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Narrative power: social control in ISLs and group homes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Narrative power is used in residential settings providing care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a tool of social control. Framing narratives, stories and accounts influencing the accepted ...
When they see us: racial criminalization, racial stigma, and identity in a Midwest college town
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Racial stigma and racial criminalization have been centralizing pillars of the construction of Blackness in the United States. Taking such systemic injustice and racism as a given, then question then becomes how these ...
A child sentenced to serve life without a mother : the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program and incarcerated women's mothering strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this research is to understand the emotional and physical impacts a mother's incarceration has on her children and to closely examine ...
Understanding space in an ordinary city
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
In this dissertation, I emphasize the ordinary city (Robinson, 2006) as a place for building social justice, a place of possibility, and a place where we can see the tensions and frictions (Tsing, 2004) between the stability ...
Martial citizenship : firearms, identity, and masculinity in a public militia group
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This project is a study of the ways in the participants in a public militia group organize and present positive identities in everyday talk and storytelling. This study situates their activities within a larger historical ...