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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the coherence of physical form with an emphasis on the role of the Bazaar in the historical core of Kerman city [PDF]

برنامه‌ریزی توسعه شهری و منطقه‌ای
The bazaar holds a special position in the Iranian city, functioning not only as the heart of the city but also as a reflection of the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of urban life.
Mitra Ghorbi, Mahin Nastran, Mahmoud Ghalehnoee,, Alireza Ghorbi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Revitalization of Cultural and Aesthetical Assets of Iranian Traditional Bazaar

Iconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2017
In recent decades, modernization is extensively changing the face of Iranian cities. Besides, urban places are losing their traditional features, identity and cultural characteristics. Conservation of cultural heritage resources rescued historical parts
Maryam Ziyaee
doaj   +3 more sources

Artistic – Economic Role of Hand-Woven Carpet Market of Tabriz [PDF]

Jilvah-i hunar, 2017
Tabriz and its traditional carpet Market are considered as important centers of carpet production and export. The carpet market of Tabriz is so important due to its trade value, high portion of its share in non-oil exports of Iran and also aesthetic ...
m motafakkerazad, mohammad ali motafakkerazad   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Lost Industrial Heritage in Urban Memory: The Case of Şükraniye Small Industrial Site

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
This study aims to open a discussion on the place and impact of lost industrial spaces in the construction of urban memory through the example of the Şükraniye Small Industrial Bazaar located in Yıldırım District, Bursa Province.
Aylin Güney, Gökçen Kılınç Ürkmez
doaj   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Jørn Utzon and Rafael Moneo. The marketplace as a meeting point [PDF]

Dearq, 2015
This article analyses the role that the marketplace plays as a meeting point in Jørn Utzon and Rafael Moneo’s projects through its desire to have an influence on and transform the urban space in which it is situated.
Jaime J. Ferrer Forés
doaj   +1 more source

Selection in car insurance when claims are heterogeneous

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Econometric studies of insurance markets have analyzed the Positive Correlation Property to test for the presence of asymmetric information. Car‐insurance studies frequently compare policies purchasing Mandatory Third‐Party Liability alone with policies that purchase additional coverage and use the presence of a liability claim as a measure of
Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani, Alessandro Lai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Gender Based Behavior in Historical Urban Public Place Case study: Grand Bazaar, Kerman, Iran

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2019
The study evaluates the spatial behaviors of women in urban public place through ‘fear of crime’ and ‘public place functionality’ factors; by using direct observations and questionnaire within the Grand Bazaar as a historical urban public place in the ...
Aida Jalalkamali , Elham Anjomshoa
doaj   +1 more source