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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Reflection, Reproduction, and Challenging at the Brooklyn Zen Center: Complexifying Cultural Capital, Gentrification, the Mindfulness Movement, and Scale

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Sola, Tobiah R.
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This project analyzes the Brooklyn Zen Center as a case study in order to complexify our understandings of cultural capital, gentrification, the modern American mindfulness movement, and geographic scale. Through an analysis focused at the local scale, we see how...

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The Crowd as Interruption: Politics of Invisibility and Protest Photography in the Anti-ELAB Movement in Hong Kong

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kaiqing Su
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Political Science Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Since its invention, photography has played an important role in capturing and shaping understandings of social movements. In the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong, while many Western audiences have been emotionally moved by the media coverage...

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The Social Displacement and Public Censorship of Public Spaces in Buenos Aires

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Matthias Howley
Department or Program
Urban Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Buenos Aires is home to many Bolivian immigrants, so much that they statistically have become a key member of the city's citizenry. This thesis entails the social and cultural mechanisms that prevent Bolivians from having a social representation in the...

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