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“Through Thick and Thin” How Black Educators Support Urban Students' Postsecondary Plans
How does exposure to Black educators influence minority students' postsecondary planning processes and long‐run educational ambitions? Prior studies have documented positive effects of student‐teacher racial matches on achievement and non‐academic outcomes, but quantitative research designs are often unable to uncover the mechanisms underlying these ...
Joseph Sageman
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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Spatial and Temporal Variations of Habitat Quality and Its Response of Landscape Dynamic in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China. [PDF]
Liu S, Liao Q, Xiao M, Zhao D, Huang C.
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A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
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Changing the Landscape of an American Town: Immigrantrification of a Korean Ethnoburb and Its Cultural and Economic Consequences. [PDF]
Lemekh H.
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Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor +4 more
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Plant conservation in a changing Mediterranean world
The Mediterranean is one of five climatic regions on the planet characterised by a prolonged summer drought, exceptional plant diversity and high rates of endemism. We provide a framework to link the ecology of plant species conservation in the context of rapid and extreme climate deregulation to a philosophical typology of temporal attitudes (i.e ...
John D. Thompson +3 more
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Visually Attending to black Senses of Place Through “Everyday Things” in White City, West London
Abstract This paper shares a practice‐related rendering of Katherine McKittrick's conceptional notion “a black sense of place” by reflecting on visual practices adopted in my research project, “Everyday Things: Visualising Young Black Adults’ Experiences in White City”.
Nathaniel Télémaque
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Abstract This paper explores how vulnerability is not only defined by the state but also actively reshaped through policy implementation and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic research in Eskişehir, Turkey, I propose an analytical distinction between the ‘commodification of vulnerability’—framing risk in technoscientific and moral terms to ...
Cansu Civelek
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