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No Lawless Place: Foregrounding Property in Sociology
Sociologists examine space and place as constitutive of social life but rarely attend to the fact that places are also real property. The authors use a law and society lens to investigate how property regulations (property rights, codes, zoning, and ...
Claire Herbert, Jay Orne
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Eski-Crimea: Introduction to the Historical Topography of the City of the Crimean Khanate
The paper addresses the main points of the development history of a Crimean Khanate town of Eski-Crimea (Old Crimea), and a graphic reconstruction of its general plan for the last quarter of the 18th century – the final stage of the state’s existence ...
Bocharov Sergei G.
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Women in Mining, Industry Norms, and Rural Patriarchy: A Perfect Storm
ABSTRACT Rural industries are historically male‐dominated with women commonly out‐migrating to metropolitan areas in search of work opportunities. Rural industries, such as mining, have the potential to recruit women from rural areas, offering employment, training, and income prospects and to contribute positively to rural women's economic and ...
Donna Bridges +4 more
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Wooden structures in the historic port of Rijeka
A review of the use of wood in construction of the historic port of Rijeka is given in the paper. Traditional use of wooden structures for floors and roofs can be seen in ancillary structures and early warehouses, while the first temporary storage units ...
Nana Palinić, Adriana Bjelanović
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The Soviet Banya and the Mass Production of Hygiene
Around 1930, during the era of the First Five-Year Plan, the Russian urban bathhouse, or 'banya', was collectivized and placed under state care. How did changes in the architecture of the model 'banyas' of Moscow and Leningrad articulate the changing ...
Tijana Vujosevic
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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Abstract Evaluating the state of activity of Deep‐Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (DSGSD) is a challenge that requires multidisciplinary analytical approaches. This research focuses on the slope‐scale gravitational process, framing the role of the Quaternary morphodynamics of a river valley where multiple DSGSDs coexist, to reconstruct the ...
Giorgia Berardo +5 more
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This article explores spatial, social and cultural boundaries in the hammams of the city of Marseille (France) based on the study of practices and representations of cleanliness, in relation to the spatial configurations of bathhouses and their location
Émilie Francez
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The literary production of Mayakovsky, a figure of Russian avant-garde literature, is abundant and diverse. We know more about his poems or his involvement in Futurism than his four plays: Vladimir Mayakovsky (1913), Mystère- Bouffe (1918; 1921), The ...
Flore Garcin-Marrou
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A clean global atmosphere. ABSTRACT Amid a sense of crisis, urgency, and political inaction pertaining to climate change, a narrative of “cleaning up” the global atmosphere is emerging in scientific, political, and public discourse. It conveys the need to stabilize the climate by achieving temperature targets and net‐zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Léon F. Hirt, Mike Hulme
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