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Francosphères, 2014 This article compares the different late-colonial histories, and subsequent memorial afterlives, of two shantytowns, one in Algiers (Mahieddine), and one in Casablanca (Carrières centrales, in Hay Mohammadi).
Jim House
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NÉCESSITÉ DE L’ÉLABORATION DES NORMES CONGOLAISES DANS LE DOMAINE DU BÂTIMENT ET DES INFRASTRUCTURES
AMJAU, African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2023 Considérée comme un mode d’expression privilégié de la souveraineté, la norme reste encore une énigme pour certains pays en émergence. A ce titre, les pays occidentaux ont développé leurs industries de BTP et des matériaux de construction en se basant ...
Alain Symphorien Ndongo
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Humanités Numériques, 2021 In the mid-1950s, the first improvised huts for Algerian workers appeared in Nanterre. Soon, these informal shacks grew together and ended up forming urban complexes, presented and administered as shantytowns, and the city of Nanterre was then durably ...
Paul Lecat +8 more
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L’Année du Maghreb, 2022 Morocco’s shantytowns appeared in the first decades of the last century, bringing together people who had come from the countryside and the hinterland to meet the growing demand for labour in the imperial cities, which at that time represented the chief ...
Myriame Ali-Oualla
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Journal des africanistes, 1983 Abstract The role of decentralized economic structures for the urban development of Cotonou/P.R. Bénin The problems of growth in industrial towns and the persistence of slums in some of them poses the question of decentralization. One has to analyze situations where decentralization is a prevalent sector like in Third World towns.
Elwert, Georg, Segbenou, R.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1023-1040, December 2025.Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1485-1502, November 2025.Abstract Large‐scale, state‐subsidized housing programmes have experienced a renaissance in Africa, Asia and Latin America, but provoke justified concerns about whether they miss their target groups. Unaffordability, lack of choice, peripheral locations and under‐serviced sites are common problems.
Raffael Beier
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Janvier 1950 : du Frioul à Rome. La fuite démiurgique de Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2010 Pier Paolo Pasolini utilise par deux fois le verbe “fuggire” (fuir) pour caractériser son départ de Casarsa pour Rome, en janvier 1950. Que fuit-il au juste, ce poète de vingt-huit ans qui tourne ainsi le dos à toute une époque de sa vie ?
José Guidi
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Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life Ennemis : accompagnements de fin de vie difficiles
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 128-144, April 2025.Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish‐Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio ...
Lawrence Cohen
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, 2018 This article starts from the Foucaultanian notions of biopower and discipline, deal- ing with the strategies of the modern and contemporary capitalism. Introducing the term biopower into his research, Foucault is alluding to a series of transformations ...
Chignola, Sandro
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