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Rue Emoh: Our Home, Our Story

From housing struggles to hope in new homes - A research project by Critical Urbanisms and Southern Urbanisms classes at the University of Cape Town

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Audializing Migrant Bodies: Sound and Security at the Border

Michelle D. Weitzel Security Dialogue 49, no. 6, 2018 Sound represents a salient yet rarely examined counterpoint to visuality and materiality in security, international bordering, and mobility literature. Using the context of sub-Saharan…

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Reality Show(s)

Giulia Scotto, Marco Zelli Trans 33, Rrality, 2018 «The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.» —Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Despite the etymology of the…

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Contemporary Israel/Palestine

Shourideh C. Molavi The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2018 This chapter provides an intellectual and political guide to further our understanding of the ongoing Israel/Palestine conflict and how…

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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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