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Urban aesthetics

open access: yesResearch in Arts and Education, 2006
openaire   +2 more sources

Beauty and Translation: The Analytical Purchase of Diaspora for the Study of the Venezuelan Migration Crisis

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
wiley   +1 more source

An Integrative Propositional Analysis of Finland's Successful Homelessness Policy: A New Policy Design Insight

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Finland can be seen as having some of the best success in terms of dealing with the complex issue of homelessness and was confirmed in a recent case study by de la Porte et al. in 2022, ‘Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons and Challenges’. Focusing specifically on the policy content and its potential insights, this
Guswin de Wee
wiley   +1 more source

Mobility, mental well-being and Neighborhood walkability among older adults in Nigeria: an urban perspective. [PDF]

open access: yesArch Public Health
John JN   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how odour, intensified by heat, shapes the sensory aspects of social and multispecies relations in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kasur's tanneries and Lahore's animal shelters during a period of record‐breaking heat, it analyses how smell structures inclusion and exclusion, mediates encounters with humans
Muhammad A. Kavesh
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical aesthetics of bridges. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Yang M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to prop up systems of discrimination and inequality, leading to negative material and symbolic outcomes.
Christopher Jenks
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
wiley   +1 more source

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