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Creator:: Nordlander, Amy Nastrom
Abstract:: Sweden's changing demographics, due to recent migrations in the last fifty years, have affected the Swedish educational system and Sweden's language policy. Funding for special education in Sweden regarding its minority populations is on the decline. Previous forced linguistic assimilation has occurred in Sweden among the Finnish population to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 'racial" atmosphere in Sweden for decades. Based on a factor analysis performed in 1993 by Lange and

Creator:: Olson, Elizabeth
Abstract:: In Oregon, the effects of climate change on agriculture are already being felt. In the Northwest, climate change impacts agricultural pest pressure, especially insects, whose life cycles are tied directly to weather and climate. The goal of this research was to record and analyze Oregon fruit and vegetable farmers’ relationships...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: understanding and connectedness in the context of a changing climate. In Chapter 5 of Anna L. Tsing’s

Creator:: Loewenstern, Eli
Abstract:: This thesis examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on farms in the Willamette Valley. Using semi-structured interviews, this study analyzes the economic and social challenges created by the pandemic and the adaptation strategies farmers employed to build resilience within the food system. This study found that the farmers experienced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
Abstract:: This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Wheaton-Abraham, Jyl M.
Abstract:: There is a fundamental distortion in our understanding of Native people, especially Native women. This distortion is rooted in imperialism and the colonization of Native lands and has created a dominant/subordinate relationship between Non-Native/Native people. Anthropological life history research has traditionally reflected this relationship. As a Native woman, the author...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Anthropological Research L. Langness’ book, The Life History in Anthropological Research is an essential text

Creator:: Abel, Talya Shuler
Abstract:: Food insecurity and hunger have become persistent problems resulting from an increase in impoverished segments of populations worldwide. For those not affected, the problem seems unnoticeable – it is happening somewhere else far away from them. However, in the United States, the number of people living below the poverty level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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