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Conflict and Agency in Honduran Agricultural Development
- Timothy RyanAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
This presentation consists of a critical analysis of agricultural development in Honduras. The effects of neoliberal policies in particular will be examined and an in depth examination of the current land conflict in the Aguán Valley will be used as an example. While there have been many criticisms of development practices in the country, recently in relation to oil palm plantations and World Bank lending, there have also been successes. Often these successes have resulted from militant action on the part of the rural poor. An analysis of agricultural development in Honduras will be presented and tentative conclusions regarding various development policies’ effects reached.
Content Analysis of Sexualized Violence Across the California State University System
- Torisha StoneSociologyUndergraduate Student
Content analysis of the sexual assault prevention programs and education provided at the 23 universities within the California State University system.
Continuum of Violence Research Project
- Michihiro SugataSociologyFaculty
- Kerri KidwellSociologyUndergraduate Student
- Erika AokiSociologyUndergraduate Student
- Tony Le DonneGeospatial AnalysisUndergraduate Student
This project explores the spatial distribution of automobile title lenders across four metropolitan areas. Automobile title loans are specific form of alternative finance that targets individuals who do not have access to traditional forms of credit. Our research shows that the spatial distributions of these alternative financial service providers concentrate in lower income neighborhoods where residents tend to be poorer, less educated, and less white. Thus, there are clear class and racial dimensions to the marketing, spatial presence, and consumption of these alternative loan products.
Conversations Matter: Mediation Theory, Practice, and Social Change
- Maricela WexlerEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
I am participating in a service learning project through the Environmental Studies’ Spring 2017 Senior Capstone. My emphasis in community organizing has established my curiosity and passion for conflict resolution communication. Conflict is a part of life. How this inevitability takes form and is approached varies and has social ramifications. Working with Humboldt Mediation Services has informed me about the social impacts mediation theory and practice impart and has revealed the need for and power of alternative dispute resolution in personal, social, environmental, and political arenas. This project highlights my involvement with and vision for mediation theory and practice.
COVID-19 in Prisons
- Jazmin DelgadoPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Kory LambertsScientific Diving, Environmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
- Andrea GerardenInternational Studies, NursingUndergraduate Student
- Jeremy TietzPsychologyUndergraduate Student
This presentation was made and presented by the Members of the Formerly Incarcerated Students Club. This presentation brings awareness to how prisons and jails are being handled (or not being handled) for COVID-19. We discuss the rates of COVID-19 inside prisons and jails, what prisons are supposed to be doing to abide by COVID-19 Guidelines outlined by the CDC, why they cannot and are not implementing most of them, and what needs to happen to lower these rates.
Creating an Interactive Index Map Using Scanned Images: A Project for the Humboldt State University Library's Special Collections
- Daniel SnowGeographyUndergraduate Student
The Humboldt Room special collections at the Humboldt State University Library contains a large collection of delicate and vintage historical maps. Taking action to make searching the archive easier as well as to preserve the fragile status of historical maps has become a necessity. This can be accomplished by creating a “web-based digital map archive” and supplanting it with a Web Map component that allows users to search and download from the digital map archive.This poster introduces the concept of converting the map collection to a digital format, the methods used for developing an interactive web map, and the future status of the project.
Creating Inclusive Outdoor Spaces
- Sandra Sandoval RuezgaEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
My poster outlines the work I have put in, as an Environmental Studies capstone student, to create an educational outdoor program that is more inclusive for the Latinx community through the Wildlands Conservancy. I decided to work on this project because as a Mexicana I have struggled with being in enviromental spaces and feeling like I don't belong there. Although this program will be implemented on the local level it will still help to mitigate the problem that is a predominantly white Environmentalist Movement. If through this I am able to empower at least one Latinx student to feel like they belong in the Environmental Movement, then I will consider it a success.
Creating Methodology for Classroom Materials using Correlations between Childhood and Adulthood Literacy
- Makayla WhitneyAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
Kindergarten reading habits are expected to persist into adulthood; however, for many adults in Washtenaw County this is not the case. This population will rise as half of their children will become illiterate themselves. Survey responses of 76 teachers regarding selection of reading materials based on grammar, syntax, and reading topics were collected in the fall of 2018. Teachers commonly selected pre-leveled reading materials regarding grammar with minor focus on topical matter. These materials did not correlate with topical-matter focused adult reading materials. This study suggests renovation of adult reading materials to help combat the ongoing cycle of illiteracy in Washtenaw County.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Helpful or Harmful?
- Geneva BaierAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC) are nonprofit organizations whose purpose is to provide free resources to pregnant women. Currently, there is much controversy over CPCs and their legitimacy as a nonprofit resource for women. To ascertain the prevailing perceptions of CPCs, a literature review was conducted. Materials were analyzed and synthesized to produce a comprehensive view of current feelings about CPCs. Trends reveal a negative characterization of CPCs as dishonest. Several articles call for new legislation that would either restrict or compel speech for CPCs. This study examines the conflict between reproductive rights and free speech laws and how it emerged.
Critical Service Learning and Social Change
- Jeff EnsworthEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
The major problems we face today are socially constructed and institutionally perpetuated. With the right approach Service Learning can play a critical role in affecting social change. Critical Service Learning informed by the Environmental Humanities offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary model for problem solving, and an effective mode of intervention. These ideas are explored using my Service Learning placement at Northcoast Environmental Center and my experience with the Humboldt State Environmental Studies curriculum.