Browsing by Subject "Latin American studies"
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An Ecological Analysis of Predictors of Hospitalizations for Primary Care Sensitive Conditions under Brazil’s Family Health Strategy
(2017)Background: Primary care sensitive conditions (PCSC), a classification of illnesses that includes noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and maternal health complications, are considered preventable through appropriate care management ... -
Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
(2019)This dissertation explores the influence of anarchism on the development of modern art in Mexico and the Americas from 1910 to 1950. It argues that art was an integral component of anarchist movements and that the philosophy ... -
Atmospheric Pressure: An Ethnography of Wind, Turbines, and Zapotec Life in Southern Mexico
(2018)As one of the windiest places in the world, it is no surprise that companies have flocked to Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow neck of land connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Primarily foreign corporations ... -
Attending to the Burden of Disease for Isolated Indigenous Populations of the Amazon: An Experience with Expedicionarios da Saude
(2015)Background: Indigenous People around the world experience inequalities in health care. In Brazil, Indigenous inequalities in health are exacerbated by the poor system of health care delivery. The aim of this study is to ... -
Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico
(2020)Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico traces a chronological evolution of images circulating between the Caribbean and the United States demonstrating the intersection of religion and ... -
‘Christ the Redeemer Turns His Back on Us:’ Urban Black Struggle in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense
(2018)“Even Christ the Redeemer has turned his back to us” a young, Black female resident of the Baixada Fluminense told me. The 13 municipalities that make up this suburban periphery of Rio de Janeiro have suffered for decades ... -
Coloring the Sacred: Visions of Devotional Kinship in Colonial Peru and Brazil
(2019)My dissertation, “Coloring the Sacred: Visions of Devotional Kinship in Colonial Peru and Brazil,” spans disciplinary, linguistic, and imperial bounds to explore how local devotion to saints expressed through visual media ... -
Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
(2017)The literature on clientelism has extensively covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public ... -
Consumerism and its Discontents: A Cultural History of Argentine Development, 1958-1969
(2012)This dissertation explores the quotidian experience of economic development by studying both the material realities and discursive worlds of 1960s Argentina. I reveal the gendered relationship between economic development ... -
Cuban-Russian Relations in the 21st Century: Oil and Geopolitics
(2015)This thesis examines how the recent discovery of massive oil reserves off the coast of Cuba has driven a resurgence of Cuban-Russian relations in the 21st century. The first chapter demonstrates how the Russian government ... -
Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Devorational Cinema: Spectacle, Ritual, and the Senses in Cold War Latin American and Spanish Experimental Film
(2019)This dissertation revisits a neglected archive of avant-garde Cold War-era Latin American and Spanish films which use baroque, excessive aesthetic strategies inspired by popular religious ritual: the experimental documentaries ... -
Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship to Post-Dictatorship
(2016)I study three contemporary Chilean works of visual culture that appropriate and re-assemble visual material, discourse, and atmosphere from the bureaucracy of the military state. I examine Diamela Eltit’s textual performance ... -
Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
(2018)Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. ... -
Family and Provider Perceptions of Barriers to NGO-Based Pediatric Surgical Care in Guatemala
(2014)Background: Globally, there is often a gap between medical need and access to care, and this is particularly true for surgical care for children. In Guatemala, for instance, families frequently pursue care outside of the ... -
Fascist Fiction: Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil
(2019)My dissertation, Fascist Fiction: Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil, accounts for the resilience of fascism by tracing the rhetoric of the “lesser evil”—a discursive practice constitutive of fascism—through ... -
Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel
(2020)My dissertation, “Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel”, studies recent developments in the Latin American novel to better understand the relation between economics and time in ... -
Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
(2015)This dissertation investigates how non-academic agents (i.e. artists, curators, and institutions) helped construct the current canon of Latin American art. It takes as case studies key exhibitions held in Brazil in order ... -
From the Streets to the Classrooms: The Politics of Education Spending in Mexico
(2012)This dissertation examines the political determinants of government spending across different levels of education. What are the political motivations that drive budgetary decisions on primary, secondary, and tertiary education? ... -
Home is Where the Hurt Is: Racial Socialization, Stigma, and Well-Being in Afro-Brazilian Families
(2012)This dissertation examines racial socialization in Afro-Brazilian families in order to understand how phenotypically diverse families negotiate racial hierarchies and ideologies of white supremacy. As an inductive, qualitative ...
