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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Conference (Box 99, Folder 64)

open access: yes, 1975
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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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Light, Harold, University Of California at Davis Television Program on Soviet Jewry (Box 99, Folder 18)

open access: yes, 1971
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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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
wiley   +1 more source

Westin, Dr. Jerry, report on trip to Soviet Union (Box 99, Folder 5)

open access: yes, 1970
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

Summit Mobilization: Demonstration For Soviet Jews In Washington, D.C. (2 digital images)

open access: yes, 1987
Summit Mobilization, Demonstration For Soviet Jews In Washington, D.C., includes crowd and Washington Monument.
Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry
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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

Woman reading from Soviet Press articles on Zionism (Box 99, Folder 65)

open access: yes, 1975
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
core  

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