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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Self-spoliation and forms of resistance in total institutions: an exploration of time and space in an Albanian communist regime internment camp. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Floridi F, Cataldi S, Bonaiuto M, Talamo A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan, Adriana Măgeruşan, Paul Mutică, Smaranda Todoran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974. [PDF]

Disasters
Hossain N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do [PDF]

This paper considers the economic sanctions that were applied in the mid-1980s to pressure the South African government to end apartheid. It asks what role those sanctions played in the eventual demise of the apartheid regime and concludes that the role ...
Philip I. Levy
core  

Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
wiley   +1 more source

Therapies crossing borders in European state socialism, 1950-1990. Introduction to the special issue. [PDF]

Med Hist
Geisthövel A, Koleva D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Researcher Positionality and Relational Power: Playing With ‘Researching Up’ and ‘Researching Down’ in Critical Reflexivity

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
wiley   +1 more source

The vampire in late communist cinema: from internal enemy to foreign threat. [PDF]

Stud East Eur Thought
Martin AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
wiley   +1 more source