Baur, Cynthia Louise

In this paper I critically analyze the local food movement in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area. I argue that the local food movement is a response to a global, industrialized neoliberal food system. Consumers...

Wojcik, Courtney Eve

China has risen from the subject of Western neo-colonialism to a rising hegemon that is beginning to buck the U.S.’s monopoly of the Asia-Pacific arena. Traditionally, Chinese society spurned the economic elite, Confucian-era...

Wildey, Amanda Jo Elizabeth

As markets are growing and borders are shrinking, the different corners of the world are becoming increasingly in contact with one another. But what is the nature of the interactions that result? For this thesis, I examine...

Dall'Agata, Delphine

This research examines a geographical and historical panorama of Italian agriculture, the history of urban agriculture, the phenomenon of urban green zones from the Middle Ages to present day in the city of Bologna, and four...

Tiarachristie, Giovania Genevieve

Urban gardening has been hailed as a tool for community empowerment in the inner city to relieve food security. But in some low-income communities with predominantly people of color, the Whiteness of a new wave of urban...