PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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The emergence of urban scaling in Ancient Southwest Asia. [PDF]
Chelazzi F, Lawrence D.
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Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Creating a brand. Genesis, transformation and diffusion of Qurayyah Painted Ware. [PDF]
Luciani M +7 more
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
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 +2 more
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Reply to Letter to the Editor on: A. G. Nerlich, J. C. Dewaal, A. Perciaccante, S. Di Cosimo, L. Cortesi, J. Wimmer, S. T. Donnell, R, Bianucci: Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in "The Flood" (Sistine Chapel, Rome)? Breast 2024, 78, 103823 by Dr. Paul Gelinsky. [PDF]
Di Cosimo S +7 more
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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 +2 more
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A 6000-year genomic transect in the middle Yellow River. [PDF]
Wang R +30 more
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Multiproxy bioarchaeological analyses reveal subsistence shift in Bronze Age Central Europe. [PDF]
Depaermentier MLC +23 more
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