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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

A utopia da utopia [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 2008
openaire   +3 more sources

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia em Jonas e Levinas = Utopia in Jonas and Levinas

open access: yesVeritas, 2014
Jonas e Levinas são dois nomes intimamente associados à ética contemporânea. Embora não sejam nomes ligados, de maneira inequívoca, ao pensamento utópico, contribuem, no entanto, de maneira decisiva, para repensar a utopia.
Carrara, Ozanan Vicente
doaj  

Measuring levelling up in a many‐dimensioned world: an application to the United Kingdom

open access: yesFiscal Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The analysis of regional growth or levelling up in income, health and human resources is a challenge as it involves measuring growth multidimensionally with ordered categorical variables. The lack of a cardinal measure and the ambiguity inherent in its arbitrary cardinalisation is the source of the problem.
Gordon Anderson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Las "utopías consensualistas" del fin de la política

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2010
En este artículo, el autor analiza las diversas modalidades que han adquirido históricamente las "utopías consensualistas" del fin de la política.
Hernán Fair Rzezak
doaj  

The Postdigital-Biodigital Revolution. [PDF]

open access: yesPostdigit Sci Educ, 2022
Means A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

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