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  • Building agroecological traction: Engaging discourse, the imaginary, and critical praxis for food system transformation 

    Kelinsky-Jones, Lia R.; Niewolny, Kimberly L.; Stephenson, Max O. Jr. (Frontiers, 2023-04)
    Shifting the current food system toward a more sustainable and equitable model requires an alternative imaginary. Agroecology represents such an approach, but despite the construct's promise, policy and academic communities ...
  • Tapping into community expertise: stakeholder engagement in the design process 

    Morshedzadeh, Elham; Dunkenberger, Mary Beth; Nagle, Lara; Ghasemi, Shiva; York, Laura; Horn, Kimberly (Taylor & Francis, 2022-10)
    The Connection to Care (C2C) project, a transdisciplinary work-in-progress, employs community-engaged participatory research and design methods at the nexus of policy adaptation and product innovations. C2C aims to advance ...
  • Exploring Syrian Refugees' Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework 

    Moayerian, Neda; Stephenson, Max O. Jr.; Abu Karaki, Muddather; Abbadi, Renad (MDPI, 2023-01-22)
    Even after arrival in new countries, refugees may be exposed to traumatic events. This state is exacerbated by contextual stressors, including the resettlement process, asylum proceedings and threats of deportation. This ...
  • Promoting sustainable responses to the US opioid epidemic with community-academic partnerships: qualitative outcomes from a statewide program 

    Driscoll, David L.; Cuellar, Alison E.; Agarwal, Vinod; Jones, Debra; Dunkenberger, Mary B.; Hosig, Kathy L. (2022-04-07)
    Background Drug overdose deaths in the United States have continued to increase at an alarming rate. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) distributed more than $7 billion ...
  • VTIPG News, January 2022 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2022-01)
    This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities at the institute, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director.
  • VTIPG News, October 2021 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2021-10)
    This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities at the institute, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director.
  • VTIPG News, July 2021 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2021-07)
    This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities at the institute, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director.
  • Challenging Gender and Disability Stereotypes: Narrative Identities of Brazilian Female Paralympians 

    Kirakosyan, Lyusyena (MDPI, 2021-11-04)
    The purpose of this narrative inquiry is two-fold: first, to illuminate the views and experiences of Brazilian female Paralympians that helped shape their narrative identities, and second, to develop a better understanding ...
  • Conversations in Community Change: Voices from the Field 

    Stephenson, Max O. Jr.; Grimes, Cathy (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021-03-30)
    The Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance launched an experiment in 2011 called the Community Voices initiative. Community Voices was a student-led group devoted to bringing graduate students and faculty from ...
  • Maré de Dentro: Arte, Cultura e Política no Rio de Janeiro 

    Barnes, Nicholas; Poets, Desirée; Stephenson, Max O. Jr.; Institute for Policy and Governance (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021-09-27)
    O Complexo da Maré, localizado na Zona Norte do Rio de Janeiro e com cerca de 140 mil moradores, é o maior aglomerado de favelas do Brasil. Como este livro demonstra, as 16 comunidades que compõem a Maré são vibrantes e ...
  • Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

    Barnes, Nicholas; Poets, Desirée; Stephenson, Max O. Jr.; Institute for Policy and Governance (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021-04-15)
    Complexo da Maré is a group of 16 contiguous favelas and housing projects in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro. Home to an estimated 140,000 individuals, Maré is Brazil's largest agglomeration of favelas. Often depicted ...
  • Negotiating Multiple Identities of Brazilian Paralympians 

    Kirakosyan, Lyusyena (MDPI, 2021-08-13)
    In this article, I draw on the personal narratives of 41 Brazilian Paralympic athletes who competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games to explore their multiple identities shaped within and outside sport and how they negotiated ...
  • VTIPG News, April 2021 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2021-04)
    This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities at the institute, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director.
  • VTIPG News, January 2021 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2021-01)
    This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities at the institute, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director.
  • VTIPG newsletter, October 2020 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2020-10)
    This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities in IPG, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director.
  • Community Social Polarization and Change: Evidence from Three Recent Studies 

    Stephenson, Max O. Jr.; Abella-Lipsey, Beng; Nagle, Lara; Moayerian, Neda (MDPI, 2020-05-29)
    This review article analyzes three major recent books (written by Robert Wuthnow, Arlie R. Hochschild, and James and Deborah Fallows, respectively) concerning ongoing political, economic and social change in United ...
  • Educational Legacy of the Rio 2016 Games: Lessons for Youth Engagement 

    Kirakosyan, Lyusyena (MDPI, 2020-05-28)
    The promise of the Rio 2016 Games was to influence the entire population of Brazil, but the major impact was expected to be on children and the youth. The development of youth education programs promoting Olympic and ...
  • Policy Brief: Veterans’ Health Care In Rural Virginia 

    Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Goverance (Virginia Rural Health Association, 2011-12)
    The Commonwealth of Virginia is home to an estimated 748,3451 military veterans, ranging in age from centenarian, pre‐World War II veterans, to teenage veterans recently returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation ...
  • Arts as Dialogic Practice: Deriving Lessons for Change from Community-based Art-making for International Development 

    Kirakosyan, Lyusyena; Stephenson, Max O. Jr. (MDPI, 2019-06-20)
    Communities around the world struggle with weakening social bonds and political, racial, ethnic, economic, and cultural divides. This article argues the arts can be a means of raising public consciousness regarding such ...
  • Sport for All and Social Inclusion of Individuals with Impairments: A Case Study from Brazil 

    Kirakosyan, Lyusyena (MDPI, 2019-06-01)
    This article examines the discourses about Sport for All (SFA) and their evolution over the past four decades in Brazil and analyzes the implications of those discourses for social inclusion of Brazilians with impairments ...

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