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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity [PDF]
, 2007 The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures?
Cuomo, Serafina
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 333-343, April 2026.ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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“For extraordinary heroism and outstanding performance”: Kay’yong, 2 PPCLI and the Controversy surrounding the US Presidential Unit Citation [PDF]
, 2012 Despite a growing historiography, the Canadian experience in Korea is still a very much forgotten part of our history. Kap’yong, the marathon battle of 22–25 April 1951 where the Second Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (22PLCI)
Fowler, Michelle
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 131-140, April 2026.ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
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The iconogarphy of labour: An overview of Canadian materials [PDF]
, 1988 The working class, because of its position, has not, since the Industrial Revolution, produced a culture in the narrower sense. The culture which it has produced, and which it is important to recognize, is the collective democratic institution ...
Donegan, Rosemary
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Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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Slumdog Millionnaire: romancing the slums [PDF]
, 2013 The award-winning successes of Danny Boyle’s rags to riches movie, Slumdog Millionaire (2008), a story that oscillates between the discrepant spaces of the Mumbai slums and the showroom of the ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ quiz, brought an ...
Wilson, Janet M
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Clubs and events: Two models of performance in studies of sport and national solidarity
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 30-46, January 2025.Abstract This study distinguishes between two performances of solidarity—a performer–audience structure and a network structure—illustrated through a review of two case studies from the field of sport: a cross‐national survey of football fans and a historical study of French cycling clubs.
Danny Kaplan
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
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