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Community Engagement in National Forest Management Planning: An Analysis of Revised Forest Plans

Rangel-Lynch, Megan (University of Oregon, 2023)

Historically, mainstream environmental movements in the United States have been entrenched in settler colonialist ideologies, and white or wealthy individuals have been considered the only legitimate environmental stakeholders. ...
Framing Ferments: Discursive (Micro)Biopower in Fermentation Practice

Beavers, Kaleb (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

This paper considers how The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a microbiopolitical artifact that (re)produces certain values and characteristics associated with fermentation praxis. The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a significant ...
GMO: Friend or Foe? An Analysis of the GMO Debate with Special Focus on India

Crnkovich, Erin (University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)

Approximately thirty years after their inception, the use of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, remains contentious. Often, proponents of their use contend that the potential of GMOs to mitigate poverty and hunger ...
Re-mediating Ireland: The Nature of Modernization in Twentieth-Century Irish Culture

Huber, Katherine (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

Ireland’s long history as a British colony raises questions in postcolonial studies about race, class, and gender that an ecocritical lens helps to answer. Drawing on literature, film, and archival photography and radio, ...
The Exclusive Frontier: Whiteness and the Settler Imagination in Last Child in the Woods

Wyant, Jordan (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

Spurred by Richard Louv’s bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit-Disorder (2005), a popular movement composed of parents, educators, and researchers has increasingly called for the ...
Toxic Entanglements: Advertising and Material Toxicity in Environmental Justice Literature

Preston, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

Brand names, advertisements, and marketing strategies fill the pages of much contemporary ethnic American literature that engages with issues of environmental justice. In Toxic Entanglements: Advertising and Material ...
Unsettled Ecologies: Alienated Species, Indigenous Restoration, and U.S. Empire in a Time of Climate Chaos

Fink, Lisa (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

This dissertation traces environmental thinking about invasive species from Western-colonial, diasporic settlers of color, and Indigenous perspectives within U.S. settler colonialism. Considering environmental discourses ...
Wash Yourself White: Race, Hygiene, and Environmental Justice in Twentieth-Century U.S. Multi-Ethnic Women's Working-Class Literature

Galentine, Cassandra (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

My dissertation argues that studying literary representations of women’s labor helps us to understand the intersection of racial capitalism and environmental injustice. I examine how various twentieth-century working-class ...