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Subjectivities of risk and environmental uncertainty : residents, regulatory agencies, and corporate interests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
they were fearful of the potential for a large-scale disaster and for their ongoing health and safety. The West Lake Landfill, thus, was an important context for investigating shifts in the framing and contestations of risks through time, as well...
Combating nuclear power : discourses of justice, the anti-nuclear power struggle for energy justice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
In the present study, I critically analyze the anti-nuclear power movement (or the movement for a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy future) in the U.S. using an environmental justice framework. I aim to explore how different conceptualizations...
Interest group activity and the political process : examining the origins of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The goal of this research was to identify whose interests were served in the creation of the Drug Price Competition and Term Patent Restoration Act of 1984, a health...
Politics of coalition at Standing Rock
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My research examines the politics of coalition surrounding the 2016-17 Standing Rock movement, led by Oceti Sakowin Tribal members, on the borders of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to stop the construction ...
Feeding the student body: Insecurity and inequality among college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
questions regarding the consequences of food insecurity for this population: How does food insecurity impact college students’ health and social life? What social mechanisms may help explain how food insecurity operates to impact health outcomes? To answer...
Ars moriendi as social reality : articulation of the good death in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Death and dying are often theorized as micro-level processes, focusing on the experience of the death process from the perspective of the dying, or in the context of grief and psychological healing on the part of the ...
"Rape is a part of life where I live" the normalization of girl-child sexual abuse in Jamaica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This research focused on understanding the role of institutions, social and cultural factors, and women's socio-economic status in (re)producing and perpetuating the sexual abuse of girls in Jamaica. Using an interpretive ...
From communist to capitalist industrial policy : policy-making during late socialism, transition and EU capitalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, the countries from the former communist bloc embarked on a journey to market capitalism and democracy. Studying Bulgarian industrial policy over a period of 30 years, I ...
Structural foundations, triggering events, and facilitative contingency : the social origins of California’s Compassionate Use Act of 1996
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Currently in the United States there is a nationwide legislative movement to legalize marijuana for persons with certain diagnosable diseases. Despite ...
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 ...
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 ...
The ethical resister's last resort : news coverage over the allegations of a national security whistleblower
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
An analysis of news representations of Edmonds' allegations finds that her allegations of systemic iniquities were almost completely ignored. Of the stories that did represent her allegations in terms of systemic problems, ...
Systemic preservation and political legitimation : a critical examination of the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] While researchers in economics, history of law, and business administration have conducted extensive research into the origins of the Sherman Antitrust ...
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 ...
Community clearcutting and the enigma of truth: a historical case study in urban renewal, structural violence and cultural trauma in Columbia, MO
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
American cities are systems of complex organisms shaped by many forces. How cities and towns are organized, planned, and developed bears the fingerprint [s] of planners and policymakers who have shaped them. At the root ...
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 ...
My year pooping in a bucket : lifestyle, cultural, and social movements in the "node" at Dancing Rabbit ecovillage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
What happens between the most visible aspects of social movements? When protestors put down their signs, petitioners hang up their clipboards, and movement organizations contract, there are several theories about what ...
Emerging faith boundaries : bridge-building, inclusion, and the emerging church movement in America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This is a study of a nascent Christian movement called the Emerging Church Movement in America. The movement seeks to build relational bridges with other faiths, and to be inclusive of people marginalized along lines of ...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study highlights the theoretical usefulness of viewing domestic violence shelters through the conceptual framework of border-crossing ...