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Local economic resilience and economic specialization in Greece during the crisis

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This paper scrutinizes the issue of economic resilience, aiming to detect the existence of a systematic link with economic specialization. To this end, the paper conducts an empirical analysis at the local (i.e., municipal) level of Greece during the economic crisis period (2009–2015), providing cartographic visualizations and spatial ...
Panagiotis Artelaris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions

open access: yes, 2021
This paper is a response to the pervasive spread of both cartographic materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic and critical commentaries about such materials. Written by four Italian map-scholars with different theoretical backgrounds but similar socio-
A. Pase   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Making Explicit What has Been Implicit

open access: yesCartographic Perspectives, 2021
How is a map different from things that are not maps? What is a map? How do you know it's a map? Such questions appear quite simple—the answers would seem to be things everyone knows almost without thinking—yet comprehensive answers have proved elusive ...
Mark Denil
semanticscholar   +1 more source

¿Quién habita las ciudades? Exclusiones, intersecciones y atravesamientos

open access: yesLimaq, 2019
Postmodern cities represent the logic of ephemeralness and daily consumption. Sometimes streets are ruled by a hectic and fleeting traffic flow. At other times the wounds of resistance do not heal, and they submit to the logic of those who resist and ...
Paola Bonavitta
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The moral geographies of migration maps: spatial order as a normative basis for border control

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
The politics of migration management is peppered by maps promoting specific spatial imaginaries of human mobility and its control. These maps are key sites where a space to be bordered is constructed and reaffirmed.
Sebastian Cobarrubias
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negotiating identities: ethnicity and social relations in a young offenders' institution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article explores the situated nature of male prisoner identities in the late modern British context, using the contrasting theoretical frames of Sykes's (1958) indigenous model and Jacobs' (1979) importation model of prisoner subcultures and social ...
Allport, Gordon W.   +29 more
core   +1 more source

Granadan reflections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper explores a practice of historical reflection grounded in the city of Granada’s aesthetic and architectural heritage. From the publication of Washington Irving’s Tales of Alhambra, in 1823, up through today, Granada has been a highly celebrated
Hirschkind, C
core   +1 more source

From the cartographic gaze to contestatory cartographies

open access: yesMapping and Politics in the Digital Age, 2018
Rene Descartes declared in the 16th Century that the world was now dominated by the visual, a notion that would be seen as defining the Enlightenment (Descartes, cited in Potts, 2015).
D. Specht, A. Feigenbaum
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of the interactions in confined macroscopic Wigner islands: theory and experiments

open access: yes, 2006
Macroscopic Wigner islands present an interesting complementary approach to explore the properties of two-dimensional confined particles systems.
Coupier, G.   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

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