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Queer urban imaginaries

The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries, 2018
This chapter points to recent policy and academic debates around lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ)+ inclusion in urban policy and urban studies as a basis for thinking about queer urban imaginaries. It then discusses the case of London and two moments: the present, under the Greater London Authority, whereby 58 percent of LGBTQ+ licensed
B. Campkin
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Paving over taquerias to put up condos: constructing urban imaginaries of migrant foodscapes via digital food narratives

Food, Culture & Society, 2023
In this paper, we explore the social construction of place through a close analysis of the language used in online reviews to describe migrant-owned or -serving restaurants and their neighborhoods in Charlotte, NC.
C. Hammelman   +2 more
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Animal work, memory, and interspecies care: police horses in multispecies urban imaginaries

, 2021
Mounted police units around the world have entered social media, with the aim of bringing the police closer to the public. In this paper, I analyze the Facebook page of the mounted police in the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Nora Schuurman
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Recasting urban imaginaries: politicized temporalities and the touristification of a notorious Mexico City barrio

, 2021
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to point to the significance of temporally charged imaginaries of neglected places and their residents in the context of slum tourism research.
E. Dürr   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban Violence

2023
Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
Pavoni, Andrea, Tulumello, Simone
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