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  • Seeing the Ocean For the Whales: How Whales Get Lost in the Sea of Human Perceptions

    Creator:
    McKinnon, Haley
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    Humans have always been fascinated with whales; from prominent features in mythology, to stories of terrifying monsters on the high seas, to globalized utility, to symbolic wildness and radical environmentalism, to figures and statistics, how have human relationships with whales been understood throughout time? Because humans have a need to...
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    to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

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

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    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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    impacts vary county to county and their research highlights the need for more research on COVID-19’s

  • Beyond Borders: Understanding the Interplay of Factors in Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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    De La Rosa, Sarah
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    This thesis explores the intricate issues surrounding migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, offering diverse perspectives and insights into its drivers, consequences, and ethical dimensions. Through three comprehensive papers, this research offers a nuanced analysis of the complex dynamics influencing the migration crisis. The first examines the historical and theoretical factors...
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    Sarah De La Rosa for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental Arts and Humanities presented on

  • Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

    Creator:
    Goodfriend, Olivia F.
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    Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
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    . However, the 2020 Oregon wildfires transformed many forest landscapes into states that appeared barren

  • Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field

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    Baker, Jay A.
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    Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis built around a research project called Creative Residencies and Expanded Senses of Community: Interviews With Artists & Residency Leaders. It’s an extended meditation on arts residencies via research, interviews, and experiential learning,...
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    Corvallis, Oregon. Brenna found work at the university, and I applied for the program. I started graduate

  • Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

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    Vitale, Anthony
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    The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
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    to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • 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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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

  • Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

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    McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
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    This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
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    , and though I’ve lived in Oregon for twenty years now, I remain conscious of that fact: I haven’t

  • Taking a Stand: Promoting Val Plumwood’s Intentional Recognition Stance as an Ethical Solution for Addressing Climate Crisis and Environmental Degradation

    Creator:
    Meeks, Austin
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    This thesis argues for the importance of justice of recognition not only for humans, but the entire non-human world in the face of environmental destruction and climate crisis. The common response to the degradation of the world’s ecological sphere is to act with technological, scientific, and material based responses. However,...
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    History, Philosophy, and Religion and Oregon State University for allowing me this opportunity not only

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessie L. Pike for