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, 1992 PhDThe thesis is concerned with the use of family imagery in monumental sculpture commissioned from the major London workshops in the mid-eighteenth century.
Craske, M.J., Craske, Matthew Julian
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Statues of Fraud : Confederate Monuments as Public Nuisances
, 2022 The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other African Americans have capitulated a new wave of social activism throughout the United States.
Behzadi, Emily T.
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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Place theory, genealogy, and the cultural biography of Roman monuments
, 2015 This paper draws on developments in humanistic geography, philosophy, and archaeology to develop a long-term place-centered theoretical perspective on monuments of the Roman Empire.
Rohl, D.
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska’s New Deal Totem Parks
Panorama, 2019 Sascha T. Scott
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