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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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Mapping Postcolonial Literature

, 2019
Matthew Hannah (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities) Yiqiu Yan (Undergraduate Researcher) Space and place are incredibly important features of the postcolonial novel and, for writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who are living in former colonies, geography plays an incredibly significant role in navigating issues of identity ...
Hannah, Matthew, Yan, Yiqui
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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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ORIENTALISM AND POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISMIN IN MO YAN’S FICTION

Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt
This article applies the postcolonial criticism frameworks of Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak to examine five representative novels by Mo Yan: The Herbivorous Family, Red Sorghum Clan, Sandalwood Death, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, and Life and Death Are ...
Viet Hoan Ngo
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EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

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, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

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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La réécriture de l’histoire : dialogue entre Ce que le jour doit à la nuit de Yasmina Khadra et Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau [PDF]

Revue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones
This study offers a comparative analysis of historical rewriting in two major works of postcolonial Francophone literature: Yasmina Khadra’s What the Day Owes the Night and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco.
Ridha BELAGROUZ, Fatima Malika BOUKHELOU
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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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Review: Vijay Mishra, Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy. Bloomsbury, 2020

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2023
Ashwiny O. KISTNAREDDY
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Postcolonial criticism: literary aspect of Ukrainian literary studies

Acta Academiae Beregsasiensis, Philologica
This article examines certain phenomena in modern Ukrainian literature and culture that can be described as postcolonial. Special attention is given to the transformations that distinguish these phenomena from the previous cultural system, as well as to
Mariya Chobanyuk
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