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![]() | China's Rural Development Policy: Exploring the "New Socialist Countryside"Minzi Su As China strives to achieve nothing less than a “harmonious society”—despite the pronounced and institutionalized class structure that divides rural Chinese from urban, eastern from western, and rich from poor— a key element of that effort is a “new socialist countryside.” Minzi Su assesses the prospects for China’s rural revitalization programs now in More > |
Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice in East TimorJames DeShaw Rae Did the United Nations successfully help to build a just, peaceful state and society in postconflict East Timor? Has transitional justice satisfied local demands for accountability and/or reconciliation? What lessons can be learned from the UN’s efforts? Drawing on extensive field work, James DeShaw Rae offers a grassroots perspective on the relationship between peacebuilding and More > | ![]() |
![]() | Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador: The Manipulation of MestizajeKarem Roitman How do today’s Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador—a country struggling to recast its mestizo identity in the aftermath of dramatic indigenous uprisings—Karem More > |
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