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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris +2 more
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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
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how sustainability is mobilized as a governance strategy in large‐scale urban redevelopment. Focusing on the RIVUS Mall project in Cluj‐Napoca, alongside comparative cases from Bratislava and Gdańsk, it traces how environmental objectives are translated into institutional practices, planning rationales, and financial ...
MIHAI IACOB
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GOVERNING INFORMALITY: Eviction, Recognition, and Legal Ambiguity in Kampung Akuarium, Jakarta
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Informal settlements in Jakarta have long been governed through cycles of tolerance, eviction, and selective recognition. Rather than resulting from the absence of planning, informality is often produced through spatial regulations, legal ambiguity, and political intervention.
EKA PERMANASARI +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The 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
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Rebranding the Nation: Migrant Fashion Production and the Contested Politics of ‘Made in Italy’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Prato engage with the contested meaning of the Made in Italy production label. As Chinese‐run fashion firms have become central to Italy’s fast fashion sector, their growing visibility has raised public concerns about authenticity, national identity, and the perceived erosion of ...
Yintan Fan
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