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Images Assisting Wor[l]ds: Black History Murals in South and West Philadelphia

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Black history murals are often understood as examples of state or corporate obfuscation of racial inequality, sometimes known as “artwashing”; or, conversely, as “insurgent” political interventions. Focusing on murals in historically Black neighborhoods in South and West Philadelphia, this article instead highlights the processual, but no less
Gareth Millington   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unravelling Uncertainty After Displacement: Syrian and Eritrean Women's Homemaking Processes in The Netherlands

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Using a ‘homemaking’ rather than an ‘integration’ lens to study people's negotiations of space in new environments, we study post‐displacement homemaking processes of Syrian and Eritrean women in the Netherlands. Fleeing from different ordeals, these women arrived during the refugee‐protection crisis of 2015 and work to (re)arrange their ...
Iris Poelen, Lothar Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating bridge‐building strategies: How direct and indirect contact with refugees in Italian welcome projects promotes positive intergroup relations

open access: yesAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.
Abstract According to Allport's Contact Hypothesis, contact with individuals from different social groups fosters positive intergroup relations under certain conditions. Building on this theoretical framework, we examined the effects of direct (Study 1) and indirect (extended; Study 2) contact with refugees within (two different types of) Italian ...
Tiziana Mancini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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