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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor +4 more
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2008 This paper argues for the need to adopt a dynamic approach to demography and migration in the peripheral (often island or remote rural) regions of the North Atlantic.
Godfrey Baldacchino
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Economics and EnvironmentGentrification occurs when capital flows into rural areas through various channels, changing land use. At the beginning of this process, the potential income capitalised in farmland prices becomes detached from the current net return, creating a rent ...
Bazyli Czyżewski +4 more
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Moving Stronger: Needs of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement [PDF]
, 2001 Moving Stronger: Needs of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement presents the struggles, victories, strengths and challenges of grassroots groups organizing for criminal justice reform across the country.
Grace Chang, Ryan Pintado-Vertner
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Fleshing out Law: Embodied Encounters and the Material Geographies of Legal Space
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the modalities of appearing, suspending and filtering to analyse how bodies are made to perform, endure and navigate legal processes.
Sarah Klosterkamp
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Culture and Urban Revitalization: A Harvest Document [PDF]
, 2007 Advocates have long argued that the economic benefits of the arts and culture provide a firm rationale for public support. Recent scholarship on the "creative class" and "creative economy" is simply the latest effort to link cultural expression to ...
Mark J. Stern, Susan C. Seifert
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The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Industrialisation has reshaped European rural areas, leading to both depopulation and, in some cases, lifestyle‐driven repopulation. Our research highlights supply‐side barriers to Alpine repopulation by unpacking the impossibilities of vacant farmhouses revitalisation. Both land transfer traditions ingrained over generation (micro‐level
Bernhard Grüner, Elisabeth Gruber
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of digital information and communication technologies (DICT) in the context of social cohesion and trust (SCT) at the community level. The analysis is grounded in the assumption that SCT underpins both social capital and the capacity for collective action in communities.
Yann P. M. Rees +3 more
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Societal ImpactsPoverty and housing precariousness are largely overlooked in rural studies. Cultural stereotypes of happier, healthier and frugal rural life, strong community ties and solidarity have idealized the rural as a locus of resilience, concealing poverty that ...
Theodosia Anthopoulou +3 more
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