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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 ... -
Caring in Crises: Spatializing Infrastructures of Care through Tenant Protections
Care is the provision of practical or emotional support and is increasingly recognized as a crucial component of our everyday lives and societies. As pervasive housing crises exist in most global North cities today, ... -
Modeling the social and political contexts of United States health protective interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic
The virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) and its disease COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) have highlighted the direct relationship between geography and COVID-19; it is a virus that is ... -
Collapsing moments: confronting anti-Black logics in the Philippines' colonial archive
This thesis draws from Black geographies and Black studies to re-examine the Philippines’ colonial archives. I focus on the US Imperial perspective at the turn of the 20th century, and devote particular attention to how ... -
Balancing the quantitative/qualitative divide: A rhythmanalytic review of Seattle’s Black-Owned Restaurants’ experience during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021)
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a surge in quantitative research aimed at comprehending its causes, progression, and spatial-temporal disparities. Nevertheless, there has been significant and ongoing ... -
An Elusive Consensus: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Disasters and Emergencies Since 1980
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) has become an increasingly common form of humanitarian aid in disasters and emergencies, particularly since the publication of the influential IASC Guidelines in 2007. Despite ... -
Mapping The Terms of Freedom & The Ongoing Refusal of Settler Imaginaries
Originating in Denver, Colorado in 1907 and exported as a national holiday in 1934, Columbus Day enacts the logic and institutionalization of conquest. Yet despite the seemingly totalizing imaginary of ongoing settler ... -
Relational Conservation Territories: Racialized Property Regimes, Negotiated Rights and Environmental Management in the Selva Misionera
This dissertation examines the intersection of the often-unrealized rights of Latin America’s ‘territorial turn’ and the shifting political economy of Misiones, Argentina, as the selva misionera subtropical forest is ... -
Parallel Disentanglement: Treaty-based Navigation of Settler-Indigenous Governance Politics
In this thesis, I outline a treaty-based interpretive and methodological framework for tending to settler-Indigenous governance relationships, while theorizing pathways towards more robust forms of settler solidarity and ... -
The Cracking of Concrete Jungles: Practicing Indigenous Kinship in Diaspora
In this thesis, I ask what does it mean to be an Indigenous person, but not to these lands? How might a Native Lenca community displaced from Honduras make intentional kinship with the Paayme Paxaayt (West River in Tongva ... -
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, ... -
'Se Pesa': Structural Uncaring in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Caregivers' Kinships of Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racial and economic inequities in the United States, intertwining labor and health. This research focuses on immigrant Latina caregivers whose "essential labor" is often excluded from ... -
New Labor Rights and New Work Arrangements: Shifting Geographies of Paid Domestic Work in Urban Brazil
In 2013, after decades of organizing, domestic workers’ unions in Brazil won an historic achievement: the extension of labor rights to the country’s more than six million domestic workers. This dissertation picks up where ... -
Dimensions of Interstate and Intrastate Household Migration, 1990-2015
This dissertation enhances and makes use of county-to-county migration data to investigate several dimensions of interstate and intrastate migration during the 1990 through 2015 period. The first empirical chapter describes ... -
413 in the house: An exploration of a black sense of place and black placemaking in Springfield, Ma
Black matters are indeed spatial matters (McKittrick 2006 xii), and diverse spaces are not a stand in for racially inclusive spaces. Through a Black geographic and Black feminist exploration of my hometown of Springfield, ... -
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 ... -
Possibilities for Sustainable Futurity: examining the radical potential of Small, Mobile Living Structures and the Capitol Hill Organized Protest in achieving sustainability
Paper 1- The Social Practice of Living in Small Mobile Living Structures: A Case Study in theUSA This paper will explore the practice of living in a Small Mobile Living Structure to assess their suitability as a sustainable ... -
Sensing the Cloud: A Materialist Spatial Analysis of Data Centers and Critical Conceptualization
With the ever increasing digitization of the global economy and everyday life, it is essential to understand the distribution and impacts of networked infrastructure, particularly Data Centers. While Data Centers as ... -
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 ... -
The Productivore's Dilemma: Extinction or Extermination?
University of WashingtonAbstract The Productivore’s Dilemma: Extinction or Extermination? Christopher R. Cox Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Luke Bergmann, Department of Geography, University of Washington In the ...