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THE TRANSCALAR POLITICS AND SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INVESTMENTS IN SHOPPING MALLS IN AFRICAN CITIES: A Study of Accra's West Hills Mall, Ghana

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

State capture and development: a conceptual framework. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Int Relat Dev (Ljubl), 2023
Dávid-Barrett E.
europepmc   +1 more source

GOVERNING OR MANIPULATING LEVERAGE TO BUILD MORE CITIES? Borrowing in the Shadows by Local Governments and Real Estate Developers in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid growing interest in how states manage urban development through public finance, this article examines the institutional logics of leverage manipulation as a mode of contemporary urban governance. Focusing on China's evolving political economy, it investigates how local governments and real estate developers co‐produce a shadow financial ...
Ang Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Kansas Soldiers Home [1985 performance audit]

open access: yes, 1985
"A Report to the Legislative Post Audit Committee"--Cover.; "April 1985 ...
Racine, Trudy.
core  

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative pathways for sustainable health financing for migrants and refugees in Iran: a stakeholder and social network analysis approach. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Public Health
Bakhtiari A   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Purging Minds Through Silencing Voices: Academic Freedom Under Islamic Republic of Iran's Security Apparatus Aftermath of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source

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