In the 1940s, Iran experienced dramatic changes in urban form, as worldwide modernization movements were embodied in new 'modern' neighborhood units in Tehran.
But improved nutrition should be seen as part of an entire movement of modernization, which was a slow process in the South".
As Professor Gill Hague from the University of Bristol, who contributed to the establishment of the GVSC said to me, the gender studies centers in Iraqi Kurdistan "are part of the ongoing movement towards modernization and greater awareness of women's issues in the region".
Movements towards modernization and industrialization during the 1950s and 1960s led many poor countries, particularly those with newly acquired political independence, to concentrate investments in urban areas, despite that a large proportion of their population was still rural.
But the Soviet Union mostly missed the later, post-war stages of the Western social modernization, and especially the gay-rights movement.
It would also encourage Ukraine's reformers and pro-Western political movements to pursue the modernization of its economy and strengthen the rule of law.
As Boo explains: "Deprived of their land and historical livelihoods by large-scale corporate and government modernization projects, they'd helped revive a 40-year-old movement of Maoist revolutionaries.
According to Marek Dutschke, the son of the student-movement leader Rudi Dutschke, Mr. Ohnesorg's death ignited the modernization of West Germany, leading to greater democracy, gender equality and sexual freedom.
Wei Jingsheng was a leader of the Chinese democracy movement who spent 15 years in prison for authoring "The Fifth Modernization," which he posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing.
Having founded Ceylon's cooperative-society movement in 1923, he emphasized the development of cooperatives and attempted agricultural modernization.
