Anthropology and Sociology Senior Individualized Projects: Recent submissions
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Freshwater : An Essential Human Right - How Nestle’s Freshwater Withdrawals from the Great Lakes Region Set a Dangerous Global Precedent
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019-09-01)This paper focuses on how Nestle's freshwater withdrawal operations in the Great Lakes Region are setting a dangerous global precedent by allowing corporate control of water - a survival resource that is deemed a human ... -
Sexual Assault Prevention and Detection Trainings In United States’ Summer Camps
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-01-01)One of my main methods of research was interviewing counselors and directors from summer camps throughout the United States. I was able to interview four camp directors and five camp counselors. The main focus of the ... -
The Language of Humanness : Migrant and Refugee Experiences of Mexicans and Venezuelans in Chicago
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019-09-01)There has been a global migration. The United States has been seen as the promised land of opportunities. Many people arrive in the U.S. after being forcibly displaced from their country of origin. Their displacement can ... -
Comparing Methods in Planning Bus Services
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)This literature review compares three methodologies that are used in planning bus services. The three approaches include statistical, participatory, and modeling approaches. The process of developing analytical approaches ... -
Queer and Trans People of Color and Campus Climate : How Labor is Claimed by the Institution
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)Predominantly white institutions (PWIs) attempt to diversify their student body by enrolling people of color (POC) as students. For the purposes of this paper POC will include all people who identify as non-white, including ... -
The Future of Health : The Impact and Adoption of Medical Technology within the Indian Healthcare System
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)The Indian healthcare system presents a spectrum of contrasting landscapes. At one end of the spectrum are well-developed structures delivering advanced medical care through privatized health. At the other end are the ... -
"Hitting Closer to Home" : The Politics of a Community's Understanding of Deportability in Northern Michigan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)The nation-state's existence as an "imagined political community" (Anderson 1983) relies on both physical and imagined borders which inevitably creates "insiders" and "outsiders." In this imagined nation, made up of "good ... -
Breaking the Unshackled Chains
(2020-01-01)This research follows the history of how slavery has just changed into mass incarceration over a long period of time. The U.S. Prison system is not a place to make rehabilitation possible for those who have committed a ... -
Opioid/Opiate Addiction: Analyzing the Significance of Racial Disparities Present Within Rural and Inner Cities
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)This project focuses on analyzing the existing literature around the opioid crisis taking place in rural cities across the United States. It will be juxtaposed using existing literature on the war on drugs, the 1993 crime ... -
Screaming Xicago : How Identity Built the Lower West Side
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This report utilizes the majority Mexican Chicago Neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village alongside the majority suburb of Cicero to examine the relationship between space and power. Specifically, the communities within ... -
The Kurdish Movement : Towards Democratic Confederalism and Kurdish Feminism to Liberate a Society
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This project examines the existing literature surrounding the issues in Kurdistan, the Kurdish people, and the Kurdish Workers' Party (referred to as the PKK). Intertwined with the discussion on this topic, there is a ... -
A Critical Analysis ofthe Epistemological Framework of Human-Animal Interaction in Favor Of a Psychosocial Theoretical Approach
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This research works to analyze the existing literature on theoretical approaches to. human-animal interactions in order to recommend a more comprehensive approach. This research explores the failures of the quantitative, ... -
Reconceptualizing Third Culture Kids (TCKs) : Investigating Transnational Non-place Identity and Problematizing the Concept of Third Culture Kids
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This qualitative research is grounded in the experiences of children raised transnationally in highly mobile worlds. Traditionally in research these people have been referred to as Third Culture Kids (TCKs), however the ... -
Resurfacing Slave Patrols Within "Modern" Police Subject Matter
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This essay compares similarities in the relationship between slave catchers and slaves, pre and post Civil War, to the relationship between modern day law enforcement and African American communities. The author argue that ... -
The Chosen Frame(s) : Constructing STEM Groups for Underrepresented Minority Students at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In the United States, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a highly valued discipline because it upholds the economic wealth in the nation. However, the number of underrepresented minority students ... -
The Politics of Solidarity : Working in cooperation through Violent and Non-Violent Militancy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This research examines the ideologies and practices of white radical leftist organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, it's various iterations, and The White Panther Party. This is accomplished through ... -
No Simple Gift : Neoliberalism and the Kalamazoo Promise
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In November 2005, it was announced that a group of anonymous donors had contributed funds to provide the full tuition cost at any in-state college or university to graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools. This scholarship ... -
Constructing New Realities in Dzaleka : Exploration of Power and Agency in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)The purpose of this research is to explore power and agency within refugee camps. To do so, this paper surveys relevant literature overviewing broad institutions that manage displacement, and then centers the conversation ... -
The Influences on Intention : Albany, NY as a Case Study of Refugee Agencies in Relation to the State and Neoliberalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This research project investigates the motivations and priorities of local refugee agencies in Albany, NY, as compared to the U.S. federal resettlement system and its corresponding neoliberal objectives. The focus is on ... -
Screaming Xicago: How Identity Built the Lower West Side
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This report utilizes the majority Mexican Chicago Neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village alongside the majority suburb of Cicero to examine the relationship between space and power. Specifically, the communities within ...