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... As the city grows, informal commerce expands. Despite planners’ efforts to designate the modern city center as the urban hub, the Cancha emerges as the locus of activity in the city. modernism urban planning urbanization ...

... Despite Bolivia’s anti-neoliberal mood, the municipality has attempted on multiple occasions to privatize the La Pampa market, an effort that the comerciantes have actively resisted. privatization neoliberalism the state resistance Water War ...

... The fifth chapter centers a concept of living beautifully as an aesthetic form attenuating scenes of radical contingency to model how best to live on in catastrophic times. Living beautifully in this instance names the deliberate leaning toward freedom despite social or structural collapse...

... own father had strong and underexplored ties to Black Christian organizing circles despite drawing support from multiracial and even ecumenical religious spaces. The epilogue centers the space of memory to suggest that alternative Black religious spaces have often existed despite clergy's commitment...

... for retribution from the men who have wronged them in a myriad of ways. Using moments from the series as motifs for rebellion, the chapter underscores how the show's female protagonists form their own vigilante coven despite being separated by underlying divisions across social class and experience. The series...

... spaces and analyze the continuity of health-related issues despite biomedical advances. built environment tenements informal factories health care Zika architecture ...

... The chapter explores the vibrant Puerto Rican community in Orlando, often referred to as Puerto Rico’s seventy-ninth municipality due to its cultural and linguistic ties. Despite being a refuge for many, the Puerto Rican visual art scene in Orlando faces challenges that diverge from its...

... Despite the massive policing effort and significant funds devoted to the War on Drugs, the drug problem continues. Most scholarship about the War on Drugs argues that it began in the early 1970s. The United States has, however, pursued a prohibitionist, supply-side approach to the control...

... and credits the importance of neuroscientific contributions to the understanding of the psyche and its wounds. However, despite this crediting, he nonetheless remain doubtful that these new elaborations can substitute for the Freudian and Lacanian definitions of traumas. neurobiology neuroscience...

... This chapter presents maintenance play as both an art-based research project and a method for investigating work and domesticity on a sex webcam platform. Despite the popularity of online sex work, it is frequently disregarded in conversations surrounding platform labor and contemporary notions...

... diversity and conflict within the black collective, working to facilitate a sense of black community despite difference. Through its producer, Ellis Haizlip, Soul! expressed a belief in the power of black performance to sustain this community in the face of ongoing political, social, and spiritual crisis...

... The epilogue explores why postcolonial world literature is fascinated with the story despite the fact that the novel is the dominant mode of narrative. Based on a reading of Ninotchka Rosca’s State of War and Timothy Mo’s Renegade , it argues with the help of Benjamin’s account...

... the Japanese economy altogether. It argues that despite their small numbers, Korean men and women agriculturalists were indispensable for the self-actualization of the Japanese small farmer as conquistador humanist in the metropole and shows the various ways that relations of domination were made compulsory...

... After the United States adopted prohibition for its colony the Philippines in 1905, US officials began to promote prohibition internationally. Despite initial skepticism, especially from Britain and France, countries began to embrace aspects of drug prohibition, starting with opium prohibition...

... is under threat. It argues that, despite their marginalization in mainstream society and in the LGBTQ rights movement, lesbian feminist analysis and organizing has changed the face, the politics, and the content of gay and lesbian organizations, and that a national lesbian agenda is needed that is centered...