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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

'This big shadow that we need to turn into light' - How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work. [PDF]

Environ Plan A
Meyer-Habighorst C, Mittmasser C, Schwiter K.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From algorithms to the self: understanding algorithmic alienation in the digital age. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Arkan B, Kanbay Y, Akçam A.
europepmc   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Market, power, gift, and concession economies: Comparison using four-mode primitive network models. [PDF]

PLoS One
Kato T, Miyakoshi J, Owa M, Mine R.
europepmc   +1 more source

UNPACKING THE SUSTAINABILITY FIX: Governance Mechanisms in Urban Redevelopment Across Central and Eastern Europe

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainability is mobilized as a governance strategy in large‐scale urban redevelopment. Focusing on the RIVUS Mall project in Cluj‐Napoca, alongside comparative cases from Bratislava and Gdańsk, it traces how environmental objectives are translated into institutional practices, planning rationales, and financial ...
MIHAI IACOB
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming, sensibility, and imagination in social research. A collaborative exploration with defenders of water in Chile. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Sánchez MC, Zunino HM, Araneda M, Cepeda C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking social action through the info-ecological dimensions of two collaborative public health platforms: the people's health movement and the citizen sense project platforms as examples of health-net-activism. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Surrenti S, Di Felice M.
europepmc   +1 more source