Anchored in research on Consumer Culture Theory, this study examines the moral reasoning processes of marketplace culture members. The professional wrestling marketplace culture provides the research context and facilitates the examination of moral reasoning associated with key aspects of the product at the core of the culture: violent and sexual content, sexism, and racism. Three theories of ethical decision making found in the marketing literature provide the theoretical lens for this research: Hunt and Vitell’s General Theory of Marketing Ethics, Donaldson and Dunfee’s Integrative Social Contracts Theory, and Thompson’s Contextualist framework. These frameworks are augmented by Sykes and Matza’s work on techniques of neutralization. Active interviewing was employed to obtain data from informants who self-identified as wrestling fans. Analysis of the data revealed that informants employed elements from each of the ethical decision making frameworks, often in combination, in order to reach judgments regarding the moral correctness of the WWE’s business practices and the actions of its owner Vince McMahon, the content of the WWE’s product, the actions of fans in general, and their own fan behaviours in particular. Informants also relied heavily on techniques of neutralization in their moral reasoning, developing new contextually sensitive techniques that have not been reported in previous research. Importantly, this research reveals that the marketer can exert a powerful influence on marketplace culture members’ processes of moral reasoning.

My project. Dear Beyond, a collection of poetry, examines the connection between landscape—both internal and external, or private and public—and environment. My poetry reflects my own unique background and my struggles with emplacement, or the placing of oneself in any particular landscape. It aims to challenge dominant paradigms of voice, expression, and even inquiry; it questions traditional, systematic forms of inquiry such as the Cartesian idea of an essential separation between object and subject. Culture and landscape, I have discovered, manifest themselves everywhere, in variegated forms: in spaciousness or intimacy, in internal and external contexts, in tactile experiences, in focused or dissipated attention. This is where my poems come from, as well as where they aim for.

1988 dissertation on CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.

This study explores whether a client with a history of violence who actively represents acts of violence within the imaginative conditions of the playspace in the developmental transformations method of drama therapy will experience less of an impulse to commit acts of violence in the real world. Violence is theorized as an attempt to treat others as objects, thus distancing oneself from one's own victimization. Conditions of the playspace contributing to a reduction in violence may include: (a) a "constraint against harm" within which clients may safely act on violent impulses, (b) intersubjectivity in the act of improvising the play together, and (c) the transformation of roles, scenes, and levels of meaning. The two clients were Vietnam combat veterans with diagnoses of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and histories of violence during and after service in Vietnam.