Department of International Studies: Recent submissions
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World society and the convergence of consumer values: Buying patterns of eco-certification in the UAE
(Wiley, 2023-04-10)Eco-certifications offer consumers the opportunity to vote with their money for more sustainable methods of production. While consumer-facing eco-labels are mostly recognized and consumed in western countries little is ... -
Pushing against a future dark side for community development: An editorial call to action
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)Community Development as a journal has undergone streamlining, yet much work remains to improve the journal’s relations with its many stakeholders around the world and within the field of community development. Community ... -
It’s Not You, It’s Us: Relationship-Based Factors That Predict Infidelity
(Oxford University Press, 2022-07-12)Infidelity is often defined as perceived as a violation of relationship exclusivity rules, and many view infidelities as immoral. Thus, one can imagine the importance of understanding why up to a fifth of research samples ... -
Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
(Routledge, 2022)This review discusses the book Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan. In the book, Baughan documents and discusses the first 100 years of the Save the Children Fund, which was ... -
Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
(Routledge, 2022-09-21)Open access (OA) publishing presents university librarians, administrators, and faculty researchers with a paradox of both opportunities and challenges. For faculty researchers in particular, the decision of whether to ... -
Applying Thematic Analysis to Psychological Cultural Research
(2022-07)In this workshop, students will be asked to bring qualitative data that they have collected for one of their own research projects. We will read and discuss Braun and Clarke’s (2006) classic article, Using Thematic Analysis ... -
The Importance of Protecting Cultural Capital in Community Development
(2022-07)Community development, which aims to increase the agency and solidarity of community members in order to improve the well-being of communities as a whole as a well as the individual members of those communities. Community ... -
Historical Context of Secondary Education (Guatemala)
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Historical Context of Primary Education (Guatemala)
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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Primary Education (Guatemala)
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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Secondary Education (Guatemala)
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Tethering Natural Capital and Cultural Capital for a More Sustainable Post-COVID-19 World
(Springer, 2022)The world faced stark challenges during the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. Large forces such as climate change, cultural ethnocentrism and racism, and increasing wealth inequality continue to ripple through communities ... -
Guatemalan Teenagers’ Hopes and Dreams: A Qualitative Study of Drawings and Characteristics of Future Selves
(Hogrefe, 2022)Utilizing adolescents' drawings in order to investigate their perceptions of self has a long history in psychology. The methodological approach is particularly useful in places, such as Guatemala, where the population may ... -
Surveilling and Spying on Romantic Partners in the United States: The Influence of Perceived Maternal Rejection and Psychological Maladjustment
(Universal Wiser, 2021)According to interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory), people who perceive rejection by important others experience more psychological maladjustment than those who do not perceive rejection. ... -
Harmful, Helpful, or Both? A Commentary on Postmodernism and Critical Theories in Community Development Education
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)In this relatively informal commentary, I discuss both the potentially helpful and harmful roles that postmodernism and critical theories (e.g., critical race theory, critical sexuality theory) have in academia in general ... -
Bibles and Bathrooms: Intersex Variation Awareness Among College-Aged American Christians
(Sage, 2022)The extant literature concerning the existence and experience of the LGBTQIA+ community in the United States sometimes overshadows that of people with intersex variations (Jones, 2018). While many people with intersex ... -
Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures
(Sage, 2021)Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional ...