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Item Establishing a national water resources geodatabase system in Albania : a case study of challenges in a transitioning country(2013-05) Poci, Elisabeta; Maidment, David R.Water resources information in Albania is very scarce. The country does not have a consolidated monitoring network to collect hydrological and other related data and the quantity and quality of the carried out measurements carried out is limited. The water institutions are very fragmented and the monitored and collected data are being stored in different databases, and non-standardized formats, making it hard for the data to be easily retrieved and exchanged. This thesis explores the available water resources and related data that there is in Albania, and also in the European and Global level. The thesis provides some recommendations as to a way of establishing a water resources geodatabase for Albania focusing on some relevant guidelines from the European Commission and the World Meteorological Organization. In the second part of the thesis, a mean annual precipitation map is compiled as a demonstration of one of the uses of a geodatabase.Item Locating Albanian otherness via the black female body : an ethnographic inquiry of (non)belonging(2011-05) West, Chelsi Amelia; Stewart, Kathleen, 1953-; Neuburger, MaryThis report is an ethnographic exploration of othering and belonging in Albania . In the past twenty years there has been a significant amount of scholarship addressing the construction of difference and collective identity in the Balkans. Much of that research has focused on processes of Orientalism, historical analyses ethnic conflict, and nationalism. The work presented here has been shaped by these discussions but is also an attempt to further deconstruct identity and nationalism vis-à-vis the ethnographic examination of belonging. Specifically, this paper addresses my positionality in the field and the ways that this positionality allows for a particular inquiry of belonging. In this report I address how my identification as a Black American female shapes my day-to-day interactions with Albanian informants, and how these encounters can be used to probe representations of what I term “Albanianess”. In doing so, I reveal the ways in which the ethnographic encounter allows for an interrogation of meaning, public intimacy, difference, and local attachments to identity.Item Mapping Race and Belonging in the Margins of Europe : Albanian, Romani, and Egyptian Sentiments(2016-08) Ohueri, Chelsi West; Stewart, Kathleen, 1953-; Ali, Kamran; Campbell, Craig; Hartigan, John; Neuburger, Mary; Pierre, Jemima; Luci, NitaRacialization and belonging are deeply complex and imbricated processes. Drawing from more than 28 months of ethnographic research with Albanian, Romani, and Egyptian communities, this dissertation maps sentiments, scenes, and sites of socioracial manifestations in Albania’s capital city of Tirana. Racial formations are increasingly salient in Tirana, where these negotiations are fraught with tensions that play out through inherited and newly constructed narratives of belonging and non-belonging. These processes of racialization manifest locally in varied ways, and yet, they are shaped by broader global structures. The significance of race and racialization however, has been left out of the larger discussion of identity formation and marginality in the Balkans. I use this dissertation research to think critically about the scenes and sites of racialization and identity formation, and to explore notions of racial belonging and marginality as they are uniquely manifested in the contemporary post-communist moment.