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  • Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

    Creator:
    Donckers, Jana L.
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    As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    thank Dr. Courtland Smith and Dr. Joan Gross of the Anthropology Department, Dr. Richard Clinton of the

  • 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...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    .................................................................................................................. 2 Portland in Black and White

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

    Creator:
    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the connection the city, and to a lesser extent this is true of neighboring Eugene, has to the

  • 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

  • Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

    Creator:
    Chen, Roger L.
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    The success of NIKE, Inc. is deemed miracle by professionals on both Wall Street and Madison Avenue. Research done in the past tends to credit the growth of NIKE, Inc. to its marketing strategies. By placing the achievement of the company in the postmodern context, this study analyzes the cultural...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Massachusetts. In the summer of 1968, they opened a new BRS store in Eugene, and Bob Woodell, a paralyzed

  • Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Klingensmith, Thomas S.
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    This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (Robbins 2008). Richard Robbins also talks about the other half of the commodification of food during

  • "No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

    Creator:
    Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
    Abstract:
    Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    their own self worth, they must see and understand that they do not have to assimilate into white women

  • Women Farmers and Ranchers and Agricultural Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection

    Creator:
    Filan, Trina Robin
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    This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices. The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
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    Masters Thesis
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    inclination that many white, middle class, educated environmentalists seem to have; I am all of these things

  • Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

    Creator:
    Saylor, Kirsten N.
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    The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

    Creator:
    Piquette, Daniel S.
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    An overarching explanation for environmental degradation has been humans' disconnection from the natural world. Utilizing Whiteheadian theory, I offer that there is no disconnection. Rather, I propose that there is a dearth of relational acknowledgement. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism and modern science led to an illusory belief that...
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    – John O’Neill…………………… 29 Two B: Weak Anthropocentrism – Eugene Hargrove……………………... 32 Two C