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European socialism: a blind alley or a long and winding road? [PDF]

, 1992
This pamphlet attempts to look at socialism at its current conjuncture in terms of a longer trajectory of history.
Sheehan, Helena
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Wall: Typography from the German Democratic Republic [PDF]

, 2004
1989: The German Democratic Republic (GDR) still existed and the Berlin Wall was still standing. Communism was alive in Europe. Hard to believe now, yet only fifteen years ago, a reality.
Carruthers, Grant, Yee, Joyce
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From Communist to Post-Communist Politics [PDF]

, 2007
Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 brings together specially commissioned chapters by a team of leading international scholars focusing on the key features of the political systems that have emerged following the transition to post-communist rule and the enlargement of the European Union.
openaire  

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Regime change in the Aegean after the Second World War: Reconsidering the foreign influence [PDF]

, 2007
According to the conventional view held by the Greek sources, the United States was involved in the establishment of the 1967 Greek junta and helped sustain it. Similarly, the existing literature on the 1950 Turkish transition to democracy holds that one
Gursoy, Yaprak, Gürsoy, Yaprak
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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The 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
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The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most research on the radical right attempts to identify the one central voting motive among its supporters, few studies have sought to differentiate between different types of voters. Given this research gap, we assume that there are multiple paths to the radical right and that different groups have different motives for their support ...
Florian Buchmayr
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China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
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