Browsing UW Geography Senior Honors Theses by Title
Now showing items 33-35 of 35
-
Terra Nullius and Boxing Crocodiles: Colonialism in the Kitsch
(2020-05-20)Early cartographers imagined Australia to be a mythological continent on the other side of the world full of strange creatures. Driving across the landscape today, one is still bound to run into something surreal; be it a ... -
(Un) Fixing Biodiversity: Nature, State, and the Techno-politics of Offsetting in the United Kingdom
(2015-05-10)In this thesis I examine the United Kingdom's biodiversity offsetting program. Offsetting is a new form of "market-based" conservation and an attempt by environmentalists and bureaucrats to "sell nature to save it". Critics ... -
„Wer darf Deutsch sein?”: the Racialization and Integration of Refugees in Germany
(2018-05)This thesis addresses problems with the integration of refugees in Germany, specifically focusing on refugees as the constitutive other to a popularly perceived white German identity. The purpose of this thesis is to ...