, I argue that the practice of imagination can help us to break out of habitual thinking and routine practice to see our challenges, and ourselves within them, more fully and clearly. By imagining alternative futures, and communicating them to a broader audience through fiction, I propose we may better understand, collectively, how to enact our agency in the present to address these challenges head-on. In this thesis, I argue for the practice of imagination through the lenses of three great challenges that we face as a nation: politics, the Anthropocene, and a culture of white supremacy. In an effort to identify and bridge the divides that exist within our current political and cultural moment, I propose a 'rural futurism' that centers the experiences, settings, and lives of rural America in imagined futures. I then operationalize the concept of 'rural futurism' on two levels; 1) the realizable potential of local democratic institutions, the rural electric cooperatives, as sites for democratic discourse and self-determination, and 2) speculative futures, communicated through fictional narratives, as a tool for developing critical consciousness in addressing the three great challenges imperative to re-imagining America. I present eight speculative fiction stories of alternative rural futures set in the American south to 'test' the concept of 'rural futurism' as a tool for addressing these challenges. The stories were reviewed by a focus group of southern writers and organizers, who provide the analysis, as well as my personal evaluation, of the stories effectiveness in addressing the challenges described and their resonance with the experience and context of the rural American south.
by Grant Tank Williams.
M.C.P.
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Leshnak, Shelby. "The New Normal: An Examination of Home Working Environments in Post-Pandemic America." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623241499100821.
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Garland, Philip. "Still hoping for separate and unequal : new perspectives on racial attitudes in America /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Nemeth, Jackson R. "New Wave of Chinese Returnees: Perspectives of Chinese Students Returning to China from Study in the U.S. on Return Incentives and New Economic Opportunity." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1560382192249461.
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Solano, Brian J. "A new United Nations for a new era security, development, and the 'regional solution' (the case of Latin America)." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FSolano.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Berger, Marcos (Mark T.) Second Reader: Greenshields, Brian. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: United Nations, Security, Development, Nation-State, Regionalism, Regional Organizations, International Relations Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82). Also available in print.
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Khan, Muhammad Azeem. "Farmers' objectives and the choice of new crops in the irrigated farming systems of Pakistan's Punjab." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266194.
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Sorensen, Julie. "Social marketing for injury prevention : changing risk perceptions and safety-related behaviors among New York farmers." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Univ, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-18261.
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