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Item Extracting Identities and Value from Nature: Power, Culture, and Knowledge in the Contested Politics of Mining(2018-07) Kojola, ErikGlobal capitalism’s accelerating consumption of natural resources and new technologies are driving development of new riskier forms and sites of extraction. These developments create conflicts around socio-ecological hazards and perceived trade-offs between economic growth and environmental protection. I take proposed copper-nickel mines in Northern Minnesota as an illustrative case study of the contentious politics that arise around ecological risks, environmental governance and land-use decisions. Northern Minnesota is an emblematic case of the tensions around resource use in a rural mining region, but also has a distinct history of progressive politics and militant unionism, American Indian sovereignty, and ethos of environmentalism. I examine how class and place-based identities and collective memories inform how people make sense of environmental hazards and construct different visions for the future. I investigate how social actors (unions, mining companies, environmentalists, American India Tribes and local politicians) legitimize their positions, create competing truth claims, and engage in environmental decision-making. I situate these discourses and actions within the particular socio-ecological histories of Northern Minnesota and broader relations of power and political-economic and ideological processes. I contribute to environmental and natural resource sociology by integrating interdisciplinary theories of political ecology to address the interconnections between class, race, and indigeneity in environmental governance.Item Political Tolerance and Ideology: Ideology as a Determinant of Political Tolerance(2021-05) Skroch, Tiffani AThis study examines whether or not political ideology is a strong determinant of political tolerance, as has been found in previous studies. Participants of this study (N = 258) were asked to complete a survey asking questions that would indicate their level of tolerance. Respondents identified their least-liked group in the beginning of the survey and answered questions about procedural rights in the context of that group. The results showed that respondents in this study had generally low levels of tolerance. When compared across political ideology, there is not a significant difference in the tolerance levels between those who identified themselves as conservatives, independents/moderates, and liberals. Furthermore, political ideology is not found to be a significant determinant in level of political tolerance.Item Twin Cities, Split Politics: Crisis, Antiracism, and Reparations in the Twin Cities(2023-02) Williams, RashadTwin Cities, Split Politics is a comparative case study exploring how the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul came to incorporate conflictual notions of reparative justice into their community and economic development efforts following the mass protest movement for Black lives (the "Minneapolis Rebellion") in the summer of 2020. Leveraging historical institutionalist methodology, textual analysis, and ideological analysis, Twin Cities, Split Politics tells the story of how competing political grammars of antiracism have shaped the character and content of local reparations in the Twin Cities -- how one city came to embrace a politics of recognition while the other came to embrace a politics of redistribution.