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Competitive development: economic development and the inquiry into power relations in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Economic development policy is an important topic for legislatures across the country. The contemporary trend of economic development policy has spread throughout the country in response to the political and economic changes of the last 30 years. A...
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 ...
The sacred and the urban : the case for social-justice gentrifiers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Building on research of both social movements and urban sociology, this study extends three core proposals: 1) that groups of "social-justice gentrifiers" have in recent decades purposely and collectively settled in urban ...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
-political and economic structures that may enable shelter residents to embark on emancipatory exit trajectories converts the agency utilized to escape violent homes into forms that are excessive....
Resistance to the dominant economic discourses : making sense of the economy from a working-class neighborhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study explores the way that working-class people contest dominant economic discourses and how they develop alternative explanations for their economic situation. Based on qualitative interviews, participant observation, and archival research...
Academic and white working class perceptions of the economic aspects of white privilege
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
One job of social scientists is to parse out partial knowledge from every relevant social location in order to present a structural interpretation of social phenomena. A textual and content analysis was performed on both ...
Distance and disparity: social disadvantage and the distribution of hazardous waste in America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Since the original studies of environmental discrimination were completed in the early 1980s, many scholars have measured disproportionate proximity ...
Narrative power: social control in ISLs and group homes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
and control the behavior of people in these settings. Individualized Supported Living arrangements (ISLs) and group homes are settings where the social role of a client, a person with intellectual and developmental disabilities receiving support...
"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 phenomenology and a...
Ars moriendi as social reality : articulation of the good death in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
explores ars moriendi, or the good death, as a process enmeshed within the macro-structural forces of political, religious, economic, and social institutions. Through these discrete case studies, the dying and the bereaved are recentered as active agents...
Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Much of the literature on single motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class ...
The lost cause of Southern Country Club : an ethnographic study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
that continues to whether economic, political, and cultural changes until present day. The data includes a membership survey, 28 interviews, content analysis of archival documents, and a year of participant observation. In 1927 there were 5,500 country clubs...
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 ...
Reaching union families: collective identity, union advantages and the American ethos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
to make it on their own in American society, there is also a tendency to articulate a moderate sense of collective identity and the importance of structural constraints on economic opportunity....
Recent Jewish immigration to the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
on the subject and was available here, both the good and the bad, the scientific and the purely sentimental, and to separate the wheat from the chaff of this material in order to arrive at a rational conclusion regarding this vast subject. The writer was guided...
Poverty and relief among Negroes of St. Louis, Missouri as indicated by the work of the philanthropic agencies of the city
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 2: "This monograph is an attempt to present the poverty situation as found among negroes of St. Louis by the philanthropic agencies of the city; to give an idea of the work done by these agencies to relieve ...
Combating nuclear power : discourses of justice, the anti-nuclear power struggle for energy justice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
." The identification of general principles of energy justice, similar to the Principles of Environmental Justice, could potentially guide future energy policy and energy systems to ensure social and environmental justice are maximized....
Building Wal-Mart with resistance: community political action against a new Wal-Mart supercenter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
A discussion of the three dimensions of power as they play out in the development arena sets the stage for understanding a local social movement within a specific political context. Through the use of face to face interviews ...
The college destinations of black students : the influence of college-going culture in secondary schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Black students' college enrollment has increased considerably over the past few decades. Higher enrollment has not translated into an increased representation of Black students across all institutional types as community ...
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 ...