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  • Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

    Creator:
    Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.
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    Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kristen L. Hannigan-Luther for the

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

    Creator:
    Caplan, Shannon
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    . Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger The

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

    Creator:
    Byrd, Janette
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Nancy R. Rosenberger The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been

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

    Creator:
    D'Alessandro, Erica
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Nancy Rosenberger Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative

  • Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

    Creator:
    Kubein, Adele M.
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee

  • Japanese animation in America and its fans

    Creator:
    Davis, Jesse Christian
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    This research covers Japanese animation and its popularity in the United States. It focuses on hardcore fans for whom this animation has become part of their lives. Using interviews of self-identified anime fans, this research explores how anime fandom has become a part of American life despite originating in a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: Nancy R. Rosenberger This research covers Japanese animation and its popularity in the

  • Mothers and Work: Women's Perceptions in Contemporary Japanese Society

    Creator:
    Yoshizaki, Kimiyo
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    This paper investigates certain women's problems in contemporary Japan. Historically, Japanese believed ideal women fit in the stereotype of "Good wife, Wise mother." Japanese women's main roles were regarded as wife and mother. Especially, motherhood was the main responsibility of women. However, the advance of industry, technology, and methods of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Nancy Rosenberger, Dr. Joan Gross, Dr. Susan Shaw, and Dr. Anita Helle. Especially, I would like to

  • Going somewhere or getting stuck : transitions to adulthood in rural Oregon

    Creator:
    Cunningham, Sarah E.
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    This dissertation explores the real world problem of rural youth out-migration and finds that the central problem is one of persistent class difference in this rural Oregon town. The research that informs this dissertation was conducted in a rural community of approximately 2300 residents in Eastern Oregon, here called Talltown....
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    Dissertation
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    : ____________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This dissertation explores the real world problem of rural youth out

  • Culturally appropriate supermarket nutrition education for Mexican-American families

    Creator:
    Saldana, Tina Marie
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Joan Gross and Professor Nancy Bryant, your support each step of the way has been greatly appreciated

  • Neo-Ottoman perspectives : Turkish identity and culinary culture in a sociopolitical context

    Creator:
    Kinoğlu, Sera D.
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    As Turkey's cultural and economic climate has experienced dramatic shifts in accordance with its changing role in global society, a neo-Ottoman movement has taken root in recent years which can offer insight into the new Turkish identity. This sociopolitical movement captures a diverse set of cultural attributes through a contemporary...
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    Masters Thesis
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    assistance and guidance with my IRB preparation. And to committee member Dr. Nancy Rosenberger, for