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31 Flavors of Inclusionary Zoning: Comparing Policies From San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Suburban Boston
Publication by Jenny Schuetz, Vicki Been and DPDF 2007 "The Political Economy of Redistribution" Fellow Rachel Meltzer. Over the past several decades, inclusionary zoning (IZ) has become an increasingly popular, but sometimes controversial, local means of producing affordable h…
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A Bombshell That's Actually an Olive Branch
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A Brief History of the Council
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A Century Apart: New Measures of Well-being for U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups
Our national conversation about race tends to take place in black and white, yet the greatest disparities in human well-being to be found in the U.S. are between Asian Americans in New Jersey and Native Americans in South Dakota. An entire century of human progress separates the…
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A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
In A Coincidence of Desires, 1997 IDRF Fellow Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality a…
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A Guide to the Social Science Research Council Archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center
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A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School
Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical student…
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A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the rac…
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A History of Resistance in the Congo
In light of the recent escalation of violence in the Kivus, the emergence of M23 rebellion, and the ongoing negotiations in Kampala, we thought it important to place the latest cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in its proper historical context. Herbert F.
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A History of Resistance in the Congo
With the publication of this essay, along with an essay by Joshua Marks, Possible Futures is pleased to announce a new digital forum on “African Futures,” which will explore protest movements and resistance to authoritarian rule across the African continent, with particular a…
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