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Sandburg Halls

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Sandburg HallSandburg Halls, north and south towers. Sandburg Halls of residence is comprised of three towers: West, North, and South; a commons building with offices, lounges, meeting rooms, and dining areas; and a parking ramp ...

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THE URBANISM OF EXCEPTION: Scalar Rivalry and Political Loyalty in the Making of the Panorama Tbilisi Megaproject

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
wiley   +1 more source

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

ACCOUNTING FOR BIODIVERSITY: Periphery Urbanization, Environmental Conflict, and Spatial Inequality in Monetizing the Value of Nature

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In terms of mainstream sustainability economics, market‐led initiatives aimed at biodiversity restoration represent a productive, morally conscientious choice. Under this view, efforts in areas such as biodiversity offsetting, net gain, or finance are considered effective tools for preventing or managing environmental degradation.
Ihnji Jon
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

Sandburg Halls under construction

open access: yes, 1968
Sandburg Halls constructionSandburg Halls under construction with Chapman Hall in the foreground ...

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Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley   +1 more source

Organisational learning in hospital systems during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Jeffs L   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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