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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Des sites pittoresques aux sites patrimoniaux remarquables
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2018 From artistic character sites to remarkable heritage sites: more than a century of definitions and tools for preserving the natural and cultural landscape.The first common evocation of cultural heritage and natural heritage dates back only to 1972 in the
Laure Koupaliantz
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego, 2016 This article explains issues pertaining to protection of materials that are relevant by their use or their invention in the view of changing socio-economic conditions and evolution of approaches to historic preservation.
Bartosz M. Walczak
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Historic value measured in meters. Protection of monuments in the context of the Act on the Protection of Monuments and Protection of Monuments and the Construction Law [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the relations between the provisions of the Act on the Protection and Guardianship of Monuments and Sites and the Construction Law from the perspective of modern historic preservation.
Jadwiszczok-Molencka, Helena
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IN SITU PROTECTION AND MONITORING OF UNDERWATER PRE- HISTORIC SETTLEMENT REMAINS: EXAMPLES OF THE PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION IN SWITZERLAND [PDF]
, 2020 Nothing lasts forever. Archaeologists who are confronted with the fact that archaeological sites are destroyed in one way or another know this best. Archaeological sites on land are erased from the cities and landscapes through construction work.
Hafner, Albert
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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