... to make the world safe for democracy. Though Isahama’s residents were discouraged by their failure to extract a more favorable outcome from military authorities, their struggle to keep their lands from being requisitioned—and similar struggles that erupted in Iejima, Furujima, and Mawashi—are widely...

... as the “second land reform” and a “kind of class struggle involving all, both within the Party and outside the Party,” which “has not been waged for over ten years.” 6 During the Socialist Education Movement, an important political technique emerged to carry out Chairman Mao's calling on the education...

... with a special level of compassion, but that link is also problematic: his compassion has been largely disconnected from specific, major struggles of the oppressed. The primary examples considered here are the fight against apartheid in South Africa and the struggle against the occupation of Palestinian lands...

... return to the native land. Both films posit a transnational subject that bemoans the economic plight of the nation-state while demonstrating neoliberal entrepreneurship in self-regulation. The desiring subjects of the films embark upon transnational quests for self-actualization, which in turn foreground...

.... Since most have had their agricultural land requisitioned for urban construction, they instead build multiple extensions to their houses to rent to rural migrants seeking cheap accommodation. In some cases, village populations have increased tenfold as migrants have flooded in, causing cramped...

... trajectories of state urbanization and economic development—that we have sought to illuminate the unrecognized migrant struggles for survival and human dignity in the face of violent land grabs, ruthless evictions, forced demolitions, and sporadic protests. We have seen, for example, the emergence of new forms...

... obscurantism, wages a struggle which has beneficial outcomes, even if they are of a type he or she could scarcely imagine, let alone consciously fight f0r.5 For instance: the peasant will be mobilized around the fight for land, bread, and peace...

...), Korean nationalism was feudal, or premodern, in that it was partly the ethos of the landed class, and partly that of the revolutionary peasant movement from below in the struggle against foreign domination. Since...

.... She put me down on the ground to take a rest. “You are my Vuvu,” I told her, “but you’re my Ina (mom), too.” Passionately Vuvu stroked my head saying, “No, you’re wrong Monanen. My shoulder is only your transient cradle. The land...

... that “the relation of sensation to em- placement; the experiential and expressive ways places are known, imagined, yearned for, held, remembered, voiced, lived, contested, and struggled over; and the multiple ways places are metonymically and metaphorically...

.... Enshrouded in political domination and conquest, cultural memory atro- phies and disintegrates. The struggle to remember for many of history’s battered subjects is there- fore also a struggle for relevance. The consuming preoccupation with loss...

... television documentaries and travel posters, bookshops and souvenir stands, the message is continuously broad- cast that Japan is a collection of distinctive ky6do (native places, or home- lands), worthy subjects for exploration...

... occurs or what processes drive real estate capitalism forward (Haila 1997; Appel 2012). My interest here is how developers struggled to translate their mar- ket ambitions spatially: to disentangle values from land and reascribe them...

... conflict with Chinese imperialists, but they were not inhabited as sites of unwilling and hence temporary exile. Following struggles over land in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the so-called Mia0 rebellions that occurred...

... 33 archal succession and state fatherhood informed this new vision of history and motivated student dissidents in their struggle for national reunification. Far from rebelling against the traditional Confucian mores and values...

... cathect to the story about farmer women who get politically organized to keep their land because they resisted com- modifying land we know should never have been privatized to begin with, so there is a political value in knowing what they tried to do. And when she positions 28:3 August 2020 680 pays...

...Rajbir Singh Judge; Jasdeep Singh Brar Abstract In 2016, the Pioneering Punjabi Digital Archive (PPDA) went online. Attempting to reveal how the Punjabi community struggled and then thrived in California, the PPDA accumulates narratives of Punjabi American life. Against such models of archival...

... with the example of the female farmers struggle in Isahama, which is a hamlet in Okinawa where in the 1950s a formative struggle erupted against the seizure of lands by the US military. Rather than going along with male- led negotiations for a compensated settlement, the women rejected any scheme that did...

... in Palestine, Japanese settlers in Korea and Manchuria were struggling to find ways to overcome problems associated with the unavailability of arable land for settlement and the abundance of cost-effective and industrious non-Japanese workers...

... of Europe.” In addition to relentlessly publicizing Japan’s imperial might, the Negro World informed readers of the struggle against laws limiting Japan- ese land ownership and citizenship. University of Chicago Divinity School graduate Sumio Uesugi...