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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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Arthurian kinship: examining the kinship legacies of Morgan le Fay and Nimue, the Lady of the Lake in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series

Whatever
Using Seanan McGuire’s October “Toby” Daye urban fantasy series as a case study, this essay examines the kinship legacies crafted by the supernatural women of the medieval Arthurian romance tradition as they are perpetuated and reclaimed by female ...
Eyan Birt
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Italo Calvino e le città invisibili tra letteratura e sociologia urbana

Fuori Luogo
In his novel Invisible Cities (1972), Italo Calvino,  the well-known Italian writer (1923-1985), creates a fascinating and complex urban world that, beyond its narrative and fable-like character, offers a view of remarkable interest to urban ...
Marxiano Melotti
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‘Back to the Real London’; or Mapping the City of the Past in Gaiman’s Neverwhere

Fafnir, 2017
Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel Neverwhere belongs to the rapidly growing sub-genre of urban fantasy. Set in 20th century London, the novel evokes fantastical and supernatural elements to paint the history of the city and encompasses its historic memory ...
Chen F. Michaeli
doaj  

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Notes towards gritty fantasy medievalism, temporality, and worldbuilding [Elektronisk resurs]

, 2022
This article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on ...
Bark Persson, Anna,
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
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Jealousy And Unconscious Fantasy In The Boss Baby Film

, 2020
This research is aimed to show the relation between jealousy and unconscious phantasy of a 7-year-old child in The Boss Baby film. Through a qualitative method and a descriptive analysis, the theory of fantasy by Sigmund Freud is used to analyze the ...
Jehan Shofiah
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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