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An Aesthetic Reading of Narrative Elements and Their Impact on Al-Jawahiri\'s Prose [In Arabic]
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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The importance of architectural heritage aesthetics for modern cities
The article is devoted to the issues of preserving the aesthetic value of historical cities in the context of globalization. The analysis is based on specific examples of Russian and European cities. In the modern era, when work is actively underway to reconstruct old buildings and construct new ones, the issue of forming an aesthetically harmonious ...
Denis Litvinov, Arina Mikhailets
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
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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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Leveraging AI to Capture Textual and Visual Elements: Insights for HRM Research and Practice
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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ABSTRACT Background Static computer‐assisted guided implant placement (sCAIP) has been shown to enhance accuracy and predictability; however, little is known about the multifactorial decision‐making processes impacting use among clinicians. Methods An exploratory cross‐sectional electronic survey was distributed to implant practitioners across ...
Mathew Amen +3 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
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
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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