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Visual Sociology of the Vernacular Urban Landscape: An Interview with Jerome Krase
Interfaces, 2020 Visual sociologist Jerome Krase looks at how cities change with immigration, globalization, and gentrification, with a focus on Brooklyn as well as comparative work in cities around the world.
Jerome Krase +2 more
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Ablutionary Urbanisms: Water Infrastructures, Cultural Production and Charitable Dispensation
Frontiers in Water, 2022 With interest in advancing inclusive urban landscapes and guided by principles of social and cultural sustainability, this essay speculates as to localized water infrastructures as “ablutionary urbanisms,” important forms of contemporary design ...
Brook Muller
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Medical humor and its role in the process of social perception of the disease (and of the patient)
Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2021 According to evolutionary theory, humor is a psychological coping mechanism - a ploy that the human brain uses for conflict resolution. This study aims to investigate, through an autoethnographic approach based on one of the author's (HP's) personal ...
Helio Plapler, Fabiana Buitor Carelli
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TRANSLATION OF VIRTUAL FICTION WORLDS IN THE ASPECT OF RECEPTIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 This article offers an analysis of the main dilemmas that the translator has to face while working with texts that explicate the virtual fiction world based on the socio-cultural specifiers of the original language culture.
S. N. Bredikhin, T. R. Kotieva
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Pensar la traducción como un contacto cultural: El potencial conceptual de la "Transculturación"
Mutatis Mutandis, 2008 La noción de "transculturación" ha sido recurrente en el análisis cultural en América Latina, especialmente en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El término, acuñado por el académico cubano Fernando Ortiz, ha sido retomado por críticos como Ángel Rama y ...
María Constanza Guzmán
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Terrains of Country: Mapping Co-Design Methods
ASEAN Journal of Community EngagementThis paper explores the ‘discursive’ as well as the physical terrains of Country as part of a co-design methodology employed with Nukunu. It examines a curatorial and archival perspective in its documenting of Nukunu Country forming part of the Time ...
Julie Nichols +5 more
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Vernacular Passive Design With Natural Ventilation of Banjar Housing for Thermal Comfort
Paragraphs Environmental Design, 2023 Thermal comfort research in Indonesia is known between 23 C and 25 C for dwelling buildings. As tropical weather is characterized by high humidity, high temperature, and intense solar insolation; therefore, traditional tropical housing is predominantly ...
Alkausar, Ririn Asri Endah Riyani
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The heritage of light and shade in Cairo
Ochrona Dziedzictwa KulturowegoConservation principles and practices were introduced to Islamic historic cities by European orientalists in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. While they played an important role in the conservation of the historic built heritage,
Hossam Mahdy
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BuildingsIn summer, the urban heat island effect causes unbearable warmth in Shantou City, especially in the urban areas along the Inner Bay with densely populated neighborhoods.
Wenqing Liu +4 more
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Notes on the Regional Features of Personal Naming among the Old Believers of Latgale [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The paper deals with the two opposed traditions of Slavic naming, explaining the patterns that are currently observed in the Russian and Serbian languages.
Anna A. Plotnikova
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