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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
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Fleshthetics of the Postcolonial Body
Press StartThrough a holistic analysis of the games by Studio Oleomingus, the paper will explore the concept of ‘Fleshthetics’, examining how the postcolonial body/Flesh is a palimpsest and collage of both lived experience(s) and intergenerational phantom ...
Soham Adhikari, Aritro Bhattacharya
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Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in Italian Context - Past and Present [PDF]
, 2018 Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context – Past and Present. In the last 30 years Italy experienced relevant changes due to its new configuration as a postcolonial country and land of transnational migrations, without ...
FABBRI, GIULIA
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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Colonial Experience and Postcolonial Underdevelopment in Africa [PDF]
IIn this paper, we analyze the connection between the history of colonial rule and postcolonial development in Africa. We focus on the fact that many African colonies were governed by indirect rule. Under indirect rule, indigenous people are divided into
Nobuhiro Mizuno, Ryosuke Okazawa
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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