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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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An Aesthetic Reading of Narrative Elements and Their Impact on Al-Jawahiri\'s Prose [In Arabic]

زبان کاوی کاربردی
Mohammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, the Iraqi poet, is considered one of the most prominent poets of the twentieth century, and many studies have been written about his poetry. However, less attention has been given to his prose.
Hasan Meghyasi, Riad Manshad Nazzal
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Leveraging AI to Capture Textual and Visual Elements: Insights for HRM Research and Practice

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances Human Resource Management (HRM) scholarship by introducing an accessible method to analyse of both visual and textual social media content in combination. Although HRM studies increasingly mobilise social media data, most approaches remain text‐centric, overlooking the HR‐relevant cues, embedded in images, that can inform ...
Yin Liang, Jeremy Aroles, Yulei Li
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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"Parapolitical Aesthetics"

An artwork titled "Parapolitical Aesthetics" as part of 2024 MFA exhibition by artist Daniel Pope, entitled "Parapolitical Aesthetics" in the Cora Stafford Gallery, South, UNT Art Building,1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX from April 17 to April 21, 2024 ...
Pope, Daniel
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