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Micro-City - Faith Encounters Super-Diversity In Queens, Ny

by Hans Tokke e Richard Cimino

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 An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the world Micro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yorkers across twelve Queens neighborhoods to show how religious life both shelters difference and connects it in public. Blending theories from urban sociology and the sociology of religion with fieldwork, Richard Cimino and Hans Tokke map a borough where no single group is the majority and where people cluster into micro-communities that feel like home, yet still meet, trade, vote, and celebrate across lines of ethnicity, language, and creed. For readers interested in neighborhoods, culture, and faith, it offers a street-level tour of festivals, storefront churches, temples, parades, and parks. For scholars, students, and practitioners in urban studies, sociology of religion, and American studies, it sets out a usable framework for superdiversity grounded in interaction rituals and congregational niches, showing how bonding and bridging social capital take shape. Clergy, community organizers, and planners will find practical insights into how congregations act as specialist and generalist hubs, shaping neighborhood belonging, civic life, and cross-group cooperation. Readers encounter Little Guyana’s Liberty Avenue, Greek Astoria, Pan-Asian Bayside, Holy Hip-Hop in Hollis, Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu temples, and hipster Hunters Point. Along the way the authors introduce archetypes such as pastor- and pundit-preneurs, civic Catholicism and charismatics, Black-clergy groups, and show how religious culture influences neighborhood politics and everyday coexistence. The result is a field guide to how plural cities work, and how they can work better.
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The Battle For Boston - How Mayor Ray Flynn And Community Organizers Fought Racism And Downtown Power Brokers

by Don Gillis

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 Captures the remarkable era under Mayor Ray Flynn, whose election in 1983 marked the beginning of a profound shift in the cityâ€™s political and social landscape. Gillis chronicles the inspiring journey of a city that dared to challenge the entrenched power brokersâ€"including developers, landlords, and banking industry leadersâ€"through powerful grassroots campaigns.
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The Roads To Hillbrow - Making Life In South Africa'S Community Of Migrants

by Jean Halley e Ron Nerio

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 This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place. Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg’s transformation from a mining town into the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community of migrants. As the "city of gold" accumulated wealth on the backs of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa’s booming economy. By the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb under apartheid into a "grey zone" during the 1970s and 1980s to become a "port of entry" for people from at least twenty-five African countries. The Roads to Hillbrow explores the diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have made their way to this South African community following war, economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews. Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing, support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the challenges of living without documents. Current residents of Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia, high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19. Many of the book’s interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants, this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and adapt to adversity.
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Unjust Developments - Building Inequalities In Ethiopia'S Capital

by Marco Di Nunzio

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Unjust Developments - Building Inequalities In Ethiopia'S Capital

by Marco Di Nunzio

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Micro-City - Faith Encounters Super-Diversity In Queens, Ny

by Hans Tokke e Richard Cimino

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Micro-City - Faith Encounters Super-Diversity In Queens, Ny

by Hans Tokke e Richard Cimino

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Medicine At The Margins - Ems Workers In Urban America

by Christopher Prener

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The Battle For Boston - How Mayor Ray Flynn And Community Organizers Fought Racism And Downtown Power Brokers

by Don Gillis

~~34,44€~~ 31,00€ 10% OFF

 How Mayor Ray Flynns leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance The Battle for Boston captures the remarkable era under Mayor Ray Flynn, whose election in 1983 marked the beginning of a profound shift in the citys political and social landscape. Don Gillis, a Flynn senior advisor, chronicles the inspiring journey of a city that dared to challenge the entrenched power brokersincluding developers, landlords, and banking industry leadersthrough powerful grassroots campaigns. Gillis provides a vivid portrayal of the political dynamics and the coalition of community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and residents that played a pivotal role in rejecting the business-backed growth machine and the citys historically divisive racial politics. This book charts the strategic battles fought within the corridors of power and on the streets and highlights the substantial impact these movements had on the citys governance and power dynamics. In a historic turn, in 2021, Michelle Wu became the first woman, person of color, and Asian- American elected Mayor of Boston. Wus victory on a similarly progressive platform as Flynn underscores the enduring relevance of his legacy, signaling a hopeful future for more inclusive and effectively governed cities. The Battle for Boston poses a critical inquiry: Can cities truly embrace progressivism and govern effectively in the twenty-first century? This qualitative narrative study is a testament to the possibility of such governance, driven by the indomitable spirit of those who strive for a fair and equitable society.
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Sojourners In The Capital Of The World - Garifuna Immigrants

by Maximo G. Martinez

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Sojourners In The Capital Of The World - Garifuna Immigrants

by Maximo G. Martinez

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Incarnating Grace - A Theology Of Healing From Sexual Trauma

by Julia Feder

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Incarnating Grace - A Theology Of Healing From Sexual Trauma

by Julia Feder

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Postindustrial Diy - Recovering American Rust Belt Icons

by Daniel Campo

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 Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of such places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. Postindustrial DIY tells their stories.
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Postindustrial Diy - Recovering American Rust Belt Icons

by Daniel Campo

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Pedagogy Of A Beloved Commons - Pursuing Democracy'S Promise Through Place-Based Activism

by Sharon Egretta Sutton

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 This book is about low-income youth of color working within justice-oriented, community-based organizations to improve the social and spatial conditions in their surroundings. A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continuously grows the next generation of compassionate leaders.
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Topothesia - Planning, Colonialism, And Places In Excess

by Ameeth Vijay

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Pedagogy Of A Beloved Commons - Pursuing Democracy'S Promise Through Place-Based Activism

by Sharon Egretta Sutton

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Out With The Stars

by James Purdy

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I Am Elijah Thrush

by James Purdy

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Corpus Iii - Cruor And Other Writings

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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 A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe
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Lander Rock Climbs 2018

by Bechtel Steve Bechtel, Sears Ben Sears e Sears Kyle Sears

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 Rock climbing guidebook for the Lander, Wyoming area.
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The Disappearing Bullet

by Howard Mary Howard

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Medicine At The Margins - Ems Workers In Urban America

by Christopher Prener

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