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The Accessible Foodscape: Vulnerable Populations, Policy, and Navigating Complex Strategies

Creator:: Caplan, Shannon
Abstract:: The act of accessing food is embedded within various systems of power. This dissertation problematizes our understanding of food access for vulnerable populations by making explicit ways that social constructions, including power, affect food access for vulnerable populations. This is accomplished across three manuscripts. The first manuscript presents textual analysis...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger The

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Creator:: Montañez, Morgan
Abstract:: The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low

Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

Creator:: Byrd, Janette
Abstract:: The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been examined from multiple perspectives and disciplines in an attempt to improve child nutrition outcomes, to support local and national agriculture, and increase sustainability practices. There is little qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Nancy R. Rosenberger The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been

Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

Creator:: Kubein, Adele M.
Abstract:: This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee communities and particularly their businesses to gentrification and community vitality in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The data indicates that gentrification is not a linear process of displacement of African Americans by Whites seeking affordable housing and new frontiers, but rather is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:: Visconti, Lauren A.
Abstract:: Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger Projected to reach one million people next year, international

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Creator:: D'Alessandro, Erica
Abstract:: Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Nancy Rosenberger Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative

Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

Creator:: Goetz, Kathryn W.
Abstract:: Violence within marital dyads is a problem with deep historic roots in American culture. Although the family is idealized as a safe and loving haven from a cruel world, this ideal is often not achieved by many couples. This study develops an integrated theoretical perspective that combines feminist theory and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Approved: Redacted for Privacy Nancy enberger U. Violence within marital dyads is a problem with deep

Intercultural and interpersonal communication between Japanese and American students in their residence halls

Creator:: Ruby, Fumiko Nakamura
Abstract:: There are more Japanese people coming to the United States than ever before. Increasing numbers of problems and conflicts are occurring between the Americans (hosts) and Japanese (guests). Many scholars have stated that there is a distinct difference of communication patterns between Americans and Japanese. The Asia University American Program...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: completion of this thesis. Special thanks are due to my committee members: Dr. Nancy Rosenberger, Dr. Court

Perception and action : an analysis on communication between U.S. sponsorship and Russian speaking immigrants

Creator:: Johnston, Candace G.
Abstract:: The problems of Russian speaking refugees from the Ukraine region of the former Soviet Union are the basis for ethnographic inquiry and the delineation of the role of voluntary agencies who assist their resettlement in Portland, Oregon. Interpretive methods are the foundation for an analysis of Ukrainians' perceptions of problems...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Nancy Rosenberger The problems of Russian speaking refugees from the Ukraine region of

Interpretations of reality : cross-cultural encounters of Asian students with healthcare at Oregon State University

Creator:: Barclay, Julie Hanson
Abstract:: Enrollments of international students have increased dramatically in the last several decades. The delivery of health care to these students has become a topic of study for college health care providers and medical researchers across the country. The purpose of this study was to explore how Asian international students cope...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Privacy Redacted for Privacy Acknowledgments I would like to thank Dr. Nancy Rosenberger and Dr

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Accessible Foodscape: Vulnerable Populations, Policy, and Navigating Complex Strategies

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

Intercultural and interpersonal communication between Japanese and American students in their residence halls

Perception and action : an analysis on communication between U.S. sponsorship and Russian speaking immigrants

Interpretations of reality : cross-cultural encounters of Asian students with healthcare at Oregon State University

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