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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 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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Bater, James H. The Soviet City: Ideal and Reality [PDF]

, 1982
Robert Gohstand
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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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Trauma and the Museum Exhibition: How to Create an Exhibition on Traumatic Experiences?

Zbiór Wiadomości do Antropologii Muzealnej
In the article, the author presents the solutions used during the arrangement of the first temporary exhibition of the Sybir Memorial Museum [Memorial Museum Siberia], entitled ‘Only Pain is Mine’, which presents various aspects of the reality of women ...
Karolina Mosiej-Zambrano
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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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The Vocabulary of Town-Twinning: A Corpus Analysis of the Press in Soviet Karelia (1960s–1980s)

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. The study of the functions of town-twinning city terminology in the regional press of the Soviet period constitutes a relevant scholarly issue.
Ksenia M. Bogacheva
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The Truth About Soviet Whaling [PDF]

, 2008
I have always condemned (and to do anything more was not within our power or abilities) the illegal and sometimes destructive whaling by the Soviet Union.
Berzin, Alfred A.
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China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
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Reflection of the Diaspora in the Fantasy of a Totalitarian Society

Literatūra (Vilnius)
This paper presents a comparative analysis of fantasy works from two distinct pe­riods: the late Soviet (Vladislav Krapivin’s A Dovecote on a Yellow Meadow, 1983–1985) and the post-Soviet period (Max Frei’s The Stranger, 1996, and The Master of Winds ...
Yevheniia Kanchura
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