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European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility
ABSTRACT Many young adult Europeans face difficult times. High unemployment rates, flexible labour markets, housing shortages, and low minimum wages can limit young adults' current and future development. European Union (EU) policy could encourage Member States to counter these circumstances, offer resources to support Member States in improving the ...
Mara A. Yerkes, Trudie Knijn
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church [PDF]
The goal of this project, “I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church,” is to add a new perspective to the scholarly discourse on Hip Hop and Christianity within classrooms, religious institutions, and popular culture by focusing on Kanye.
Ford, VaNatta S. +2 more
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Crime Stories and Urban Fantasy
Among the many unexplored areas of urban fantasy is its relation to crime fiction.This article explores how features of the crime story are used to emphasize, reinforce, or introduceurban fantasy’s social commentary. It looks at the genres’ relationship, analyzing three urbanfan tasies and their respective crime fiction elements.
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Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape
Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
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ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
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
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From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance
Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
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Fostering Creativity Through Educational Interventions in Higher Education: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Creativity has gained relevance over the years in education, and especially recently due to its consideration as a transversal competency in higher education, but there is still a lack of integration of knowledge. This qualitative systematic review explores literature on educational interventions designed to enhance creativity and investigates
Carlota Rodríguez‐Silva +2 more
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