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Co-design as Play: Junk Sounds and Architecture in Urban Space
This article reflects on the challenges and discoveries in the process of designing and building the SoundGarden (2017), a junk music play...
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Dolor y rabia: The passionate politics of women’s activism in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Based on ethnography conducted during the height of anti-military struggle in Vieques, Puerto Rico, in the early 2000s, this article examines...
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A Postcode-Scale Genre: Grime’s Scale as ‘Level of Resolution’
The popular electronic music genre known as grime is often referred to as intensely ‘local’, even ‘hyperlocal’. Its ‘postcode scale’ is an example of...
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“Tolerance” in Urgent Need of Conservation: A Case Study of the Crumbling Jaina Heritage in Pakistan
Respect for all forms of life is the essence of Agamas, the sacred Jaina texts. The Jaina practice of non-violence well embedded in time and space...
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Architectural Conservation and Cultural Heritage: Two Sustainably-Led Case Studies
Sustainability as a theme, choice, and increasing requirement is a critical aspect of many cities, businesses, industries, and communities of...
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“Problems with records and recordkee** practices are not confined to the past”: a challenge from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
This paper describes and analyses the campaign by the Care Leaver community and other stakeholders to bring about a royal commission into child abuse...
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Sustainable Development and Chinese “Domestic” Migrant Workers – A Policy Perspective
The Chinese Communist Party has begun to shift its economic policies to closer align with those outlined in the UN’s 2030 SDGs, as a means of...
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Materiality of a Forced Migration in World War II: Archaeology of Displacement of the Polish Exodus in Iran (from 1942)
On 1942, Polish exodus were migrated to Iran from Soviet Union’s Concentration camps. It was part of the Allies plan to form the “Polish Army in...
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Arctic Noir: Revitalizing Sámi Culture Through Film Noir
The chapter discusses how Norwegian films made in the Arctic region use genre formats and elements from American genre films to create new...
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Community Engagement and Community Energy
In order to meet the challenges of climate change, people will need to actively participate in, and support, substantial lifestyle, infrastructural,...
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Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic
Slavin looks at the way in which Arundhati Roy demarcates the cities into areas—the colonial and the postcolonial. Arguing that she deliberately...
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Border Crossers
“Border Crossers” takes up Jane Bennett’s notions of enchantment and her broader “vital materialism”—as well as the ethical roles such enchanted...
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Cloughjordan Ecovillage: Community-Led Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Future
The chapter profiles Cloughjordan Ecovillage (CEV) with a focus on the features that contribute to it modelling the transition to a low-carbon...
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Use the Impact of World Heritage Designation at Jiaohe Site in **njiang, China
Since the launch of the World Heritage Conventions in 1972, its concept and practice have been followed by countries that endeavour to preserve...
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The **e Family and Making of Overseas Chinese Associations
This chapter examines how Cantonese migrants manage and take up the positions of leadership in overseas Chinese associations in Yokohama Chinatown....
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Disentangling Science and Ideology in a Rapidly Evolving Pandemic: Moments in the COVID-19 Maelstrom
This chapter provides an autoethnographic account of my involvement in influencing global and country-level strategic policy during the early months...
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Penny Dreadfuls and Spring-heeled Jack
In the 1830s, a shadowy figure stalked the streets of London and the surrounding villages. Spring-heeled Jack became an urban legend, capturing the...
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Ethnographic, Structuralist and Real Time Filmmaking
Ethnographic, Structuralist and Real Time Filmmaking takes inspiration from Dan Graham, who described Lange’s work as being ‘between three poles of...
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The Politics of the Past in Kosovo: Divisive and Shared Heritage in Mitrovica
This chapter introduces Kosovo heritage politics and focuses on the consequences and the aftermath of the Kosovo War in 1999. The developments can be...
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OUV Value of Gulangyu Cultural Heritage
Based on the OUV value assessment criteria, dozens of heritage values can be summed up from Gulangyu Island. In 2017, Gulangyu was added to the world...