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This thesis examines temporal and spatial process that are reproduced and challenged through the hybrid cultural construction, Tribal Style Dance. It also examines how Tribal Style dancers use two embodied devices, signification and...
For seventy-five years tobacco farmers and processors in a small district along the Florida-Georgia boundary produced shade tobacco, a specialty leaf used as the outer wrapper of premium cigars. Then, within a period of a few years, the...
The United States has long had traditions of both religious and secular millenarian anticipation as well as violent rebellions against political authority. From the Cold War forward, these formerly separate aspects of American culture...
Throughout history and all over the world, dolphins have been welcomed across the human-animal boundary as an ethical subject fit for human companionship. The dolphin's charismatic status has led to a burgeoning swim-with-dolphins...
Taiwanese identity has been defined, redefined and challenged at various spatial scales. At the local level, the renaming of streets in Taiwan after 1949 reflected the nationalist identity that was manifested in the Kuomintang (KMT)....
Urban sprawl is a descriptive term of art commonly referring to low density, scattered development extending out from cities. Although many studies have examined the causes, costs, and solutions to sprawl, consensus on what to do about...
The question of who is Puerto Rican is constantly raised in Puerto Rico as much as within the diaspora. Historically, the Puerto Rican diaspora has concentrated in New York, New Jersey, and other northeastern and midwestern states....
Environmental justice studies tend to deemphasize political economic processes, social relations between various social groups, scale and the social constructions of environmental issues which hide environmental injustice. Political...
This research examines the geographical manifestations of the debates in 2002 over adding sexual orientation antidiscrimination protections within three Florida communities: Miami-Dade County, the City of Orlando, and Collier County....
In this dissertation I examine the United States as a space of hunger. While geographers have analyzed hunger in other places around the world, especially in the Third World, they have generally neglected to explain its occurrence in the...
This dissertation examines Turkish-American identity formations in the United States. Through a case study based in the New York metropolitan area, this study explores how the contestation and negotiation of Turkish ethnicity and Turkish...
This dissertation examines the relationships between the state and reterritorialization of social life by examining the role transborder regions, commonly known as Euroregions, play in the reterritorialization of the international state...
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