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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Relationship to land"”.
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Bears Ears National Monument, Relationship, and the Rhetoric of Public Lands
This dissertation examines the rhetoric of public lands through three case studies related to Bears Ears National Monument (BENM). I argue that a central part of what makes public lands rhetorical are the relationships that people have with the lands, or the experiences, interactions, and meanings …
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Making Peace with Contradictions: Reflections of Territory and Identity in Israel/Palestine
<p>Both historical and personal essay, this culminating project is a creative non-fiction work exploring the modern historical roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Part I surveys the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Palestine, centering on two key figures: Israeli Prime Minister, …
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Rights to land, fragmentation and fairness: the problem of transnational legal governance for indigenous groups
This thesis identifies what legal rights to land exist for persons claiming a special socio-economic, cultural and communal relationship to land. Through empirical case studies and legal examples, it identifies and evaluates land rights and related remedies through the theoretical lens of …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… writing practice with academic research, this doctoral research-creation project reads ecological and social violence as “one phenomenon” caused by early capitalism and intensifying after the industrial revolution in 1850, and especially after the neoliberal tide post-1945 (Moore 120-136). My …
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Jesus and land: constructions of sacred and social space in Second Temple Judaism
… work of Henri Lefebvre. The importance of space to human experience is highlighted with a view to application to the life of Jesus, understood in light of the social situation of his day. A specific text, Genesis Ten (the Table of Nations), is the focus of Chapter Two. Re-readings of the text in …
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Land Cover Influences on Stream Nitrogen Dynamics During Storms
Previous studies on the effects of land cover influence on stream nitrogen have focused on base flow conditions or were conducted specifically within urbanized or primarily agricultural watersheds. While these studies have shown relationships between land cover and nitrogen, this relationship and …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
… represent the one continent: Australia, its lands and its peoples. One is an Indigenous map of a continent linked by the Songlines of the Western Desert Peoples' Creation Ancestors under Anangu Law. The other is a Western map of a continent divided by the state borders of colonial ancestors …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
… represent the one continent: Australia, its lands and its peoples. One is an Indigenous map of a continent linked by the Songlines of the Western Desert Peoples' Creation Ancestors under Anangu Law. The other is a Western map of a continent divided by the state borders of colonial ancestors …
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The role and potential of flood risk management in shaping land use – Flood-peak polders of the Tisza River from the perspective of integrated planning challenges
… the Vásárhelyi Plan Program – or VTT according to the Hungarian acronym) was a significant initiative in terms of flood management and rural development in the period 2000-2020, but the assessment of its results from a policy implementation perspective is not unanimous. The aim of the thesis is, …
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Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana
… drew upon the recommendations of outside actors, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations (UN), and various NGOs and international scientific networks-- profoundly disrupted the country's delicate racial-ethnic balance. A contribution to the …