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An explosion of creative practices in music, film and video production followed the liberalization of the Tanzanian media in the early 1990s. Concerned about cultural imperialism, Tanzania's first president Julius Nyerere had resisted allowing television
D. Kerr
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An explosion of creative practices in music, film and video production followed the liberalization of the Tanzanian media in the early 1990s. Concerned about cultural imperialism, Tanzania's first president Julius Nyerere had resisted allowing television
D. Kerr
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The Tsar-tree: An Urban Fantasy
Soviet Studies in Literature, 1986It seems to me that in a discussion of the city and literature, it is appropriate to recall the name of V. I. Vernadskii and his idea of the noosphere, which somehow has something in common with the subject of the UNESCO conference. After all, the city is a kind of visible symbol of the earth's new "thinking layer." But in speaking of what exists and ...
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Fantasy as a Peripheral Modernism: Uneven Development in Charles de Lint's Urban Fantasy
2016Modern fantasy must be analyzed as a modernist literature that posits a critical gesture of refusal of the conditions of modernity. As a form of irrealism, a category that includes Gothic and magic realism, fantasy claims to represent a deeper realism even if it uses non-realist techniques to do so.
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African urban fantasies: past lessons and emerging realities
Environment and Urbanization, 2014This paper responds to Vanessa Watson’s article on the inappropriate urban development plans that are increasingly common in sub-Saharan Africa as governments seek to make their cities “world class”. It describes how the government of Angola has been able to use financing from Chinese credit facilities to build prestige projects that include support ...
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Prizes for Fantasy: The Role of the Urban Awards Industry in Validating Greenfield Eco-Cities
Social Science Research Network, 2023E. Avery, S. Moser
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City as Skin: Urban Imaginaries of Flesh and Fantasy
Architectural Design, 2013AbstractLike a human body patterned with tattoos, any city's public spaces are commonly covered with inscriptions. Artist and educator Silvia Loeffler describes how subversive and unauthorised interventions, such as graffiti, can be perceived as urban expressions of a ‘sexscape’ or body made of flesh, which emanate ‘forms of longing and a dimension of ...
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Encountering the more-than-human in urban fantasy literature
2018Certain types of literature have been heavily studied for their relevancy to the environment, but fantasy literature has been left out of this critical discussion. Ecocriticism of fantasy literature has been dismal, despite the popularity of the genre.
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Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?
Regional Studies, 2022Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley
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Extending hot authentication: Imagining fantasy space
Annals of Tourism Research, 2021Jane Lovell, James Thurgill
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