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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

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

CLAIMING SOCIAL HOUSING FUTURES: Value, Risk and the Temporal Politics of Income Strip Financing in London

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and infectious diseases: translating evidence into action. [PDF]

open access: yesInfect Dis Poverty
Shi X   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce “labour‐market‐relevant” graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic ...
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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