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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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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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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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European Literatures of Military Occupation
Occupation literature: a new perspective on European identities What does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and read literature?
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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The exhibition «People’s war» in «Museum of Soviet occupation»
, 2009 В огляді йдеться про відкриття виставки «Народна війна» у «Музеї совєтської окупації». Матеріали для експозиції підібрали співробітники Київської міської організації Всеукраїнського товариства «Меморіал» ім. В.
Польова, Ю.
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Iranian resistance to Soviet pressure: Irano-Soviet relations 1941-1947 [PDF]
, 1992 This study covers a critical period of Iranian history in the context of Soviet policy towards Iran. The major purpose of the study is to show how Iran survived the war-time Soviet occupation and maintained its independence and sovereignty in the face of
Geranmayeh, MA
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Eyes on the Ground: Soviet Investigations of the Nazi Occupation
, 2023 Ph.D.Different understandings of who qualified as victors, victims, and villains fractured the globe after World War II. In the Soviet Union, state information policies and lack of access to archives impeded examination of the consequences of the Nazi ...
Chan, Paula
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The Economic and Ecological Impact of Soy in Brazil: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, soy expansion in Brazil has generated significant environmental, social and economic impacts. However, there is no consensus about benefits and drawbacks, calling for a more careful account of the economic and ecological diversity of the territories where this phenomenon has been unfolding.
Stefano Ghinoi +3 more
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, 2022 At the end of World War II, Germany lay in ruins. The Wehrmacht had inflicted horrific levels of death and destruction on numerous European countries, only to have the war end with an utterly defeated, destroyed, and demoralized Germany.
Parks, Kendall
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