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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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TERRITORIAL CONSUMPTION MODELS – URBAN SPRAWL – (UN)SUSTAINABILITY: TIME FOR ANTI SPRAWL? [PDF]
The presentation deals with a current urbanization phenomenon in Hungary, and highlights the cause-effect relationship of urbanization from interdisciplinary aspect and underlines the weakspots of sustainable urban development.
Szilvia Kovács, Zsuzsanna Váradi
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“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future‐Making
ABSTRACT In Zurich, Switzerland's largest and wealthiest city, future planning around densification has been intensely debated in recent years, spurring referendums and direct democratic votes, and permeating the public discourse through governmental communication, political propaganda, and heightened media coverage.
Sabrina Stallone
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THE EXTENT OF SPRAWL IN THE FRINGE OF JAKARTA METROPOLITAN AREA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXTERNALITIES [PDF]
The Jakarta Metropolitan area has experienced urban sprawl. Existing planning processes do not appear to manage sprawl effectively. The aim of this study is to empirically analyse the contribution of spatial externalities on sprawl, and its effect on ...
Fitriani, Rahma, Harris, Michael
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Sprawling cities and transport: preliminary findings from Bristol, UK [PDF]
As part of the Fifth Framework Programme, SCATTER (Sprawling Cities And TransporT : from Evaluation to Recommendations) is examining the mechanisms and impacts of urban sprawl in six case study cities. One of these is Bristol, UK (metropolitan population
Batty, Michael +2 more
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Critical Camp Studies: A State of the Art
ABSTRACT Scholarship on camps is extensive yet highly fragmented, structured around disciplinary, geographical, and theoretical silos that rarely enter into sustained dialogue. While numerous studies and literature reviews have examined camps through specific lenses (humanitarian governance, sovereignty, biopolitics, architecture) no comprehensive ...
Alex T. Fusco
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Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination
ABSTRACT This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western‐led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it locates this relationship within a dynamic space of homological correspondence, positioning Israel as its frontier.
Wassim Ghantous
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Farmland Allocation along the Rural-Urban Gradient: The Impacts of Urbanization and Urban Sprawl [PDF]
In the vicinity of a city, farmers are confronted with increasing agricultural land prices and rents along the rural-urban gradient, but they concurrently enjoy the advantages associated with proximity to a larger and wealthier consumer base.
Delbecq, Benoit A. +1 more
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ABSTRACT The popular economy is a subjective economic community in Nicaragua. It is sustained by the imaginative and material labors of worker‐producers organized in households, cooperatives, and other self‐managing associations. This article demonstrates the popular economy's importance to the format of work, wealth, and welfare in contemporary ...
Jonah Walters
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