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Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 30 November 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395843-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9584-3
Book Chapter

By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region ...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... to the advance of today’s extreme right. This chapter traces the historical origins of militias (paramilitary vigilante protection and extraction operations), which became the dominant governing institution in Rio de Janeiro. militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region ...
Book Chapter

By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
..., accidental weapons firing by police, and exchange of fire during police invasions of neighborhoods and consolidates it into a single statistical jumble. By pointing out that most cases happen in the same places—the poorest areas of Rio’s metropolitan region—the argument in favor of randomness is dismantled...
Book Chapter

By Maryam Kashani
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027232-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2723-2
... that contribute to the forms of Islamic belief and practice that emerge from this metropolitan region. Throughout the text ethnocinematic scenes —multiple ethnographic vignettes, oral history accounts, and archival documents—are juxtaposed to narrate a radical relationality and metaphysics of ethnographic space...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
..., friendly fire, accidental weapons firing by police, and exchange of fire during police invasions of neighborhoods and consolidates it into a single statistical jumble. By pointing out that most cases happen in the same places—the poorest areas of Rio’s metropolitan region—the argument in favor...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
... between identification with a national homeland versus the alluring vision of limitless global mobility. Chapter 2 examines the complex, multiscalar nature of Chinese television through a discussion of metropolitan and regional lifestyle-television industries, with a focus on two channels: Shanghai TV...
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024613-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2461-3
... state auditors worked to justify external oversight and reorganization of the city’s finances. It also looks at how state efforts to impose emergency management coincided with the launch of the Detroit Metropolitan Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was charged with investigating race-based...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374022-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... in the context of its policies of “suburbanization planning” that aim at integrating vast regions as metropolitan networks. In it I identify rural land-conversion mechanisms in order to elucidate China’s rapidly evolving urbanization strategies. In particular, I attend to how the rhetoric of eco-city development...
Published: 27 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027249-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2724-9
... twelve hundred events, announced online by marketing start-up Black Book LA (BBLA), to sketch the dimensions of everyday dynamic forms of cultural gatherings constituting Blackness as distinctive temporal urbanisms in the metropolitan city-region of Los Angeles. The findings suggest that Black cultural...
Published: 05 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... of “suburbanization planning” that aim at integrating vast regions as metropolitan networks. In it I identify rural land-conversion mechanisms in order to elucidate China’s rapidly evolving urbanization strategies. In particular, I attend to how the rhetoric of eco-city development rationalizes rural land transfers...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... of district and provincial repositories in contrast to imperial archives based in the metropolitan centers of Delhi and London. Undue focus on colonial sociology has reduced the diversity of colonial archives to a single imperial monolith. Documents of local conditions, such as the land revenue surveys, often...
Published: 27 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2724-9
... in the metropolitan city-region of Los Angeles. The findings suggest that Black cultural geographies are quantum: cosmopolitan, dispersed, complex, and often financially accessible. It repositions two popular yet undertheorized concepts—Afrotech and Black joy–as key traits and technologies of Black public spheres...