...A Popularizing Effort ...

... Cai ends his study with two key questions: What are socialist crises? And how are these crises to be overcome? In exploring the first question, Cai identifies five areas of contradiction as key challenges to China after the revolution. Whether or not efforts to overcome these challenges failed...

... This chapter juxtaposes the common experience of physicians, bilingual nurses, and vernacular healers in their failed efforts to diagnose and treat patients with the strange disease. A newly graduated physician working in a rural clinic related his frustration after not receiving support from...

... This chapter tracks a film team’s efforts to scout appropriate locations for an urban drama, as a way of exploring the space of experience created by cinema. space place city urban Henri Lefebvre ...

... This short interstitial chapter examines renewable energy projects that seek to extract power from wave motion. Danish efforts are a particular focus. wave energy King Canute renewables ...

... 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 ...

... This chapter describes Gorbachev’s doomed efforts to negotiate a new union treaty; the catastrophic economic situation across the USSR; Yeltsin’s decision to adopt a sweeping, separate program of economic reform in Russia; the December Ukrainian independence referendum, which marked...

... 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 ...

... This essay examines the devolution of immigrant detention and deportation efforts domestically and internationally. It addresses the outsourcing of detention operations to surrogate jailers and the use of strategic global locations to detain migrants and would-be migrants. These efforts...

... for workers. It situates this study within the academic literature on the working-class politics and culture of the period and supplies a theoretical framework for understanding penny press efforts to redeem working-class masculinity and the implications of those efforts for working-class men...

... Chapter 8 chronicles the efforts of South African entrepreneurs to transform their impossible dreams into workable ngoma projects. Local politicians also instrumentalize ngoma, variously utilizing performance events to build their constituencies. Both entrepreneurs and politicians trade...