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• Neoliberalism and alternative food movements: markets, the state, and knowledge production in Southern California 

  Gresh, Rebecca A (2017-07-14)

  Alternative food movements are promoted as solutions to environmental and social problems in the context of neoliberalism in the Unites States. Scholarly literature is divided over whether alternative food movements are ...

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• Marriage, motherhood, childcare arrangements and work: female labor force participation and informal employment under Chinese economic reform 

  Lian, Bin (2017-07-06)

  My dissertation presents a comprehensive study of the ways in which Chinese women seek to balance family and work obligations during the market transition from 1991 to 2011. I study family obligations arise from marriage, ...

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• Adaptable lives: agency and accountability in a cancer cluster town 

  Atkins, Laura Beth (2017-04-21)

  This dissertation provides an ethnographic account of the experiences of residents living within the cancer cluster town of Clyde, Ohio, where over 50 children have been diagnosed with or have died of cancers of the brain ...

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• Mii o gwayak inaajimotaagooyaan [this is how it was told to me]: narrative identity and community-building in northern Minnesota 

  Cragoe, Nicholas G (2017-06-27)

  The research discussed in this dissertation employs a mixed-methods, qualitative approach to understanding the role of specific narratives, and of storytelling practice in general, in shaping perceptions of Anishinaabe ...

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• Yellow over black: the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, 1883-1945 

  Kim, Jae-Kyun (2017-04-20)

  This dissertation discloses that anti-Blackness and other deeply held notions of race in precolonial and colonial Korea (1883-1945) were pivotal in how Koreans made sense of their vulnerability and, later, subjection to ...

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