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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
wiley   +1 more source

SURFACE TENSIONS: Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I draw on the embodied experience of driving into potholes and on bumpy roads in Hyderabad to show how pockmarked roads become a terrain on which political sensibilities are shaped. Drawing on ethnographic material collected over six years, I analyze how potholes shape driving dispositions in a city that is attempting to brand ...
Sneha Annavarapu
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source

Translating, resisting, or escalating government programs? Accounting at the intersection of centrally imposed programs and local responses

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of accounting in the recursive processes of continuous adjustment to programs that emerge when programs are imposed by central government on local government. Focusing on the Italian context and adopting the conceptual lens of governmentality, our study contributes to the extant literature by highlighting the ...
Ileana Steccolini, Carmela Barbera
wiley   +1 more source

Studying collective animal behaviour with drones and computer vision

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Drones are increasingly popular for collecting behaviour data of group‐living animals, offering inexpensive and minimally disruptive observation methods. Imagery collected by drones can be rapidly analysed using computer vision techniques to extract information, including behaviour classification, habitat analysis and identification of ...
Jenna Kline   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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