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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

Metamorphosis or Materiality of Architectural Photography [PDF]

open access: yesIgra Ustvarjalnosti
The incipience of this contribution is the exploration of the materiality of architectural photography through the central concept of metamorphosis, which Akos Moravanszky develops as a key concept of modern architecture in his work Metamorphism ...
Ana Skobe
doaj   +1 more source

The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state's claim to control in different political and planning systems

open access: yesJournal of Housing and the Built Environment
Housing supply is a controversial topic across the globe. In Europe, for example, housing provision is fundamentally characterised by capitalist market economy. However, the intensity of state intervention differs significantly in the respective European
Angel Junior Santana Caraballo   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 876-891, July 2025.
Abstract The article investigates how the entrepreneurial strategies of cities and universities overlap by examining the strategy of French business schools to invest in offshore campuses in London, Berlin and Barcelona. Conceptualizing business schools as entrepreneurial actors that not only turn knowledge into a commodity but cities too, the study ...
Alice Bobée
wiley   +1 more source

BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
wiley   +1 more source

SPORT‐RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession.
Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
wiley   +1 more source

Nature positive? Commodification, speciesism, abjection in Australia’s environmental law reform

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
Proposed changes to Australian environmental conservation legislation entrench commodification of nature, speciesism, and the abjection of the nonhuman. These issues can best be addressed through detailed studies of place and relationships between humans and nonhumans, in order to change the culture and politics of conservation legislation (Image ...
Jane Palmer, Jennifer Lynn Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding place attachment to remote environments: An Antarctic case study

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Anthropocene presents unique challenges for humanity’s relationship with remote environments. Transboundary environmental problems, such as climate change or plastics pollution, affect places that are beyond most people’s direct experience.
Katie Marx   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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