... 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 ...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Reading Nigel Penn’s historical narrative of Tryntjie of Madagascar, I continue my argument about the illegibility of Tryntjie’s will in the archive. Despite the care that Penn takes, notions such as fatal passion, seduction, and romance creep into his evaluation of Tryntjie’s relationship...

... Louisiana State University. This chapter describes how role models and great teachers, despite dilapidated buildings and second-hand books, helped to produce competitive adults, many of whom went on to careers of distinction. It also depicts the pain and moral dilemmas of administrators whose subservience...

..., her attendance at Theodore’s federal death penalty trial in Sacramento, California, and her encounter with murder victim family members in the aftermath of her son’s trial. The chapter describes how Wanda embraced and embodied motherhood despite extraordinary challenges arising from her child’s mental...

... (or attempt to make) water available to the rapidly changing space of the city despite the materialities of the pipes. temporality world-class city redevelopment ...

... Despite its defeat in 1932 and Vargas’s repeated political victories, by the 1950s São Paulo had become even more dominant economically, and its capital had become Brazil’s largest city. It is in this context that civic boosters in the state capital planned the massive commemorations of the four...

... Because of segregation, Los Angeles's African American community was forced to discover its own resources and resolve and despite the hardships and indignities, it responded with a vibrant social and cultural scene that would contribute substantially to shaping twentieth-century American culture...

... to be used as a tool of political propaganda, despite their own radical politics. This was a topical issue in the Indonesian literary environment Wright was shortly to encounter. Partisan Review transnationalism world literature little magazines ...

...Personal Reflections This chapter contains personal diary-style reflections, as well as advice for others from undergraduate writers whose work is collected in the volume. In brief pieces, various students recount the deep connections they were able to make in Togo, despite reasons for going...

... This chapter contains personal diary-style reflections, as well as advice for others from undergraduate writers whose work is collected in the volume. In brief pieces, various students recount the deep connections they were able to make in Togo, despite reasons for going that seem shallow...