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‘A Culture of Immediatism’: Co-Optation and Complicity in Post-War Angola

Jon Schubert Ethnos, 2018 This article explores the notion of a ‘culture of immediatism’ that characterises the current political and socio-economic environment of Angola, according to residents of its capital, Luanda. Analysing the…

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Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa. Beyond the Resource Curse

Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel, Elísio Macamo, eds. Routledge, 2018 This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political…

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Titanic in the Desert

Emilio Distretti Cabinet Magazine, 2017

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Along the Lines of the Occupation. Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem

Emilio Distretti, Fabio Cristiano Conflict and Society, 2017

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Projective Geographies Between East and West

Kenny Cupers, Igor Demchenko in: Ákos Moravánsky et. al. East West Central: Re-building Europe, 1950-1990, 2017 In his 1947 book U.R.S.S.: Haute Asie, Iran, the French geographer Pierre George surveyed Soviet mass housing construction and…

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Shopping à l'américaine

Kenny Cupers in: Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete, eds. Shopping Towns Europe: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre 1945-1975 (London: Bloomsbury), 2017 Often cast as exemplary of the Americanization of…

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Colourful Propaganda

Giulia Scotto trans magazine , 2017 After the Japanese occupation, the Second World War and the fratricidal Korean War, the Korean Peninsula was left divided and in ruins. Pyongyang’s reconstruction represented the unusual possibility to…

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Éric Rohmer in Cergy-Pontoise

Kenny Cupers, Charles Rice AA Files , 2017 Student, artist, engineer, bureaucrat, scientist – these are the citizens of the ville nouvelle. In the opening sequence of his 1987 film, L’Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend), Éric…

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Habitat III Regional Report Arab Region: Towards inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Arab Cities

Maren Larsen, Mona Serageldin, François Vigier, and Barbara Summers Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (HABITAT III), 2017 From 1970 to 2010, the urban population in Arab countries grew by more…

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Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola

Jon Schubert Cornell University Press, 2017 Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways…

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