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"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

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Little, Peter C.

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This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...

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-2003 was invaluable. Professors in the Anthropology Department, especially Deborah Elliston, Ann
Forging new paths : life course transitions for American women and their families

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Schmiege, Cynthia J.

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Families of remarriage constitute a growing number of American families. The spiraling divorce rate of the 1970s was accompanied by a concomitant increase in the number of remarriages. Forty percent of American families today contain at least one spouse that has been previously married, thus studying relationships within families of...

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I have seen Crater Lake, The Dalles, Kah-ne-tah and other Oregon sights. Kathy's mother, Mary