Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Jackson, Shannon M."
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Containment in the City: Boundaries, Bodies, and the Politics of Urban Space
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)The organization of urban space accommodating the rapid movement of the automobile facilitates a kind of forgetting, through the act of driving, and creates a sense of containment, through the built environment itself. ... -
Dance as a Community of Practice: Exploring Dance Groups in the Kansas City Area through the Lifespan
(2015-08-04)This dissertation examines the embodied cultural practice of dance among several groups in the Kansas City area. The dance groups were studied as Communities of Practice (CoP), as outlined in the Lave-Wenger model of ... -
Neo-paganism: ritual forged by the Burning Times
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-10)The Burning Times has been of interest to both scholars and practitioners alike over the past few decades. The interest typically focuses on those that died and the discrepancy of the number of those who perished. While ... -
The Impact of COVID-19 on Care Work and Paid Work in the United States
(2022)Informed by disaster literature, the current study offers a quantitative, social structural analysis that reveals the inadequacy of the market to provide care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2021. This thesis focuses ...