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Double Unseeing or Glimpses of Recognition? Expert and Community Visions for Hydrogen Megaprojects
Short Abstract Online ethnography and deliberative workshops covering expert and community hydrogen visions in Milford Haven, South Wales. Experiences of life on the periphery and previous experiences of industrial development led to community scepticism over hydrogen's benefits.
Gareth H. Thomas, Karen Henwood
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With the continuous advancement of urban renewal, innovative and creative spaces in the urban village have attracted much attention as a new model of space restoration.
Lin Yuancheng +4 more
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Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol [PDF]
As an occupational group characterized by their responsiveness, resilience and innovation, freelancers make a vital contribution to the UK’s creative economy. However, although there has been a general acknowledgement of their importance, a number of existing studies abstract freelancers from the localities in which they work.
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Navigating Choice: School Buses as Racializing Infrastructure in Post‐Katrina New Orleans
ABSTRACT This article is part of the special issue, Racialization and The Gig Economy, Anthropology of Work Review 47 (1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article explores the expansion of school busing systems in the aftermath of New Orleans' unprecedented conversion of all public schools to privately managed charter
Christien Philmarc Tompkins
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Creative placemaking in connection with heritage
This article presents creative place-making and discusses the significance of place in the place-making process. A place is understood as something beyond merely a physical spot on a map, which remains constant in both time and space; it is constantly questioned, recreated, and changed due to the processes of relationships that are vital to the ...
Erika Zabulionė, Rasa Pranskūnienė
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Abstract While the physical and mental health benefits of greenspace exposure are well documented, ethnic minority communities in the United Kingdom continue to engage with these environments at disproportionately lower rates. This persistent disparity points to an oversight in existing literature, specifically regarding how these communities navigate ...
Andrew K. Palmer +5 more
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The Voices of Berlin: Busking in a ‘Creative’ City
The city of Berlin is often advertised as one of the most prominent creative cities today. In the past two decades, its marketing agencies have constructed a carefully crafted urban image designed to attract the young, mobile and creative workers that ...
Claudia Seldin
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Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy
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 +3 more
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Civic Geographies of Care: Mapping the Scope and Scales of Universities' Civic Action
ABSTRACT This article presents empirical evidence from the UK to explore where ‘civic geographies’ emerge and how they are enacted. Responding to Jenkins and Blunt's call in Area for ‘geography as a discipline to revisit its civic scope and ambition’ in the context of universities' civic engagement, it draws on scholarship on care ethics and evidence ...
Julian Dobson
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Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food
ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
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