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A transatlantic fraternity: American and German photography, 1840 to 1890
No full textHistories of early photography have routinely focused on France, England, and the US, seldom mentioning the region we call “Germany” today, and often discuss each country’s affairs in isolation from others. This dissertation, in contrast, explores how photographers, photographs, photographic processes, and writings about the medium have been traversing cultural borders since its invention. By understanding photography as a vehicle of cross-cultural dialogue, this dissertation investigates the specific interactions it enabled between the United States and Germany. It uncovers their exchange of photographs, technologies, and ideas about the medium between the 1840s and 1880s, a period when roughly six million Germans immigrated to America’s shores. It further suggests that networks of exchange between Germany and the US, cultivated through a large immigrant community, were pivotal to the development of photography on American soil. Chapter One examines the work of German immigrants William and Frederick Langenheim, who operated a studio in mid-century Philadelphia. By looking at their advertisements and celebrated panorama of Niagara Falls, this chapter argues that their success was tied to their connection with their German homeland. Chapter Two analyzes the shift in photographic vision in three editions of a stereoscopic guidebook on the White Mountains of New Hampshire produced by the Bierstadt brothers. More than simply illustrated travel guides, their aesthetics and photomechanical printing techniques functioned transculturally, much like the artists themselves. Chapter Three chronicles Dr. Hermann Vogel’s position as the German correspondent to the American journal the Philadelphia Photographer from 1866 until 1886. It outlines how his column advanced the growing relationship between German and American photographic circles. Chapter Four examines the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz during his years of study in Berlin and compares them to his German photographic peers. Emphasizing the importance of German photographic culture to Stieglitz, beyond just noting his education, runs counter to dominant narratives about his artistic formation and can thus change future studies about him and American art photography more broadly. My dissertation uses the interactions between German and American photography in the nineteenth century to reframe the medium’s historiography in transnational terms, contributing to its so-called global turn.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Shana Simone Lope
Wetlands and Coasts Panel
No full textPanel discussion on environmental, conservation, land use, infrastructure, and utility-related issues on Georgia\u27s wetlands and coasts.
Panelists
Alice Keyes - Vice President of Coastal Conservation, One Hundred Miles
Joe Cook - Paddle Georgia Coordinator and Guidebook Seres Author, Georgia River Network
Shana Jones, J.D. - Manager of Planning & Environmental Services Unit at the Carl Vinson Institute of Governmen
Trauma-Informed Analysis of Family Occupational Performance
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
The purpose of this study was to assess caregiver-perceived performance and satisfaction with performance of daily occupations in families of children with emotional and behavioral special needs.
Primary Author and Speaker: Shana Cerny
Contributing Authors: Megan Aesoph, Nicki Green, Becky Johnson</jats:p
Domestic workers, sex workers, and the movement: reimagining black working-class resistance in the work of William Attaway, Richard Wright, and Alice Childress, 1935-1960
No full textTo novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights of the early twentieth century, works of fiction provided spaces to explore the ways that black women workers shaped and were shaped by the theory and practice of working-class resistance. This dissertation is an analysis of domestic labor and sexual labor that imagines the possibilities of black women’s resistance through the lens of literature. It examines four key figures, who considered these possibilities by centering domestic and sexual laborers in their work: sociologist, theorist, and longtime Communist activist, Esther Cooper Jackson, proletarian novelist William Attaway, famed author Richard Wright, and playwright, essayist, and short story writer, Alice Childress. For contemporary scholars, fiction (and the process of writing fiction) provides us with an intellectual framework that emerges from its historical moment, with which we can further understand and historicize black women’s sexual and domestic labor, both at the places where they overlap and those at which they diverge. More importantly, in analyzing domestic work as wage work, sexuality, sexual violence, and sexual desire, Wright, Attaway, and Childress generate new questions and new understandings of black womanhood, labor, and activism. While the writers’ evolving theorizations are certainly flawed and by no means comprehensive, an examination of their methodological processes (both those that work and those that don’t work) demonstrate a cultural, political, and historical significance of black women workers that cannot be ignored.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Shana A. Russel
Our Language is From the Land: niinyanaan nutr piyii la laange
No full textThis article documents how my cultural identity as a Métis woman is inherently linked to Michif words and phrases that originate from the land. Through the Michif language I continue to situate myself directly on the Saskatchewan prairie landscape. And it is because of the collective efforts of Michif speakers and Métis Old Ones who work tirelessly toward the rejuvenation of Michif language that I have been led toward working within the healing landscape which I now occupy.
Keywords: Métis land claim, Métis rights, Métis self-government, Métis Natio
Queer Chimerica
No full textBlending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining the intersecting timelines of the rise of queer theory and the rise of China in the late Cold War era, Shana Ye explores the relationship between the discourse of queer fluidity and capital’s demands for labor flexibility.
Drawing on rare archival material and oral historical accounts of queer life from the 1950s to the late 2010s, the author shows how these accounts make sense of the variegated landscapes of desires, transformations, and conundrums in postsocialist China. The author illustrates party cadres in the Cultural Revolution, tongzhi activism mediated by the explosive politics of Tiananmen upheaval, HIV/AIDS community outreach workers, feminist artists and digital activists, leftist queer theorists, and fictional bio-engineers, layering these vivid depictions to reveal the poetic messiness of queer world-making. Queer Chimerica offers insight into the governmentality of LGBT rights, the rules of legibility and recognition, the geo- and bio-politics of identity, and the class-ridden appropriation of queer history and community. Thus understanding the production of queerness unveils the uneven distributions of capital, knowledge, affect, and opportunity that reproduce queer precarity and agency
Urban reform’s forgotten stakeholders: Examining the mobilizing of inner-city communities in the formation & operation of a community-based education program
No full textAs urban community voices are often missing from conversations surrounding education policy and school reform, a central component in the schooling equation is being overlooked. To this effect, my dissertation research examines an instance of place-based community organizing embodied in an out-of-school time STEM education program, Adventures in Science Education (AISE), located in Philadelphia, PA. The question that drives my ethnographic examination is, how do human and physical resources, from an often segregated urban landscape, come together to inform the implementation of community-based enrichment programs? My research site fosters collaborative work amongst local actors from various community groups who have forged an alliance in response to limited educational opportunities afforded to local black youth. AISE, programming predicated upon a dynamic university-community partnership, reflects resources often overlooked in the city’s urban landscape that can be mobilized to enhance students’ academic achievements. Unpacking the complexities embedded in this partnership can support efforts to unearth more of the networks and capital available in urban spaces to support youth’s access to scientific knowledge, interactive curricular models, local scientists (in particular scientists of color), and their own abilities to problematize the world around them through their critical engagement with it. One of this dissertation’s central contributions is the examination and presentation of urban community groups’ meaning-making and mobilizing practices, as they are collectives often lost in the education policy arena as well as the community engagement literature grounding this project. This dissertation analyzes an instance of reciprocal engagement. Knowledge, as capital, transferring from both university and community actors to produce a community program that offers rewarding academic and social opportunities.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-12-01The student, Shana Riddick, accepted the attached license on 2019-12-02 at 18:28.The student, Shana Riddick, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-12-02 at 18:29.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-12-05 at 12:55.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14652 on 2020-02-28 at 17:37:12Made available in DSpace on 2020-03-02T22:38:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Relationship satisfaction following offenses in marriage.
No full textProblems occur in nearly all marriages at one time or another. Even individuals in
healthy marriages have suffered from some form of relationship offenses by their
spouses. The literature has examined many facets of marital satisfaction and marital
stability. Because of the numerous studies associating marital dissatisfaction with marital
dissolution, the focus of the literature on marital problems has typically been on
distressed couples. This study’s focus is on problems experienced by married participants
who are not currently reporting thoughts of ending their marriages. It examined factors
that contribute to maintaining satisfaction in marriages that are not considered distressed,
but in which there has been some offense committed. Specifically, it examined the role of
trust and forgiveness as predictors of marital satisfaction in married participants.
Participants were asked to complete a series of measures that included the Trim-18
(which is a common instrument in the forgiveness literature to measure levels of
forgiveness following specific relationship offenses), the Dissipation Rumination scale,
the Trust Scale, and the Relationship Assessment Scale. As done in previous forgiveness
research, participants were asked to recall and list offenses committed by their spouses.
They then rated the amount of pain experienced by the most bothersome offense on a
scale from 1-10. All measures were regressed on the Relationship Assessment Scale.
Results of analyses indicated that trust, forgiveness, and amount of pain did significantly
predict relationship satisfaction. Specifically, avoidance (from the forgiveness measure)
and faith (from the trust measure) seemed to explain the most variance in the model.
Forgiveness explained slightly more variance than trust or pain, but all significantly
contributed. Trait forgiveness, as measured by the Dissipation Rumination scale did not
contribute to the overall model. The most notable finding of the current study was that
forgiveness served as a mediator between trust and relationship satisfaction. Listed
offenses were categorized into either an unfaithfulness category or other category. Of the
153 participants, 10 participants listed spouse unfaithfulness as the offense. No
differences were found between type of offense and relationship satisfaction, however
participants who reported unfaithfulness did differ significantly on the amount of pain
reported.Thesis (Ph. D.)Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Service
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Le traumatisme, la culture, et l'identite chez Aki Shimazaki : le poids des secrets et les defauts de la societe japonaise
No full text1 online resource (iii, 28 p.)Includes abstracts in French and English.Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-28).This thesis highlights the major critiques made by Japanese author Aki Shimazaki in her series of five novels entitled Le poids des secrets. Shimazaki chose to write the book series in French, and heavily critiques several very important aspects of the Japanese mindset and culture. In using French, this thesis argues that Shimazaki was able to escape the confines of her own culture and language and prove that Japan needs to learn from its past in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
The books deal with some of the most traumatic events in Japanese history, from the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Atomic Bombs. The characters in these novels are forced to deal with their situations in a manner that is defined by their culture, which proves problematic in several ways that are outlined in this thesis.
The first chapter covers the historical background of the events dealt with in the novels in order to create a better understanding of the traumatisms the characters deal with. The second chapter deals with the specific elements of Japanese culture that are relevant to how the characters act and think. Finally, the third chapter covers aspects of Japanese identity and how collectivism is so important to understanding why the Japanese government and people behave and think the way they do
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