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A região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro na atualidade: recuperação econômica e reestruturação espacial

open access: yesConfins, 2015
The present work aims to be a contribution to debate about metropolitan restructuring, talking as a reference to the analysis the metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro.
Oséias Teixeira Da Silva
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

O Desporto Nos Países Africanos: Entre as Práticas Coloniais e os Projectos De Modernidade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Nos anos 60, o mundo mudava. No arquipélago, em 1960, tiveram lugar as comemorações do centenário da morte do Infante D. Henrique. Em 1970, celebrou-se o quinto centenário da sua descoberta.
Nascimento, Augusto
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Welcome Pathogens: Transient Heat Dampens Immune Responses to Acibenzolar-S-Methyl in Apple Plants. [PDF]

open access: yesPlant Cell Environ
ABSTRACT Climate change affects plant‐pathogen interactions, with disease outcome varying depending on the pathosystem and environmental scenario. In Arabidopsis, a thermo‐sensitive module of salicylic acid (SA) signalling makes immunity vulnerable to heat.
Chavonet E   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A plasticidade da metrópole de São Paulo. Reprodução do espaço, financeirização e propriedade da terra [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
O presente artigo parte do pressuposto de que os processos extremos na constituição da cidade estão relacionados ao aprofundamento da crise capitalista das últimas décadas e da necessidade de tornar plástica a materialidade que expressa a cidade, de modo
Guerra de Hoyos, Carmen (Coordinador)   +3 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Comunidade de diáspora em Montreal: uma primeira aproximação - imigração portuguesa e o papel da instituição escolar no Quebec nos séculos XXe XXI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Este artigo é fruto de pesquisa exploratória, realizada na cidade de Montreal, subsidiada pelo governo canadense no ano de 2006, e das reflexões que têm sido feitas acerca da relação entre o mundo lusófono e a instituição escolar no âmbito do grupo ...
Silva, Nilce da
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Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

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