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Chasing the Chinese Dream: Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty
This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the simplistic aid of the 1950s to Xi Jinping’s precision poverty alleviation and its goal of eliminating absolute poverty by 2020. The book also addresses the implications of Chin…
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- 9789811606540
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- XXIII, 224p; ill
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- 338.951 BRO c
Contemporary Housing Struggles : A Structural Field of Contention Approach
This Open Access book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of s…
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- 9783030974053
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- ix, 243 p.
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- 361.61 CON L
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