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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Borderland"”.
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Borderland Journeys: A Layered Autoethnography
The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most …
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Gravity study of the southern California continental borderland.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1969.
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Process of definition and development of the Haitian-Dominican borderland
<p>The borderline that currently divides the island of Hispaniola has undergone a complicated process of definition. Since colonial times, central authorities have claimed the area while contradictorily ignoring the societies that developed in the region. It was not until the first decades of the …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
… time. Chapter One examines Indian Territory as a borderland, unveiling how various actors within that borderland, including missionaries, Indian agents, white neighbors in Arkansas and Texas, and Indians themselves shaped Native American decision-making and convinced acculturated tribal elites to …
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This Is Our Land: Osage Territoriality and Borderland Violence, 1763-1803
This thesis seeks to discover the social and political factors that explain Osage violence by identifying the geographic locations of territorial expressions of violence employed by the Osage against their neighbors. Using specific primary source documentation of Osage aggressions from 1763-1803, …
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In and out of the mist: an artistic investigation of borderland and community.
… and an artistic form of investigation, into the borderland and community that exists from Western China to the Himalayan Region, in order to distinguish it from traditional documentary photography. The borderland exists as an ambiguous territory between governance structures, and the movements of …
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On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland
This dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of a mountainous landscape of Phnom Dangrek where it has always been the periphery of various political entities and marked by violent Cold War struggle and regional politics. Through analysis of mobility and silence and engagement with …
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Collaborative borderscaping in the Dutch-German borderland. Towards a cross-border practice in spatial planning
Contains fulltext : 202219.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Extending Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model to criminal justice agencies in the El Paso-Juarez borderland
<p>Why would the Clinton Administration pursue two completely contradictory policies, Operation Hold the Line and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT A), and how did the Clinton Administration and the Border Patrol discuss this contradiction. This thesis will argue that these statements …
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"United in Interest and Feeling:" The Political Culture of Union in the Virginia Borderland, 1850 - 1861
… communities. In the context of cross-cutting borderlands between eastern and western Virginia and the northern and southern United States, these sectional questions took on important significance. Political decision-making in this region emerged from a combination of widely-circulating views …
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Borderland Voices: Exploring the Educational Journey of Transfronterizx Students, Families, and Educators for Enhanced Engagement and Empowerment
<p><em>Transfronterizx</em> students and their families cross the U.S.–Mexico border for academic, economic, social, cultural, and linguistic reasons. Socioeconomic disparities, deportation, and work have propelled some families to live in Mexico and enroll their U.S.-born children in U.S. schools …
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The Medieval Borderland: Geophysical Analysis of a Later Medieval Deserted Settlement and Cultural Landscape from Western Ireland
<p>This thesis investigates the archaeological remnants of an early 14th century settlement at Ballintober, Roscommon County, Ireland. An innovative methodology combining ground-penetrating radar, magnetic gradiometry, and archaeological excavations is utilized to reconstruct the medieval built …
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Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland
… as part of the production of the Coahuila-Texas borderland. In the quest to become legible to improve their living conditions and maintain a sense of dignity, Negros Mascogos/Black Seminoles use history and racialization as tools of negotiation between themselves and the two nation-states where …
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SUBJECT FORMATION AND SELF-MAKING IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF STATELESS SHAN PEOPLE IN THE THAI-BURMESE BORDERLAND
… social lives in the setting of the Thai-Burmese borderland. From my ethnographic research, I suggest that the notion of subjectivity formation should not be understood through state power and state discourse alone, but that the actual conditions of being stateless and having a precarious life …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
The Ohio constitutional convention in 1802 established Ohio's status as a free state, marking the Ohio River as the border between slavery and freedom. However, slaveholder influence continued to permeate the region as questions over fugitive slaves, Black migration, and the rights of free African …
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Latino Males in the Borderland: A Case Study Analysis of Successful Transfer From the Community College to the University
Latino students often embark on their post-secondary educational journey at a community college due to cost, proximity to family, and open access policies. The current literature on Latina/o community college students has primarily focused on a deficit view of the educational aspirations and …
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The New Borderland: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Teacher Perceptions of Intelligence, Race, and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Behavior Genetics
Behavior genetics argues intelligence and educational attainment are highly heritable (genetically influenced) and polygenic (influenced by many genes) traits. Researchers in this field have moved beyond identifying whether and how much genes influence the manifestation of a given outcome to trying …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… politics interacted on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited by a Christian population and located near two Christian …
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Envisioning transboundary cooperation zones : en la Frontera de Cd. Juarez-EI Paso/
… pair cities of El Paso, TX and Cd. Juárez. This borderland lays on the 2,000 mile long international boundary that divides the United States and Mexico, a borderland filled with ironies: individually demarcated yet synthesized, secured yet transgressed, fetishized yet denigrated. As result of …
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