Rental Rooms: Spaces of Migrant Housing, Overcrowding, and Social Reproduction in the Rentier City
ABSTRACT When analysing housing precarity and politics, urban theory tends to focus on a few typical scales—the urban region, the neighbourhood, the house. This paper argues that the room/rooms need to be foregrounded as a scale, site and unit for understanding migrant housing geographies, overcrowded practices of social reproduction and the politics ...
Theo Barry Born
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Understanding factors influencing adoption of air pollution protective measures using the knowledge-attitude-behavior model. [PDF]
Huang YJ +4 more
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ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between innovation urbanism and settler colonial city‐making through the case of Jerusalem/al‐Quds. It argues that the theory and practice of “proximity,” often assumed to be a key prerequisite of innovative economy, is deeply entangled with settler colonial genealogies, terrains, and social relations. By
Antti Tarvainen
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Caring With/In Place: Future‐Oriented Practices of Care in Local Initiatives in Gothenburg, Sweden
Short Abstract In this paper, we discuss how engagements in two local initiatives—an allotment garden and a neighbourhood house—can be understood as caring with/in specific places. Such engagements have the potential to foster attentiveness towards other‐than‐humans while contributing to shaping the future of specific places.
Malin Bäckman, Virpi Timonen
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The State‐Architecture Nexus in Post‐Socialist Tirana: European Imaginaries and State Power
Short Abstract Driven by the political promise of modernisation and ‘Westernisation’, Tirana's socio‐economic landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, staged behind gleaming buildings and green masterplans designed by leading European architects.
Chiara Iacovone
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ABSTRACT Second language (L2) identity has gained increasing attention for its role in shaping study abroad (SA) experiences, yet its relationship with social networks remains underexplored. Drawing on social network theory and L2 identity framework, this qualitative study examined the interplay of L2 identity construction and social networks among ...
Citing Li, Qufei Wang, Chenchen Zhang
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The elderly and the right to an active aging: the strategy of social cohousing to counteract relational poverty. [PDF]
Carrera L.
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Integrating Australian Native Foods for a More Sustainable Food System: A Qualitative Co-Design Study with Aboriginal Communities. [PDF]
Lopes CVA +8 more
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Changes in quality of life over time through the lens of young people aged 18-24 in 2016 in Gauteng Province of South Africa. [PDF]
Marinda E +7 more
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