Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Geography. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-152). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11813

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-144). Also available on the World Wide Web.

In a tale of survival, dubbed that of the “South Seas Crusoes”, a group of men overcame the odds by setting up camp on a deserted volcanic sub-Antarctic island in the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean. This group of men formed the crew of the Norwegian SS Solglimt sealing vessel which had wrecked on the sub-Antarctic Marion Island in October 1908. More than a century later remains of the shipwreck of the SS Solglimt can still be found lying exposed below the water in the bay of Ships Cove. In the valley north of the bay, the remnants of the shipwreck survivor camp associated with the wreck holds hidden stories of a terrestrial maritime landscape formed out of tragedy and the need to survive. It is mainly the remains of this camp which forms the basis of the research and discussion for this dissertation. The following study is not only an attempt to add to our knowledge and understanding of the archaeological remains on Marion Island, it is also to add to an existing body of knowledge involving shipwreck survivor camps. The remains on Marion Island have produced the perfect opportunity to fill gaps within the discipline of Maritime Archaeology, especially in South Africa where too often emphasis is placed on shipwreck studies and not enough on the events taking place before or after the crisis event. The following dissertation uses archaeological techniques alongside historical documents as a way to better understand the socio-cultural behaviour of survivors during events of disaster, isolation and the necessity to survive. The study will be used as a comparison to similar studies around the world and hopes to add to an existing body of knowledge involving survivor camps and disaster-response studies from an archaeological and anthropological perspective. / Anthropology and Archaeology / M.A. (Archaeology)

Historically, images of Black women in media have been confined to one-dimensional, caricatured representations such as the mammy, jezebel, and 'angry Black woman'. However, a small segment of Black female filmmakers have committed to the re-presentation of Black women. This study focuses on two Black female directors, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Ava DuVernay, who have re-presented multi-dimensional images of Black women at the center of their stories. In this thesis, Prince-Bythewood’s "Love & Basketball" (2000) and "Beyond the Lights" (2014) and DuVernay’s "The Door" (2013) and "Selma" (2014) are the subjects of the chapters as I examine themes such as community, motherhood, and girlhood from the films.

Immigrant regionalization initiatives that encourage new immigrants to settle outside of metropolitan centres are increasingly common in Canada and often proposed as an aid to revitalize growth in smaller centres. This thesis considers the potential implications of such initiatives on the settlement experiences of immigrants who move to smaller cities. The research is based on interviews with service providers and immigrants in Northern British Columbia. Immigrant respondents described their experiences settling into the small city of Prince George, and service providers from Prince George, Fort St. John and Terrace reflected on their communities’ ability to welcome newcomers. Results revealed the flexible approaches to settlement that immigrants employed to feel more comfortable in relatively isolated and culturally homogenous cities and towns. Findings also emphasized the pressing need to consider the socio-economic and cultural geographies of the welcoming town or city. Both sets of respondents were also asked to give meaning to the term integration. The results of this query showed that service providers were more able to put meaning to integration than where new immigrants, despite the fact that service providers saw themselves as less active than immigrants in the process of integration. Service providers often approached the term conceptually, and gave definitions bound up with ideologies of multiculturalism, acceptance and tolerance. The usefulness of the term for immigrant respondents was very limited. Similar to the concept of regionalization, integration is an interesting idea that requires more grounded research. This thesis helps explore a new area and challenges some generalizations about immigrant settlement and community identity that are often made about places seemingly far away. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

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Diploma thesis provides an overview of IT project management and its methodologies. It follows the goal of exploring the most widely used approaches. Special attention is devoted to recognize the position of IT project management between general management and technical computer perspectives. Chosen methods will be compared to identify common elements and differences.

A warming Southern Ocean (SO), due to climate change and global warming, has many implications on the sub-Antarctic Islands in the SO. Due to the distance away from continental land these islands experience an oceanic climate, making them the perfect sentinels to climate change in this sector of the Southern Ocean. Studies have proposed that climate changes reported at the Prince Edward Islands (PEIs) correspond in time to a southward shift of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) particularly the Subantarctic Front (SAF). While other studies have shown distinctive trends in ocean and atmospheric parameters such as sea surface temperature (SST), air temperature, sunshine, rainfall, air sea level pressure and wind speed and direction from the 1950s to the early 2000s, the aim of this study is to update those studies to a more recent time with updated time series. Among the changes recorded is an increase in SST and air temperature, which is a strong indication of the changing local and global climate. Using linear regression, this study showed that the rates of increase from 1949 to 2018 of the SST (0.022°C/year), minimum (0.0072°C/year) and maximum air temperatures (0.016°C/year) are smaller than estimated in previous studies. The increasing trend in SST and air temperature reported by previous papers has actually stopped since the 2000s, which reduces the formerly reported trend (0.028°C/year). Although the in-situ measured SST data had gaps, a good correlation with in-situ SST and large scale satellite derived Reynolds SST help to corroborate the covariation between SST, in-situ SST and air temperature giving weight to the hypothesis of a reversal of the positive temperature trends reported by others. The change in decadal variability a decrease in air pressure of 4 hPa since the late 1990s to late 2000s, which coincided with a decrease in minimum and maximum air temperatures of 1°C over the same period; decrease in westerly wind and an increase in the northerly component of the wind, which would explain the decrease of inshore sea surface temperature a while thereafter. This study further corroborates previous findings of a continued decrease in rainfall, while the sunshine has largely remained the same. The seasonal cycle of the air pressure is significantly associated with that of rainfall, showing that the bimodal high air pressure signature resulting from the Semi-annual Oscillation (SAO) is associated with a decrease in rainfall. The Southern Annual Mode (SAM) was significantly yet weakly correlated with the SST (0.24), rainfall (-0.25) and air pressure (0.16), indicating that it does have an impact at the PEIs but not as strong as previously speculated. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has very weak and insignificant relationships with the parameters examined except for a weak relationship with in-situ SST, sunshine and air pressure. These new insights, especially at the decadal timescale, could further our insight on how subAntarctic islands have responded to climatic changes.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In the winter of 1832-1833, German scientist and aristocrat Prince Maximilian of Wied spent five months in the Indiana town of New Harmony during a two-year expedition to the interior of North America. Maximilian’s observations of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River have influenced European and white American perceptions of the Indigenous peoples of North America for nearly two centuries, but his time in New Harmony has gone understudied. This article explores his personal journal and his published travelogue to discover what Maximilian’s time in New Harmony reveals about his work. New Harmony exposed him to a wealth of information about Native Americans produced by educated white elites like himself. However, Maximilian missed opportunities to encounter Native Americans first-hand in and around New Harmony, which he wrongly thought required crossing the Mississippi River. Because of the biases and misperceptions caused by Maximilian’s racialized worldview and stereotypical expectations of Native American life, he overlooked the Indigenous communities and individuals living in Indiana.

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 6 novembre 2023) / Dans la région des Caraïbes, depuis la baie de Port-au-Prince, on peut encore observer le tracé d'une ancienne cité coloniale qui fut la capitale de la riche colonie française de Saint-Domingue (1770-1804), la partie occidentale de l'île d'Haïti. Elle est actuellement la capitale de la République d'Haïti et le siège du gouvernement. À première vue, ce lieu à forte charge historique et mémorielle est une impressionnante concentration urbaine confusément organisée et entretenue. Qu'y a-t-il dans le paysage urbain historique de la ville de Port-au-Prince à sauvegarder, à montrer et à transmettre aux générations futures du point de vue de l'histoire, de la mémoire et du patrimoine ? Cette ville-capitale qui se réinvente chaque jour, contre le gré de tous, se reproduit singulièrement en avalant tous les morceaux de territoires qui l'environnent. En admettant que les dysfonctionnements urbains en cours proviennent d'un passé très complexe, cette étude s'intéresse à la question suivante : qu'est-ce qui fait patrimoine, que ce soit pour les classes privilégiées ou les masses urbaines de Port-au-Prince ? Les politiques patrimoniales et mémorielles combinées et le processus de patrimonialisation sélective et inégale s'ajoutant aux modes d'appropriation conflictuelle des espaces publics offrent une belle perspective à l'ethnologie historique de cet espace social vécu. Sans pouvoir mobiliser avec exhaustivité le passé de cette ville, cette thèse examine les fondements du narratif de sa mémoire patrimoniale. Ceux qui discriminent ce qui est patrimoine de ce qui ne l'est pas. Par un examen de la circulation des notions de patrimoine et de la mémoire entre les fractions sociales urbaines de Port-au-Prince, cette recherche invite à réfléchir aux difficultés du processus de patrimonialisation dans cet espace. À l'aide d'une historiographie critique de l'évènement fondateur de 1492, cette dissertation doctorale interprète les usages du patrimoine héroïque et l'invisibilisation de figures historiques traitées comme « ordinaires » dans la scénographie du passé de la ville contemporaine de Port-au-Prince. Ce travail déploie son argumentaire à partir des dispositifs du mythe fondateur de la nouvelle nation haïtienne. Les points qu'il soulève interrogent les modes d'appropriation en cours de l'héritage précolonial, colonial et postcolonial. Les limites de ces représentations de l'histoire pour faire un « commun » partagé y sont discutées à l'épreuve d'une ville inventée en 1749 par la modernité coloniale mais qui poursuit cette expérience par la colonialité de son territoire. / In the Caribbean region, from the bay of Port-au-Prince you can still observe the layout of a former colonial city which was the capital of the rich French colony of Saint Domingue (1770-1804), the western part of the Island of Haiti. It is currently the capital of the Republic of Haiti and the seat of government. The first view of this place, charged with history and memory, reveals an impressive urban concentration that is confusedly organized and maintained. What is in the historic urban landscape of the city of Port-au-Prince to be safeguarded, shown, and transmitted to future generations from the point of view of history, memory, and heritage? This capital city which [re]invents itself every day, against everyone's wishes, [re]produces itself singularly by swallowing up all the pieces of territory that surround it. Admitting that the current urban dysfunctions come from a very complex past, this study focuses on the following question: what constitutes heritage for the privileged classes or the urban masses of Port-au-Prince? The combined heritage and memory policies, the process of selective and unequal heritagization added to the conflicting modes of appropriation of public spaces, offers an original perspective to the study of the historical ethnology of this singular social and lived space. Rather than providing an exhaustive account of the past of this city, this thesis examines the foundations of the narrative of its heritage memory. It examines that which discriminates between what is heritage and what is not. Through an examination of the circulation of the notions of heritage and memory between the urban social fractions of Port-au-Prince, this research invites us to reflect on the difficulties of the heritage process in this space. Using a critical historiography of the founding event that occurred in 1492, this doctoral dissertation interprets the uses of heroic heritage and the erasure of historical figures treated as "ordinary" in the scenography of the past of the contemporary city of Port-au-Prince. This work deploys its argument from the devices of the founding myth of the new Haitian nation. It raises questions about the current modes of appropriation of the [pre]colonial, colonial and postcolonial heritage. The limits of these representations of history to make a shared "common" are discussed against the test of a city invented in 1749 by colonial modernity but which continues this experience through the coloniality of its territory.