Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Local histories"”.
-
The Impact of Place-Based Education Professional Development on Faculty Identity and Perceptions of Nature-Culture Dichotomies
… narratives around past childhood memories and local histories, present roles as community-engaged educators, and future-oriented hopes and anxieties about environmental and social conditions. Across these three temporalities, faculty positioned nature in four recurring ways: as subject, object, …
-
Lion-hearted Zezva: musical memorial at a funerary horse race
… structure, rites, and sounds; an explanation of local histories and beliefs; and personal accounts derived from my ethnographic experience, I contextualize Tushetian practices (musical, equestrian, and culinary) within a broader conversation about regional identity, the politicization of memorial …
-
Umma and Identity in Early Islamic Persia
This dissertation analyzes local and regional histories written during the 10th to 13th centuries in areas that were historically a part of the Persian Empire. These texts are written in Persian or Arabic or both. Some sources were originally in Arabic and later translated into Persian. The main …
-
Creating local landscape: tidal bores and seawalls at haining (1720s-1830s)
… (administration and state policies), I look at local politics. In this case I examine how seawalls, tidal phenomena, and scenes of daily life represented as Haining landscapes were collected and organized in local histories and imperially commissioned works. This dissertation thus seeks both to …
-
“They Know Too Much Already:” Black Education in Post-Emancipation Era Columbus, GA, 1866-1876
<p>Despite local histories that have been published on the history of Columbus, Georgia, and its school system, very little has been written about Columbus’s freedmen schools created after the U.S. Civil War. As a result, a comprehensive history of Columbus’s freedmen does not exist, and those …
-
The Waldensians of Barry County: Finding Freedom in the Ozarks
… through church archives, newspapers, and local histories. This history of the Waldensian settlement in southwest Missouri preserves a rare, bloodstained relic; explores the complexities and hardships of agricultural immigrants in the late-nineteenth century; highlights diversity in the …
-
The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts
… merit, ignoring or dismissing specific local histories and structural explanations of residential and school segregation. I found that advantaged parents interpreted the district planning process through three lenses: diversity as shield, diversity as threat, and diversity as benefit. I …
-
Minor Courts And Communities At The Frontier: The Justice Of The Peace In Early Missouri
… History</p> <p>This study focused on local and county courts operated by Missouri's justices of the peace between the Louisiana Purchase and roughly 1875. Its purpose was to investigate the role of township justices’ courts and county courts of commissioners in terms of interactions …
-
Fourth Belgrade : story about reclaiming land
… production processes, as an outcome of the local histories.
-
“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
… overlooks—but actively suppresses—a variety of local interests that seek to improve, rather than destroy, their long-standing homes. The dissertation develops new empirical and analytical insights into how residents’ relationships to their *khrushchevki* have been evolving as they await the …
-
The life of Rollin "Doc" Bunch, the boss of Middletown
… to the body of work available concerning local histories generally, and Muncie and Delaware County particularly.
-
Grassroots Playwriting : Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community
… Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community<br/><br/>Over the past thirty years, Practice as Research has contributed to a deeper understanding of theatre ecology, particularly in relation to the complexities and nuances of grassroots community theatre. This study builds upon …
-
Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
… documents, position papers, academic research, local histories, press and media articles, speeches, archival records, and policy documents. The findings will help scholars better understand creole outlooks, rationales, attitudes, and perceptions. The research also seeks to catalyse positive …
-
The Management of Oppression: Focussing on relationships between refugees and the British state in Newcastle upon Tyne
… with key participants and archival research on local histories of migration and settlement, including three organisational case studies; four contemporary organisational case studies; and individual volunteer case studies based on semi-structured interviews and focus groups with eighteen …
-
Cotton and the Community: Exploring Changing Concepts of Identity and Community on Lancashire’s Cotton Frontier, c.1890-1950
… peak and decline. In effect, it explores how local populations could shape and be shaped by the cotton industry. By focusing on a compact area with diverse settlements, this thesis contributes to the wider understanding of what it was to live in an area dominated by a single industry. The …
-
Does similarity equal relationship? An archaeological study of Tsindi, a Dzimbahwe site in North-eastern Zimbabwe
… and related sites. However, there are some localised differences within the walls and pottery that speak to contextual innovation and ultimately variation. Available chronological information shows that Tsindi has an earlier Harare tradition occupation which is overlain by levels with …
-
Beyond the petri dish: potentiality in assisted conception in South Africa
… yet remain shaped and embedded within local histories and politics (Franklin, 1997, 2003; Inhorn, 2003; Thompson, 2005; Roberts, 2012). Embryos (Franklin, 2006a), sex cells such as eggs and sperm (Ariza, 2018), and IVF more generally (Inhorn, 2003; Simpson, 2013), offer particular …
-
Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
… diversity among lawyers, illustrating how local histories and familial legacies informed their commitment to justice and human rights. While social media has empowered legal mobilisation, it also exposed lawyers to ethical dilemmas, professional tensions and systemic surveillance. This …
-
A History of Nondenominational Churches in Denver and Beyond, 1945–2000
… group of churches.</p> <p>Third, I trace the local histories of four nondenominational churches in Denver from 1945-2000. Utilizing church records, newspaper articles, and oral histories, I tell each of their stories and describe the characteristics and values they embodied. I suggest that …
-
The Road Less Travelled: Exploring Socio-Spatial Barriers to Accessing Sexual-and Gender-Based Violence Support Sexual- and Gender-Based Violence Support Services in Rural Southern Ontario
… and care are shaped not only by distance, but by local histories, relationships, and power. This dissertation advances feminist, intersectional, and geographic research on SGBV by incorporating spatial and qualitative insights. It offers a mixed-methods approach aimed at supporting advocacy and …
Page 1 of 2