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AbstractThe continued campaign of violence by extractivists against multibeing relations, embodied beings, and ecological living is bewildering. Coded by mastery, and as a carrier of its values, international laws of the sea facilitate these campaigns by legitimating ecological abuse. As such, responding to the ocean's declining conditions with more laws and regulations alone misses how underlying cultural values contribute to the production of ecological harm. This article considers how the imaginary of mastery underpinning dominant ocean governance regimes enables the production and distribution of vulnerability. Thinking with the ocean reveals how anthropogenic harms manifest and proliferate both materially and through the discursive networks of ocean governance. Though material vulnerability is a condition that brings us into being interconnectedly with other worlds, it also (unevenly) implicates us in ocean harm. This article draws on feminist posthumanist, legal, and marine scientific work to examine these issues in the context of an emerging concept of ocean justice, in which the conditions for cohabiting well with the seas might be imagined and activated.

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As an intensive housing construction drive in the late 1950s began to provide separate apartments for millions of Soviet citizens, aesthetic experts envisioned the Soviet home as a potential site for the display of works of art and for amateur aesthetic production. In the context of de-Stalinization, reformist artists and aestheticians committed to the liberalization and modernization of Soviet artistic criteria, promoted the value of amateur art and even of home decorating in the formation of the new person who would live under communism. They also pressed for affordable art and craft to be made available to ordinary people for their new homes. Thereby they would dwell in their new apartments surrounded by beauty in their everyday lives, and would thus, the experts argued, be brought closer to communist consciousness. Moreover sales of art to individual citizens would provide an alternative income stream to fund artists' production. The possibility of private art consumption would therefore free artists to some extent from their reliance on state commissions and from the strict stylistic and thematic norms and hierarchies of Socialist Realism as established under Stalin.

The Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) had a devastating impact on China's civilian population. Braving bandits, disease, and dangerous roads, the China Convoy—a Quaker-sponsored humanitarian unit – delivered medical supplies and provided famine and medical relief in the unoccupied territory of "Free China" and later to both sides in the ensuing civil war. China Gadabouts examines the contested roles played by Western and Chinese nurses in the Convoy's humanitarian efforts from 1941 to 1951. In so doing, it re-examines the quandaries of Quaker's' purportedly apolitical global engagement that remain salient for contemporary humanitarians. Susan Armstrong-Reid explores how this work gave meaning to the women's lives and how they attempted to carve out personal and professional space despite a chaotic, unfamiliar, and occasionally hostile environment. China Gadabouts illuminated the ethical dilemmas, professional challenges, and opportunities presented by humanitarian nursing with a Western-base relief organization, while acknowledging its contentious imperial role. In doing so, it spotlights an understudied area of global nursing – its role with INGOs, now more active than ever in global health care. – Provided by publisher

This book is in closed access until 8 May 2020. ; The book assembles detailed research on how the claims and aspirations of being "democratic" influenced the affects of architecture, and how these claims politicized space.

© Walter de Gruyter GmbH. REID, S., 2011. Building utopia in the back yard: housing administration, participatory government, and the cultivation of socialist community. IN: Schlögel, K. (ed.). Mastering Russian spaces: Raum und Raumbewältigung als Probleme der russischen Geschichte. (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ; 74.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg, pp.149-186. This item has been made available by permission of Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 7.3pt 0pt 28.35pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">By drawing upon what is known about risk factors and protective factors with respect to at-risk youth, the author discusses how communities can become more actively involved and supportive of young people, and thereby work towards a model where the community actively promotes resilience among children and youth. She provides a detailed review of the research around resilience to support her contention that many resources, already present in communities but largely untapped, have the potential to encourage vulnerable young people to avoid developing an aggressive posture towards others, dropping out of school, drifting into a criminal lifestyle, or being victimized. She notes the growing and consistent evidence that poverty, unemployment, abuse, family and school problems correlate to crime, and argues that while one cannot say with any certainty that these factors are the causes of crime, they certainly are the causes of disadvantage. It is the disadvantaged, she states, who are the &ldquo;most thoroughly processed&rdquo; by the criminal justice system.</span></p>

In the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, housing and homemaking became widely shared preoccupations both for specialist agents of the state and for individual homemakers, as standard, prefabricated apartments were erected on a mass scale. This essay examines a series of tensions and contradictions: between mobilisation and dwelling; between the chiliasm of the official ideology of communism and the process of settling and making home in these new single‐family flats; between mass‐produced structures and the agency of the individual; and between the prescriptions of the state's agents and the practices of ordinary amateur homemakers, primarily women. Drawing on contemporary press and archival sources, as well as on interviews with women who moved into the newly‐built apartments, the article analyses the ways in which, in authoritative discourse and in everyday practice, specialists and amateurs, primarily female homemakers, sought to transcend the antithesis of home comfort and communism.

In the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, the Khrushchev regime launched an intensive campaign to build mass housing. This period, known as The Thaw, is generally regarded as one of liberalization in comparison to the preceding Stalin era. Moreover, the proposed new housing, promising separate, one-family flats to replace the communal apartments and barracks in which most urban dwellers lived, seemed to offer the possibility of a 'private' home life. The Khrushchev flat, in particular its small kitchen, subsequently became mythologized as the heart of an ideology-free zone of sincerity where one could shut the door on the public realm and its values. This article proposes that, far from falling outside the domain of public discourse, the new flat — and, above all, the kitchen, along with the labour it accommodated and the lone female worker it presupposed — was a central site for the linked projects of modernization and the construction of communism. However, with its complex mixture of functions, the kitchen was also the site where the contradictions of Khrushchev-era design and centrally-planned production became most evident. Far from a paragon of rational socialist planning, the kitchen could become a microcosm of its dysfunction.