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Against Whitening by Dispossession: A History and the Present of Tenants Rebellion in Mexico
Radical Housing Journal, 2023 In this conversation we delved into discussions with Pablo Gaytan Santiago, aka Hombre de Humo, urban sociologist, activist, and filmmaker about the historic tenets' strike organized by sex workers a century ago in Veracruz. We also explored the
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Urban Planning, 2023 Everyday life is a central element for understanding the (sub)urban. Broader forces shape the (sub)urban and manifest in both its geographical structures and everyday life. These forces also shape globalized and complex urban contexts.
Marius Mlejnek, Petra Lütke
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Heritage, gentrification, participation : remaking urban landscapes in the name of culture and historic preservation : introduction [PDF]
, 2019 This special issue explores the relationship between heritagization, shifting economies, and urban struggles in different cities around the globe. Our aim is to examine the conditions that have brought history, culture, an old/new urban aesthetics, real ...
De Cesari, Chiara, Dimova, Rozita
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Urban commons and urban struggles [PDF]
Focaal, 2013 Ida Susser and Stéphane Tonnelat are right to view the question of the urban commons in global cities as a crucial issue. It has precipitated massive urban and often violent struggles. We know that the ideological basis of these fights is very similar from one continent to another.
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Brussels Studies, 2009 At the end of the 1960s, the urban area of Brussels underwent a modernisation process which deeply transformed certain neighbourhoods. Ten years earlier, Expo 58, the North-South junction and the construction of the state administrative district had ...
Albert Martens
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Negotiating belonging and place: an exploration of mestiza women’s everyday resistance in Cajamarca, Peru. [PDF]
, 2020 Since 1993, the Cajamarca region of Peru has been home to the Yanacocha gold mine, associated with environmental degradation, negative health impacts, and socio-economic consequences.
Boudewijn, Inge
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Vrouwen in Brusselse straatnamen. Topografie van een minorisering
Brussels Studies, 2021 The article proposes an examination of odonyms in Brussels, i.e. the names of its streets, through the prism of gender. After a systematic survey of street names and the characteristics of the female figures honoured – which reveals a glaring imbalance ...
Nouria Ouali +7 more
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Women in Brussels street names. Topography of a minoritisation
Brussels Studies, 2021 The article proposes an examination of odonyms in Brussels, i.e. the names of its streets, through the prism of gender. After a systematic survey of street names and the characteristics of the female figures honoured – which reveals a glaring imbalance ...
Nouria Ouali +7 more
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Women in Land Struggles: The Implications of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance for Gender Equity [PDF]
, 2019 Despite deeply engrained images of female domesticity and conventional gender norms, women are increasingly joining land struggles in Cambodia. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in Cambodia has ...
Hennings, Anne
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Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2015 The transnational conjunctures of migration and urban space radically destabilise and contradict the spatial premises and conceits of nationalism, and require us to examine the proliferation of sites of border enforcement far removed from physical ...
Nicholas De Genova
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