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A Reserve Army of Timber: The Racialised Regime of Private Forest Lands in British Columbia

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Abstract This article tells the story of how a massive belt of private forest land located on the eastern seaboard of Vancouver Island has functioned as a “reserve army” of timber that private capital has drawn on when they have found themselves increasingly constrained in their operations on Crown land.
Michael Ekers
wiley   +1 more source

Nusantara as Spectacular Fix: Urbanism, Power, and Exemplary Exception

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Abstract Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital, has entered its second phase of construction under a new president. Despite the promise of economic distribution across the archipelago, the project has gained criticism and resistance alike, thus some degree of popular and elite consent needs to be achieved.
Umar Al Faruq
wiley   +1 more source

East by Southeast: Hong Kong in the Decolonising Pacific

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Abstract This essay seeks to complicate Hong Kong's seemingly common‐sensical geographical identity as an East Asian—specifically, Chinese—metropolis through a contrapuntal mapping of its historical connections with Southeast Asia. It takes seriously the role that this supposedly hinterland region played in catalysing urban transformations in the ...
Wesley Attewell
wiley   +1 more source

Singapore upon the Korea Strait? Cyberlibertarian Desires and Anxious Regulation in Busan's Blockchain Regulation Free Zone

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Abstract This article examines the intersection of Asia's blockchain industry and special economic zones (SEZs). SEZs have been promoted to localise blockchain technology by disparate actors from cyberlibertarian figures to Asian blockchain firms, national policymakers, and local politicians.
Jamie Doucette, Seung‐Ook Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstituting Imagined Communities of Whiteness Through Racial Banishment: The Proposed Deportation Centre at Lindholm and the “Ghetto Law” in Denmark

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Abstract This article links the proposal to establish a deportation centre on the island of Lindholm off the coast of Zealand, Denmark, and its extensive media coverage, with the implementation and media portrayal of the “Ghetto Law” aimed at neighbourhoods of racialised Danish citizens.
Erling Björgvinsson
wiley   +1 more source

Business ethics, law and zemiology: The criminology of social and environmental harm

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
Abstract This speculative paper introduces zemiology, an extension of radical criminology which explores why many ‘crimes’ are not ‘illegal’ by focussing on the problem of ‘social harm’. Zemiology insists that we should begin with social or environmental problems, and not allow their foreclosure by the distraction of whether a particular practice is ...
Robin Klimecki, Martin Parker
wiley   +1 more source

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