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Partnerships across campuses and throughout communities: Community engaged research in california’s central san joaquin valley
Simón E. Weffer, James J. Mullooly, Dari E. Sylvester, Robin M. DeLugan, and Marcia D. Hernandez
In this chapter the co-authors explore the process of conducting social indicator research in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. The “Central Valley” is notable for the high level of ethnic diversity, deep economic disparity, unemployment and underemployment, and blend of rural and agricultural communities with urban areas experiencing various levels of gentrification and development. The Partnership for the Assessment of Community (PAC) project was created to serve as a model to measure the changes over a 10-year period in the Central Valley. The PAC research team consists of faculty from different universities in the Central Valley and student-researchers. A description of the pilot study of PAC research is discussed in this chapter. The co-authors offer a critical read of the promises and challenges for researchers interested in conducting community-based research with students across multiple sites. We offer a summary of successful ventures as well as valuable lessons of what did not work for the initial study and salient issues for future social indicator research endeavors in the Central Valley.
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Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies
Ken Albala
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into classes and formal degree programs focused on food.
Introduced by the editor and including original articles by over thirty leading food scholars from around the world,the Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies offers students, scholars and all those interested in food-related research a one-stop, easy-to-use reference guide. Each article includes a brief history of food research within a discipline or on a particular topic, a discussion of research methodologies and ideological or theoretical positions, resources for research, including archives, grants and fellowship opportunities, as well as suggestions for further study. Each entry also explains the logistics of succeeding as a student and professional in food studies.
This clear, direct Handbook will appeal to those hoping to start a career in academic food studies as well as those hoping to shift their research to a food-related project. Strongly interdisciplinary, this work will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.
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Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican, Chinese
Ken Albala
Knowledge of Italian, Mexican, and Chinese cuisines illuminates many of the great historical themes of the past 10,000 years as well as why we eat the way we do today.
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The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home
Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger Henderson
A celebration of the new old-fashioned approach to living - from soapmaking to sewing to bread baking and much more. It is not about extreme, off-the-grid-living, but these projects are decidedly unplugged and a little daring.
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A Cultural History of Food in The Renaissance
Ken Albala, Fabio Parasecoli, and Peter Scholliers
A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-cultural-history-of-food-9781847883551/#sthash.LF11bLyZ.dpuf
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The International Rights of Migrants
Raquel Aldana
Chapter 45 in the Handbook of Human Rights edited by: Thomas Cushman.
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English Translation of: Marcial Molina Richer's The Word of the Dead or Ayacucho Ninth Hour.
J. R. Ballesteros and Leslie Bayers
“The Word of the Dead or Ayacucho in the Ninth Hour” bears witness to the violent internal war between the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and government forces that shook Peru, and the region of Ayacucho—the epicenter of the conflict—in particular, in the 1980’s (the violence waged through the 90s). Richter is considered an important and courageous intellectual for having published his work during an era known by locals as “manchay tiempo,” a quechua phrase meaning “time of fear.” His critique of the violence led to his capture, upon which he suffered psychological torture and witnessed other acts of cruelty by military forces."
-From a press release of St. Mary's College of Maryland.
The book is currently only available for purchase in Peru.
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Shifting the Locus of Intercultural Learning: Intervening Prior to and After Student Experiences Abroad
Laura A. Bathurst and Bruce La Brack
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More Votes That Count: A Case Study in Voter Mobilization
Robert Benedetti, Randall Collette, Brett DeBoer, Qingwen Dong, Austin Erdmann, Ben Goodhue, Nathan Monroe, Erin O'Hara, Alan Ray, Jon F. Schamber, Keith Smith, Dari E. Sylvester, Lisa Tromovitch, and Paul Turpin
This collection grew from the experience of a group of scholars at the University of the Pacific who were challenged by the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters to reduce voter error, improve poll worker-training, and increase voting by mail (absentee voting). The project was supported by funds from the help America Vote Act (HAVA), legislation passed in the wake of Florida's experience in the 2000 presidential election, and by the Pew Foundation for the States. Its immediate context was a controversy in California over the use of voting machines, a controversy that resulted in a return to the use of paper balloting at least for the near term. Both the Florida experience and the controversy in California reflect a growing realization that the electoral system itself has influenced the outcomes of elections rather than provided a level playing field for all candidates and all voters. In addition, the costs and potential costs of elections have skyrocketed with the increasing participation of media consultants, equipment manufacturers, and data specialists. In other words, the voting system is increasingly political and expensive in itself. Can and should such trends be reversed? The experience of San Joaquin County and research at the University of the Pacific shed light on this important question.
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Can Patriotism Be Carved In Stone?: A Critical Analysis of Mt. Rushmore’s Orientation Films
Teresa Bergman
Considerable scholarly analysis in recent years regards Mount Rushmore as a site of national symbolism.¹ Mount Rushmore has been interpreted and reinterpreted in ways that provide insight into its use and meaning as a U.S. patriotic icon. The choice of Mount Rushmore as a location for inquiry into the changing notions of patriotism stems from several sources. One reason is its prevalent cultural use as “shorthand for patriotism” in political campaigns, films, and marketing.² Additionally, the interest in “historically oriented tourism”³ resulted in approximately 1,989,771 tourists visiting Mount Rushmore in 2006 and more than a million tourists attending this site.
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Current methods for detecting the presence of botulinum neurotoxins in food and other biological samples
Luisa W. Cheng, Kirkwood M. Land, and L. H. Stanker
A selection of books and book chapters written or edited by faculty at the University of the Pacific.
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