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Attending to 'Computational Universalism': Practices, Frictions, Events. [PDF]

Soc Stud Sci
Davies SR, Díaz-Valderrama M.
europepmc   +1 more source

GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging capitalism and sociocultural niche construction in early modern Greece. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Liakopoulos GC, Groß M, Guzowski P, Kouli K, Lamprakis D, Masi A, Vakkas T, Xoplaki E, Izdebski A, Fernandes R.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Producing the neoliberal city: spatial fragmentation and the politics of space in Batam, Indonesia. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Alkatiri Z, De Archellie R, Nazaruddin N.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Service encounters and the manufacture of harm: violence in the service economy under late-modernity. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Miles L, Azad M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Geographies of biosecurity: Racialized vulnerability, colonial extraction, and a new critical consciousness. [PDF]

Prog Hum Geogr
Prouse C, Arefin MR.
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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source