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Urban Fantasy: A Literature of the Unseen [Elektronisk resurs]

open access: yes, 2016
This article analyzes the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is.
Ekman, Stefan,
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“I'm not in love, so don't forget it; it's just a silly phase I'm going through”: On (not) falling in love during fieldwork in Southwest China

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract During fieldwork, anthropologists engage in emotional, social and economic exchanges with interlocutors, through which to better understand one's own positionality and that of others. When such exchanges occur with an interlocutor who becomes a romantic lover, these exchanges are filtered through desire, amplifying their psychological ...
Suvi Rautio
wiley   +1 more source

Hip Hop as Linguistic and Sensory Contact Zones: Sounds and Rhythms of Vietnamese Rap and Dance in Munich and Hanoi

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, I draw on multi‐sited and remote ethnography in the cities of Munich in Germany and Hanoi in Vietnam to analyze how young hip hop artists transform cities as sensory contact zones through rap and dance. I show how young Vietnamese‐Germans amplify sensory contact zones in the diasporic city of Munich through the sounds, visuals,
Sandra Kurfürst
wiley   +1 more source

How can folklore build children's imagination: A systematic literature review. [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Res
Andriningrum H   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bridging Geomythology and Geospatial Analysis for Flood Risk Assessment in Tamil Nadu

open access: yesJournal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The need for more holistic and context‐aware approaches to flood‐risk assessment has become increasingly urgent with extreme climate change events faced globally. Modern models overlook the long‐term environmental knowledge incorporated in ancient literature, myths, and cultural memory as they rely primarily on hydrological and geospatial ...
Shrishti Kushwah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dissociative experiences among Kenyan youth in the Nairobi metropolitan area: Associations with psychosis risk symptoms. [PDF]

open access: yesGlob Ment Health (Camb)
Ndetei D   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

For a Theory of Urban Fetish: Techniques of Phenomena and Fantasies

open access: yes
Abstract Building on the dialectical methodology used in previous chapters, this chapter develops the case study topics within a theoretical framework. It draws on scientific epistemological critiques and Neo-Marxist perspectives to examine how facts are socially produced and accepted through mechanisms of fetish,
openaire   +1 more source

Eviction, Home and the Spatiality of Shame

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Rooted in the scene of residential evictions, the present article examines the intersection of shame and eviction through intimate group interviews with family members in gentrifying Mexico City. It makes three contributions: highlighting the role of shame in facilitating evictions, presenting a spatial theory of shame and offering strategies ...
Jess Linz
wiley   +1 more source

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