Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Offen, Karl"
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Altamaha: Conservation Memories of a South Atlantic Watershed
Loughren, Doyle Robert (2011)The history of conservation is fraught with conflict between strategies employed by powerful actors (i.e., experts, governments and capitalists) and local actors (i.e., farmers, fishermen, herders, indigenes and other ... -
Holding True: Agriculture in Colorado's Upper Grand Valley
Widener, Jeffrey (2015-07-31)This study presents the story of how farmers and agriculture survive in the upper Grand Valley, the eastern end of a 30-mile stretch of the Colorado River Valley—known as the Grand Valley—located on Colorado’s Western ... -
LOCATING THE AGENCY OF ARCHITECTURE: A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN IN WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.
Person, Angela (2016)Through my fieldwork and interviews at the Hirshhorn Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution complex in Washington, D.C., as well as archival research, this study explores the complex relationships between the building, ... -
PLACE-IDENTITY AND THE GEOGRAPHIES OF CONTEMPORARY COUNTY FAIRS IN OKLAHOMA
Roberts, Hayden (2015-08)A particular kind of allure surrounds agricultural fairs in Oklahoma. Agricultural fairs, which include county, regional, and state fairs in the United States, support emotional connections between fair participants and ...