CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley +1 more source
Breaking silence, igniting action: Noma's wail for global health recourse and intervention. [PDF]
Health Sci RepAshinze P +8 more
europepmc +1 more source
GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley +1 more source
Objectively quantifying subjective phenomena: Measuring the flashed face distortion effect. [PDF]
CognitionGao Y, Wang M, Rahnev D.
europepmc +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
CRF1 and ACTH inhibitors are a promising approach to treat obesity and leptin and insulin resistance. [PDF]
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)Contreras PH, Falhammar H.
europepmc +1 more source
VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley +1 more source
Perfectionistic Discrepancy, Stress, and Preference for Ugly-Cute Memes: Evidence from a Survey and a Randomized Experiment. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)An Y, Jin Y, Xu J, Xia T, Luh D.
europepmc +1 more source
ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley +1 more source
Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century*. [PDF]
Ber WissArnold K.
europepmc +1 more source