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Q&A with David Gilbert, author of Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
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The urban resource frontiers that sustain city life

By Kristian Karlo Saguin, author of Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource FrontierCities around the world are learning to live with the challenges of increasing urban ecological precarity. In watery Manila, the metropolitan population of around 25 million is constantly expose
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Q&A with Andre Schmid, author of North Korea’s Mundane Revolution

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in
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A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

by Li Shizhen (Author), Paul U. Unschuld (Translator)
Oct 2024

Scripting Suicide in Japan

by Kirsten Cather (Author)
Oct 2024
Open Access

The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

by Michael Dylan Foster (Author), Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator)
Oct 2024

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