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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

TRANSNATIONAL GENTRIFICATION IN NISEKO, JAPAN: A Model of Displacement Led by Linked Migration

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Transnational gentrification scholarship has provided insights into how transnational migration reshapes urban areas, yet its analytical lens has rarely extended to peripheral rural contexts outside Euro‐American settings, where distinct actors and mechanisms may emerge.
Ni Yan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 1 No. 3

open access: yes, 2016
News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 1 No.
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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

News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 2 No. 2

open access: yes, 2016
News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 2 No.
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 1 No. 11

open access: yes, 2016
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The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people who are or can be at home anywhere in the world (the “Anywheres”) is at the heart of many contemporary political conflicts. According to him, the
Achim Hildebrandt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 2 No. 9

open access: yes, 2016
News Letter of the Los Angeles County Public Library, Vol. 2 No.
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Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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