GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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A comparative analysis of smoke-free regulations in 23 Chinese cities, 2015-2022. [PDF]
Tob Induc DisChen Y +9 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Innovative practices in humanistic and liberal education: a four-in-one "infusive" educational model regarding character, literature, culture, and civilization. [PDF]
Front PsycholLiu Y, He M, Dou J.
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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مسلم معاشروں میں مغربی تہذیب کے اثرات اور ٹرانس جینڈر ایکٹ: تنقید ی جائزہ
البصيرةWestern culture is dominating rapidly in Muslim societies in current times. Islamic social values are being marginalized gradually. Impact of Western thought, in this regard, on Muslim world seems to be a challenge for Muslim scholars.
Dr. Farhat Naseem Alvi +1 more
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Trade-Offs and Synergies Among Grassland Functions: A Case Study in the Three River Headwaters Region. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Li W, Dong S, Li W, Wang W.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Knowledge hegemony and epistemic reclamation in Central Asian higher education: a community case study of Eastern scholastic heritage integration, sociological field dynamics, and the conditions for decolonizing economic reasoning across STEM and social science disciplines in Uzbekistan. [PDF]
Front SociolRuziyeva G +5 more
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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