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Investing Aura: Making Value at an Emirati Art Center
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations ...
Beth Derderian
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Daewoo, Thomson, and Privatization in Late-Twentieth-Century France
HistoriesThe region of Lorraine in France witnessed the collapse of the steel industries in the late twentieth century, causing massive job losses and social devastation.
Jill Harsin
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Nationalization and the Zambian copper mining industry [PDF]
, 1986 This thesis examines whether the performance of a mineral industry in a developing country changed after its nationalization. The criteria for evaluating the performance of a mineral industry were set out at the beginning of the thesis, drawing on the ...
Cunningham, Simon John
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Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-ForschungWhile the discussion in historical scholarship to date has focused undoubtedly on Wilson’s importance to the postulate of national self-determination, this paper shifts the focus and shows that the linchpin of Wilson’s thinking was democracy.
Steffen Kailitz
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, 2018 Conflicts between the Spanish Crown and colonizers created tumultuous conditions in which enemies became allies and the seeds of nationalism were sown amidst treachery and betrayal. This chapter examines the chaotic nineteenth century and how it set the stage for debates that have lasted to the present regarding how Andean nations should be ...
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
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Building land as a subject to restitution process [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2017 Ownership right on building land is one of the property rights which had been deprived from citizens by state authorities in the period after the Second World War, while there were a lot of legal bases for deprivation.
Kukuruzović Danijela
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
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PRIVATIZATION AND NATIONALIZATION CYCLES
, 2017 This paper studies cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. It starts with a synthesis of available evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization.
Roberto Chang +2 more
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