GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
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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Elevated CO<sub>2</sub> and the hidden hunger crisis: mechanisms, magnitudes, and mitigation of micronutrient dilution in staple crops. [PDF]
Raju S +7 more
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Rhizoma polygonati from Mount Tai: nutritional value and usefulness as a traditional Chinese medicine, source of herbzyme, and potential remediating agent for COVID-19 and chronic and hidden hunger. [PDF]
Nurtay L +9 more
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Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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The "Hidden Hunger" Paradox Amidst a High-Energy Diet: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of an Adult Cohort Evaluated via a Professional Digital Dietary Tool in Russia. [PDF]
Kade MA +3 more
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
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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Evidence-based strategy for prevention of hidden hunger among adolescents in a suburb of Nigeria. [PDF]
Ibeanu VN, Edeh CG, Ani PN.
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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From hidden hunger to double burden: Bangladesh's urgent need to prioritize diet quality. [PDF]
Richi FT, Alam S.
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