Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 72). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1999. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Jonathan Leib, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 13, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 326 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

In my dissertation, I study the spatio-temporal variegation and transnational circulation of vegetable commodities using the case of edamame beans (the largest frozen vegetable sector in Asia). My dissertation shows that food production and trade in East Asia have fundamentally changed over the past several decades. Rapid development has lifted the region out of subsistence and into middle-class and luxury consumption. As a result, East Asia is quickly becoming the center of the global food economy. The development of edamame industries is central to explaining the transformation of the agriculture and food industries across the region. I employ a mixed methods approach that includes participant-observation, semi-structured interviews with 40 edamame farmers and entrepreneurs, and GIS mapping, alongside Social Network Analysis (SNA). In my analysis, I coin the concept of “border assemblages,” arguing that edamame trade incorporates network and state-territorial characteristics. Building on this approach, my research bridges two social science sub-fields that scholars have often applied empirically but not theoretically: international politics and regional agrarian development. Three novel findings emerge from this research: First, my research adds to the literature on Asian colonialism by showing how the Japanese Empire and the post-World War Two (WWII) U.S. Cold War regime territorialized East Asia to develop a regulatory assemblage of regional agricultural production and trade. Second, after the 1980s, a new type of food regime emerged in East Asia following the introduction of new World Trade Organization food safety regulations that reterritorialized the food production networks in Asia. My research conceptualizes the emergence of the new food regimes in an East Asian context according to the political economy and ecology of edamame trade among Taiwan, Japan, and China. Third, another strand of my research contributes to the geopolitical understanding of the edamame trade with regard to food scares and contract farming. I extend the definition of contract farming to encompass international regulatory bodies and argue that trade agreements and international food laws, such as the Codex Alimentarius, have significantly shaped the agrarian landscape in Asia. / 2021-01-11

This thesis brings feminist ontologies into a renewed dialogue with post-phenomenological landscape studies through the development of a critical arts-research practice. Contemporary landscape scholarship in cultural geography foregrounds landscaping practices as performative; visual culture studies, similarly influenced by phenomenology, critiques the powerful fixings of representation; whilst current commentaries on art-geographies focus on questions of interdisciplinarity, rather than the potential for art practice-as-research to be generative of politically complex cultural geographies. Landscape, replete with complex power geometries and tension, both resists fixing and framing, and also becomes defined or imaged by these same operations. My goal in this thesis is to find a way of working, as an artist, with an understanding of landscape as being continually in eventful—and sometimes violently eventful—process, beyond conventional framings of image and landscape. Initially, this art practice (undertaken as research within cultural geography) worked with a violent flash flood and resultant loss of life, and was set against the backdrop of picture-postcard West Cornwall. Whilst focused through practice on this usually trickling mile-long moorland stream, something happened. This research became infected by concurrent geo-political events. Through practice in the studio, the violent lifeworld of the stream collided with an activist project associated with the 2014 Gaza conflict. Land and image became both occupied and ghosted. This corporeal and material collision of practice(s) afforded a productive entanglement of practice and theoretical engagement. My search for a way of working with landscape as an artist that accounts for the unpalatable dimensions of material formations, for the dying within living, for the exclusions, subjugation, violence, or even extinctions of landscape—led me to realise that I cannot stand back innocently and safely behind the camera, outside of the frame. I propose that landscape is inherently violent, and that as such, landscaping practices are always politically differentiated and situated. It is a violence in which there can be no innocent place of on-looking; we are all mutually implicated in landscape and landscaping-practices, and indeed, the ghosts of our own vulnerabilities are never far away. The thesis demonstrates that the unpredictability and riskiness of researching through a critical arts practice, can produce the conditions for disruptive interventions generative of new ways of (body)knowing in the world. These ways of knowing serve to confront the violence and contradictions of a fast changing enviro/geopolitical landscape. Working from within an art practice—as geographical research—contributes a perspective of political complexity and generative encounter, in which unexpected collisions, between things, practices, and bodies function to produce spatial connections beyond contemporary analysis.

Inscrita no âmbito da Ciência Política, a presente tese trata da elite, da geopolítica em Roraima, do poder que existia no Território Federal do Rio Branco (depois transformado no estado de Roraima), e da estrutura de poder do Estado Federado, no período de 1943 a 1994. Para tanto, inicialmente, fazemos a contextualização histórica da região, abordando as questões referentes às disputas geopolíticas entre Portugal e Espanha, que acarretaram, por conseguinte, o descobrimento do Brasil, a conquista e ocupação da Amazônia, do Grão-Pará, do Amazonas e do rio Branco, bem como a construção do Forte São Joaquim, os aldeamentos dos índios na região, o ciclo da borracha, a questão da criação dos territórios e, ainda, o processo de institucionalização de seus principais atores. Em seguida, tratamos da criação do Território Federal do Rio Branco, em 1943, e de sua posterior transformação em Estado da Federação, em 1988, com a promulgação da Constituição do Brasil de 1988. Os fatos relevantes do período em tela, que culminaram na atual configuração de Roraima, são objeto da presente tese, que analisa as estratégias geopolíticas empregadas para a institucionalização do poder em Roraima, dando ênfase a suas potencialidades e dificuldades, cujo fim é fazer propostas pertinentes. Para tanto, além da pesquisa bibliográfica aprofundada, realizamos entrevistas com ex-atores políticos de Roraima, que possibilitaram o acréscimo de informações não disponíveis em outras fontes. Por fim, apresentamos apêndices e anexos, que visam ao enriquecimento da presente pesquisa. / With part in Political Science, this thesis deals with the geopolitical in Roraima, the power that existed in the Federal Territory RioBranco (after Roraima) and the power structure as the federal state, covering the period from 1943 to 1994.For this purpose, initially, a historical contextualization was carried from the geopolitical issues in Portugal and Spain that led the discovery of Brazil, the conquest and occupation of the Amazon, Grão Para, Amazonas, Rio Branco, Fort San Joaquin construction, the villages of the Indians in the region, rubber boom, the question of the creation of territories and its main actors. The creation of the Federal Territory of Rio Branco (after Roraima) in 1943, and the transformation into state of the Federation in 1988 with the promulgation of the Constitution of Brazil of 1988. The relevant facts of the period here proposed that culminated in the current configuration ofRoraima are treated in this thesis, analyzing from the geopolitical strategies used for the power of institutionalization in Roraima, leaving aside their potential and difficulties, exposing before this, relevant proposals. In the methodological part and enriched even more this thesis, it was possible to conduct interviews with former political actors of Roraima, which in addition to bibliographic and documentary contribution available, added with these unique information sources, often not available other sources. They also present appendices and timely attachments to the enrichment of this doctoral research.

Recognition of the world food crisis has increased popular and scholarly work on alternatives to corporatized agriculture. Among many alternatives, fair trade and food sovereignty are two movements that have received a substantial amount of attention. Scholarly work on these topics, however, has focused on larger-scale issues of policy, access and benefits accrued to producers and consumers within such alternative food systems. Producer-focused studies of fair trade--a broader certification system designed to ameliorate inequalities in the marketplace--have examined access to markets, producer benefits and fairness. Analyses of struggles for food sovereignty in the developing world--which are directed at producer control over agricultural systems--are focused on creating radical alternatives to neoliberal food systems. However, very little is known about the everyday agricultural and food production practices which farmers deploy as part of their involvement with these broader politics. Attempts to create secure livelihoods and food resources do not exist in a vacuum; they take place alongside other strategies for survival. This is a situation that is well illustrated by indigenous farmers living in self-declared autonomous communities in Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico, where, cultivating subsistence crops and cash crops represents an effort to advance a political agenda for indigenous autonomy and create secure sources of food and income. Based on research and fieldwork from 2010-2013, in this dissertation I examine how farmers who are linked up with broader networks (such as fair trade certification) understand and practice autonomy. Drawing on a feminist geopolitical approach, this research presents a `scaled-down' analysis of autonomy, fair trade certification and practices of food sovereignty which is focused on the experience of farmers in self-declared autonomous communities. This approach provides critical insight into the daily negotiations of farmers as they interact with a range of networks. / 2015-10-17

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Inscrita no âmbito da Ciência Política, a presente tese trata da elite, da geopolítica em Roraima, do poder que existia no Território Federal do Rio Branco (depois transformado no estado de Roraima), e da estrutura de poder do Estado Federado, no período de 1943 a 1994. Para tanto, inicialmente, fazemos a contextualização histórica da região, abordando as questões referentes às disputas geopolíticas entre Portugal e Espanha, que acarretaram, por conseguinte, o descobrimento do Brasil, a conquista e ocupação da Amazônia, do Grão-Pará, do Amazonas e do rio Branco, bem como a construção do Forte São Joaquim, os aldeamentos dos índios na região, o ciclo da borracha, a questão da criação dos territórios e, ainda, o processo de institucionalização de seus principais atores. Em seguida, tratamos da criação do Território Federal do Rio Branco, em 1943, e de sua posterior transformação em Estado da Federação, em 1988, com a promulgação da Constituição do Brasil de 1988. Os fatos relevantes do período em tela, que culminaram na atual configuração de Roraima, são objeto da presente tese, que analisa as estratégias geopolíticas empregadas para a institucionalização do poder em Roraima, dando ênfase a suas potencialidades e dificuldades, cujo fim é fazer propostas pertinentes. Para tanto, além da pesquisa bibliográfica aprofundada, realizamos entrevistas com ex-atores políticos de Roraima, que possibilitaram o acréscimo de informações não disponíveis em outras fontes. Por fim, apresentamos apêndices e anexos, que visam ao enriquecimento da presente pesquisa. / With part in Political Science, this thesis deals with the geopolitical in Roraima, the power that existed in the Federal Territory RioBranco (after Roraima) and the power structure as the federal state, covering the period from 1943 to 1994.For this purpose, initially, a historical contextualization was carried from the geopolitical issues in Portugal and Spain that led the discovery of Brazil, the conquest and occupation of the Amazon, Grão Para, Amazonas, Rio Branco, Fort San Joaquin construction, the villages of the Indians in the region, rubber boom, the question of the creation of territories and its main actors. The creation of the Federal Territory of Rio Branco (after Roraima) in 1943, and the transformation into state of the Federation in 1988 with the promulgation of the Constitution of Brazil of 1988. The relevant facts of the period here proposed that culminated in the current configuration ofRoraima are treated in this thesis, analyzing from the geopolitical strategies used for the power of institutionalization in Roraima, leaving aside their potential and difficulties, exposing before this, relevant proposals. In the methodological part and enriched even more this thesis, it was possible to conduct interviews with former political actors of Roraima, which in addition to bibliographic and documentary contribution available, added with these unique information sources, often not available other sources. They also present appendices and timely attachments to the enrichment of this doctoral research.

Inscrita no âmbito da Ciência Política, a presente tese trata da elite, da geopolítica em Roraima, do poder que existia no Território Federal do Rio Branco (depois transformado no estado de Roraima), e da estrutura de poder do Estado Federado, no período de 1943 a 1994. Para tanto, inicialmente, fazemos a contextualização histórica da região, abordando as questões referentes às disputas geopolíticas entre Portugal e Espanha, que acarretaram, por conseguinte, o descobrimento do Brasil, a conquista e ocupação da Amazônia, do Grão-Pará, do Amazonas e do rio Branco, bem como a construção do Forte São Joaquim, os aldeamentos dos índios na região, o ciclo da borracha, a questão da criação dos territórios e, ainda, o processo de institucionalização de seus principais atores. Em seguida, tratamos da criação do Território Federal do Rio Branco, em 1943, e de sua posterior transformação em Estado da Federação, em 1988, com a promulgação da Constituição do Brasil de 1988. Os fatos relevantes do período em tela, que culminaram na atual configuração de Roraima, são objeto da presente tese, que analisa as estratégias geopolíticas empregadas para a institucionalização do poder em Roraima, dando ênfase a suas potencialidades e dificuldades, cujo fim é fazer propostas pertinentes. Para tanto, além da pesquisa bibliográfica aprofundada, realizamos entrevistas com ex-atores políticos de Roraima, que possibilitaram o acréscimo de informações não disponíveis em outras fontes. Por fim, apresentamos apêndices e anexos, que visam ao enriquecimento da presente pesquisa. / With part in Political Science, this thesis deals with the geopolitical in Roraima, the power that existed in the Federal Territory RioBranco (after Roraima) and the power structure as the federal state, covering the period from 1943 to 1994.For this purpose, initially, a historical contextualization was carried from the geopolitical issues in Portugal and Spain that led the discovery of Brazil, the conquest and occupation of the Amazon, Grão Para, Amazonas, Rio Branco, Fort San Joaquin construction, the villages of the Indians in the region, rubber boom, the question of the creation of territories and its main actors. The creation of the Federal Territory of Rio Branco (after Roraima) in 1943, and the transformation into state of the Federation in 1988 with the promulgation of the Constitution of Brazil of 1988. The relevant facts of the period here proposed that culminated in the current configuration ofRoraima are treated in this thesis, analyzing from the geopolitical strategies used for the power of institutionalization in Roraima, leaving aside their potential and difficulties, exposing before this, relevant proposals. In the methodological part and enriched even more this thesis, it was possible to conduct interviews with former political actors of Roraima, which in addition to bibliographic and documentary contribution available, added with these unique information sources, often not available other sources. They also present appendices and timely attachments to the enrichment of this doctoral research.