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How the Fantastic Spaces in Memoirs of a Survivor and Neverwhere Destabilise the Notion of a Uniform, Homogeneous Urban Identity

Fafnir, 2020
This article discusses how Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere question notions of self and identity through engagement with the fantastic urban space. Through the examination of the cityscape, maturity, and reconciliation
Amanda Landegren
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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Urban fantasy

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2021
Aleksandra Łozińska
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Magiczne światy Bena Aaronovitcha. Modelowanie rzeczywistości w cyklu o Peterze Grancie

Literatura i Kultura Popularna
The reality presented in Aaronovitch’s cycle featuring Peter Grant is a world imitating the extratextual one — it is mostly set in London, with all its characteristic landmarks, and includes references to various historical facts, figures, and ...
Joanna Kokot
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Surrealist Curation: Urban Domesticity Through the Surrealist Poetics of Analogy

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2020
The tactic of surrealist poetic analogy forms the surrealist curation that functions as an agent that occupies, engages, and ultimately transforms the city and its built environment that surrounds us.
Ke Sun
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Who Controls the City in the Global Urban Era? Mapping the Dimensions of Urban Geopolitics in Beira City, Mozambique

Land, 2019
In recent years, a new era of interventionism has emerged targeting the development of African cities, manifested in ‘fantasy’ urban plans, surging infrastructure investments and global policy agendas.
Murtah Shannon
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World-building in urban fantasy [PDF]

, 2008
This thesis studies the world-building elements of Urban Fantasy, a genre of popular fiction that emerged in the early 1980’s. I examine the genre as a model-variant of the fantastic that uses elements of traditional Fantasy, Science-Fiction, and the ...
Saffel, Julie
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Urban Fantasy in cinematography

, 2023
Diplomová práce zpracovává výtvarné řešení pro případné ztvárnění filmu The Graveyard Book dle knižní předlohy Neila Gaimana. Práce se skládá z teoretické části, jež se zabývá problematikou žánru fantasy a městské fantasy ve světové kinematografii ...
Říhová, Hana
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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