Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Larsen, Soren C. (Soren Christiansen)"
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An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Trail spaces have been depicted many ways but no other approach offers the thorough and inclusive qualities of actor-network theory. In this analysis of the Arizona Trail, actor-network theory evinces the relationships ... -
Emancipation of education through place
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The purpose of education is to prepare students to address imperative concerns that face our communities and planet. Many ways exist to address these pressing issues we are confronted with. Regardless of what subjects ... -
Evoking landscape practices through ethnographic fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Landscape has long been of central concern to cultural geography. Historically, the conceptualization of landscape rested on discursive binaries of subject-object, culture-nature, and self-other. Recent developments in ... -
Finding their place in pictures : reflecting on images of international women's lives in State College, PA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The purpose of the study was to learn about State College, Pennsylvania through the lens of immigrant and international women, and explore the range of emotions they experience in difference places. Participants identified ... -
Fountains in a desert : place-making and collective action in Snake Valley, Great Basin against southern Nevada water authority's groundwater development project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis explores how a diverse coalition of rural residents, ranchers, Native American tribes, and environmental activists -- many of them united under the grassroots organization known as the Great Basin Water Network ... -
From box suppers and card games to vineyards and viewscapes : community discourse in the exurban American west
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Generalizing to the process of creating meaning amid exurbanization, this study considers how residents of Fremont County, Colorado have constructed community meaning as amenity-driven migration has given rise to local ... -
Gentrification through the eyes (and lenses) of Kansas City residents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Gentrification is a process where the middle class migrates to decaying or predominately poor areas of a city and changes the landscape. Since the phenomenon was first recognized in the 1960s in London, it has spread to ... -
The geography of protest at the School of the Americas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)One does not need to look far for examples of protest and social unrest in the history of the United States. Segments of the population fervently opposed the Second World War and the Vietnam War, and, in another time, ... -
Iron, wine, and a woman named Lucy : landscapes of memory in St. James, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The rural community of St. James, Missouri has experienced moderate growth in recent times. The town's location offers both opportunities for and obstacles to economic and human development, and its history provides a ... -
Perforated sovereignty : the geopolitical dilemma of Aegean hydrocarbons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)The Aegean Sea, as an integral portion of the Mediterranean Sea, has always been a region endowed with special significance. Either as a familiar route of trade or culture, or as a fault-line between hostile civilizations ...