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A State Afraid of Itself: The Dissolution of the National Indigenist Institute of Mexico and the Limits of Bureaucratic Autonomy

Description:
How does an agency of the state come to acquire a counter-hegemonic stance against it? And what does its dismantlement by the state tell us …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Lopez Portillo Alcocer, Maria Fernanda (creator)
Pacewicz, Josh (Advisor)
Hirschman, Dan (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Bureaucracy
Ethnography of the State
Collection:
Sociology
Theses and Dissertations
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Agua Para Tod@s: The Mazahua Water Struggle and the Movement for Popular Sustainable Development in Mexico State

Description:
For more than half a century, Mexico City has balanced on the precipice of water crisis. Since the 1940s, the Mexican government has propped up …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Kligler, Zachary (creator)
Rodriguez, Daniel (thesis advisor)
Hu-Dehart, Evelyn (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Neoliberalism
Water rights
Mazahua
Indigenous women
Sustainable development
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Chronicles of Violence: Human Rights Abuses on the Central American Migrant Trail

Description:
This thesis will seek to address the scope of violence that migrants encounter in transit on the Central American Migrant Trail and evaluate the effectiveness …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Rice-Aguilar, Camila L. (creator)
Durante, Erica (thesis advisor)
Montero, Iris (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Human rights
Mexico
Immigrants
Emigration and immigration
Central America
North America--Mexican-American Border Region
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Democratic Accountability and its Discontents: Social Policy Evaluation Expertise in Mexico

Description:
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Graizbord, Diana (creator)
Heller, Patrick (Advisor)
Chorev, Nitsan (Reader)
Snyder, Richard (Reader)
Baiocchi, Gianpaolo (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Democracy
Expertise
Knowledge Production
Evaluation
Social policy
Development
Accountability
Collection:
Sociology
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics

Description:
Abstract of ESSAYS IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS, by AURORA ALEJANDRA RAMÍREZ ÁLVAREZ, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017 Essays in Applied Microeconomics contains two main chapters written …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Ramírez Álvarez, Aurora Alejandra (creator)
Knight, Brian (Advisor)
Shapiro, Jesse (Reader)
Björkegren, Daniel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Economics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Development economics
Mass media
property rights
perceptions crime
Collection:
Economics
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Insurance Type and Use of Contraceptive Methods among Women of Reproductive Age in Mexico: Evidence from the 2015 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and Women’s Beliefs and Attitudes Regarding Use of Diverse Contraceptive Methods

Description:
Insurance Type and Use of Contraceptive Methods among Women of Reproductive Age in Mexico: Evidence from the 2015 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Objectives. The purpose …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Carbone, Sofía Lara (creator)
Galárraga, Omar (Advisor)
Claborn, Kasey (Reader)
Guthrie, Kate (Reader)
Harrison, Abigail (Advisor)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Contraception
Universal Health Care
Health Care Access
Attitudes and Beliefs
Pregnancy Prevention
Seguro Popular
Social Health Insurance
spermicidal gel
Condoms
Intravaginal rings
oral contraceptive pill
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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Queer Sor Juana? Power Relations in Courtly Love Poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Two Contemporary Novels

Description:
This thesis analyzes power relations in the forms of asymmetries and hierarchies of gender and race. The analysis falls on three texts, Sor Juana Inés …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Mendoza Sosa, Alan (creator)
Merrim, Stephanie (thesis advisor)
Estrada Orozco, Luis Miguel (reader)
Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Hispanic American women
Latin America
Mexico
Poetry
Latin American literature--Women authors
Historical fiction, Latin American
Medieval and early modern world
Collection:
Comparative Literature
Theses and Dissertations
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The Mexican “Island”: Understanding the Role of the International in the Mexico City Popular-Student Movement of 1968

Description:
Little historical research has examined the conceptions of students regarding the international during the Mexico City popular-student movement of 1968, a year that has been …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Alabab-Moser, Jacob P. (creator)
Green, James (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social movements
Latin America
Mexico
Mexico--Mexico City
Solidarity--International cooperation
Student movements
New Left
Communism
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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The Role of U.S. Guns In Violence Throughout Mexico

Description:
This thesis will seek to address how guns from the United States, both legal and illegal, have played a role in the escalation of violence …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Epstein, Louis (creator)
durante, erica (thesis advisor)
barnes, nicholas (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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The Well-being of Migrant Families: Evidence from China and Mexico

Description:
This dissertation consists three quantitative analyses that aim to examine the impact of migration not only on migrants themselves, but also on their young children …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Liu, Zhen (creator)
White, Michael (Advisor)
Qian, Zhenchao (Reader)
Short, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Immigration
Sociology
Migration
China
Collection:
Sociology
Theses and Dissertations
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URBAN PUEBLO: GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND WORK IN OAXACA, MEXICO, 1920-1945

Description:
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 permanently shifted the nation’s political scene, but its success is debated. My dissertation project addresses the question of how Mexico’s …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Haley, Sandra K (creator)
Green, James (Advisor)
Hu-Dehart, Evelyn (Reader)
Cope, R. Douglas (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mexico
Gender
Mexican Revolution
Women
Working class
Indigenous peoples
Collection:
History
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