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12:10 - 1:30
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Globalization and Migration
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Endangering
Organ Pipe?: Immigration and the Environment in the Arizona Borderland |
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Sarah Jaquette
Ph.D. Student, Environmental Science, Studies, and Policy; English
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The case against
immigration along the Arizona-Mexico border is "greening"
in discourse, media, and activism. Arizona's borderland is eighty-five
percent protected lands, but undocumented immigration is increasingly
threatening this land's ecosystems. The greening of anti-immigrationism
has resuscitated environmentalism's socially and racially conservative
past, and also ignores the historical and economic forces bearing
on this landscape. In this paper, I detail some of these forces in
an effort to challenge the move toward what Betsy Hartmann calls "green
hate," and examine an activist coalition in Tucson that sees
the environmental and humanitarian crises of the border as twin victims
of a broader problem. |
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'Tamagringo': Amenity
Migration and Community Change in Tamarindo, Costa Rica |
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Lee Pera M.A.
Candidate, Geography and Public Policy and Management |
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Growing numbers
of North Americans are moving outside of the U.S. and seeking out
less expensive, beautiful places to live permanently or to invest
in second homes. Although they represent a small portion of the total
international migration stream, these amenity migrants have significant
impacts on the landscapes and communities of the places they settle.
Costa Rica has become one of the most popular destinations for amenity
migrants over the past two decades. This paper explores struggles
over development, identity and place in Tamarindo, Costa Rica where
approximately two-thirds of property purchases in 2005 were by U.S.
citizens. |
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Canadians
among Us: Brain-Drain Immigration, Whiteness, and Identity in the
Twin Cities Urban Area |
| Presenter |
Ginger
Mansfield M.A. Candidate, Geography |
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This paper
discusses the migration of Canadians to the U.S., concentrating on
post-NAFTA migrants in the Twin Cities metro region in Minnesota.
In this paper I explore the economic and political forces that drive
the migration of Canadians to the United States, specifically how
NAFTA has contributed to the brain-drain of highly-skilled, top-wage
earning immigrants. Additionally, I question whether 'normalized whiteness'
in Canada has influenced settlement patterns and/or the Canadian migration
experience in general. Questionnaire responses and informal interviews
from the Canada Day picnic in July 2006 will shed light on the migration
experience of Canadians living in the Twin Cities. |
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1:40 - 3:00
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Concerning
Community: Organization, Participation, and Change |
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The Politics
of Integration: The Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Plan |
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Jennifer
Hehnke Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science |
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Within the
debate over public school reform, many claim that racism and segregation
are over, race-conscious policies are a thing of the past, and what
is required now are policies to advance achievement and excellence.
My project focuses on the political development of Seattle's school
desegregation plan to understand where this shift occurred and the
nature of the political change that occurred between the mid-70s and
mid-90s. Within Seattle, I look at the complex dynamics of equity
as they intersect with the broader politics of institutional and discursive
change to explore the basic question of this change. |
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NGO Development
Landscapes in Contemporary Nicaragua |
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Erin Machell
M.A. Candidate, Geography |
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This presentation
examines the changing interactions between development NGOs, communities
and the state in Nicaragua, as the state sector diminishes and nongovernmental
organizations fill gaps in basic services. My research examines the
effectiveness of this arrangement, and asks whether NGO projects tend
to incorporate community participation. Preliminary findings suggest
that NGO-community relationships are often positive, and under some
circumstances empowering. Nicaraguans have even begun organizing themselves
into groups as a new survival tactic, to attract NGO projects. Even
in these positive cases, however, a deeper concern is the scale and
the piecemeal nature of such interventions. |
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From Helicopter
to Collaborator: Tribal Participatory Research in Southeast Alaska |
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Karin
Lutter Ph.D. Candidate, Counseling Psychology |
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This
qualitative study describes a collaborative research partnership with
an Alaska Native village that participated in a previous "helicopter"
study with me in 2004. Helicopter researchers are outside experts
who take data and leave, failing to contribute to participant communities
in any way. In the current study, community members engaged in the
research process by (1) completing training in research methodology
(2) developing community projects and assessments and (3) employing
their data to influence public policy, to support environmental conservation,
and to protect cultural traditions. In addition, I found I was transformed
by my participation in the community. Community members taught me
about cross-cultural dynamics, grassroots activism, tribal history,
and traditional subsistence. This kind of collaboration helps redefine
participants, investigators, and research. |
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4:00 - 5:20
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Embodiment, Experience, and
Expression of Subjective Power
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Cognitive
Science and the Myth of the Standard Body: Some Epistemological and
Ethical Considerations |
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Robin L.
Zebrowski Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy |
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Philosophy
has argued that body and mind are different things. Yet even advocates
for embodiment are retaining the idea that there is one universal
thing that ensures our humanity - once it was mind or soul; now it
is body. My project asks whether there is such a universal, standard
body. I examined the assumptions in philosophy and cognitive science
that make claims of universality. Then, I examined the evidence that
shows there is no such thing as a standard body, no set of necessary
and sufficient conditions for being called a body. Human embodiment
is much more complex than that, and a radical concept of what bodies
are needs to be developed. |
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Falling
Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith's Clerks (1994) |
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Carter
Soles Ph.D. Candidate, English |
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Focusing
on Kevin Smith's Clerks (1994), this paper argues that by 1994
the Miramax Corporation was well-versed in purchasing controversial
and queer cinematic properties and marketing them to a much wider
audience than they might otherwise have reached. Clerks's Miramax
advertising campaign belies its queerness and diffuses its depictions
of deviant sexual practices and gender play. Further, Clerks's
status as a low-budget feature and its use of narrative distanciation
to achieve comic effects are the very things that allow it to deny
the seriousness of the issues it raises and to subtly disavow the
radicality of its own queerness. |
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Social
Stigma and Subjective Power in Naturalistic Social Interaction |
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Jonathan Cook
Ph.D. Candidate, Psychology |
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Social stigma
entails a sense of distinctiveness accompanied by negative evaluation.
If stigma functions as a low-status cue, belonging to a stigmatized
group may result in low subjective power in mixed interactions, activating
an "inhibition system" (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson,
2003), characterized by attention to threats, negative emotion, controlled
cognition, and situationally constrained behavior. Using a week-long
field study, we sought to test the relationship between subjective
power and inhibition and to see whether individuals from historically
stigmatized groups may be more likely to experience low subjective
power relative to individuals whose memberships are limited to culturally
valued groups. |
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