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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

‘I LEARNED TO MAKE A LOT MORE SPACE IN MYSELF FOR OTHER PEOPLE’: Examining the Negotiation of Hegemonic and Alternative Values in the Urban Commons

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we examine the urban commons through the concept of subjectivity. We attend to the ways in which alternative and hegemonic values are negotiated among different commoners and within individual commoners. Which challenges do commoners face as they pursue alternative values within the context of capitalist urbanization?
Emma Jo Griffith, Justus Uitermark
wiley   +1 more source

THE PATTERNS OF PROTECTION FOR HOUSING COMMONS: Building Occupations in São Paulo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the reproduction of housing as a commons in São Paulo. It analyzes the occupation of vacant real estate properties and their subsequent transformation into low‐income housing in central São Paulo as instances of commoning.
Daniël Bossuyt, Camila D'Ottaviano
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

What is social science if not critical?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source

The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article re‐examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of ‘humanity’. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the ‘stranger’ and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the ‘outsider within’, the study rethinks
Daniel Davison‐Vecchione   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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