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Re-Thinking Gender, Artivism and Choices. Cultures of Equality Emerging From Urban Peripheries [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Gender dimensions of violence, and especially women’s experiences in settings of urban violence have been the subject of important feminist research, including those that highlight gender as essential for comprehensive analyses of security and urban ...
Tatiana Moura, Linda Cerdeira
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Mapping Peripheries: Urban Ethnographic Maps as Graphic Tools
img journal, 2021 The crisis of the boundary line and the consequent determination of the peripheries from a geometric point of view entails a crisis in representing urban boundaries and thresholds, and therefore the peripheries themselves.
Michele Valentino
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Human Biomonitoring of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs in Women Living in a Southern Italy Hotspot Area [PDF]
ToxicsTaranto is the main harbor in Southern Italy and one of the most industrialized cities in the country, largely due to the presence of a large industrial area that includes a major oil refinery, a cement plant, and the former ILVA steel factory, which is ...
Roberto Miniero +13 more
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CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2021 AbstractRecent years have seen a rising interest in peri‐urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city‐regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms ...
Paula Meth +3 more
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The Peripheral Turn in Global Urban Studies: Theory, Evidence, Sites
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021 The field of global urban studies has witnessed a “peripheral” turn since the 1990s, first led by the Los Angeles School of urban geographers, with a more diverse group of urban scholars who study the global South following.
Xuefei Ren
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Modern Geográfia, 2022 In this study, the authors will attempt to highlight some details of the urbanisation of Pécs in the early 20th century by presenting the foundation of one elementary school (Gyárváros).
Muity, György +2 more
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La configuración de las periferias en las ciudades intermedias españolas durante el siglo XX: Málaga, Murcia y Valladolid [PDF]
Ciudades, 2019 The comparative reading of urban expansion in Malaga, Murcia and Valladolid during the twentieth century allows identifying common phases in the construction of their peripheries.
Fernando Miguel Carcía Martín
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Periferias urbanas moçambicanas e a sua nova paisagem
e-cadernos ces, 2022 This article seeks to show how the new landscape enters the Mozambican urban peripheries. The landscapes of the Mozambican urban peripheries were for many years characterized as consisting of precarious housing, the so-called in Mozambican urban ...
Joaquim Miranda Maloa
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O urbano nas margens do campo: por uma sociologia dos espaços e vidas residuais
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2023 Originally designed to describe and analyze the spaces of extermination built by the totalitarian regimes of the mid-twentieth century, the notion of camp has gained new analytical developments in the social sciences, and has also been used to interpret ...
Wellington Ricardo Nogueira Maciel
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Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery
Economic Geography, 2022 Engaging with different literatures in economic geography, postcolonial urbanism, and planetary urbanization, this article seeks to develop a theoretical understanding of remote urban formations taking shape in India’s countryside. The analysis draws on extensive primary data collected at two study sites in Bihar and West Bengal, which rendered an ...
Robbin Jan van Duijne +2 more
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