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Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

Creator:: Ocana, Juan Carlos
Abstract:: This thesis presents a discussion of the main materialistic theories proposed to explain the process of development among the indigenous population of Latin America. Four theoretical approaches are presented and discussed. The first one deals with the social group referred to as peasants. The second one explains the process of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Juan Carlos Ocaña for the degree

Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

Creator:: Hammer, Michaela
Abstract:: After decades of expert-based modernization efforts that have had profound negative impacts on human and environmental health, Ecuador is currently pursuing a rights-based, participatory development paradigm known as sumak kawsay or "the good life". Despite its promises of inclusion and interculturality, this approach continues to rely on highly trained specialists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Yoga Philosophy as a Framework for Ethical Yoga Tourism: Avoiding Harm and Traveling Responsibly in the Era of the Anthropocene

Creator:: Mylan, Jessica A.
Abstract:: Contemporary spiritual tourism impacts many stakeholders including environmental ecosystems, tourists, tourist operators, and community members. Increasingly, in the era of the Anthropocene, there is a need for ethical guidance to inform spiritual tourism so as to mitigate social injustice and environmental degradation. This research project investigates the potential for the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: they cultivated for me in Costa Rica. Spring Creek Project and Shotpouch Creek, without you I

The Feminist Itinerant School: A Feminist Pedagogical Approach to Curriculum Transformation for Public School Teachers in Brazil

Creator:: Melchor, Carolina R.
Abstract:: This Thesis examines Brazil’s political and historical context to explore and understand the logics behind the high rates of violence in our society. It focuses in education as one of our main vehicles of disseminating knowledge and therefore culture, language and values that might be contributing and perpetuating sexism, racism,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , against communism, to our freedom, against the Foro de São Paulo and in the memory coronel Carlos

A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

Creator:: Yensen, Arthur Eric
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to find means of separating the morphologically similar species of North American Trixagus and to bring together information on Trixagus and Pactopus. A key to separate the world's eight genera of extant Throscidae is presented for the first time. A key to the five species of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Technology, and Society in Latin America, ed. Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes

Ni de aquí ni de alla : A Mythohistoriography of Growing Up In-Between

Creator:: López, Andrés C.
Abstract:: Stories of the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960 until 1996, have often focused on only encapsulating the violence indigenous people experienced at the hands of the Guatemalan government and military. Although these stories contributed to the many civil rights organizing and calls for justice that followed, these types...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 6 Ibid. 7 Ibid., 100. 8 Carlos Barrios, Ch’umilal Wuj: El libro del destino 2nd ed

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

Creator:: Guerron-Montero, Carla Maria
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

Creator:: Rosien, Jessica
Abstract:: This thesis reviews theoretical and local understandings of sustainability and examines the contributions which the NGO, the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), makes to achieving sustainability in the district of Toledo in Belize, Central America. The study focuses mainly on the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, which TIDE manages...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Salvador (0.604), Honduras (0.573) and Guatemala (0.6 15), but low to Costa Rica (0.889) and Panama (0.868

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

Creator:: Donckers, Jana L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , political and social information on Costa Rica and Nicaragua for inclusion on the GX website and to

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

Yoga Philosophy as a Framework for Ethical Yoga Tourism: Avoiding Harm and Traveling Responsibly in the Era of the Anthropocene

The Feminist Itinerant School: A Feminist Pedagogical Approach to Curriculum Transformation for Public School Teachers in Brazil

A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Ni de aquí ni de alla : A Mythohistoriography of Growing Up In-Between

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

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

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