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RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
wiley   +1 more source

THE DISCHANT – AN ARCHAIC FORM OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2010
The present work is a study on romanian „dischant” (descântec) from the psychotherapeutical effect’s perspective that this magic practice has. In addition study’s declared goal is to revalue the dischant being known that it is one of the folkloric ...
Anca SPĂTAR
doaj  

“The Conjuring”: Invisible Fear, Theology of Horror, and Traditional Values

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This article reviews Kevin Wetmore Jr.’s book on the film “The Conjuring”, published in the “Devil’s Advocates” series. The author briefly outlines the academic historiography of the Conjuring universe and notes that Wetmore’s book is the most balanced ...
Alexander V. Pavlov
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
wiley   +1 more source

“Man Resides in the Center”: A Daoist Fengshui Rectification Practice Recorded on a Second-Century Pottery Basin from Shanxi

Religions
In traditional China, when confronting real-world problems, people might invite masters to perform rites of residential fengshui rectification for a healthy and prosperous life.
Sheng Jiang
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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou, Richard Maaranen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aspects of Meaning in Apotaxis and Syntaxis [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2014
The article examines the subject matter of apotaxis and syntaxis. The three pivotal aspects of meaning in apotaxis and syntaxis, as based on the analysis of works by ancient catechists, Teachers of the Church and XIX–XX century researchers, are: 1 ...
Valentina Saveskul
doaj  

Exorcism Rituals

Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research, 2021
The belief that nature and the spirits of dead humans, contrary to nature, haunt the living is prevalent. Man also worshiped these superstitions out of fear. Humans considered the spirits of the virtuous to be gods after death and the spirits of the wicked to attack and afflict people.
openaire   +2 more sources

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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