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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender +2 more
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 5-7, January/March 2025.
Deborah Mabbett
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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The Silent Standpoint: How Professors Explain Gender Disparities in Academia
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on 77 qualitative interviews with professors in higher education, this article explores the interviewees' opinions on how gender disparities in academia should be explained. We show that male professors relate women's career barriers to family factors and women's own interests and preferences.
Margaretha Järvinen, Nanna Mik‐Meyer
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Rumor Detection with Diverse Counterfactual Evidence
, 2023 The growth in social media has exacerbated the threat of fake news to individuals and communities. This draws increasing attention to developing efficient and timely rumor detection methods. The prevailing approaches resort to graph neural networks (GNNs)
Zhang, Kaiwei +4 more
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El rumor político: Apuntes sobre la opinión pública en la Castilla del siglo XV
Cuadernos de Historia de EspañaEste estudio analiza el rumor como expresión de la comunicación política en la Castilla del siglo XV. En primer lugar, se perfilan ciertas precisiones conceptuales. El rumor es una forma de comunicación informal, extraoficial.
Ana Isabel Carrasco Manchado
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An effective rumor-containing strategy
, 2018 © 2018 Elsevier B.V. False rumors can lead to huge economic losses or/and social instability. Hence, mitigating the impact of bogus rumors is of primary importance.
C Pan (7757057) +4 more
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The 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
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Anticomunismo e antifascismo nel pensiero politico di Mariano Rumor [PDF]
, 2023 Costanza Ciscato
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