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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Social Networking, 2015 When medium itself has become message and gets disproportionate importance, the substance of the message gets pushed back. Influence of visual media on culture and people has been increasing day by day. Though it influences people both positively and negatively, it affects more adversely than otherwise as the media has begun affecting the very identity
Atish Parashar, G. Sreenivasan
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2019 Ideological differences relating to the normative expectations of media performance in Zimbabwe have, historically, been at the heart of debates and struggles around press freedom and media activism.
Khanyile Joseph Mlotshwa
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Staging Unincorporated Power: Richard Harding Davis and the Critique of Imperial News
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2011 This essay contextualizes the work of war correspondent Richard Harding Davis within an evolving “imperial news apparatus” that would culminate in his reporting of the Spanish-American War.
Nirmal Trivedi
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Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Written as a letter to my 28‐year‐old self, this paper explores the development of my engagement with cultural complexes. On August 18, 2009, I finished a chapter applying cultural complexes to a history of China, complete with elaborate charts that seemed to confirm a process by which cultural complexes are formed, and how China’s then recent
Kevin Lu
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Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2020 Digital media is believed to be transforming this world into a global village. In context of this digital globalisation, the current study investigates impact of digital media on Female university students in Punjab, Pakistan with respect to religious ...
Ghulam Shabir +3 more
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Media/Cultural imperialism and Nigerian women : whose culture, which imperialism?
, 1992 Through colonialism and the assimilation of foreign values, people in the excolony are now a cultural hybrid. The local elites who occupy the commanding heights in policy/decision making in Nigeria have been at the forefront of the acceptance and ...
Owens-Ibie, Nosa
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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