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VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1152-1171, September 2026.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide prevention in Hong Kong: pushing boundaries while building bridges. [PDF]

open access: yesLancet Reg Health West Pac
Yip PSF   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 730-742, September 2026.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 445-455, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

Perfecting Exit: The Politics of Quitting Among Migrant Care Workers in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 548-557, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Quitting tends to be overlooked in studies of resistance and labor because of its individual and private character, its ineffectiveness in changing conditions of labor, and the difficulty of studying it, in favor of more organized and public protests and strikes.
Cati Coe
wiley   +1 more source

Objects and Evictions: The Politics of Things and the Reshaping of Urban Marginality

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholars have extensively documented different forms of violence experienced by homeless and evictable people, but paid less attention to how their material belongings are handled by the perpetrators of violence. Based on the method of engaged anthropology, the article identified three main regimes of handling material belongings during ...
Irina Zamfirescu
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions About Housing and Neighborhood Characteristics Among Aging Adult Black Americans in Two Predominantly Black, Low-Income Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh: A Multi-Method Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities
Palimaru AI   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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