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 ...

This dissertation examines the contradictory and complementary ways in which both neoliberal development and children's rights legislation shape national development and child poverty in Lima and Cusco, Perú. It uses ...

The dissertation compares the emergence of midwifery in Quebec with the renovations of midwifery practice in France. Midwifery, I argue, is implicated in new technologies of citizenship that take women's desires for ...

This dissertation examines China's urban housing system in the reform era and its social and spatial changes in Beijing. This dissertation seeks to understand the nature of China's reform and its socio-spatial ramifications, ...

The recent development experience of modern economies demonstrates the increasing role and impacts of financial activities on regional and national economic systems, effects which remain largely overlooked by current theory ...

Parasites, long understudied, can have tremendous effects on the health, productivity, and well-being of those infected with them. While common conceptions of parasites both within and outside of scientific literature ...

Increasingly common conflicts over transboundary natural resources in a world characterized by growing interdependency raise important questions about the sovereignty of states and governance based on territoriality. The ...

Recently, some geographers have turned their attention to some of the undertheorized concepts within critical GIS literature, resulting in the improved understanding of concepts including empowerment, participation, ...

This text draws on the United States dairy industry as a case study to understand how the institution of animal agriculture is continually reproduced through a repressive political climate, through routine agricultural ...

This thesis explores how digital tools and practices affect social and political contestations in the social media age. Through the use of an extended case study, I incorporate geographical and feminist understandings of ...