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... Bolivia is a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural adjustment, which transformed the economy and provoked a massive urbanization of the country. neoliberalism; urbanization; migration; structural adjustment; Bolivia; Latin America ...

... This chapter examines internationalism in the area of health. It describes health care and disaster relief that Cuba and its citizens have provided to people across the world, from aiding the child victims of Chernobyl to performing a massive number of cataract surgeries worldwide...

... This chapter examines internationalism in the area of health. It describes health care and disaster relief that Cuba and its citizens have provided to people across the world, from aiding the child victims of Chernobyl to performing a massive number of cataract surgeries worldwide...

... 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...

... The author provides an autobiographical account of his visits to his family home in Kashmir and of the reasons that he embarked on this book. His first articles on Kashmir reported on what he observed there, particularly the massive militarization of daily life. He writes of his working...

... This chapter discusses the major theoretical emphases of the book: political ecology, resilience, place, and ontology. It also explores the ecological context of PNG, one of five high-biodiversity wilderness areas designated by Conservation International, which is experiencing a massive resource...

... The Trade Union Federation of Bolivian Mineworkers ( fstmb ) held an emergency congress in the mining district of Siglo XX from 20 to 22 October 1986. Two months earlier, the government had forcibly shut down a major protest march responding to the mining crisis and the massive layoffs...

... mining. These changing economic, social, and political relations in the region have led to the killing of activists, massacres of entire communities, and massive forced displacement. The epilogue juxtaposes this dehumanizing condition and relentless environmental destruction to the progressive spirit...

... 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...

... Chapter 5 explores how to eat better with the ocean. Following the advice of marine science, the chapter argues that eating fish low on the trophic scale makes sense. However, these little fish are caught within the massive global fishmeal and fish oil reduction industries, pulped into food...

..., and volcano scientists trudged up and down the slopes of Merapi looking for mystical communion with the earth. Later mystical movements such as Subud took the mantle from the Theosophists. The idea of a massive catastrophe in AD 1006 persists. Theosophy geodeterminism catastrophe Subud geotheology ...

... A massive influx of humanitarian actors in conjunction with a rise in armed violence in the Central African Republic has confronted Central Africans with their own poverty and others’ wealth in new ways. In attempting to explain Central Africans’ predicament, many have found evidence showing...

... to question how television forms publics in multiple ways and explore how interactive television programming adapts new technologies to its practice of promoting national identity. Profiling one massive interactive television event and three smaller-scale ones, it unpacks what kinds of energies...

..., and massive boulders ground celebrated symbols of modern mobility and progress, the car and the airplane. Often substrate replaces Durham as sculptor, assuming powers to act, ally, and narrate. As stones accumulate in the wake of the artist’s global travels, they conjure pre- and postcontact cairns...

... trajectory as a Black futurist, starting from an obsession with Marvel Comics and Black science-fiction characters as a kid. Tate argues Afro-futurism is about seeing the institutional exclusion, hyperinvisibility, and massive social erasure that Black people face not as impediments but as incitements where...

... This chapter describes a massive two-day interactive television event before taking a step back to describe why its authors considered interactivity to be the right approach to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of television. It explores how television viewing in Japan transitioned from being...