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Giving Voice to the Voiceless [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of matriculated, full time college students from a medium-sized Catholic, Liberal Arts College in the Northeast who identify as multi-racial or multi-ethnic, specifically identifying as coming ...
Palmer, Victoria L.
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Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 2427-2442, April 2026.ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte +3 more
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Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative [PDF]
Includes vita.Thesis advisor: Mamadou Badiane.My dissertation focuses on the articulation of the black female voice in the literary traditions that have emerged in the Equatoguinean and Afro- Costa Rican socio-cultural contexts in the contemporary period.
McBurney, Wendy Angela
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Negotiating Competitiveness Agendas in Costa Rica and Nicaragua [PDF]
, 2013 Yearly published competitiveness indexes make possible immediate comparisons of investment and productivity climates around the globe. Against the backdrop of an increasing linkage between competition, “good governance” and poverty alleviation within ...
Tornhill, Sofie
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Anaemic Streams: Iron and Essential Trace Metals Frequently Limit Primary Producer Biomass
Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2026.Nutrient enrichment experiments in 41 streams across the eastern United States demonstrate that trace metals can limit the growth of primary producers. Trace metals are frequently co‐limiting with macronutrients and the availability of N and P in streams and watersheds are predictive of Fe and Zn limitation status.
David M. Costello +10 more
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CoopeTárcoles, Costa Rica. Equator Initiative Case Study Series [PDF]
, 2012 The artisanal fishers of the community of Tárcoles, located in the Gulf of Nicoya on the Pacific coast of North America (Central America)-Costa Rica; faced declining fish stocks due to a combination of overharvesting by commercial shrimp boats and ...
Dearbhla Keegan +5 more
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Surveiller, faire croire et punir: The Body of Evidence in Luis Rafael Sánchez’s La pasión según Antígona Pérez [PDF]
, 2012 A Foucauldian reading of Luis Rafael Sánchez’s play La pasión según Antígona Pérez reveals the importance of the body as a site of punishment as well as of propagandistic strategies in the manipulation of public opinion in the imaginary state of Molina ...
Bettaglio, Marina
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Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT The rise of ride‐hailing platforms has profoundly transformed urban mobility in Latin America over the past decade. Transportation Network Companies such as Uber, DiDi, Cabify, InDrive, and others operating in the region have affected transportation patterns and intensified debates around labor relations, algorithmic management, regulatory ...
Ronald Sáenz‐Leandro
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