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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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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
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Il tempo ambiguo della democrazia corta
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2017 In the secular confrontation between economics and politics, the current season is characterized by a return of the supremacy of the former over the latter, due to the speculative game of finance capital. The private-dominant logic of profit reproduction,
Roberto Segatori
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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, 2018 Discrimination has been a continuous concern in economics, originally focusing on wage inequalities and segregation. Gary Becker’s (1971b) work on discrimination is commonly viewed as an expression of “economics imperialism.” In this work Becker makes
Cleo Chassonnery Zaigouche
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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Some Notes on the Geopolitics and Geo-economics of Russia’s Post-Soviet Neocolonialism in Central Asia [PDF]
Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2020 The subject of “colonialism”, which is linked to a rather long stage in the evolution of civilization, continues to arouse the interest of various theorists and historians in the field of international relations, all the more that the concept has become ...
Ioan Alexandru GHERASIM
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent shifts in European security have placed resilience at the center of deterrence and defense strategies. While resilience has traditionally been understood as the ability to withstand disruption and sustain military operations, there have been calls for a whole‐of‐society approach that strengthens societies against hybrid threats and ...
Jan Daniel, Míla O'Sullivan
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L'imperialismo spirituale negli esordi della rivista 'Augustea' (1925-1927)
Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2012 Spiritual Imperialism at the Base of AugusteaThe study of Fascism’s program of ‘cultural expansion abroad’ (‘espansione culturale all’estero’) must acknowledge the fundamental role played by the journal Augustea, founded in 1925 by Franco Ciarlantini, a ...
Rosario Gennaro
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