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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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Urban Legend or Best Practice

, 2017
Nic Gibson
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Post-Folklore Processes AND "Urban Legends" [PDF]

, 2023
К.АБДУРАШИДОВА
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Lessons on State and Local Income Taxes From the Twenty‐First Century and Challenges for the Future

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract I survey recent research on subnational income tax policy, arguing that a defining feature is geography. Geographic boundaries limit the power of subnational governments to tax people and activities. The article discusses where income should be taxed and the effects of these tax rules on the interjurisdictional mobility of people and jobs.
David R. Agrawal
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From Law to Urban Legend, and Vice Versa: Creative Food Counterfeiting in Early Modern Spain / De la ley a la leyenda urbana y viceversa: falsificaciones de la cocina creativa en la España del Siglo de Oro

Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2012
. This text takes on common urban legends related to food forgery in order to find ground in legal texts. While literature is keen on food counterfeiting and perpetuates common topics, there seems to be more than a taste for literary expression: town ...
Elena Río Parra (del)
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Balkan Vampire Myth: Urban Legends or a Publicity tool?

, 2022
Tanja Jurković
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Urban legends and the supernatural in Romanian folklore: a contemporary analysis [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
This paper explores the persistence and transformation of supernatural entities and motifs from traditional Romanian folklore, particularly those involving devils and ghosts, within a contemporary urban setting. The study argues that these modern legends
Oana-Cătălina VOICHICI
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From the Reference Desk-Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of Urban Legends; and Oxford Companion to Politics of the World

, 2001
Tom Gilson
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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