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Colonial Alien: House Crows, Disposability and Necropolitics in Urban Tanzania 殖民异形：坦尚尼亚城市的屋鸦、可弃置性和亡灵政治

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-10-17 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70044

Paul Chacha Mahere, Samwel Moses Ntapanta, Samuel Kettler

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Tales of “Good Indian Hair”: Race, Value, and Sensory Contact Zones in Afro-Asian Delhi “好印度头发”的故事：种族、价值和亚非德里的感官接触区

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-10-02 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70043

Bani Gill

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Assembling the Urban Frontier: Migrants and Everyday Place-Making in Kolkata 聚集城市边界：加尔各答的移民和日常场所制造

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-09-23 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70042

Dayabati Roy

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Hip Hop as Linguistic and Sensory Contact Zones: Sounds and Rhythms of Vietnamese Rap and Dance in Munich and Hanoi 嘻哈作为语言和感官的接触区：慕尼黑和河内的越南说唱和舞蹈的声音和节奏

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70041

Sandra Kurfürst

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The Affective Afterlife of the “Smelly Immigrant” Trope: Contested Scents, “Race,” and Olfactory Contact Zones in Berlin “臭移民”比喻的情感来世：柏林有争议的气味、“种族”和嗅觉接触区

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70040

Claudia Liebelt

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“Caught in a Trap”: Everyday Peace and the Dilemma of Representation in Rio de Janeiro “陷入陷阱”：巴西里约热内卢的日常和平与表现困境

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70039

Henry Staples, Sarah Vogelsanger

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The Sanitization of the Night: Gentrification and the Everyday Temporal Politics in Belgrade 夜晚的净化：贝尔格莱德的士绅化与日常世俗政治

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-01 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70038

Alexandra Dantzer

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First Light: Kānaka ‘Ōiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wākea 第一道光：Kānaka ' Ōiwi对莫纳岛定居者科学的抵制Wākea

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-07-20 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70037

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Queer Precarity, Moralization, and Housing Distress in a Collapsing Istanbul 伊斯坦布尔倒塌中的同性恋不稳定、道德化和住房困境

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-07-11 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70036

Berkant Caglar

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Knocking Off the Street: The Subversive Writings of Hong Kong's Grassroots Kings 《敲打街头：香港草根之王的颠覆性写作》

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City & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-22 DOI: 10.1111/ciso.70035

Shizheng Liang, Zihong Zhang

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