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Encounters Across Difference: The Digital Geographies of Inuit, the Arctic, and Environmental Management
There is broad consensus amongst scholars across a wide range of disciplines that digital technologies are having profound effects on micro- and macropolitical processes across the world. However, research into digital ... -
Environment And Settlement In The Palouse, 1868-1910
(1950)Location and Boundaries The term ""Palouse country,"" unlike many other colloquial areal designations, lends itself to fairly definite geographic delineation. In its general position in the Pacific Northwest (Plate I) it ... -
Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
This research examines the recent merger of alternative food networks (AFNs) with technology startup food delivery companies. Rather than situating these new “online farmers’ markets” within a binary alternative-industrial ... -
Eyes on the Seas: A digital political ecology of fisheries monitoring programs
This dissertation analyzes the emergence of the private fisheries observer industry, and the introduction of digital electronic monitoring technologies, in conjunction with the quota-based management system in the U.S. ... -
Feeling toward Decoloniality: Transnational Solidarity Efforts to Seek Redress for Survivors of War Violence
This project investigates the recent contentious strides of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, a well-established South Korean organization seeking redress for Korean survivors of wartime sexual slavery. ... -
From lived experience to economic models: a mixed methods analysis of competitive policies in Gioia Tauro and Genoa, Italy
(2007)Competitive policies represent a major resource allocation within the local economic development budgets of cities. Nevertheless, the outcomes of these policies have received only a cursory analysis related to their effects ... -
From non-native “weed” to butterfly “host”: knowledge, place, and belonging in ecological restoration
Increasing recognition that what we call “natural” landscapes and ecosystems are often co-produced through human activities has prompted a proliferation of conversation, across the natural and social sciences, about the ... -
From Safety Net to Tight Rope: New Landscapes of Welfare in the United States
(2013-07-23)As the recession plays out, unemployment rises, and public and private sector resources become increasingly in-demand, geographic poverty scholars have a unique opportunity to challenge the poverty logic of late capitalism ... -
Geodesign for Water Quality Management
Water quality poses a serious challenge to a community’s well-being, whether that of natural or human ecosystem communities. Nonpoint source pollution is the main cause of water quality problems in the USA since point ... -
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 ...