Fly-Fishing With AI
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Jess MacCormack
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Modeling Charisma: AI’s Fashion Mirror Stage
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Abstraction as Resistance to Racialized Surveillance: The Intersections of Art, Technology, and Identity in the Age of Computer Vision
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Instagram and the Memed Self
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Introduction / Issue 37: Automated Images
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Angesprochen und doch ungefragt: zur Rolle von Kindern in der nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung
Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit ist aus Städten nicht mehr wegzudenken. Mittlerweile verfolgen zahlreiche Städte eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklungsagenda und streben damit an, einen Beitrag zum Erreichen der 17 globalen Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN zu leisten….
Announcement: Change in Publication Month
Dear Readers and Contributors, We would like to inform you of an important update regarding our journal’s publication schedule. Starting 2025, we will be changing the publication cycle, with the issues published in February and August instead of January and July. This decision has been made to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest … Continue reading
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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES
The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with Farg…
Rethinking Language
The importance of language is consistently ignored within teacher training across Africa, with training designed based on the assumption that learners are fully competent in the medium of instruction (MOI). This causes widespread challenges and often m…
Gender within the Pursuit of Doctoral Education
This study investigates the challenges faced by female PhD students in the pursuit of their doctoral education in Zimbabwe. The study’s broad aim was to explore female PhD students’ experiences within their doctoral studies. The study sample…
The Poetics of Second Liberation
This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’,…
Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan)
The aim of this paper is to determine the social and discursive functions of Beja proverbs and the reasons why some of them are attributed to non-human enunciators. The discussion is based on oral texts of different genres (tales, poems, and…
Politics of Race, Belonging and Community in Yeboyah’s music video ‘Elovena’
The Elovena maiden is, for some, one of the most important cultural symbols of the Finnish identity. This character has traditionally been portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed white woman and repeatedly used in artistic and commercial contexts. I…
Pamplona ciudad intermedia y universitaria en un entorno nacional, regional y binacional
El artículo tiene como objetivo contribuir al conocimiento de las interacciones ciudad intermedia y universidad teniendo como marco geográfico la ciudad de Pamplona Norte de Santander y su incidencia como centro subregional-nodal con vocació…
Ética espacializada enquanto mundos possíveis: ensaios sobre bioética em um conjunto habitacional limeirense
Na pandemia, surgiram demasiadas reflexões relacionadas às urgentes formas de habitar eticamente o planeta. Propunham posicionamentos radicais que vislumbravam o fim do capitalismo. Porém, este salto centrou-se numa explanação verticalizada …
Ouvidorias comunitárias
O artigo apresenta análise da fragmentação socioespacial na cidade de Santa Cruz do Sul/RS – Brasil e aspectos do Plano Diretor diante do atual debate sobre o espaço urbano conforme expresso na “Nova Agenda Urbana” (ONU/Habitat III-2016). A …
A (re)configuração do comércio informal em uma cidade média
A importância que as análises referentes às dinâmicas urbanas das cidades médias ganharam é resultado da intensidade das relações estabelecidas nelas no contexto econômico da região em que fazem parte. Esta afirmação decorre principalmente p…
La trama constructiva de las viviendas populares en el interior del estado de São Paulo: breve historia de las huellas dejadas en la red urbana de la ciudad de Limeira, SP
La ciudad es un espacio de controversias donde la segregación espacial es uno de los elementos que estructura el escenario urbano y que promueve la desigualdad social, lo que convierte a los capitales inmobiliario y financiero en los protago…
Book Review: India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Book Review: India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Why do politicians intervene in some chieftaincy succession disputes but not others? The key actors and their motivations in these processes remain understudied. In this article I leverage a comparative analysis of two …
Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Why do politicians intervene in some chieftaincy succession disputes but not others? The key actors and their motivations in these processes remain understudied. In this article I leverage a comparative analysis of two …
Gegenöffentliche Problematisierung polizeilicher Nekropolitik
Während wir in Städten derzeit die Aufrüstung der Polizei erleben, problematisieren zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur_innen die Polizei als ausführende Institution rassistischer Nekropolitik. Forensic Architecture, eine interdisziplinäre Forschungsagentur,…
¿Salud intercultural en Chile?
Este articulo explora la medicina indígena, enfocándose en el Pueblo Mapuche. Destacando la importancia de entenderla como distinta de la medicina tradicional. Abordando la salud intercultural, mediante el Programa Especial de Salud y el Con…