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Magical urbanism:Walter Benjamin and utopian realism in the film Ratcatcher [PDF]

, 2002
Deploys Walter Benjamin to discuss fantastical representations of childhood and class in the film ...
Law, Alex, Law, Jan
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Aspects of Radical Gay Liberation Theory in West Germany's Tuntenstreit, 1973–1975

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines in depth the theoretical positions of the Tuntenstreit – a major theoretical dispute within the radical West German gay liberation movement in the 1970s. By working through archival material as well as the dispute's fundamental texts, it renders visible its often‐neglected underlying theoretical motifs and, consequently ...
Hauke Branding
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

"I AM HERE. WHO ARE YOU?": BRUGES AS A PHILOSOPHER OF DIGITAL REFUSAL (MARTIN MCDONAGH'S "IN BRUGES" (2008))

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії
This article proposes, for the first time, a philosophical reading of the film «In Bruges» through the lens of the «digital refusal» concept. In contrast to traditional interpretations focusing on the crime plot or existential motives, this research ...
Artem Perchyk
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CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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Big Data Discourses| Aesthetics of Boundless Insight: On the Scalar Ideology of the Data Imaginary

International Journal of Communication
This article explores the ways in which popular cinema contributes to the data imaginary. We engage in a close reading of key data-related scenes in Minority Report (2002), Moneyball (2011), and Snowden (2016), and we examine their extensive reliance on
Magdalena Krysztoforska, Oliver Kenny
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In the clutches of melancholy. Interpretive analysis of Gilles Renard’s student film “Late Afternoon”

Images, 2019
The aim of the analysis is to present the film (Late Afternoon) by Gilles Renard as a study of melancholy. Both the plot and the cinematographic means used to shape the form of this short film correspond with the theoretical texts by Julia Kristeva and ...
Franciszek Drąg
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Film, landscape and political aesthetics:Deseret [PDF]

Screen, 2016
Irrevocably historical, landscape is already denatured before it is represented, a repository of history which becomes, in representation, a record of history’s erasure under the banner of natural beauty. Questioning key aesthetic concepts of human freedom and the autonomy of art in dialogue with Theodor Adorno and James Benning, this essay argues the ...
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