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This chapter takes stock of contemporary migration by breaking with a few myths and by distinguishing between interregional and international migration. It shows how new research paradigms have relativized the importance of the state as the preferred frame ...
Since its origins the university was a very privileged institution. The foundation of colleges on the other hand became an important political instrument for penetrating its exclusivity and making learning accessible to students and scholars coming from th ...
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Responsibility—as an analytic or topic of political debate—is out of vogue in critical housing studies. Rather than offering progressive potential, the call for responsibility has been seen to foster neoliberal governance, racial structural violence, and f ...
While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of se ...
This paper provides a non-Anglo-American geographical discussion of digitally mediated cultural activities. Taking China's live music industry as an entry point, we seek to theoretically and empirically understand the complex roles of digital technologies ...
The high work-related mobilities concern a significant proportion of the active population and condition novel lifestyles. This chapter describes the practices and discourses of the people concerned by these high mobilities, challenge a number of preconcep ...
How to think of sustainability when planning and building new ventures? How to use systems thinking tools to understand the world, and the place of your new venture in it? Why most corporate sustainability initiatives are of marginal impact, and sometimes ...
The project is situated at the entrance of the Sado Estuary, a crucial location for the defense of Lisbon and Setubal. This place witnessed military occupations at various historical periods. Faced with abandonment and destruction, the intervention focuses ...
This letter, written by the architect Vittorio Gregotti to the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, was originally published in 1997 in the Italian Journal Rassegna, which Gregotti directed from 1979 to 1998. It is perhaps the very first time that a practicing arc ...