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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
wiley   +1 more source

VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Collective Nostalgia on Architectural Characteristics of Shrine Buildings

Journal of Studies in Science and Engineering
Nostalgia, in psychology, is an emotional state, while socially and culturally, it embodies a society's collective memory and heritage. In architecture, nostalgia refers to the emotional and cultural bond people have with the past, expressed through ...
Armange Ismael Barakat, Alan Faraydoon Ali   +1 more
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

Nostalgia como un Surgir Encarnado

Amauta, 2014
RESUMENEl presente artículo responde a un interés investigativo acerca de los sentimientos y emociones que surgen en los individuos a propósito de circunstancias, personas, objetos o situaciones que generan a su vez, formas o tipos de comportamiento que ...
Vladimir Sánchez Riaño*
doaj  

Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
wiley   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Nostalgia in Advertising: Effects on Emotional Engagement and Purchase Intention [PDF]

Global Economic Observer
Nostalgia has become an increasingly important persuasive strategy in contemporary advertising, especially in a media environment marked by emotional saturation, fragmented attention and intense brand competition.
OTILIA-ELENA PLATON
doaj  

The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
wiley   +1 more source