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Geographies of Peace & Violence: Plural Resistance to Gender Violence and Structural Inequalities in Hyderabad and Seattle
In this dissertation, I investigate “community-based response” to domestic violence facilitated by NGOs working with Muslim women and families in Hyderabad and South Asian Muslims in Seattle. My transnational comparison ... -
Global China, Global Crisis: Falling Profitability, Rising Capital Exports and the Formation of New Territorial Industrial Complexes
This dissertation explores the relationship between what has been called the “long crisis” or the “breakdown” tendency of the capitalist economy, driven by a constant, intensifying struggle to address the twin problems of ... -
Governing Pet Love: 'Crazy Cat Ladies,' Cultural Discourse, and the Spatial Logics of Inter-Species Intimacies
Pet animals in the United States have been increasingly incorporated into relationships and spaces of intimacy. As a result, an intense set of discourses has emerged to delineate and govern what modes of interspecies ... -
Herbs, Soil, and Health: Beyond Human and Planetary Medicine
This dissertation explores the relationships between the generation of medical knowledge and its connections to herbs, soil, and the study of living organisms. The dissertation explores the origins of medical knowledge by ... -
The Historical And Economic Geography Of Port Angeles, Washington
(1954-05-29)A century ago, an explorer, standing on the hill now known as Lincoln Heights in Port Angeles, Washington, would have seen below him to the north the smoothly curving south shore of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Sloping ... -
Historical geographies of trans care practices in the United States
For decades, feminist geographers have emphasized care’s role as a basic necessity for the continuation of humankind. This work has largely been shouldered by those who are most marginalized, especially women, people of ... -
The Historical Geography Of The Snohomish River Valley
(1939)Since 1858 the Snohomish River Valley has gone through a series of distinctive economic-geographic adjustments. These adjustments evolved gradually from the first stage of simple exploitation of the timber resources to a ... -
Identifying Disproportionate Burden Through the Spatial Covariance of Two Acute Deaths of Despair: Firearm Suicide and Opioid Overdose
Objectives: To evaluate the spatial covariance in two acute deaths of despair outcomes, firearm suicides and opioid overdoses, to better understand how these two public health crises intersect across US counties. The ... -
Indigenous Nations’ Access to Geospatial Climate Change Data: The case of the Lummi Nation
This thesis examines the availability and necessity of climate change data to Indigenous communities, using the Lummi Nation as a case study. The research centers on three main impacts to Lummi waters: sea surface warming, ... -
The Industrial Geography Of Seattle, Washington
(1954-03-04)In the selection of a city in the Pacific Northwest for a study in industrial geography to qualifications were considered: 1. the suitability for the investigation of the city's industrial attributes in the field, and 2. ... -
Infrastructures of survival: digital justice and black poetics in community Internet provision
This dissertation explores community wireless networks as they respond to overlapping forms of socio-spatial inequality, using a case study of the Equitable Internet Initiative in Detroit, Michigan. Where commercial Internet ... -
Inmigrante Indocumentado: Transnational communities of thriving in the midst of racial structural inequalities
My work reveals a transnational politics of thriving that foregrounds the importance of affective community relations for oppressed and marginalized communities in the reproduction of LIFE - of social life - and thriving ... -
Invisible threads: skill and the discursive marginalization of the garment industry's workforce
(1997)The threat to move manufacturing offshore is perhaps more potent in the garment industry than in any other. The 1992 campaigners for NAFTA put the garment industry in the list of likely losers; amidst the winners of expanded ... -
Killing for coexistence: the bio- and necro-political ecology of wolf conservation and management in Washington state
The state of Washington, USA has been rocked by conflict over wolves, which have recently returned to rural landscapes after their eradication nearly a century ago. While conservationists celebrate the rewilding of ecosystems, ... -
Landscapes of Violence: Latinx Migrants Navigating Life in Chicagoland
The influx of immigrants to new destinations in the US have produced a variegated landscape of immigration enforcement at the local level. The dissertation focuses on Waukegan as a place through the lens of some of the ... -
Leyes Crueles - Lugares Violentos: Mexican Women's Testimonios Along the Migration Journey
Women's stories of the immigration journey illustrate the high stakes of getting to the US in the first place. These show how national and transnational policies and consequential experiences of risk and vulnerability are ... -
Life in Prison: Biopolitics, Ill-Being, and the Neoliberal Penitentiary
In the US today, 2.3 million prisoners have a constitutional right to healthcare. At the same time, policies driven by neoliberalism and White supremacy have ballooned US prisons, incarcerating largely the working and ... -
Line structure in graphic and geographic space
(1984)The research reported in this dissertation has been based on the idea that a cartographic line is a probabilistic representation of the geographic feature which it symbolizes. Numeric parameters have been measured for two ... -
Local States, Markets, and the Geography of Political Economy and Land in China
This dissertation examines the evolution and role of land as a fiscal asset in China since the onset of reforms in 1978. Research presented in this dissertation specifically examines: 1) the role of land markets and land ...