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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

DETROIT’S FIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS: Exploring the Challenges and Strategies of Securing Community Benefits Agreements in a Legacy City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Community benefits agreements (CBAs) have emerged from the accountable development movement as a widespread, most often community‐initiated practice for extracting benefits from development projects at the cost of developers. Scholarship chronicling the strategies for negotiating benefits has largely concluded that a strong real estate market ...
Lisa Berglund, Jodi Miles
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THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Density is critical to cities, but how might we conceive and research its role in urban development? We argue that a conceptualization of the ‘density dialectic’ offers a productive response. Drawing on research on urban development in Tower Hamlets (London's densest borough), we identify the tensions and contradictions of current ...
Victoria Habermehl, Colin McFarlane
wiley   +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, EarlyView.
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

Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses1

open access: yesSociological Forum, Volume 37, Issue S1, Page 1360-1386, December 2022., 2022
Nostalgia can be triggered not only by personal recollections but also by exposure to narratives or images evoking desirable pasts, more or less fictional, and inducing feelings of longing for them. We analyze the institutional and semiotic machinery involved in the cultural construction of nostalgia in Poland and its role in generating sentiments that
Marta Kotwas, Jan Kubik
wiley   +1 more source

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