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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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Craft in Modernity

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Nicholas Meehan
Department or Program
American Culture Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Since the industrial revolution, the craftsman has occupied an increasingly precarious position in society. The once obvious and natural role of craft is threatened. Craft production sits in uneasy tension with forces of modernity, practicality, industry, economy, and reproduction. These...

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From Nature Sanctuary to "National Dump": A Walk through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Provenzano, Adriana
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This paper is inspired by the literal intersection of two walking bodies, the hiker and the migrant, in the "Most Dangerous Park In America." In Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, located on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, while the National...

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The Poughkeepsie Farmers Market: Whiteness and the Logic of Food Access

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
David A. Orkin
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The Poughkeepsie Farmers Market was the epitome of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project's mission to create a "just and sustainable food system in the Hudson Valley." While farm itself had been operating for many years prior to the program, it had...

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