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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remembering and Anticipating Precarity: A Temporal Perspective on Housing Experiences of Labour Migrants in the Netherlands

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to geographical scholarship on home as a place of ontological security by considering the multitemporal, long‐term lived effects of housing precarity among labour migrants. Within migration and housing debates, housing precarity is often viewed as a material and temporary condition that labour migrants accept to ...
Dolly Loomans   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spores of Displacement: Legal Geographies of Mould, Evidence and Housing Precarity

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This article develops a legal geography of mould by examining how damp and disrepair become legal, evidentiary and spatial objects within rental disputes and eviction proceedings in Germany. Drawing on ethnographic research across more than 200 district court hearings, it shows how mould enters the courtroom not primarily as a ...
Sarah Klosterkamp
wiley   +1 more source

When Opportunity Fails: A Qualitative Exploration of Pathways to Homelessness Among Central and Eastern European Labour Migrants in the Netherlands

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Homelessness among Central and Eastern European (CEE) migrant communities is a concern in several Western European countries, including the Netherlands, where migration from other EU countries is often motivated by perceived employment opportunities.
Simone 't Hooft   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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