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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan Futurs fluctuants : passage à l’âge adulte dans le plus grand quartier de logements sociaux de Milan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
wiley   +1 more source

Werbung auf WhatsApp

merz | medien + erziehung, 2019
Seit dem 1. Februar 2019 darf WhatsApp offiziell Werbung an seine Nutzerinnen und Nut­zer ausspielen. Fünf Jahre nach der Übernahme durch Face­book endet der Vertrag, der den Gründern Jan Koum und Brian Acton zusicherte, den Messenger-Dienst nicht für den finanziellen Profit zu nutzen.
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Conversación en WhatsApp

, 2016
En aquest estudi de cas s'analitza una conversa de WhatsApp (WA) entre dues estudiants inscrites en una mateixa assignatura universitària i que utilitzen l'anglès com a lingua franca. Amb la intenció d'observar com s'estableixen els rols en un treball col·laboratiu mediat per Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM), s'aborden les dades des d'una perspectiva ...
Gómez, Dina Shirley, Shafirova, Liudmila   +1 more
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SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un espacio de interacción socio-afectiva a través del WhatsApp por mujeres mayores brasileña

Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital, 2017
Although the conception of old age is changing significantly in our societies, there is still a certain social assumption that older people do not have the aptitude or the skill to learn to use the new digital information and communication technologies ...
María Consuelo Oliveira Santos
doaj  

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source