November 27, 2013, 12:24 a.m.,
Connor, M. A.,
Allgemein.
Activists in the San Fernando Valley between 1996 and 2002 renewed efforts to secede from the city of Los Angeles. The movement mobilized many of the constituencies and grievances associated with the 1970s tax revolt and anti-busing protests in the Valley. While mostly white homeowners’ associations were the principal activists for secession, they needed to enlist the Valley’s Latino population. Though secession failed, Valley activists crafted a color-blind rhetoric of community empowerment that won support from many Valley Latinos and offers a preview of future metropolitan politics as whites retain economic privilege but lose demographic predominance.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/48?rss=1
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November 27, 2013, 12:24 a.m.,
Sutherland, H.,
Allgemein.
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November 27, 2013, 12:24 a.m.,
Highsmith, A. R.,
Allgemein.
Following World War II, executives from the General Motors Corporation (GM) implemented a sweeping corporate growth plan that centered on the suburbanization of manufacturing. As part of this agenda of metropolitan capitalism, company officials shifted resources and jobs away from the city of Flint, Michigan—GM’s international manufacturing headquarters. However, these capital migrations were not examples of corporate abandonment. Rather, the company’s investment decisions were part of a larger effort to expand Flint’s boundaries and create a regional government. Although suburban opponents ultimately defeated the proposal for a "New Flint," GM’s support for metropolitan government belies the notion of capital flight at the heart of most literature on the "urban crisis." Emphasizing the local struggles that unfolded over GM’s postwar investment strategy, this case study posits metropolitan capitalism as a new framework for explaining urban deindustrialization and, more broadly, the processes of suburban development.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/31?rss=1
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November 27, 2013, 12:24 a.m.,
Elinoff, E.,
Allgemein.
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November 27, 2013, 12:24 a.m.,
Jenks, H.,
Allgemein.
Communities of color in post–World War II California sought, with varying degrees of success, to participate in the suburban dream of upward mobility. In the process, they reshaped the physical and racial geography of metropolitan Los Angeles, creating places like "the first suburban Chinatown" and "the Mexican Beverly Hills." In the South Bay, hub of the region’s aerospace economy, Japanese Americans and African Americans purchased homes and became civic leaders in the neighboring suburban cities of Gardena and Compton, respectively. Japanese American realtors and businessmen actively exploited transnational social and kinship networks to attract Japanese corporate capital to Gardena, investment that helped the suburb survive loss of revenue from closing card clubs and aerospace recession in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the same time, they cooperated with Anglo city and county officials to prevent the disinvestment and negative racialization impacting Compton from extending to Gardena. In their roles as suburban place entrepreneurs, Japanese Americans strategically manipulated the available roles of transnational broker and model minority to attain the full benefits of first-class citizenship tied to suburban homeownership.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/6?rss=1
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November 27, 2013, 12:24 a.m.,
Rasmussen, C.,
Allgemein.
Historians have recently examined the Civil Rights movement in the North and the links between its nonviolent tactics and the violent protest that erupted in many Northern cities in the 1960s. In 1967, unrest arose in Newark, Detroit, and many other cities. New Brunswick, only twenty-five miles from Newark, experienced protests on two successive nights in July 1967, but averted loss of life and massive destruction of property. The report of the Kerner Commission credited New Brunswick Mayor Patricia Sheehan’s conciliatory approach with averting violence. An examination of the Kerner Commission’s papers suggests a more complex dynamic, one that confirms the mayor’s key role, but also reveals that antipoverty workers, black leaders, and the protestors themselves played significant roles in averting violence. The protestors strategically put pressure on the mayor, and then relented when she promised to improve conditions for the city’s poor and black residents.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/137?rss=1
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November 26, 2013, 12:57 p.m.,
Merlin Schaeffer,
Allgemein.
What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their conduct? Based on grounded theory methodology and twenty open, thematically structured interviews with US heirs, future heirs and testators, this article explicates a theoretical account that proposes a moral ambivalence as the core category to understand the social meaning of inherited financial assets. In particular, the analysis reveals that the social meaning of inherited assets is a contingent, individual compromise between seeing inherited assets as unachieved wealth and seeing them as family means of support. Being the lifetime achievement of another person, inheritances are, on the one hand, morally dubious and thus difficult to appropriate. Yet in terms of family solidarity, inheritances are "family money," which is used when need arises. Taken from this angle, inheriting is not the transfer of one individual's privately held property to another person, but rather the succession of the social status as support-giver along with the resources that belong to this status to the family's next generation. Heirs need to find a personal compromise between these poles, which always leaves room for interpretation.
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1401131
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1940
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November 25, 2013, 3:31 p.m.,
Blätter Verlag,
Allgemein.
Nun hat auch die SPD ihren „Tag X“: Bis zum 14. Dezember sind sämtliche 473 000 Parteimitglieder aufgefordert, per Briefwahl über den schwarz-roten Koalitionsvertrag zu entscheiden. Dann werden die extra angeschafften „Hochleistungsschlitzmaschinen“ ihren öffnenden Dienst tun, so dass wir am 15.
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Quelle: http://www.blaetter.de/archiv/jahrgaenge/2013/dezember/schwarz-rote-selbstverzwergung
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November 25, 2013, 3:25 p.m.,
Blätter Verlag,
Allgemein.
In der medialen Berichterstattung ging es mal wieder allzu sehr um Personen bei der diesjährigen Synode der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD).
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Quelle: http://www.blaetter.de/archiv/jahrgaenge/2013/dezember/wie-die-evangelische-kirche-fakten-schafft
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November 25, 2013, 3:17 p.m.,
Blätter Verlag,
Allgemein.
Lange Zeit galt Steuerflucht als Kavaliersdelikt, das nicht ernsthaft verfolgt wurde. Mit der Anklage des Fußballfunktionärs Uli Hoeneß rückt zwar derzeit die Steuerhinterziehung durch wohlhabende Privatpersonen wieder in den Fokus der Politik.
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Quelle: http://www.blaetter.de/archiv/jahrgaenge/2013/dezember/eu-steuerflucht-als-geschaeftsmodell
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