Accumulation by symbolic dispossession: Tourism development in advanced capitalism
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103072
Abstract: Abstract We examine the development of tourism in the Lofoten Islands in Norway to show how the operation of symbolic capital transforms the political economy of space. Whereas prior research has explored the role of… read more here.
Keywords: tourism; accumulation; symbolic capital; dispossession ... See more keywords
A Comparative Analysis of Widow Dispossession in Francophone and Anglophone Cameroon
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DOI: 10.1017/s0021855318000013
Abstract: Abstract Widows throughout sub-Saharan Africa may be at risk from dispossession when their husbands pass away. Whereas some scholars view widow dispossession as prevalent and global, others suggest that the issue is less common than… read more here.
Keywords: widow dispossession; francophone anglophone; dispossession; cameroon ... See more keywords
Who Loses and Who Wins in a Housing Crisis? Lessons From Spain and Greece for a Nuanced Understanding of Dispossession
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2017.1324891
Abstract: Abstract The emerging postcrisis geographies in Southern Europe are intrinsically related to debt and dispossession. In Spain, mortgage homeownership and indebtedness led to housing dispossessions, while in Greece, skyrocketing private indebtedness is eventually arranged through… read more here.
Keywords: housing crisis; nuanced understanding; loses wins; housing ... See more keywords
Urbanisation and Indigenous dispossession: rethinking the spatio-legal imaginary in Chile vis-à-vis the Mapuche nation
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DOI: 10.1080/2201473x.2017.1409397
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article highlights the place of the spatio-legal imaginary in theorising urbanisation and Indigenous dispossession in Chile. Focusing on the Mapuche nation, we argue that we are witnessing another period of their historical struggles… read more here.
Keywords: chile; indigenous dispossession; urbanisation indigenous; spatio legal ... See more keywords
Without Space: The Politics of Precarity and Dispossession in Postsocialist Bucharest
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1368986
Abstract: The eviction of families from historically nationalized and recently restituted houses in Romania is tied in complicated ways to postsocialist transitional justice policies. Delayed enactment of restitution legislation and inconsistent application leave families, and neglected… read more here.
Keywords: politics precarity; precarity dispossession; without space; space politics ... See more keywords
Inhabiting Dispossession in the Post‐Socialist City: Race, Class, and the Plan, in Bucharest, Romania
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DOI: 10.1111/anti.12821
Abstract: Abstract The paper explores the racialised geography of a series of socialist blocs located in the southern periphery of Bucharest, labelled as a contemporary Romanian “ghetto”. Through extensive ethnographic and archival work, it expands on… read more here.
Keywords: race; inhabiting dispossession; class; dispossession ... See more keywords
The Discourse of Digital Dispossession: Paid Modifications and Community Crisis on Steam
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DOI: 10.1177/1555412018756488
Abstract: This article is a chronicle and analysis of a community crisis in digital space that took place on Valve Corporation’s digital distribution platform, Steam. When Valve and Bethesda (publisher and developer of Skyrim) decided to… read more here.
Keywords: discourse digital; community; crisis; community crisis ... See more keywords
Dispossession and Repossession in the Published and Unpublished Works of A. S. Mopeli-Paulus
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DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.50.1.09
Abstract: abstract:The paper examines how A. S. Mopeli-Paulus deals with the theme of dispossession (primarily, of livestock) under the apartheid regime and how his imaginary frames repossession as the recovery of a lost pastoral idyll. Three… read more here.
Keywords: dispossession repossession; mopeli paulus; repossession published; published unpublished ... See more keywords