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Hands on the Green Leaf Labor, Resistance, and Bittersweet Dwelling in Argentina's Yerba Mate Country.
(2015)
Hands on the Green Leaf is an ethnographic homage to the men, women, and children called tareferos (tarefer@s) who labor to produce yerba mate, the naturally bitter, green tea that is both symbolic drink and staple food ...
Place, Space, and Flyover States: The Geography of Poverty and the Nonprofit Social Safety Net in America
(2023)
Although it is an important component of overall federal anti-poverty policy, the in-kind human services safety net has been under-researched. Nationally, our social safety net has two parts: direct transfer programs to ...
Spatializing the Knowledge Economy: The Campus as a Discursive Project, Parallel Project, and More-than-Institutional Project
(2023)
In contrast to the normative scholarly and professional expectation that the university’s spatialization be tightly coupled with its institutional purposes and prerogatives, this dissertation posits that the institution ...
The Identity of Evidence: Documentary Evidence in the Federal Acknowledgement Process.
(2014)
In the Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) indigenous groups submit 1000s of documents as evidence to prove they satisfy seven mandatory acknowledgment criteria established at 25 C.F.R. § 83.7. Despite a broad consensus ...
Young Families in the Community: An Exploratory Analysis of Child Welfare Contact Among Young Mothers and their Children
(2020)
The dominant frame in the literature regarding pregnancy and parenting among women with a history of child welfare contact is that of teen pregnancy as social crisis. This project reconsiders the issue of pregnancy and ...
Examining the Critical Role of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Study of Emerging Nonprofit Organizations.
(2016)
This qualitative study examines how individual nonprofit organizations (“NPOs”) emerge. I build on the limited empirical research by studying eight emerging NPOs in a single New Jersey county using forty qualitative ...
From Sickness to Badness: Michigan HIV Law as a Site of Social Control.
(2014)
In the state of Michigan, people infected with HIV are required by law to disclose their HIV-status to their partners before engaging in sexual contact. Failure to do so is a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. ...