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Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
No full textThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Intro -- SANDRA CISNEROS'S Woman Hollering Creek -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- I. Negotiating Borders: Issues of Sociocultural Cooptation -- Amphibious Women: The Complexity of Class in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- So You'll Know Who I Am: Inventory and Identity in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- The Chicana Trinity: Maternal Mestiza Consciousness in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- II. Toys, Tiny Candies, and Telenovelas: Popular and Material Culture as Storytelling Agents -- Male and Female Roles in Mexican-American Society: Issues of Domestic Violence in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Reading the Puns in "Barbie-Q" -- The Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican" -- Author Dialogue -- III. Images of Masculinity -- "Are you my general?": Revising Representation in "Eyes of Zapata" -- Boys to Men: Redefining Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- IV. Images of Women: Role Expectations and Conflict -- Resemantization of Chicana Motherhood and Sexuality Through the Virgin of Guadalupe -- The Cries of La Llorona: Maternal Agency in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Voicing Taboos in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- About the Authors -- IndexThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation : a spatial model of land use in Belize
No full textRural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation. To explore the tradeoffs between development and environmental damage posed by road building, the authors develop and estimate a spatially explicit model of land use. This model takes into account location and land characteristics and predicts land use at each point on the landscape. They find that: (a) market access and distance to roads strongly affect the probability of agricultural use, especially for commercial agriculture; (b) high slopes, poor drainage, and low soil fertility discourage both commercial and semi subsistence agriculture; and (c) semi-subsistence agriculture is especially sensitive to soil acidity and lack nitrogen (confirming anthropological findings that subsistence farmers are shrewd judges of soil). Spatially explicit models are analytically powerful because they exploit rich spatial variation in causal variables, including the precise siting of roads. They are useful for policy because they can pinpoint threats to particular critical habitats and watersheds. This model is a descendant of the venerable von Thunen model. It assumes that land will tend to be devoted to its highest-value use, taking into account tenure and other constraints. The value of a plot for a particular use depends on the land's physical productivity for that use and the farmgate prices of relevant inputs and outputs. A reduced-form, multinomial logit specification of this model calculates implicit values of land in alternative uses as a function of land location and characteristics. The resulting equations can then be used for prediction or analysis. The model was applied to cross-sectional data for 1989-92 for Belize, a forested country currently experiencing rapid expansion of both subsistence and commercial agriculture. A geographic information system was used to manage the spatial data and extract variables based on the three kilometer sample grid. Three land uses were distinguished:"natural"vegetation, comprising forests, woodlands, wetlands, and savanna; semi-subsistence agriculture, comprising traditional milpa (slash-and-burn) cultivation and other nonmechanized cultivation of annual crops; and commercial agriculture, consisting mainly of sugarcane, pasture, citrus, and mechanized production of corn and kidney beans. Two dimensions of distance to market were distinguished: the distance from each sample point to the road, and on-road travel time to the nearest town. Data on a wide variety of land and soil characteristics were also used.Wetlands,Water Conservation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Climate Change,Land Use and Policies,Forestry,Environmental Economics&Policies,Climate Change,Energy and Environment,Wetlands
UBC's Humanities 101 Program - Interview with Sandra Delorme
No full textChildhood educational shortcomings didn't stop Sandra Delorme from becoming a published author later in life. She credits UBC's Humanities 101 program (but deserves most of the credit herself)
Large-scale land acquisitions, agricultural trade, and zoonotic diseases: Overlooked links
No full textTropical deforestation and associated risks of emerging zoonotic diseases are being driven by large-scale land acquisitions for the production of agricultural exports. Current policies on land deals and agricultural trade fail to address this
The Importance of Wishes: An Interview with Author Sandra Magsamen
No full textChildren’s author and illustrator Sandra Magsamen holds a beloved place in the hearts of library professionals who know the impact and power of her loving board and picture books. As the author and illustrator of more than sixty children’s and adult books, Magsamen, trained as an art therapist, hopes to create books that offer people a way to reach out and connect in a meaningful and expressive way with someone in their life, and indeed she accomplishes this with her endearing new release, I Wish Wish Wish for You
Sandra Abdul Hafiz Interview
No full textSandra Abdul Hafiz grew up visiting her mother\u27s family in Plantersville. Her mother, Magnolia Green, was born and raised in Plantersville, but met and married her father, Samuel Keys, in Virginia. She grew up in Hampton, Virginia, but would return to Plantersville for holidays and summers. She admires the connectivity of the Plantersville community and recalls vividly the experience of attending church where her feet couldn\u27t touch the floor. Her grandmother, Margaret Drayton, lived in Plantersville and inspired Sandra\u27s mother to get an education. Sandra continued this legacy by attending Tuskegee University, when her mother passed away her freshman year. She discusses the importance of her family bible, and her research to find her ancestry from the first generation that was enslaved from Cameroon to her great-grandmother, Wednesday, who was enslaved at Brookgreen Gardens. She relates her mother\u27s close relationship with her father, though he died of typhoid fever when she was 12. She relates this experience to losing her mother at 19 and trying to trace through the stories that she knows about. She recalls that people in Plantersville relied on natural remedies rather than medicine, calling the ambulance the death wagon, because it would take so long to arrive. Though her mother ended up working at a hospital, Hafiz remembers that her mother always kept these concoctions to help supplement the medicine, like Catnip Tea to help with viruses. She also remembers her mother gardening, so they didn\u27t have to go to the grocery store for vegetables. She hopes that the future of Plantersville will be told by the individuals who were successful and can help return and preserve the land. This interview was conducted at the Coastal Carolina Univeristy campus with Zenobia Harper and gradaute student Sarah Jackson.https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/plantersville-oral-histories/1014/thumbnail.jp
Daya tarik pesan promosi paramount land melalui pengguna brand ambassador (studi kasus Sandra Dewi sebagai brand ambassador)
No full textPenelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh perkembangan indrustri khususnya dalam bidang properti. Persaingan indrustri properti yang sangat ketat membuat pengembang harus memiliki
menggunakan brand ambassador agar dapat menarik minat serta mendapat kepercayaan dari konsumen. Salah satunya adalah Paramount Land yang menggunakan Sandra Dewi sebagai
brand ambassador untuk dapat menarik minat konsumen. Permasalah yang di teliti oleh peneliti adalah bagaimana Daya tarik pesan promosi Paramount Land melalui penggunaan brand ambassador.
Penelitian ini mengacu pada konsep Atribut Endorser Model TEARS menurut Shimp, selain itu fokus penelitian ini mengacu pada komponen personal branding menurut Parengkuan dan
Tumewu. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif, dengan menggunakan metode studi kasus. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara mendalam, dan studi
pustaka atau dokumen.
Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Sandra Dewi merupakan director of corporate communication.Selain itu Sandra Dewi juga tidak memperoleh bayaran ekstra dalam perannya
sebagai brand ambassador. Kelebihannya adalah budaya perusahaan yang tercermin melalui Sandra Dewi dan Paramount Land merupakan salah satu pengembang yang menggunakan brand
ambassador
Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.xviii, 385 p. :This book traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, the author illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement's efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension—erasing anti-Semitic stereotypes of the “parasitic†Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. The author shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. The book situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analyzing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, the author addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population
Land-cover choices and governance structures: lessons from Māori
No full textDecisions on land utilisation and management have socio-economic and environmental implications. In this study, I use a mixed-methods approach to explore how Māori land governance structures influence decisions on land utilisation and hence greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with rural activities on Māori freehold land. General land and Māori freehold land are the main land statuses in Aotearoa New Zealand. General land, under private ownership, is not subject to the distinct statutory regime of Māori freehold land and can be owned by any New Zealander. Māori freehold, under collective ‘ownership’, is regulated by the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (TTWM) and its ‘ownership’ is based on a customary regime and ancestral connections. The TTWM provides a range of legal entities, including the two Māori land governance structures examined in this thesis – Māori incorporations and Ahu Whenua trusts – to facilitate decision-making and to administer land and assets on behalf of the ‘owners’. First, I explore how Māori land governance structures influence decisions on land utilisation and management. I discuss three case studies of Māori farms administered by different governance structures involved in agribusiness. Their decision-making process structure can be separated into two levels: the governance of the land and the operation of the enterprise. Maori land governance structures help to make ‘successful’ decisions, by balancing landowners’ interests with optimal operation and performance of the agribusiness. This success not only depends on the legal constitution of the governance structure, but also on processes that are highly variable due to cultural and social values, and the capability of the board members to reach decisions. Second, I explore decision-making processes concerning carbon farming, an opportunity to receive carbon credits from reforestation or afforestation. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews with a small group of Māori landowners revealed two central decisions: switching to forestry and joining the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS). Forestry provides an economic opportunity to access long-term capital through timber harvests: but carbon farming is a relatively new experience, which provides additional short-term revenue prior to harvesting. Third, I extend the qualitative analysis by econometrically modelling the relationship between Māori land governance structures and land-cover choices. I use maximum likelihood methods to estimate the probability of allocation of land in 2012 and the probability of land-cover transitions between 1997 and 2012. For Māori freehold land, there is a positive relationship between having a Māori land governance structure in place and the allocation of land in 2012 in forestry and a negative association with pasture. From 1997 to 2012 Māori land governance structures were associated with more transitions to forestry and fewer transitions into scrub. Four, using hypothetical scenarios, I build on the econometric model of land-cover transitions to compare the effects of transitions between forestry, pasture and scrub across the period 1997–2012, and the role of the Māori land governance structures. I examine the implications of these transitions for private land and Māori freehold land in terms of both carbon dioxide equivalent and warming equivalent. Overall, Māori freehold land governance structures in the hypothesised scenarios would lead to an increase of the amount of carbon sequestered, relative to the actual levels of sequestration observed. The current way of counting GHGs leads to a much lower estimate of the contribution in reductions to the impact of warming. Understanding drivers for these decisions can help to identify areas for the development of effective public policies regarding climate change mitigation.</p
Who owns the land?: Perspectives from rural Ugandans and implications for land acquisitions
No full textRapid growth of demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access. Patterns of gradual, endogenous change toward formalization are being challenged by rapid and large-scale demands from outsiders. Little attention has focused on the gender dimensions of this transformation. Based on a study of land tenure in Uganda, this paper analyzes how different ways of defining landownership—based on household reports, existence of ownership documents, and rights over the land—provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of landownership and rights. Although many households report that husbands and wives jointly own the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, especially titles, and women have fewer land rights. A simplistic focus on title to land misses much of the reality regarding land tenure and could especially have an adverse impact on women's land rights.Gender, land acquisitions, Land tenure, landownership, Property rights,
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