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  • Chinese and International Engineers on the Belt and Road: Culture, Knowledge and Lives on a Renewable Energy Project

    Creator:
    Zhuo, Chen
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    Energy issues are becoming one of the most pressing topics in today's political and cultural landscape, particularly in the midst of the climate crisis. Globally, a variety of renewable energy projects are under development to meet energy demand without continuing to overburden the natural environment of our planet, with profound...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chen Zhuo for the

  • Intercultural Competence and Cross-Cultural Co-Teaching: Exploring Native English-Speaker Experiences in Taiwan

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    Pike, Jessie L.
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    The increasing focus on internationalization in Taiwan’s language-in-education policy has expanded the use of cross-cultural co-teaching pairs consisting of a native English-speaking teacher and a local non-native English-speaking teacher. While the model holds great potential for combining unique strengths, navigating cross-cultural communication in these co-teaching collaborations can be complex. This...
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    grateful to my committee members, Elizabeth Root, Shaozeng Zhang, and John Edwards, for their support and

  • Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

    Creator:
    Sarreal, Jennifer T.
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    Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as Ecstatic Dance. This thesis investigates the myriad of pathways dancers in the Ecstatic Dance communities of Western Oregon experience movement-induced altered states of consciousness. A secondary aim was to provide a more visually and ethnographically accessible dance annotation system...
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    my committee of Dr. Shaozeng Zhang, Dr. Liddy Detar and Dr. David Bernell for taking interest in

  • Self-made women of China : experiences in small-scale entrepreneurship

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    Searles, Mackenzie L.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the lived experiences of women small-scale entrepreneurs in Qingdao, China by placing their collective experiences within relevant social and economic frameworks. This study, conducted in 2011 over a six-month period, applies an ethnographic approach based in modified grounded theory to bring together...
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    ...................................................................................... 44 Chen Xin: Entrepreneurship and Work in Marriage

  • Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

    Creator:
    Isono, Maho
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    There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
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    , I am thankful to my best Singaporean friend, Mob Heng, who gave me a moral support and contributed

  • Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

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    Galipeau, Brendan A.
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    This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
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    provided by Zhang Yuebao of Yunnan University, as well as my friend and loyal trekking buddy Ashu; I had

  • Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farms in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Loewenstern, Eli
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    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...
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  • (Re)-conceiving birthing spaces in India : exploring NGO promotion of institutional delivery in Rajasthan, India

    Creator:
    Price, Sara
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    In India, globalized flows of bio-medical discourse, practices and technologies are reshaping the field of reproductive healthcare, and the performance of childbirth more specifically. These projects aim to produce institutional delivery rooms that are "safe and modernized" by equating the utilization of westernized, obstetric techniques for managing delivery with better...
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  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

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    Bullock, Claude George, III
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    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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  • A comparative study of Chinese and American youth culture

    Creator:
    Luo, Laiou
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    The purpose of this study was to explore American and Chinese college student underlying cultural assumptions, which influence their perceptions and behaviors in various domains of life. The objectives of this study were to: (a) To generate timely knowledge of Chinese and American youth's cultural images, meanings, and frame of...
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    values. Two of the bestsellers in 1994 in China, Zhang Xiaowu and Li Zhongxiao's I work as a lawyer in