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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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The Digital Authoritarian: Everyday behavioral patterns collected with smartphones predict authoritarianism

Authoritarianism has reemerged around the world. Here, we show that digital records of everyday behavior can be used to predict individuals’ authoritarian tendencies. More than 280 million phone events (measuring app usage, music listening, keyboard typing, calling and texting, unlocking and locking, and GPS location) were digitally recorded from the ...
Timo Kevin Koch, Sanaz Talaifar, Alejandro Hermida Carrillo, Daniel Racek, Jan Digutsch, Pietro Alessandro Aluffi, Ramona Schoedel, Clemens Stachl   +7 more
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Survival, companionship, and visibility with platforms: (Re)producing solidarity in Hong Kong queer spaces

Internet Policy Review
This paper contributes to digital queer studies in Asia by addressing two key problematics in the literature on queer space, platform studies, and solidarity economy. First, it draws on feminist and queer theories to propose examining social reproductive
Hiu-Fung Chung, Ho Lam (Roland) Cheng
doaj   +1 more source

Inside the Dictator's Panopticon: Unveiling Digital Authoritarianism in Belarus

, 2023
Title: Inside the Dictator's Panopticon: Unveiling Digital Authoritarianism in Belarus Název práce: Uvnitř diktátorova panoptika: Odhalování digitálního autoritarismu v Bělorusku.
Yaromich, Kathrin
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International 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

Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Digital expansionism and big tech companies: consequences in democracies of the European Union

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Big digital companies have become key elements in economy, communication, education, and politics in 21st century societies. The neutral ideology in their digital platforms, applications, and services, as well as the exponential growth in their ...
Carlos Saura García
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Governing the information ecosystem under authoritarian power: epistemic conditions of public reasoning in Türkiye

Frontiers in Communication
Contemporary authoritarian powers often advance while democratic institutions and practices remain formally preserved and their substantive functioning is gradually weakened.
Gamze Turgaylı Zengin
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The Anti-Human Rights Machine: Digital Authoritarianism and The Global Assault on Human Rights

, 2022
Across the world, governments and state-aligned actors increasingly target human rights defenders online using techniques such as surveillance, censorship, harassment, and incitement, which together have been termed “digital authoritarianism.” We ...
Wilson, Richard Ashby
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