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The role of the architect in post-war state housing : a case study of the housing work of the London County Council, 1919-1956 [PDF]

open access: yes
This research offers a critical history of the rble played by the architect in post Second world war state Housing. It takes the housing output of the London county council, from 1939 to 1956, as a case study.
Day, Nicholas Merthyr
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Socialist city in rapid expansion vs. Critical regionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The chapter focuses on the period between 1945 and 1991 providing a brief insight into the development tendencies of Paks (Hungary), Smederevo (Serbia), Vidin (Bulgaria), Drobeta-Turnu Severin and Giurgiu (Romania), instigated during the period of ...
Stan, Angelica   +5 more
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring maternal employment in post-socialist countries: understanding the implications of childcare policies

open access: yes, 2010
Access to paid employment has conspicuous economic, political, cultural and social implications, for both personal autonomy and gender equality.
Javornik, Jana Skrbinsek
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Working at Boimondau: A Community Experience

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 66-74, March 2025.
Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, France witnessed the emergence of labor communities whose ambition was to escape capitalism and abolish wage labor. This article focuses on Boimondau, the best‐known community at the time. In terms of work, the central activity in the life of the community, two main tensions lastingly structured the collective and ...
Michel Lallement
wiley   +1 more source

Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Waste is an important socio‐ecological challenge of contemporary capitalism, contributing to climate change and environmental degradation. Despite its pervasiveness and its impacts on diverse stakeholders, it yet remains largely underexplored in management and organization studies.
Elise Lobbedez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coptic Church in the Aftermath of the Second Vatican Council: Theological or Tactical Anti‐Judaism?

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Kharkiv Architectural Avant-Garde

open access: yesDocomomo Journal
The article addresses the issue of preserving Kharkiv’s architectural heritage from the first third of the 20th century. The main focus is on the preservation of authenticity of the early modernist heritage in the context of a crisis situation ...
Kateryna Cherkasova, Olesya Chagovets
doaj   +1 more source

Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
wiley   +1 more source

The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

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