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Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews: Let Our People Go!

open access: yes, 1980
Documentary on the national march and political rally that was held on December 6, 1987 in Washington, D.C., produced by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the United Jewish Appeal.Digital recordingDigital finding ...
Houston Action for Soviet Jewry
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era

open access: yesJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011
Folk medicine in Estonia has been studied more thoroughly within the last 30 years. Still, the respective data has always been on the folklorists’ work-list, when publishing questionnaires or going out on fieldwork.
Ave Tupits
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“Actually, they used to pay no notice of”: Soviet Law Enforcement and Gender-Related Violence Problem in Historical Sources

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2019
After occupation and annexation of Lithuania, soviet government started to reorganize such institution like police and courts. Repressed former juridical elite, qualified independent jurist were changes by unqualified immigrants or by other loyal to ...
Monika Kareniauskaitė
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Conference On Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.,"Q/A on Relations with Soviet Union and Soviet Jewry Movement" (Box 99, Folder 81)

open access: yes, 1985
Digitized audiocassettes include recordings of Light's conversations with those in Congress, local and national news media, and others involved in the Soviet Jewry movement. There are also interview recordings with leading figures in the Bay Area Council
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Action for Soviet Jewry events (110 digital images)

open access: yes
Action for Soviet Jewry events: Avital Sharansky with Governor Dukakis; Action for Soviet Jewry events, including Soviet Jewry Culture Cruise and photographs with R. Gordon, R. Drinan, Lynn Singer, Refuseniks Kornfeld, Branover. and Bayard Rustin.Digital
Action for Soviet Jewry
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Photographs separated from various series in the Action for Soviet Jewry records (18 digital images)

open access: yes, 1980
Photographs separated from the Series I-X of the Action for Soviet Jewry records. SJLAC (from Series VII). Negative stripes of Photographs from the demonstration at the USSR embassy in Washington, DC.
Action for Soviet Jewry
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

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