An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston,
Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods. Environmental …

Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public
health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those …

In recent years, local activists in the Global North and South have been organizing to
improve degraded and abandoned spaces in marginalized neighborhoods by creating …

" Todd Ochoa's important text immediately transposes us into a Kongo-Cuban sacred world
of summoned ancestral forces--Lucero, Sarabanda, Mama Chola, et al. The dead are …

After Cuba's 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order.
Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to …

With reference to the experience of the Cuban Revolution, this article addresses what may
be called the 'late revolutionary paradox': How can so many people in countries such as …

Religion and development (RaD) has emerged as a new academic sub-discipline since the
turn of the 21st century, following decades of secular assumptions and attitudes dominating …

Over the past two decades community activists in distressed urban neighborhoods have
been organizing to improve environmental quality and livability for residents through parks …

Diaspora and Trust charts changing Sino-Latin relations at the outset of the 21st century.
Combining political-economic analysis with ethnography, the book examines the responses …

In Living Ideology in Cuba, Katherine Gordy demonstrates how the Cuban state and its
people engage in an ongoing negotiation that produces a “living ideology.” In contrast to …