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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

open access: yesInternational 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

PUTTING SOCIAL FINANCE IN PLACE: Geographies and Strategies of Philanthropic Impact Investment in Housing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
wiley   +1 more source

NEGATIVE ASSETS: Settler Colonialism, Speculative Urbanism, and the Moral Economy of Smallholding on Nairobi's Real Estate Frontier

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The expansion of Nairobi's real estate frontier into its peri‐urban hinterlands creates new opportunities and new dilemmas for smallholder families whose land is skyrocketing in value. Instead of taking the opportunity to become urban rentiers, many smallholders across Nairobi's peripheries are selling their inherited ‘ancestral’ plots in ...
Peter Lockwood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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