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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

Between the Domestic and the Foreign: The KGB and Soviet Muslims in the Late USSR. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Klimentov V.
europepmc   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Migration Intentions of Albanian Physicians and Nurses. [PDF]

SAGE Open Nurs
Prifti V, Qirko S, Saliaj A, Kicaj E, Çerçizaj R, Rogozea L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Sovietization of sports in Czechoslovakia and the establishment of the institute of physical education and sport (1948-1953). [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Waic M, Pechman V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pushing the Boundaries: Studies on Consumers and Food Demand in the Journal of Agricultural Economics

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We summarize the development of consumer economics and food demand in the Journal of Agricultural Economics over the past 100 years. Even from an early stage, the role of marketing agricultural products in a thriving agricultural sector was recognized within the works published in the Journal.
Jill E. Hobbs, Jutta Roosen
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalist Heterotopia & Lost Social Utopia: Documenting Class, Work, and Migration in Post-Communist East-Central European Fiction. [PDF]

Cent Eur
Baghiu S, Olaru O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Loneliness and quality of life among older adults: the mediating role of resilience. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Kushta R, Moliner Albero AR.
europepmc   +1 more source