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THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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

EMIGRE CITY‐MAKING: The Micropolitics of Diasporic Real Estate Investment and Urban Growth in Pakistan

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary cities in the global South are being reshaped through the intersecting logics of burgeoning real estate sectors and diasporic investment. This article examines the case of Pakistan to explore how emigration trajectories and remittance practices contribute to the transformation of urban landscapes in countries of origin through ...
Fatima Tassadiq
wiley   +1 more source

War-related displacement, conflict intensity, and treatment delivery factors in opioid agonist maintenance treatment discontinuation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine: a national cohort study. [PDF]

open access: yesLancet Reg Health Eur
Ivasiy R   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Genomic Signatures of Selection Across Climate Gradients and a Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution in an Ant Social Parasite-Host System. [PDF]

open access: yesMol Biol Evol
Macit MN   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

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