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... various currencies throughout Europe from the 1990s onward—many of which have been funded by political bodies. Alternative moneys never succeeded in the sense that they never achieved their ambitious goal of creating resilient, localized economies. The article outlines how this rapid rise and fall...

...Mia You “Rouse the Ruse and the Rush” is a long poetic sequence the author composed between 2020 and 2021, amidst various waves of COVID-19 outbreaks and the acceleration of “pro-life” efforts in the United States to restrict access to abortions at local levels and, ultimately, to overturn Roe v...

... in the country, and the community’s quick return and recovery after the hurricane thrust them into the local and national spotlight. The community’s vibrant urban farms have been a particular point of focus, but this article shows how the range of meanings emerging from the Vietnamese American New Orleans...

... or speaking English as a second (or third or fourth) language. The term global Englishes refers to a multiplicity of distinct but mutually intelligible dialects or strands of English adapted to the specific locale and usage of a given population. Examples include Singlish (Singapore), Turklish (Turkey...

... on the same day), that it was the river that flooded the city (the river levees remained intact), that the corruption of the local levee boards was responsible for the negligence of the levees (it was an engineering failure on the part of the US Army Corps of Engineers), that Katrina was a storm so...

... of the midcentury concept of negritude in the work of a new generation of African authors living overseas (Jacques Chevrier, as cited in Adesanmi 2005; Foster 2015; Haskell 2016) and, more broadly, as designating migrants with attitude (Patel 2012), describes narratives produced in a range of local and (trans...

... a local bank, plus a small personal loan on the side from the realtor. It all seemed a miracle, going from near bankrupt to homeowner in eighteen months. Lucky for me, the interest rate did not shoot up, nor did the price of houses drop. Eventually, I was able to refinance...

.... Moral Luck It is well known that Kansas high schools conduct Driver’s Education classes in the summer months. At a local school, the instructor was an alumnus of Kansas State and an unusually devoted fan of the Wild- cats, which led others to remark that he bled purple. This instructor had...

..., headlights shattered. The donkey’s knees are broken, neck and spine. That fact —​I feel it. I am lost in it. I hear the gasps of locals gathered round, the donkey bellowing in dirt and blood. Eyes flared, we cannot comprehend this fate. * minnesota review 77 (2011) DOI...

... masses at the neighborhood school, the local polling place, where they asked for the “real estate seminar” or filled out write-in ballots with names such as Long & Foster, ReMax, and Coldwell, thrusting folded sheets of paper at local election officials even when volunteers couldn’t find...

...-the- board increases in all of them: adult education enrollments reached 140,697, also up 30 percent from just five years ago; another 23,780 workers received skills training through direct contracts with local Parascondola...

... meaningful environments for critical and creative dialogue within the living arts and related fields of knowledge and experience. I am in the midst of planning a bookstore and arts space in my town, which is located at a far enough remove from the local university thirteen miles as to render academia all...

..., exemplifies the worst of Depression- era documentary work, specifically what Alfred Kazin called the “evidence of a need to retreat into the solid comfort of descriptive facts” (381). Fetishizing facts, readers’ curiosity about local reactions to global economic crises get satiated by tasty...

... marches and divestment campaigns to acts of sabotage against the pipeline s builders, Energy Transfer Partners. Leaders of the Great Sioux Nation (Oceti Sakowin), however, voiced specific and local concerns. They maintained that the pipeline crossed ground that had been ceded to the Sioux Nation...

... with everyday experience in (and sociological studies of ) the worlds of work, family and local community, which show that the individual is not a monad but is self-insufficient and increasingly tied to others. . . . A sociological understand- ing of Individualisierung is thus...

...). It thus proposes that anarchists turn their attention to minnesota review 93 (2019) DOI 10.1215/00265667-7737339 © 2019 Virginia Tech 111 112 the minnesota review realizable short term goals, emphasize the present, and withdraw into local enclaves (66). However, since capitalism s pressure on corpo...

... Ann Kellner Douglas , eds. Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies . Boulder : Westview , 1996 . During Simon . “Introduction.” The Cultural Studies Reader . 3rd ed. New York : Routledge , 2007 . 1 – 30 . Gupta Suman...

... a shift in the essay, bringing into view a different image of cultural production and human agency under globalization. The local now appears as the site of alienation by transnational capital, the consumer as a sign “which only asymptotically approaches the form of a real social agent...

... variously for the American Federation of Musicians (Local 362); United Mine Worker locals 5426, 6206 (where he was local President), and 4346; and Marion County, West Virgina Industrial Union Council, CIO. In 1938, Ted married Ruth Voithofer, a fellow activist and union...