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SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The First Italian Book Exhibition in Buenos Aires and its Repercussion on Argentinian Press

TECA
The essay aims to examine the impact of the first Italian Book Exhibition, held in Buenos Aires in 1927, on the Argentinian cultural environment of the time.
Renata Adriana Bruschi
doaj   +1 more source

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

Paranoie fasciste? Il volontariato in favore dell’Etiopia durante la guerra del 1935-1936

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2013
This paper focuses on the fascist fear that the government of Addis Abeba could recruit a force of volunteers to help in the resistance to the Italian invasion in 1935-1936.
João Fábio Bertonha è Dottore in Storia sociale presso l’Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Specialista in temi strategici internazionali presso la National Defense University (EUA), è professore di Storia contemporanea presso l’Universidade Estadual de Maringá/PR (Brasile) e ricercatore del CNPq. È autore di molte opere, tra cui più di una decina di libri, nell’ambito degli studi sul fascismo, le relazioni internazionali, la difesa, l’immigrazione, la storia d’Italia e quella degli Stati Uniti.
doaj  

Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Sharq al-Adna: British Covert Radio and the Development of Arab Broadcasting [PDF]

, 2020
Sharq al-Adna or the Near East Arab Broadcasting Station was a covert, British radio station which broadcast in Arabic from 1941 to 1956, at first from Palestine before moving to Cyprus in 1948, where it posed as a commercial station but was in reality ...
McNicholas, A., McNicholas, A.
core   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

Forging Bonds across Continents: Italian Merchants and Īl-Khānid Diplomacy

Crossroads, 2023
Abstract This article analyses the Italian commercial presence in the Mongol Īl-Khānate in thirteenth-century Persia. Analysing source materials, the study focuses on the experiences of individuals and communities alike, showcasing a dual aspiration to economic gain and political status.
openaire   +1 more source

Culture as a factor promoting the positive image of a country: the case of Italy

Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì, 2016
The paper addresses the issue of the country’s image from a perspective, aiming to identify and analyze the ways in which cultural diplomacy can support the branding process.
A. Б. Кузембаева, С. Б. Даярди   +1 more
doaj  

Rendezvous in Space: Tech Diplomacy and the Commercial Space Era—A Study of Rendezvous and Docking Technologies and Space Exploration Co‐Operation Since the Cold War

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source