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Soviet experts in Chinese Academy of Sciences: historical review of cooperation and exchange between Chinese and Soviet Academy of Sciences in the 1950s

Социология науки и технологий, 2013
After the establishment of The People’s Republic of China in 1949, to learn from Soviet Union was the most realistic fast way to build a new country. Under the advocacy of Chairman Mao Zedong, the whole China was fired with the zeal of learning from Soviet.
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Images of the Soviet special services in the works of the victims of Stalinism and in modern historical science

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Istoriya
The article characterizes the images of the Soviet special services as presented in the memoirs and works of art by citizens who suffered from mass political repressions, and in modern Russian historiography, where conflicting images have been created by civil and departmental historians.
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Historical development zones in the Lushunkou district of Dalian

Проект Байкал
The article presents the materials and results of the study conducted by the author with the support of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation “Methods of Integration of Historical Development Zones and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Objects in ...
Михаил Базилевич
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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Role of Moscow Agricultural Academy in Formation and Development of Soviet Agricultural Science and Higher Agricultural Education

RUDN Journal of Russian History
The authors in their article determine the role and place of the Timiryazev Academy in the broader system of Soviet science and education. The source base of the study is materials from Russian archives and personal files of the Academy employees from ...
Aleksandr B. Orishev, Sergei A. Mironiuk, Anastasiya S. Pozdnyakova   +2 more
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Lev Vladimirovich Cherepnin’s Expulsion from Graduate School in the Context of Soviet Historical Science

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History
Lev Vladimirovich Cherepnin was expelled from the graduate school of the Institute of History of the Russian Association of Research Institutes of Social Sciences in 1929. The article examines the phenomenon the existence and energetic activity from among non-Marxist’s postgraduate students-historians in the USSR in the 1920s.
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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