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MOVEMENT TO COASTAL TOWNS IN TURKEY: Urban Rescaling, Local Deregulation and New Prospects for the Predatory Construction Sector
In Turkey, as in many Mediterranean countries, the Covid-19 pandemic enhanced the mobility of the country's affluent classes to coastal towns. Many decided to settle there permanently, either by making their second homes their main residences, or by purchasing or renting new property. This has created severe social,...
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE-CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo-urban India
In this article I examine the simultaneous expansion of urban sprawl and influx of middle-class migrants in the context of Gurugram, India, to highlight how physical and social space plays an integral role in shaping class distinction among the migrant middle classes. I make a case for social class, generally, and...
NEO-PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics
This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo-Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo-Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as...
MARCH ISSUE
Detail from the cover of the first issue of the journal Aché (held in the archive of the Lisbet Tellefsen Papers, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, GEN MSS 1431, Box 6, Folder 183: Image 2/11)
Detail from a Black Lives Matter volunteer project mural, supported by East Bay Center for LGBTQ+ Healing Arts, Lake Merritt, Oakland, California in June 2020 (photo © John Kirkmire, reproduced with permission)
Detail from a civic center storefront supporting civic struggles in Anacostia, a district in Washington, DC, which has operated historically as a center of community organizing, civil rights activism and Black activism (photo © Isabelle Anguelovski)
