Compares urban revitalization efforts in two cities with failing industrial bases, one in the United States and the other in Japan.

Explores a new Christian identity in which churches reclaim their roles as communities of disciples to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations.

A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state, national, and international forces that produced it.

This book is a collection of essays dealing with the ways in which specific popular entertainment media, mass consumer products, and popular movements affect politics and political culture in the United ...