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A New Campus in the City: Place-Making in South Lake Union
South Lake Union is experiencing a drastic transformation of its landscape and population since the city of Seattle designated it as a key urban center in 2004. An industrial district and low-income neighborhood described ... -
A Rights-Based Evaluation of Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology Policy
As new information and communication technology (ICT) continue to emerge, more attention is paid to the adverse effects ICTs have on individual and community data privacy and protection. In the wake of the 2015 UN Sustainable ... -
Acquiring high-technology capability: the case of the Brazilian informatics industry
(1990)This dissertation examines the development of high-technology capability in a developing country, using the example of the Brazilian informatics industry. Technological capability, essentially the ability to use technology ... -
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 ... -
Aspirations and Anxieties: The Neoliberal Geopolitics of the NIC
(2012-09-13)This thesis is a critical reading of Global Trends 2025 that focuses on discourses of globalization, technology, and images of the the Other. -
Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Place and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China
Studies of China's urban development largely rely on a handful of metanarratives, appealing for their concision, but failing to account for the spatial specificities of the Chinese city. These narratives are founded on ... -
Assisted Voluntary Return: Negotiating the politics of humanitarianism and security in migration management
This dissertation analyzes the political geographies of humanitarianism in Europe’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs for migrants. Promoted as a humanitarian policy of migration management, and often implemented ... -
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 ... -
Becoming a Side: Legal Mobilization and Environmental Protection in Poland
This dissertation presents a human geographic and socio-legal analysis of environmental legal mobilization in contemporary Poland. It examines how administrative law is being used by individuals and societal groups to ... -
Bodies Inside Bodies: Examining the Use of Helminthic Therapy and its Challenge to Popular and Biomedical Discourses
Parasites have long been understood as disease causing organisms that invade the bodies of their hosts and live at their hosts’ expense. But this understanding of parasites has begun to change. With the rise of helminthic ... -
Bound but determined: Reproduction and subversion in Folsom’s, IML’s, and Seattle’s gay leather communities
Through a more place-based conceptualization, this dissertation critiques the concept of hyper-masculinity within the social sciences generally, and the discipline of geography particularly. Hyper-masculinity is often a ... -
Building Transformative Place-Making: Lessons from Washington Hall
(2013-11-14)Transformative place-making creates more connected and equitable communities. This research advocates for more critical engagement at the building scale, which is an apt site for place-making examination and intervention. ... -
Can Food Justice be Raceless?: Reflections on the GROW Campaign's Incorporation of Food Justice into their Praxis
Previous research around food justice primarily examines grassroots community efforts in the United States to address issues of inequitable food access and hunger through challenging institutional racism in local food ... -
Care and capitalist crisis in anglophone digital landscapes: the case of the mompreneur
The term “mompreneur” has fallen into heavy usage in anglophone media since 2008. A mesh of two ideologically-loaded words, “mom” and “entrepreneur,” the mompreneur is frequently defined by the functional meaning of these ... -
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, ... -
The Children of Choice: Public Education Reform and the Evolution of Neoliberal Governance
(2012-08-10)This work examines the accelerating phenomenon of school reform efforts taking place in the United States as a result of evolving relationships between school districts, local government, the non-profit sector, and ... -
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 ... -
Crime, culture, and the city: political geographies of juvenile justice
(2006)This dissertation explores the historical development of the juvenile court in Seattle from 1905-2005 in order to trace the conversion of the court from a social welfare organization to social control. Initially, the court ... -
Cultivating Good Workers: Youth Gardening, Non-Profits and Neoliberalization
(2012-09-13)In cities across the United States, nonprofit programs have stepped in to fill gaps in social service provisioning left after decades of neoliberalization. Needing to appeal to donors and foundations, many organizations ... -
Decolonial ruptures of the city: art-activism amid racialized dispossession in Oakland
Since the onslaught of the 2008 recession, the newest tech boom has provoked a perfect storm of gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, with foreclosure, real estate speculation, rental prices and evictions rising ...