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Item Mobility and environmental intimacy in Italian volcanic zones(2019-12-05) McQuaid, Megan Louise; Sturm, Circe, 1967-This thesis explores human and environmental movement and mobility in various Italian volcanic zones. Places and sites are typically thought of as stable, locatable in a specific location, pin-pointable. Places are not generally considered “mobile.” Stromboli, Italy and other volcanic sites force the ethnographer to reconcile a certain tension between movement and place. Volcanic sites are worlds that are materially and socially constituted through movement. How tectonic plates move creates volcanic activity, how lava moves up and out of the volcano transforms the landscape, and how people move to, from, around, through, up and down the volcano creates a volcanic social world. How do humans navigate this environment, and how does the environment agentially present itself as a force to be circumnavigated? Movement and mobility serve as a framework for theorizing human social relations with their environment and other non-humans. Thinking through mobility captures the unique limits and affordances that volcanic environments offer to their human, plant, and animal residents. Scholars differ on whether or not we can call a landscape “alive,” “lively,” or “vibrant.” This thesis argues that the answer to this question is based in observations about movement. That we can, in fact, locate agential capability in the way that a subject moves. The ability to move is the condition for agency.Item Undocumented women in the shadows(2015-05) Murguia, Blanca Lucia; Alves, Rosental C.; Timms, EdThe report focuses on the experiences of three undocumented Mexican women who fled to the United States because of political persecution and economic insecurity in their home country. The purpose is to humanize the struggles, persecutions, and dangers that five million undocumented women living in the U.S. face coming from Mexico and Central America. Not only are they escaping countries that offer them little or no protections, their status as undocumented women working in the U.S. makes them vulnerable to exploitation, rape, and economic disparity. They seek a better future, not for themselves, but for their children. But the discord on Immigration Reform, the demand for low-wage labor, and the lack of legal protections in the U.S. keep these women afraid, oppressed, and in hiding.