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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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The sacred in art. The theological aesthetics Gerardus van der Leeuw
Miscelánea Comillas, 2015 This paper analyses the relation between art and the holy proposed by Gerardus van der Leeuw on his work Sacred and Profane Beauty. The Holy in Art. He begins with a phenomenological description of art contextualised in different traditions taken from ...
Salvador García Arnillas
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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Three Conceptual Approaches to Sustainability from Aesthetics’ Perspective
This contribution considers ways to discuss sustainability in relation to aesthetic value. Three possible conceptual approaches are briefly presented – aesthetic sustainability, the aesthetics of sustainability, and sustainable aesthetics. I propose that
Korpelainen, Noora-Helena
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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Women making art: history, subjectivity, aesthetics (Chapter one)
, 2003 Women making art: history, subjectivity, aesthetics (Chapter ...
Marsha Meskimmon (1384164)
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Nietzsche's aestheticist claim: on the relation between art and truth [PDF]
, 2003 Nietzsche's controversial "aestheticist" claim that existence and the world are only justifiable as aesthetic phenomena provides the motivation for this thesis.
Bamford, Sarah Rebecca
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