Will China's cities be paved with gold or pockmarked with slums? In 2012 China will hit a development milestone: For the first time, half of the country's 1.3 billion citizens will live in urban areas. An additional 350 million future city dwellers are still completing the journ…
Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the str…
A comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey.
"18 april 1980 kunde den nya staten Zimbabwe utropa sin självständighet efter många års kamp mot den vita minoritetsregimen. Under två månader i början av året vistades författaren på olika platser i landet som deltagare i den grupp observatörer som hade att övervaka de zimbabwi…
Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilizati…
This book explores the transformation of the Japanese state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on two case studies: ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s, which experienced a disjuncture and significant transformation within the period w…
