Browsing by Department "Human and Organizational Development"
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(2005-08-12)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis thesis describes the details and rationale of a study exploring particular organizations that work to address structural inequalities in our society, local labor unions. The purpose of this study was to explore local ...
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(2019-05-16)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis thesis is a case-study analysis of out-of-school-time (OST) practitioners’ experiences of accountability in the NAZA network, a cross-institutional OST network partnership between OST programs, non-profit organizations, ...
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(2017-03-31)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis exploratory study examines the motivations and goals of relocators, Christian Community Development Association members who intentionally relocate to low-income urban neighborhoods for the purpose of community ...
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(2006-09-13)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis study weaves together strands of knowledge from a range of disciplines including anthropology and physics to explore power and leadership from a paradigm of synergy. Due to a desire to develop a phenomenological ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis phenomenological qualitative study explores the implications of the 2016 United States presidential election of Donald Trump on the lives of immigrant-origin (first- and second-generation) youth. Through dyadic ...
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(2006-07-24)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThe purpose of this paper is to challenge current understandings about the nature of community and individual relationships held by development theory. Recently, development theorists have challenged the idea that economic ...
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(2017-04-14)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentSince 1987, billions of dollars in homeless assistance have been allocated annually by the U.S. federal government. Yet, few evaluations of homelessness interventions exist. This study analyzes the likelihood that households ...
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"No papers, no fear": The boundary politics of undocumented immigrant youth activists in Tennessee (2014-07-25)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis dissertation focuses on the ways in which undocumented immigrant youth in Tennessee contest their marginalization and challenge various forms of social injustice arising from their immigration status and other facets ...
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(2009-07-29)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis dissertation is a collection of three studies examining the overlap between mental health services and being charged with a crime during the time of transition to adulthood from 16 to 25 years of age. The first study ...
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(2011-09-16)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentSince 1990, there has been a marked increase in rates of youth volunteering, prompting researchers to investigate the academic, behavioral, and civic effects of volunteering. Although several notable studies have revealed ...
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(2018-03-12)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThe anti-fracking movement in Bulgaria, 2011-2012, represents a remarkable case of citizen mobilization against techno-industrial development. The movement merits scholarly interest both as an instance of a larger controversy ...
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(2017-07-10)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentFamily housing instability is a persistent public health issue in the U.S. This study developed risk models for returns to housing instability among previously homeless families. Participants include 466 families assigned ...
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(2016-11-28)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentQueer theory, women of color feminism, and queer of color critique demand the de-naturalization of gender and sexual norms through intersectional strategies. This demand requires a critique of normalizing logics, which ...
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(2014-07-28)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentIn recent decades, a renewed interest in the development of urban areas has resulted in tensions between various social, economic, and political interests that may be resolved through the process of urban planning, often ...
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(2018-03-14)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentGentrification—commonly understood as the transformation of areas with high levels of affordable housing into areas targeting middle and upper income uses—provokes a range of losses. People may lose their homes, neighbors, ...
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Toward Political Community: Navigating Civic Conditions and Civic Positions in the Creative Economy (2019-04-08)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis dissertation confronts the deterioration and transformation of public life in the era of neoliberalism and neoliberal multiculturalism. This confrontation is filtered through the creative economy of Nashville, Tennessee, ...
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(2009-09-25)Department: Human and Organizational DevelopmentThis study provides information on the number of youth in Nashville who experience homeless episodes and describes the experience of literally homeless youth in Nashville. The study included two data collection efforts: a ...