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Published: 02 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9371-8
... placekeeping belonging placemaking gentrification community benefit ...
Published: 02 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9371-8
... histories of people and places. Contributions highlight dystopian musings on the rapid gentrification of the San Francisco Bay Area; Detroit organizing models for creating community benefit; economic disinvestment and its affect on food access; disability justice and belonging; the relationship between...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373483-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7348-3
... In chapter 2, Jacqueline Bhabha provides a case study of the flawed reach of citizenship benefits in the European Union, focusing on Europe’s Roma population, a community long subject to pervasive discrimination and other rights violations. Roma citizenship deficits are described by reference...
Published: 07 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375876-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7587-6
... that it was not the collapse of state forestry, but rather the generations of social forestry that allowed rural communities to avoid a tragedy of the commons and begin using the forests for their own benefit, a dynamic exemplified by the community of Cherán, Michoacán. Cherán Michoacán narcotrafficking neoliberalism...
Published: 27 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027515-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2751-5
... Chapter 2 explores issues of temporality through charitable giving with the story of Jerbai Wadia, the widow of a hugely wealthy family. She endowed several plots to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) as communal housing for Parsi beneficiaries. While greatly benefiting her coreligionists...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-041
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... in contrast to Indian backwardness, and the benefits of the hacienda regime over the poverty and exploitation in Indian communities. ...
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027188-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” she focuses on Coretta Scott King's activism to champion the rights of women and people within the LGBT community. Finally, in her 2015 speech in New Orleans, she outlines the benefits of study abroad and the need for more students from diverse communities to take...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 25 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376224-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7622-4
... of infrastructure access and allow for precarious conditions; to re-value cable labor and develop a more extensive cable workforce; to intervene in the bureaucracy of the landing point and to better engage communities there; to support state funding for cable networks; to triangulate currents extending between...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 25 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376224-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7622-4
.... Each section documents the history of a different networked island. The first details how Guam’s networks have been critically tied to American military extensions. The second describes Fiji’s emergence as a key site for British colonization and communications in the Pacific. The third focuses...
Published: 24 July 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375371-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7537-1
... agents. The young women profiled in the chapter provide an alternative view of the benefits and unintended perils of sex positivism for Black girls. The author also exposes the networks grounded in love and communality that shelter residents develop to care for and protect one another that are distinctly...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-142
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... to refer to a utopian alternative with indigenous roots. It does not refer to an existing institution in Andean communities so much as a set of ideals, values, and pursuits that are under debate and construction. It implies, above all, a dynamic equilibrium in the relations between people and with nature...
Published: 15 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027393-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2739-3
... Because diabetes is so closely correlated to lifestyle, those experiencing it are often subjected to public shaming that is both insidious and overt, treated by family members, acquaintances, employee benefits administrators, journalists, and even health professionals as responsible...
Published: 14 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372974-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7297-4
..., cultivating new generations to take up the mantle of harvesting souls, for the benefit of the individual seeker and the institution of the church. These intimate practices tie church members to each other and bolster allegiance to the church community and doctrine, while expanding the institution’s labor...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... of low castes to use in regaining their lost respect and dignity. The crucial role of untouchable communities in the success of the Sikh experiment is largely absent in the largely Brahmanized scholarship on Sikhism. A vibrant religion, Sikhism has witnessed high and low points in its journey of five...
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By Tim Lawrence
Published: 09 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373926-027
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7392-6
... numbers of gay men as “Saint’s disease.” The Gay Men’s Health Crisis held a fundraising benefit at Paradise Garage on Thursday 8 April. Activist Larry Kramer grasped that the disease required a governmental response but found his efforts to jolt Ed Koch into action frustrated by Herb Rickman, the mayor’s...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-113
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... the vices of alcoholism, though it was transformed into a channel of communication by militant workers themselves. The song bids farewell to the Salvadora tin mine, which permitted Simón Patiño to mount his economic empire and which was nationalized in the revolution of 1952. At a time when the power...
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7348-3
... assumptions, the elimination of birthright citizenship in the United States would exacerbate statelessness. In chapter 2, Jacqueline Bhabha provides a case study of the flawed reach of citizenship benefits in the European Union, focusing on Europe’s Roma population, a community long subject to pervasive...
Published: 05 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
..., and communities facing displacement and resettlement—view the issue of dam development and attempt to shape policy outcomes. Government policy and rhetoric emphasize the need to develop alternative energy sources to decrease reliance on fossil fuels amid continued economic growth requiring a greater energy supply...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-110
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... into a channel of communication by militant workers themselves. The song bids farewell to the Salvadora tin mine, which permitted Simón Patiño to mount his economic empire and which was nationalized in the revolution of 1952. At a time when the power of labor was eroding, the song says goodbye to the site where...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... the overarching Inka cult of the sun. Local populations stood to benefit from a negotiated pact with the new ruling power, since Inka largesse could mean new livestock, enhanced irrigation, or agricultural improvement. Such Inka strategies provided a degree of imperial stability that violence alone could not have...