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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
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La lezione di Prometeo e il filologo nell’era digitale. Rassegna di risorse informatiche per lo studio dell’antichità classica

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012
This paper provides a brief overview of the IT resources available for classical studies, focusing on three different types of tools in particular: a) free cross-platform applications that handle Unicode effectively, making it is easy to type and edit ...
Gianluca Canè è dottore magistrale in Lettere Classiche. Si è occupato soprattutto di letteratura greca e in particolare di problemi della tradizione testuale dei testi antichi, tecniche di traduzione, letteratura frammentaria (scoliografica e lessicografica) e storia della storiografia antica, conseguendo la laurea in Storiografia greca presso l’Università di Bologna. Dal 2008 si interessa alle applicazioni delle risorse informatiche nello studio delle discipline classiche, collaborando con il Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale a un progetto di digitalizzazione di un manuale di lingua greca e allo sviluppo di una banca dati sulla permanenza del classico. Dal 2009 è consulente della Zanichelli Editore SpA e dal 2011 è webmaster di Diacronie.
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Développement et mise en œuvre d’un Système d’Information Géographique pour l’étude de l’expansion pavillonnaire dans l’agglomération lyonnaise depuis 1950

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012
The study of urbanization of the built up area on in Lyon, parceled out into plots of land, is based on the identification and counting of a large number of files and heterogeneous sources.
Licencié en Histoire et en Géographie, Nicolas Ferrand est Docteur en Géographie et Aménagement. Sa thèse – Approche Morphologique de l’urbanisation: Lyon et son agglomération de 1945 à 2005 – a été soutenue au mois de juin 2010 à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression

Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos   +2 more
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Machine Learning-Based Classification of Historical Fashion Silhouettes Through a Digital Approach to Cultural Heritage

Heritage
The need to evaluate automated approaches arises not from a lack of expertise among historians but from the challenge of scaling, reproducing, and systematizing dress silhouette classification across large digital datasets.
Liliana Indrie, Elena Zurleva, Zlatina Kazlacheva, Julieta Ilieva, Zlatin Zlatev, Simina Teodora Hora   +5 more
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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
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Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
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