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Too big, will fail. Megaevents and protest participation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper examines the relationship between "social democratic megaevents" (Olympic Games and World Expos) and political protests. It tries to analyze the reasons that led these popular ceremonies to act in our societies as catalysts of social conflict ...
Massidda, Luca, Parisi, Stefania
core   +2 more sources

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Orthodox Images in the Urban Imaginary of Veliky Novgorod / Православные образы в городском воображаемом Великого Новгорода

open access: yesВизуальная теология
The article studies the perception of the city and collective ideas thereof, particularly through the phenomenon of the urban imaginary which is a synthesis of collective representations of a real and a virtual city.
Natalia Fedotova / Наталья Геннадьевна Федотова
doaj   +1 more source

Traces of Obduracy: Imaginaries of ‘Social Inertia’ in the Process of Introducing Collaborative Housing in the Czech Republic

open access: yesCritical Housing Analysis, 2023
This paper explores the sociotechnical change necessary for the introduction of collaborative housing projects into the Czech super-homeownership housing regime.
Petr Kodenko Kubala   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
core   +1 more source

How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

La ville verticale, abstraction concrète

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2017
Going up, in order to re-embrace the city one thought was lost: from visual perspective to urban projection, from abstraction to utopia, the vertical city stimulates a prolific imaginary twentieth century urbanism has made good use. This paper focuses on
Nathalie Roseau
doaj   +1 more source

'“A strange enough region wherein to wander and muse": Mapping Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Fictions' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Drawing on the work of Bertrand Westphal, this essay attempts to perform a geocritical reading of the London district of Clerkenwell. After discussing the spatial turn in the Humanities and introducing a range of spatial critical approaches, the essay ...
Vuohelainen, M.
core  

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Branding Cities Through Architecture: Identify, Formulate, and Communicate the City Image of Amman, Jordan

open access: yesArchitecture
This research aims to explore the role of architecture in creating an identifiable brand for Amman. It seeks to put forward a vision through which Amman’s city can formulate a clear model for implementing a successful branding strategy. In doing so, this
Yamen N. Al-Betawi, Heba B. Abu Ehmaid
doaj   +1 more source

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