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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

open access: yesJournal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesInternational 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

A modernidade do Cristo Redentor

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2008
Dans la perspective d'une lecture de la modernité au Brésil, on examine dans ce travail trois moments du monument érigé en l'honneur du Christ Rédempteur sur les hauteurs du Corcovado, à Rio de Janeiro. Dans le premier, on énonce ce que signifie l'idée d'
Emerson Giumbelli
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2nd Division, Meuse-Argonne (Champagne) Offensive, September 29 - October 14, 1918.

open access: yes, 2016
This album is part of a collection of photographs of the various battlefields in Europe upon which the Armed Forces of the United States were actively engaged during World War I.
American Battle Monuments Commission
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COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legends about Women in Kosovo's Monuments and their Media Presentation

open access: yesStyles of Communication, 2018
Sacrifice, as a social phenomenon, is as old as mankind and is found in almost all cultures. Related to this, the main goal of this paper is to explore the social and historical relation of women’s sacrifice in the honour of morale code, then analyzing ...
Artan Krasniqi   +2 more
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77th Division, Vesle Sector, August 11-17, 1918, Oise-Aisne Offensive, August 18 - September 16, 1918 (part one).

open access: yes, 2016
This album is part of a collection of photographs of the various battlefields in Europe upon which the Armed Forces of the United States were actively engaged during World War I.
American Battle Monuments Commission
core  

Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Contraddizioni valdostane: i motivi di una fedeltà monarchica

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2013
The article describes how the Savoy monarchy maintained the support of the valdostan population. This was based on four elements: the enhancement of the local military tradition in the modern age;the hunts that implemented the income of hundreds of ...
Alessandro Celi è dottore di ricerca in storia contemporanea (Università di Udine, 2012) e archivista paleografo (Archivio di Stato di Torino, 2011). Cultore della materia presso la cattedra di Storia contemporanea del corso di laurea in Scienze Politiche dell’Università della Valle d’Aosta, socio della SISSCO e di numerose Accademie e Società storiche italiane e francesi, ha pubblicato oltre trenta tra articoli e monografie
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