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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 ... -
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 ... -
Logistics Cities: Poverty, Immigration and Employment in Seattle’s Southern Suburbs
Despite its reputation as a "post-industrial" metropolis, parts of Seattle have either become or remained devoted to manufacturing and logistics. Theories of migration and industrial development that emphasize employment ... -
Making Climate Justice: Social Natures and Political Spaces of the Anthropocene
The global connections of climate change produce profoundly uneven geographies across social and physical space at many scales. In general, however, those who have benefited most from climate-changing fossil-fueled ... -
`Managing' Poverty: Care and Control in Peruvian Street Children's Everyday Lives
(2013-04-17)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 ... -
Midwifery as mediation: birthing subjects and the politics of self-determination
(2006)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 ... -
Modern Other and non-Modern Self: Discourses, Silences, and Ruptures of Chinese Modernity Deployed in Blogs Regarding Chinese Students Seeking Education Abroad
(2013-07-25)Universities around the world are increasingly looking to international students to make up for dwindling state support. The past four decades have seen increased numbers of Chinese students seeking education abroad. ... -
Moving towards Neoliberal(izing) Urban Space? Housing and Residential Segregation in Beijing
(2014-04-30)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, ... -
Neighborhoods neighboring neighborhoods: adjacency, relative position and tract-level racial change in the U.S. 2000 to 2010
Due to wide-ranging demographic shifts over the last forty years, the United States has experienced increasing ethnic and racial diversity at the national level. This diversity, however, has not been expressed evenly across ... -
New energy geographies: powershed politics and hydropower decision making in Yunnan, China
(2006)This study analyzes decision making related to large-scale hydropower in China's Yunnan Province. The study has five aims: to contribute empirical knowledge about hydropower development on the Lancang (upper Mekong) and ... -
New frontiers of capital: a geography of commercial real estate finance
(1997)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 ... -
The "Noisy Sphere": Sonic Geographies in the Era of Globalization
While many geographers have studied the role of music and sound in the construction of space, place, and identity, very few have studied noise as a political player in systems of governance (exceptions: Matless 2002; Connell ... -
Pathologies of Patriarchy: Death, Suffering, Care and Coping in the Gendered Gaps of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Nigeria
In many sub-Saharan African countries, HIV seropositive women intentionally shun life-saving medical technologies like antiretroviral drugs or only engage inconsistently with treatment regimens. These self-destructive ... -
The Political Geographies of Interstate Water Disputes in India
This dissertation explores the evolving challenges of interstate water disputes in India. It examines how the transboundary geographies of these conflicts relate in turn to the politics of dispute emergence, recurrence, ... -
The political grind: the role of youth identities in the municipal politics of public space
(2007)While it is typically considered a universal public good in contemporary liberal states, public space is a scarce and hotly contested resource. This study explores Seattle, Washington's experiences attempting to politically ... -
Portraits of Parasites: Geographic Imaginaries in the Production of Health Knowledge
(2012-09-13)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 ... -
"Queering" Straightness: Heterosexual Experiences of Homonormative Spaces in Seattle
(2012-09-13)This thesis represents a contribution to some of the current discussions carried out within queer geography. More specifically, the research explored how heterosexual men and women experience homonormative spaces in one ...