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In Defense of a Peripheral Epistemology: Exploring “Decolonial Cognitive Triggers” for Epistemic Disobedience in Urban Peripheries

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This paper presents an approach to decolonial thinking and epistemological disobedience through what we call “decolonial cognitive triggers”. It is based on the struggles of urban peripheral communities in Brazil and explores eight triggers in the making
Fernando Lannes Fernandes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Declining red brick factories in Greater Cairo (Egypt): unveiling military-led urbanization through its productive peripheries [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica
In the context of demographic and urban growth, Cairo's urbanization is mainly approached in terms of housing and development. By focusing on the Egyptian capital from the point of view of one of its main building materials – red brick – this article ...
C. Pérez-Houis
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropophagic Projections for Intercultural Science Teaching on the Urban Margins of Latin America

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, 2023
From the interpretive perspective of the concept of culture (Geertz) and the different postcolonial developments of cultural analysis (Bhabha; Hall; Garcia-Canclini), put in dialogue with the concept of the arts of doing (Certeau), discussions and a ...
Javier Giovanny Sánchez Molano   +1 more
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Banlieue narratives: voicing the French urban periphery [PDF]

open access: yesRomance Studies, 2018
In the wake of the severe urban unrest that hit France in the 2000s, the banlieues have become the centre of sustained public attention as well as a narrative effervescence.
openaire   +2 more sources

Mobilités et discontinuités périurbaines

open access: yesEspace populations sociétés, 2005
The usual urban structures are currently modified by centrifugal flows During the last thirty years, the greater mobility of population and the increase in commuting have led to deep structural changes in the urban peripheries. A new urban scheme arises
Sylvie Letniowska-Swiat
doaj   +1 more source

The political governance of urban peripheries [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2015
The paper introduces the challenges of this theme issue with regards to the dilemmas of political governance in upcoming urban peripheries. While becoming more and more topical in processes of urban transition and ongoing rescaling, urban peripheries struggle with the gap between the potential of new centrality and the consolidated sociopolitical ...
Salet, W., Savini, F.
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Marginalized Living and Disabling Spaces: A Bio-Cognitive Perspective

open access: yesLand
This paper advances a novel bio-cognitive framework for understanding how urban peripheries function as disabling environments that systematically undermine human flourishing.
Giulia Candeloro   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Harare, Zimbabwe: A Case Study on the Linkage between Drivers and the Axis of Urban Expansion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
With increasing population growth, the Harare Metropolitan Province has experienced accelerated land use and land cover (LULC) changes, influencing the city’s growth.
Marondedze, Andrew K.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

CONTEMPORARY URBAN AND CENTER-PERIPHERY STRUCTURE

open access: yesMercator, 2023
The contemporary urban phenomenon has challenged studies that seek to establish generalizations about spatial structuring, leading to continual questioning of center-periphery models. The proliferation of shopping malls towards the "peripheries" represents an important indicator capable of promoting this debate.
Marlon Lima da Silva   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

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