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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
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Zakaz propagowania komunizmu lub innego ustroju totalitarnego przez pomniki na podstawie tzw. ustawy dekomunizacyjnej w świetle orzecznictwa sądów administracyjnych

Studia Prawa Publicznego
One of the objectives of the Decommunization Act is to remove monuments or other objects from public space that propagate communism or another totalitarian system.
Adam Bojarski
doaj   +1 more source

Power, culture and the production of heritage [PDF]

, 2010
No abstract ...
MacLeod, D.V.L.
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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment

Panorama, 2020
Caroline Culp
doaj   +1 more source

Ten Treasures at Stake: New Mining Claims Plus an Old Law Put National Parks and Forests at Risk [PDF]

, 2011
Examines how the 1872 Mining Act and new claims threaten national parks, monuments, forests, and historic sites such as the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.

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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Monumental Remix: Subverting the Monument in Canada’s Public Spaces

RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne, 2021
openaire   +3 more sources