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‘FROM GHETTO TO HABITUS FACTORY’ ROMA CAMPS IN ITALY: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant's Theorization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
wiley   +1 more source

Human Ecology, Process Philosophy and the Global Ecological Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper argues that human ecology, based on process philosophy and challenging scientific materialism, is required to effectively confront the global ecological crisis now facing ...
Gare, Arran
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THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region's Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article builds on recent interventions into the study of planetary urbanization that call for greater interaction with the multiple social struggles and standpoints that embed this process. To do so, we advocate for academic engagement between planetary urbanization and the concept of the ‘construction state’. This is a term used in Japan
Laam Hae, Jamie Doucette
wiley   +1 more source

Towards modelling dialectic and eristic argumentation on the social web

open access: yes, 2014
Modelling arguments on the social web is a key challenge for those studying computational argumentation. This is because formal models of argumentation tend to assume dialectic and logical argument, whereas argumentation on the social web is highly ...
Blount, Thomas   +2 more
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

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