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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
wiley   +1 more source

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

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