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Swedish Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2025 - February 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Middle Eastern Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2004-2025 - February 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Finnish Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming, 2000-2025 - May 2025
No full textThe Media and Climate Change Observatory Data monitors 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. Data is assembled by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via the University of Colorado libraries. More information may be found at: http://mecco.colorado.edu.</p
Weather-Fear
Get PDFIn 1983, John Engels published Weather-Fear, a collection of poems written in the extra bedroom of an 1850s farmhouse, looking out toward the low-slung grove of eastern white pines he had planted in his Vermont yard. Engels’ poems use rich, sensorial descriptions of a small, bucolic river valley—and the never-quite-right house he sold to my parents a few years later—to dwell on moments of decay, joy, loss, and seasonality. It is this same place where my own understandings of ecology, curiosity, and home are rooted—a place against which all others are deemed familiar or un. How is it, then, standing among the same white pines, that so much seems to have changed for both of us?
Weather-Fear, in my interpretation, is a means of understanding and contending with the anxiety, sadness, and quotidian concerns of our ecological moment—how singular local events—floods, fires, hail, or drought—imagine the past, construct futures, and amalgamate into an increasingly precarious climate. For many, the weather is something to be aggregated and recorded, predicted and acted upon, and constantly updated through telecommunication networks. But for farmers, sailors, wayfarers, and land-based people everywhere, it is not something to perceive but rather the medium through which perception occurs.
This series of sensors and antennas, timekeepers and objects of affection act as a way for us to speculate, predict, and experience worlds outside of this space—to carry ourselves as receivers/senders through the intermingling and admixture of weather—as we bridge the perilously thin space between earth and atmosphere.</p
María del Carmen Vidal García - Reflections on Events Attended for the 2024-25 Latiné/x Cultural and Scholarly Engagement Recognition Badge
Get PDFThis document includes reflections about the 12 hours of events related to Latine/x culture in the U.S. that I attended during the academic year 2024-25 at the University of Colorado Boulder. At least 5 of these hours were for events offered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. My reflections center on the events I attended and include the most salient points regarding my interests and my career goals.</p
The Relationship Between Magnetic Reconnection and Aurora Detections in the Ionosphere of Mars
Get PDFMagnetospheres come in two types, intrinsic and induced. Earth’s intrinsic field is generatedin the liquid outer core, which is fluid, rotating, and highly conductive. At sufficiently largedistances from the core, such as at the Earth’s surface, the field behaves as a dipole. The magnetospheric structure results from interaction of this field with the solar wind and the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF). The IMF interacts with Earth’s bowshock, about 10 RE away. Past the bowshock, magnetic field lines from the IMF interact with those on the dayside of Earth by reconnecting. These fields are then “dragged” across the polar region, and find themselves in the magnetotail. Magnetic field lines pile up onto each other in the magnetotail, forming a current sheet and magnetic pressure, resisting magnetic reconnection. When reconnection finally occurs, particles on the field lines travel up to the polar regions along the field line, giving us the aurora we see on the ground. The field line drags back across the polar region to find itself at the dayside of Earth, ready to complete the cycle once more.</p
Building Belonging: An Ethnographic Exploration of Autistic Communication and Community in Minecraft
Get PDFAt over 300 million copies sold, Minecraft stands tall among the most beloved and ubiquitous video games of all time. As a defining entry in the sandbox genre, its block-based, near-infinite, three-dimensional worlds invite players from all walks of life to break, take, and build as they please; like a bottomless bin of well-ordered LEGO bricks, this virtual playground offers a structural framework for boundless creativity. Minecraft is also similar to LEGO play in the special appeal it seems to hold for the autistic community, as evidenced by its numerous autistic- and neuroqueer-centric multiplayer servers and online forums. While this Minecraft-autism connection is by no means universal—and could even be dismissed as stereotype—it has nonetheless been codified in our popular culture through various internet memes, including images, copypastas, television references, and YouTube compilations. Alongside sessions of in-game participant observation, 12 adult Minecrafters were interviewed for this project—each for between 30 minutes and several hours—all of whom self-identified as autistic. An unrestricted sample of neurodiverse perspectives is essential to addressing the core of this phenomenon: What specific affordances does Minecraft provide for autistic gamers, and how do autistic gamers engage with these affordances to form social connections and express themselves through the game? In this thesis, I argue that Minecraft liberates its autistic players through its limitations, offering pleasant perseverations and stimmunication systems that, together, foster neurodiverse communities based on collaborative storytelling.</p
The Loss of Beef Trade Hegemony: An Analysis of Argentina's Beef Export Restrictions
Get PDFArgentina's role as a leading global beef exporter has placed its agricultural sector at theheart of economic and political discourse. My thesis examines the evolution of Argentina’s beefexport policies between 1996 and 2023. Using Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay as comparativecase studies, my thesis explores how policies under various Argentine administrations haveshaped the nation's bovine export economy. This paper claims that without much of the enforcedprotectionist policy, Argentina could have mitigated the extent to which faulty monetary policythreatened Argentina’s beef exportation industry and retained a larger share of its tradinghegemony. Specifically, my thesis finds that had Argentina enforced more liberalized exportpolicy, its beef export industry would more closely resemble that of its neighbors.</p
The Labor Question and the 1913-1914 Colorado Coalfield War: The Fight for Industrial Democracy
Get PDFAt the beginning of the twentieth century American democracy was being renegotiated. During this time the United States witnessed unprecedented immigration, an increasing wealth gap, and waves of industrial violence which demanded that political, civil, and economic participation be reevaluated in light of the growing power of labor. During the industrial age, Colorado’s labor movement was more radical and violent than that in the east, and workers in the American west fought not only for higher wages and workplace safety but to create a form of industrial democracy that represented their rights and values.
This thesis outlines how the labor question reached its most desperate point during the 1913-1914 Colorado Coalfield War. By examining the history of coal mining in southern Colorado and the 1913-1914 Colorado Coalfield War, I argue that the American democratic and economic system assured colliers and coal operators promises that were fundamentally incompatible with one another, and the commitment of each group to see its interests realized reached a splintering point, resulting in industrial warfare over the labor question as each side struggled to define what an industrial democracy would be. Where coal operators sought to increase their wealth through the creation of company empires promised to them by the free market system, miners strived for independence and economic stability.
In Colorado, the commitment of each group to see its interests realized reached a splintering point, resulting in industrial war. In the aftermath of the war, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was forced to evaluate the realities of Industrial America. Rockefeller’s company union plan was his solution to the labor question. The Rockefeller Plan became synonymous with industrial democracy, silencing the miner’s struggle and vision. The 1913-1914 Colorado Coalfield War marks one of the most significant moments in the American labor movement and illustrates that the fundamental issue of the period was how labor and capital should be consolidated within the American democratic system, revealing the full tensions and meaning of the Industrial Age. </p
The Spaces In-Between; Assessing the Applicability and Nuances of Anthropological Method in Colorado Water Management Policy
Get PDFWater surrounds humans daily, whether visible or invisible, its impacts are the backbone of modern development. Colorado’s arid environment and conflicting social interests heighten the intensity of water management problems. Colorado decision-makers often use subsidy programs to guide the management of this increasingly scarce resource. The complexities of these problems and varying political agendas create functional gaps in policy’s ability to address watershed management on a larger scale. Anthropology of Policy may play an important role going forward in policy creation and enactment techniques. Guiding philosophies of ethnography, ontology, and critique can help tease apart conflicting interests and ideas within the West. This study strives to uncover how the inclusion of anthropologically guided methods may correlate with more effective water policy.
To begin, a literature review of current and past water management, Colorado Revised Statutes, and studies relating to the Anthropology of Policy informed the creation of a rubric used to evaluate a series of interviews. Eleven different Colorado water subsidy programs were selected, along with a representative, who guided the interpretation of policy effectiveness. The rubric assesses the quantity and quality of the anthropological method, and historically informed policy, that is integrated into policy language. This process helped convert the qualitative literature reviews and interview processes into a quantitative analysis. Next, data was analyzed with graphs to evaluate a correlation between the use of anthropologically guided methods and policy outcomes. Results show a weak correlation, especially at state and local levels, but must be studied more to understand implications on a larger policy scale.</p
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