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Digital religion and hybrid religious authority in algorithmically mediated environments. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Akhmetova A, Rakhimova G, Onngar Y, Issakhan M, Baitenova N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Legal consciousness revisited: a dynamic framework for rights awareness in a relational and mediated world. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Vargas Murillo AR, Falconi Tupiño HA.
europepmc   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of factors impacting electoral integrity in Africa between 2006-2023 - Examining the association between free and fair election and rule of law. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ikoko MO, Latif D.
europepmc   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge and perception of end-of-life bioethics among medical students. A comparative study between the University of Verona (Italy) and the University of Halle (Germany). [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics
Patuzzo Manzati S, Piazza M, Garzon S, Bencivenga M, de Manzoni G, Kremling A, König C, Schildmann J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

Moral diversity and the challenge of responsibility in AI-CDSS. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Liedtke W, Langanke M.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE URBANISM OF EXCEPTION: Scalar Rivalry and Political Loyalty in the Making of the Panorama Tbilisi Megaproject

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
wiley   +1 more source