International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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Migrations, arts, and bodies: the Silhouette in multiple shadows of Rubiane Maia. [PDF]
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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The ecology of plant ingredients, food heritage, and adaptation among Syrian, Afghan, and Egyptian Coptic diasporas in Northwestern Italy. [PDF]
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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Undoing the migrant-citizen binomial: reimagining the boundaries of citizenship through acts of solidarity in a southern European City during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Front SociolGatti R.
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Defining Global Health Diplomacy: Assessing United States Global Health Diplomacy actors' knowledge, skills, and competencies. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthEsapebong-Ray F, McDonnell K, Katz R.
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Remain or return? The effect of social network and engagement on settlement intentions among high skilled migrants in Northeast China. [PDF]
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Health responsibility among marginalized women in Mashhad, northeastern Iran: a critical ethnographic study. [PDF]
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