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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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Photography and the Imperial Austrian Expedition in Nagasaki (1869-70)
Photography and the Imperial Austrian Expedition in Nagasaki (1869-70)International Conference on Research of Old Japanese Photographs "International Exchange Depicted in Old Photographs": November 16th-17th 2007, Nagasaki University (2F Multipurpose Hall, General Education and Reserch Building) 古写真研究国際カンファレンス「イメージのなかの国際交流」: 2007年11月16-17日, 長崎大学(総合教育研究棟2階多目的ホール) Old Photography Study, No.3, pp.72-77 ...
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent +2 more
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Shifting sediments: photography, memory, and imperial landscapes in contemporary art
Photography’s relationship to time and memory resurfaces repeatedly in writing on photographs related to atrocity, violence, and historical trauma. Frequently employed models of both historical and traumatic time reinforce linear temporality and envision
Schollenberger, Emily +1 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Geographical Variation in Thermal Adaptation of the Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans)
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Northern and southern populations of Bufo gargarizans exhibit coordinated divergence in thermal preference, resting metabolic rate, and TRPM4 temperature sensitivity along a climatic gradient. ABSTRACT Thermal adaptation in animals can manifest in multiple dimensions, yet few studies have integrated behavioral, physiological, and molecular perspectives
Longcheng Fan, Yonghua Wu
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Center for Creative Photography (Series), no. 2
, 1976 “On November 16, 1975 Wynn Bullock passed away. As the home of Wynn's archives the Center for Creative Photography will continue the spirit and ideas of his life's work.
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Coded aperture and coded exposure photography : an investigation into applications and methods [PDF]
, 2011 This dissertation presents an introduction to the field of computational photography, and provides a survey of recent research. Specific attention is given to coded aperture and coded exposure theory and methods, as these form the basis for the ...
Wilson, Martin
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