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... environmental effects on the tropical rainforest and indigenous peoples. Given the booming land market, rural land sale and rental advertisements in local papers were even more common in 2014 than in 1990. Neoliberalism and Lowland Ascendancy ...

... The epilogue goes beyond arguing that comedy is political to consider the function of genre: comedy has become the genre by which horror makes itself known to the world and world historical events have shifted from the tragic to the comic. This may account for the ascendance of the procedural...

...” politics of racial uplift were ascendant, are evident in her work, little of which survives. This essay examines Howard Jackson's place in a segment of a conservative Black art world that is today largely forgotten or ignored. sculpture colorism racism gender class ...

..., and after the brief ascendency of Conceptual Art as a movement during the 1970s. He begins by distinguishing conceptual aspects in the work of certain Pop artists. He then elaborates a “theory of conceptualism” as a description of three phases in the development of conceptualist art as it took a variety...

... ascendancy of a biracial insurgent coalition, thereby thwarting the success of the Cuban independence project. The US occupation served as a means through which to reconstitute the former colonial polities and at the same time revive the very hierarchies of race that had sustained Spanish colonial governance...

... insurgency in which Cubans of color had assumed prominent command positions leading to independence revived the long-standing white fear of black ascendancy, thereupon to set the stage for the US intervention of 1898. war of independence Valeriano Weyler reconcentration camps ...

... This chapter analyzes the rise of human rights activism within the context of political terror, working-class setback, and ascendant neoliberalism. It traces the emergence of human rights advocacy from earlier forms of activism and considers how it appeared as a new way of making claims...

... biomedicine because of the latter’s ascendance. The entry of Viagra into the Chinese market intensified the pressure. Faced with the choice between Chinese medicine and Viagra, men did not completely abandon TCM for biomedicine. Instead, many patients switched between the two, taking both Viagra and herbal...

.... With the ascendancy of the penal harm movement of the 1990s—translating antiwelfare austerity into the context of the prison—elected officials, prosecutors, and journalists told “law-abiding citizens” that their tax dollars were going to fund “country clubs” for criminals. As conservatives consolidated their power...

... authorities’ assertion that Cuba was a “Catholic nation” heralded the heightened status of Catholicism in a young republic self-conscious of its national image—particularly with regard to race. The coronation is interpreted in relationship to the ascendance of another arts and letters movement, named...

... Chapter 4 explores how Llamojha ascended to a national leadership position and began international political work. In 1961 he started working with indigenous peasants from the Pomacocha hacienda, participating in Ayacucho’s most famous land struggle. In 1962 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat...

... The introduction to Hope Draped in Black suggests that the postracial rhetoric around Barack Obama’s ascendancy exemplifies well-entrenched attachments to progress and redemption. By providing a reading of McCain’s 2008 concession speech and Obama’s response to the George Zimmerman verdict...