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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing Cosmopolitanism in Practice : From Universalizing Monologue to Intercultural Dialogue?

open access: yes, 2014
There has been a veritable upsurge in the debate on cosmopolitanism not merely as a philosophical ideal but also as a socially grounded concept denoting an individual or collective stance towards world openness.
Leinius, Johanna
core  

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

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

Traumatic cosmopolitanism: Eleanor Dark and the world at war

open access: yes, 2016
This essay argues that women writers working during and prior to the Second World War produced works which might be identified as examples of ‘traumatic cosmopolitanism’ – that is, a cosmopolitanism forged through the shared experience of trauma.
Gildersleeve, Jessica
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Cosmopolitanism

open access: yes
Abstract Medical cosmopolitanism has been introduced partly as a response to the shortcomings of evidence-based medicine. This chapter describes the main tenets of medical cosmopolitanism, connecting its four stances to other relevant philosophical contributions, and answers two critiques that have been raised against it.
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

The Cosmopolitan Grounds of the Integration Processes of the Modern States

open access: yesЕвразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2019
In the present article, author examines the phenomenon of cosmopolitanism in the integration processes of the modern world. The author is invited to consider the legal basis of the concept of cosmopolitanism in the system relationship with other related ...
D. G. Demidov
doaj  

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