Central American Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Extranjero en mi tierra (Stranger in My Homeland): Migrant Realities in Mexico's Riviera Maya
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-15)The explosive growth of Mexico's tourism industry in the Yucatán over the past thirty years has exacerbated the poor living and working conditions of thousands of immigrants in Mexico's Caribbean coast. My main research ... -
Through the Lens of Pater-Americanism: A Comparative Analysis of the Eisenhower Administration's Perception of Guatemala and Bolivia, 1953 and 1954
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-06)This thesis examines the diverging responses of the Eisenhower Administration in the US to the Arbenz government in Guatemala and the Paz government in Bolivia in 1953 and 1954. This divergence occurred in spite of strong ... -
Ecological applications of remote sensing data in neotropical rainforests
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-24)Understanding species' distributions is a central theme of biodiversity studies. A combination of data derived from moderate and high spectral resolution satellite imagery (vegetation indices and hyperspectral narrow bands, ... -
Garifuna Place-Making: Hope for the Guatemalan Nation
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)In this thesis I use the geographic framework of moral progress to analyze the few places within Guatemala that are being constructed by the Garinagu. I use specific criteria from the framework to judge whether or not the ... -
Multiple species of Phoreiobothrium from the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, in the Gulf of Mexico
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)During a survey of the adult tapeworm fauna of sharks from the Gulf of Mexico, the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller and Henle, 1839), was found to host cestodes in the genus Phoreiobothrium. Carcharhinus ... -
POETISA CHIC: FASHIONING THE MODERN FEMALE POET IN CENTRAL AMERICA, 1929-1944
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)This dissertation explores the cultural and literary "fashionings" of Central American female poets of the 1930s in order to demonstrate how some of these poets entered the lettered city (Ángel Rama's term for the nexus ... -
Sustainable Development in Costa Rica: A Moral Geography
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)Sustainable development has been uncritically adopted in Costa Rica and elsewhere as a desirable ideal informing development practice. Nevertheless, critical voices outside the development establishment have questioned the ... -
FORMALIZATION OF HOUSING IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: A community pathway to legal incorporation
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)This work explores urban informal housing and development strategies with a process centered purpose in the urban core of San José, Costa Rica. It seeks to explain how communities obtain change in formal housing status and ...