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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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PropTech goes wild: Hunting access platforms and the neo liberalization of rural land relations
Digital Geography and SocietyScholars are increasingly interested in the role digital technologies play in shaping access to, the management of, and relationships to the environment. This paper contributes to these discussions by examining hunting access platforms, a suite of online
Nicole T. Venker +2 more
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Beyond the Populist Moment: Nationalism and the Democratic Chain of Conflict
Constellations, EarlyView.
Michaelangelo Anastasiou
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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European CountrysideThis article examines the relationship between rural development and international immigration in the Pyrenees, highlighting a neo-endogenous approach that leverages immigration’s benefits.
Mendoza Cristóbal +2 more
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South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2019 This paper explores the political churnings around an almost twenty-year-old process of land acquisition and development in Rajarhat, an erstwhile rural settlement in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Ritanjan Das
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Neo-rurality and the different meanings of the countryside
, 2007 This paper looks at the diverse meanings that countryside may have for a variety of neo-rurals, having as starting point the case study of the residential restructuring experienced in the present context of Navarre (Spain). These meanings represent different ways of contesting the daily experience in contemporary society, different expectations about ...
Rivera Escribano, Maria, Mormont, Marc
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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BMC CancerPurpose Survival rates of breast cancer (BC) patients are particularly low in rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) which is due to limited access to therapy.
Judith Katharina Ballé +12 more
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International 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
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