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PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN LONELINESS: City Paths Toward (Un)common Lifeworlds

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban loneliness can manifest in various ways, and social connection is not always the solution. While some people find peace in spending time alone in public places, finding solitude can be challenging. Through the lens of social infrastructure and third places, I examine how dining establishments in Basel, Switzerland, influence the ...
Nina Goldman
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Chernye zemli: natural and climatic conditions and economic activities of the population in the 1930s.

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
The study of the history of the country’s agriculture and its main branches in the prewar years is of great interest to historians, social and political scientists, which, in turn, is due to a number of socio-political factors.
E. N. Badmaeva, B. A. Erdneeva
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AN URBAN MARKETPLACE UNDER PRESSURE: The Steady Gentrification Process of Porta Palazzo (Turin) Through the Eyes of Market Sellers and Policy Makers

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
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Clarifying works written by Luvsanjamba, a representative of Mongolian lamas, who wrote books on worship to the teacher in Tibetan

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
In this article, the authors propose the study revealed that we need to search for the biographies and books of the remaining Mongolian lama. Luvsanjambaa is one of the Mongolian lamas (monks) who wrote many books and works in the Tibetan language and a ...
B. Khishigsukh, B. Jambal
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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About some changes in the kinship system of Khorchin Mongols (Өvөr Mongolyn Tunlyao hotyn Horchin Zүүn garyn dund hoshuuny shibahua balgasny Bayantaria gacaany zhisheegeer)

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
This article was written by the author based on the original materials of the field research conducted in 2015-2017 at the Shibahua Ruins Bayantaria Gorge, Horqing Left Hand Cape, Tongliao City, China’s National Autonomous Region.
Huyagt Ch. Munkhtor
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

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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«Who are we on the same path with?»: Stavropol Turkmens at the turn of the eras (late 19th — early 20th centuries) in the context of natural and climatic factors

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
The publication, based on the materials of the Stavropol Turkmens, shows the vicissitudes that the nomadic and sedentary Turkmens of the Stavropol province underwent in the late 19th and early decades of the 20th century, due to the entire course of the ...
A. T. Dzhumagulova
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The 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
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“Education in the spirit of faith”: a reflection of the imperial policy of acculturation in the “Regulations on the shelter for young children at the Princely-Mikhailovsky Bolshederbetovsky missionary camp”

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
This study presents for the first time the document “Regulations on the shelter for young children at the Princely-Mikhailovsky Bolshederbetovsky missionary camp”.
B. V. Ochirov
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