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View article: Discourse of Military-Assisted Urban Regeneration in Colombo: Political and Elite Influences on Displacing Underserved Communities in Postwar Sri Lanka
Discourse of Military-Assisted Urban Regeneration in Colombo: Political and Elite Influences on Displacing Underserved Communities in Postwar Sri Lanka Open
This study examines the political and elite motives behind Colombo’s ‘world-class city’ initiative and its impact on public housing in underserved communities. Informed by interviews with high-ranking government officials, including urban …
View article: Discourse of Military-Assisted Urban Regeneration in Colombo: Political and Elite Influences on Displacing Underserved Communities in Postwar Sri Lanka
Discourse of Military-Assisted Urban Regeneration in Colombo: Political and Elite Influences on Displacing Underserved Communities in Postwar Sri Lanka Open
This study examines the political and elite motives behind Colombo's ‘world-class city’ initiative and its impact on public housing in underserved communities. Informed by interviews with high-ranking government officials, including u…
View article: The Exclusivity of ‘Vulnerable’: Exploring How a Canadian Community Dental Clinic Defines and Describes Its Targeted Population
The Exclusivity of ‘Vulnerable’: Exploring How a Canadian Community Dental Clinic Defines and Describes Its Targeted Population Open
Objectives Addressing inequitable oral health access is a global priority. In Canada, community dental clinics (CDCs) play a crucial role in this endeavour, yet limited resources necessitate strategically targeting communities for interven…
View article: The Glance: Kinaesthetics, Emergence and Power
The Glance: Kinaesthetics, Emergence and Power Open
Why differentiate “glancing” from “gazing”? This translation and rendition of a text that has appeared only in Portuguese considers the distinctiveness of the glance in the Western tradition of visualicity, power, knowledge and gender. Whi…
View article: ‘Rename the Streets’: The Challenges of Decolonizing Toponymy in Toronto Canada
‘Rename the Streets’: The Challenges of Decolonizing Toponymy in Toronto Canada Open
DOI: 10.47632/2786-717X-2023-2-139-153 УДК 94:711.73(71-2):811.111'373.21 Як цитувати: Rob Shields, 'Rename the Streets': The Challenges of Decolonizing Toponymy in Toronto Canada, Ukrainian Historical Review / Український історичний огляд…
View article: Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments Open
This book was realized with the generous help of many people.I am especially grateful to Sharit Bhowmik, whose assistance in the initial stages of my research in Mumbai was absolutely vital.Without his
View article: 6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine
6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine Open
Introduction to Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine. This special issue assembles a set of short interventions selected by internal blind review from submissions in response to a call for papers. The contributors document the first phase of …
View article: The Force of the Intoxic – The Addict Saint
The Force of the Intoxic – The Addict Saint Open
This paper sets out to discover the intangible complement of toxic material that is felt through its effect.It begins from the qualities of the toxic and considers the historical conception of the toxin as an external substance that brings…
View article: The Illocutionary Force of Inuit Ice Vocabularies
The Illocutionary Force of Inuit Ice Vocabularies Open
Lexicons of Yup’ik sea-ice terminology rely on extra-textual elements, including photographs, diagrams and sketches. Definitions are also supplemented with stories about personal experience and of the behaviour of ice phenomena. Speech act…
View article: Paul Virilio: Clinical Theory
Paul Virilio: Clinical Theory Open
We characterize Paul Virilio as a «clinical» thinker who diagnoses systemic problems of modernity in accidents and unusual incidents. Virilio’s method of clinical theoretical diagnosis is illustrated through an examination of common elemen…
View article: Promoting cross-sector collaboration and input into care planning via an integrated problem gambling and mental health service
Promoting cross-sector collaboration and input into care planning via an integrated problem gambling and mental health service Open
While problem gambling and mental illnesses are highly comorbid, there are few examples of integrated problem gambling and mental illness services. This has meant that it is unclear whether such services are needed, why they may be utilise…
View article: Front Matter
Front Matter Open
Environmental thought pursues with renewed urgency the grand concerns of the humanities: who we think we are, how we relate to others, and how we live in the world.Scholarship in the environmental humanities explores these questions by cro…
View article: Spatializing Stratification: Bogotá
Spatializing Stratification: Bogotá Open
This article presents the socio-economic stratification in Bogotá, Colombia, and discusses the socio-spatial elements of its constitution and development. The spatial classification of blocks and neighbourhoods based on services, amenities…
View article: <i>Space and Culture</i> as Critical Practice and as Space of Culture
<i>Space and Culture</i> as Critical Practice and as Space of Culture Open
This is an introduction to the 20th anniversary special issue of Space and Culture and overview of the experience of working on the journal.
View article: Bergson's GIS: Experience, Time and Memory in Geographical Information Systems
Bergson's GIS: Experience, Time and Memory in Geographical Information Systems Open
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) intended as digital forms of mapping struggle to represent time, change and temporality. The assumption of a static Cartesian, metric space of two or three dimensions only and defined by coordinates m…
View article: The Ontology of Social Reality from Critical Realism’s Perspective; Focusing on the Ideas of Margaret Archer and Andrew Sayer
The Ontology of Social Reality from Critical Realism’s Perspective; Focusing on the Ideas of Margaret Archer and Andrew Sayer Open
This essay seeks to present the ontological perspectives of Margaret Archer and Andrew Sayer on social reality. Archer and Sayer represent two key sociologists who have taken advantage of philosophical school of critical realism for explan…
View article: Media Theory: How Can We Live the Good Life in Strata?
Media Theory: How Can We Live the Good Life in Strata? Open
Rob Shields's manifesto for Media Theory
View article: Front Matter
Front Matter Open
Environmental thought pursues with renewed urgency the grand concerns of the humanities: who we think we are, how we relate to others, and how we live in the world.Scholarship in the environmental humanities explores these questions by cro…
View article: Front Matter
Front Matter Open
In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in local politics and the governance of cities -both in Canada and around the world.Globally, the city has become a consequential site where instances of social conflict and of cooper…
View article: I Don’t Remember
I Don’t Remember Open
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View article: Genealogies of Social Space
Genealogies of Social Space Open
Knowing space is of universal social interest and the topic of some of the most historic knowledge projects and texts produced by human cultures. How is space known? How might we take stock of our spatial knowledges across cultures? What a…