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A Tale of Three Cities: Medical Marijuana, Activism, and Local Regulation in California

regulatory practices. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, medical marijuana activists and providers have faced vastly different “political opportunity structures.” I operationalize ... operationalize political opportunity structures as composed of district attorney policies, police department policies, city initiatives and resolutions, the presence or absence of dispensary regulations, and the

Cannabis, Communities, and Place: (Re)constructing Humboldt’s Post-Prohibition Present

Since 1990, many Cal Poly Humboldt faculty and students have made cannabis the focus of scholarship and learning. This work has been shaped by the political, economic, and cultural legacies of ... industry capa-te parcels (Ford 2020). ital into political capital for Humboldt County-legaliza Based on the EIR, as well as the location of pretion, in the California legislature, for the state’s B2o0a1r6d

Scenario Planning for Building Coastal Resilience in the Face of Sea Level Rise: The Case of Jacobs Avenue, Eureka, CA

, environmental, and political context related to sea level rise planning for Jacobs Avenue. From this information we developed a scenario-based set of management options to guide stakeholders in future decision ... throughout the state. Researchers conducted interviews with stakeholders, developed geospatial analyses, and reviewed policy documents in order to understand the social, environmental, and political context

Ironies of History and the Dissidence of Memory

globe. This dissident memory is rooted in political struggles and revolutionary dreams of a passionate generation of university students for social justice and freedom. ... -communist strategy in higher education. Given the country’s increasingly authoritarian political The historical irony, however, is that it soon became a climate, the university administration has been trying

Keeping People In Their Homes: Boston’s Anti-Foreclosure Movement

. The combined efforts of legal services attorneys, neighborhood organizers and community developers empower local residents to combat post-foreclosure displacement and regain their voice in the political ... with lenders, while attempting to effect systemic change in the larger political and economic systems that allowed the mortgage -lending crisis to occur. In this section, I discuss City Life within a

The Politics of Fire and the Social Impacts of Fire Exclusion on the Klamath1

cultural practice, political sovereignty, social relations, subsistence activities, and the mental and physical health of individual tribal members. In addition, Karuk tribal members are negatively impacted ... traditional foods and spiritual practices, puts cultural identity at risk and infringes upon political sovereignty. On a more individual level, the altered forest conditions create social strain for the

Border Fetishism: Decolonizing of the Imaginary Border Ideology and Discourse

Then Presidential Candidate Toxic Orange, during his political campaign for president, promoted his xenophobic and racist ideology by stating that all immigrants crossing the US imaginary border ... liberalism and promoting sanitized images of commercial begins and ends. It is both political theater and social tra-ge goods in shiny ship containers, trains, commercial trucks, dy; corporate economic booming

Snapshots of Resistance and Solidarity in the East Bay

mainstream conversation. Indeed, defunding the police has been silenced by both mainstream political parties, but that does not mean that these so-called leaders can lecture the public on morality. We have ... political parties, but that does support the proliferation of militarizing themselves. not mean that these so-called leaders can lecture the public I joined the marches that week. I took photographs of on

All We Ask Is To Be Left Alone

California, the Jeffersonians’ sense of economic and political marginalization strengthens their connection to a regional identity. Jefferson’s population today is at most just over half a million, a tiny ... movers-and-shakers back in 1854 at a boisterous gathering, resolved to carve their own political entity out of their piece of Oregon and California. They agreed on language for a protest to Congress, part

New State Movements, 1900-2013

their host state governments, have sought to break away into smaller, more self-regulating political territories. In fact, the current State of Jefferson movement in northern California and southern

How Porous are the Walls that Separate Us?: Transformative Service-Learning, Women’s Incarceration, and the Unsettled Self

rehearse its arguments here, yet remain troubled by one of the persistent, thorny issues of service-learning that has crucial ethical and political implications, namely, the dichotomy between those who serve ... are on the faculty, one in the Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology Departments and the other in the Philosophy of Religion. As we taught, we often observed the reconfiguration of traditional

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White built their program through Butin’s political and antifoundational perspectives on service learning to create a classroom climate that would break down perceived barriers between incarcerated women ... , inform and shape change (Martinez 2007). Art simultaneously draws from culture and produces culture. In this sense art is political “because meanings are constitutive of processes that, implicitly or

Equitable representation on international benches and the appointment of tribunal members in investor–State dispute settlement: a historical perspective

-political context, the latter was adopted, with the awareness of possible contradictory decisions undermining the role, if any, of investment tribunals in developing the law.30 Therefore, the organizational ... prevailed over the political appointment of tenured judges, as the latter might run the risk of creating a permanent court without the trust from disputing parties and was less likely to be accepted by States

Speaking Up: School Climate and Language Politics in the Trump Era

in political behavior outside of guage revitalization and continuation of heritage language tradition political party structures—are fraught. Publicuse are a few of many examples of how BIPOC students ... conclude with an assessment that taken by a majority group to force the assimilation of a in the toxic political culture on issues of diversity during minority —for BIPOC students for generations. In a d-i

How powerful political ties appropriate resources and how weaker organizations protect themselves: A case study from Indonesia

We advance the resource dependence literature on appropriation of organizational resources by powerful partners, focusing on political ties. Using a unique emerging market case of a venture with ... unpacking how political connections can hurt the organization by increasing the permeability of organizational boundaries. Our extensions highlight the crucial role of control mechanisms for politically

Designing “‘Queer’ Across Cultures:” Disrupting the Consumption of Diversity

those of us across campus committed to queer studies; reaching out to colleagues in English, Ethnic Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Theatre, Film and Dance, and Women’s Studies. True to ... . Through examining the gendered and sexual dynamics of colonialism, nationalist movements, and contemporary economic and cultural globalization, I seek to engage with the history of economic, political and

Completion of high-tech M&As by chinese firms: knowledge distance, industry attractiveness and government involvement

distance. For example, Berry et al. (2010) offered nine theoretically separate sub-dimensions of institutional distance: Economic, Financial, Political, Administrative, Cultural, Demographic, Knowledge ... characterized by government involvement are sometimes required to serve political mandates and align their business interests with government economic development objectives (Meyer et al., 2014) . Such

Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative as a narrative: Implications for institutional change and international firm strategy

narrative economics perspective and on the institution-based view and political economy perspective. Implications for BRI stakeholders, international business practitioners, and international business ... ’ strategies. Researchers and practitioners alike have wondered exactly how the present economic, geopolitical, political, and technological disruptions will reshape institutional arrangements. Executives

The Fallacy of a One Size Fits All Cannabis Policy

sources. Available empirical evidence, pressure from special interest groups, personal moral beliefs and experiences, political party obligations, and constituents’ opinions all shape how policy is written ... responsible way remains elusive. In the context of the political history of cannabis in the United States, the reasons behind volatile and often misdirected arguments and policies concerning cannabis become

Doing well by doing good: unpacking the black box of corporate social responsibility

political power of China’s central government has developed and launched a sequence of policies that support the development of its renewable energy industry. These include laws and regulations, as well as ... , Anhui Province, China Center for Crisis Management Research (Sponsored by Beijing Planning Office of Philosophy & Social Science), School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR