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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
AAPS, Abdoul M., Amin A., Amin Y. Kamete, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Bauman Z., Bayat A., Beall J., Berman M., Blunch N.‐H., Bromley R., Bromley R., Butcher C., Caldeira T. P. R., Campbell E. K., Castells M., CHRA, CITY of HARARE, CITY of HARARE, Cresswell T., de soto H., Foucault M., Friedman E., García canclini N., Ghertner D. A., Gospodini A., Gueye C., Hansen K. T., Hart K., Holston J., ILO, Jimu I. M., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kayuni H. M., King K., Legg S., Lindell I., Lindell I., Llobera J. R., Maloney W. F., Marcuse H., Meagher K., Misztal B. A., Misztal B. A., Mooya M. M., Moser C. O. N., MPSLSW, MPSLSW, Mubvami T., Odendaal N., Popke E. J., Prakash G., Rakodi C., Rakodi C., Robins S., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Rupiya M., Samers M., Sandercock L., SDI, SDI, Simone A., Simone A., Simone A., Stern R. E., Stren R. E., Swilling M., Thomas J., Tibaijuka A. K., Tipple A. G., Tokman V. E., UN‐HABITAT, UN‐HABITAT, Watson V., Watson V., Wekwete K. H., Yiftachel O.   +83 more
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Data on the economic lifelines and environmental impacts of home-based enterprises in Nigeria: A case study of Ikot-Ekpene, Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria [PDF]

Data in Brief
Home-based enterprises (HBEs), which involve the use of one's residence for commercial activities, have become a prominent research focus in the fields of entrepreneurship, sustainability, and environmental management.
Chioma A. John-Nsa, Ugonna C. Nkwunonwo, Nkeiru H. Ezeadichie, Vincent A. Onodugo, Ndukwe E. Chiemelu, Elijah S. Ebinne   +5 more
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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective [PDF]

, 2019
Creative labour studies focus almost exclusively on Euro-American metropolitan ‘creative hubs’ and hence the creative worker they theorize is typically white, middle-class, urban and overwhelmingly male.
Alacovska, A., Gill, R.
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A Feature Selection Algorithm Integrating Maximum Classification Information and Minimum Interaction Feature Dependency Information [PDF]

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2021
Feature selection is the key step in the analysis of high‐dimensional small sample data. The core of feature selection is to analyse and quantify the correlation between features and class labels and the redundancy between features. However, most of the existing feature selection algorithms only consider the classification contribution of individual ...
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Onyms in Internet communication and electronic environment: new phenomena and functions [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2021
The development of electronic communication brings to rapid language and speech-communicative changes. These changes make the scientific task of their timely conceptualization urgent.
Anastasia V. Zubareva
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Untapped potential: How the G20 can strengthen global governance [PDF]

, 2019
The G20 has two distinctive features that make it a unique forum in global politics. First, it is one of the few existing global platforms where different international institutions and regional organisations can coordinate across a vast array of issue ...
Benson, Robert, Zürn, Michael
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The Linguistics of Social Networking: A Study of Writing Conventions on Facebook

Linguistik Online, 2012
Scholarly research on computer-mediated communication discourse has mainly centred upon the linguistic characteristics of emails, focusing on the formal and informal features and the orality involved in this form of communication.
Carmen Pérez-Sabater
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Conversational Linguistic Features Inform Social-Relational Inference

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022
Whether it is the first day of school or a new job, individuals often find themselves in situations where they must learn and integrate into novel social relationships. However, the mechanisms through which individuals evaluate the strength and nature of these existing relationships – social-relational inference – remain unclear.
Helen Schmidt, Sophia Tran, John D. Medaglia, Virginia Ulichney, William J. Mitchell, Chelsea Helion   +5 more
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Stylistic Features of Netspeak Language on 9GAG’s Instagram Account

Journal of Language and Literature, 2023
The emergence of Netspeak as a variety of languages cannot be separated from the development of the Internet and social media. The characteristic of its medium and the social media nature of communication makes Netspeak have distinctive and unique ...
I Gede Sumerta Yasa, Putu Nur Ayomi, Putu Devi Maharani   +2 more
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Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework [PDF]

, 2017
In the 21st century, a growing number of people live ‘informal’ lives within fissures between legality and informality. Concomitantly, power relations are increasingly expressed through devices of confinement.
Agier M, Agier M, Altrock U, Bayat A, Beckett K, Bhambra G, Burawoy M, Caldeira T, Ceccorulli M, Cross J, Datta A, Dias A, Giovanni Picker, Hart K, Herrle P, Hilbrandt H, Morris J, Palidda S, Rahola F, Robinson J, Roy A, Scott J, Silvia Pasquetti, Sykes G, Wacquant L, Wacquant L, Wacquant L   +26 more
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