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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Urban Geographies"”.
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Writing the Lagosian Homeland: the ambiguous and precarious African urban in Chris Abani's GraceLand (2004)
Located at the intersection of Urban Geographies and Literary Studies, this study focuses on urban geographical considerations as they are applied to the depiction of the city of Lagos, Nigeria in Chris Abani's novel GraceLand published in 2004. While exploring the cartographies of urban space in …
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Biodiversity conservation and brownfield sites: a scalar political ecology?
… on brownfield sites in Birmingham, U.K. While urban brownfield biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a valuable resource, political pressure to develop such spaces is also growing. Forty-five interviews were conducted with practitioners and policy makers, supported by genealogical and …
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PLANTING RESISTANCE: A history of seed sovereignty
… seed sovereignty and its praxis across rural and urban geographies (chapters 1–4). I explore the contested meanings of seed sovereignty through an evaluation of the uneven power dynamics that have shaped the movement’s radical politics. The thesis confronts and historicises the sociopolitical and …
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The role of distribution in determining a brand's availability and ability to charge a price premium within emerging markets
… that various retail formats across rural and urban geographies have on branded product availability and price premium. The aim of this study was to establish which individual brands within various product categories are better at managing their availability and price premium across retail …
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China's Community Riders: Digital Labor, Delivery Logistics and Spaces
… through providing essential mobility in urban geographies. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, food delivery riders have become a fixture of China’s streets by forming an instant, all-weather, community-based logistic network. In early 2021, more than 7 million riders delivered 65% of daily …
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Running Out of Space: Ethno-federalism, capitalist restructuring, and the political economy of peri-urbanization around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… ignited violent confrontations between rural and urban land uses and livelihoods, turning the spaces in the peripheries of the city into sites of tension, conflict, and political instability. While the issue of land governance has been a central area of research in the political economy of …
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“Canada in One City”: Austerity Urbanism and the Financialization of Ottawa's Private Rental Sector
… like weakened rent protections, evictions, and urban planning. Researching the financialization of the PRS also furthers academic debates on neoliberal inter-scalar governance (Brenner, 2019) and the role of resistance and revanchism in shaping urban geographies (Harvey, 2012; Purcell, 2013; …
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Becoming Otherwise: Sovereign Authorship in a World of Multiplicity
This thesis explores the theory and practice of sovereignty. I begin with a conceptual analysis of sovereignty, examining its theological roots in contrast with its later influence in contestations over political authority. Theological debates surrounding God’s sovereignty dealt not with the …