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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational 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

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of a Structured Caesarean Reduction Strategy on Perinatal Outcomes: A Retrospective Ecological Time‐Trend Study

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the long‐term impact of a structured, multidisciplinary CS reduction strategy in a high‐complexity Italian hospital. Design Retrospective ecological time‐trend study. Setting Tertiary obstetric care Italian centre. Sample 28 577 deliveries, ≥ 22 weeks' gestation, from 2014 to 2024 were analysed.
Stefania Fieni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

open access: yesJournal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

Una pulsión de otredad en tiempos de extinción. Entrevista a Pompeyo Audivert

open access: yesEl Peldaño
En esta entrevista, Pompeyo Audivert reflexiona sobre su concepción del teatro como experiencia vital, su metodología pedagógica y el proceso creativo detrás de Habitación Macbeth, el unipersonal que permanece en cartel desde 2021, multipremiado y con ...
Luz García
doaj   +4 more sources

Aging as Adaptation. [PDF]

open access: yesGerontologist, 2023
Watkins S, Raisborough J, Connor R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’.
Nicholas Ross Smith   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behind Closed Doors: Interaction Rituals and the Building of Social Ties in Private Company‐Investor Meetings À huis clos : rituels d'interaction et construction de liens sociaux lors des réunions privées entre sociétés et investisseurs

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines private meetings between company managers and institutional investors as part of the broader financial reporting environment. Using direct observations of 39 such meetings across four large, listed companies—complemented with the study of preparatory work and internal documents—the paper investigates how these meetings help
Per Ahblom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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