AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Exploratory Studies on the Potential Health Benefits of Spices and Herbs. [PDF]
Nutr RevJohnson GH.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
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Melatonin regulates growth, photosynthesis, and stress responses in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) under flooding stress. [PDF]
BMC Plant BiolKal Ü.
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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Enhancing pepper resilience to tebucanozole stress: role of copper and Bacillus subtilis microorganisms. [PDF]
BMC Plant BiolElveren M +4 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Determination of Main Alkylamides Responsible for Numbing Sensation in Green Sichuan Pepper Through Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Components by a Single Marker with Nonivamide as an Alternative Reference Standard. [PDF]
FoodsTian H, Li X, Gong W, Yang Q.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
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Potential use of mealworm frass as soil amendment and pest management tool in circular economy. [PDF]
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