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Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility

Constellations, EarlyView.
İbrahim Berkan Karataş
wiley   +1 more source

SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
wiley   +1 more source

CARE MATTERS IN THE ENTANGLED COMMONS: Perspectives on a Temporality of Urgency, Knowledge Co‐production and Infrastructures of Sociality in Diverse Urban Contexts

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Experiencing crises, such as the pandemic, has affected infrastructures of sociality and intensified social and spatial inequities while revealing the fragility of systems we depend upon. In this Interventions collection, we collaboratively search for paths toward visionary lifeworlds, taking the entangled commons as a commitment to ...
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
wiley   +1 more source

EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Jingdezhen ceramic culture in the digital era: a qualitative inquiry into digital dissemination and platform innovation. [PDF]

Front Big Data
Huang Q, Chen Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

DIGITAL TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SOCIALITIES AS AN ENTANGLED COMMONS

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this contribution I examine digital technoscientific socialities through ethnographic fieldwork with Health for All, an interdisciplinary network formed at the start of the Covid‐19 outbreak. I expand the entangled commons framework for anthropological inquiry into collaborative, data‐intensive science, arguing that digital technoscientific
Lucilla Barchetta
wiley   +1 more source

Capsule Commentary on Chretien et al., A Digital Ethnography of Medical Students who use Twitter for Professional Development. [PDF]

J Gen Intern Med, 2015
Makdissi R.
europepmc   +1 more source