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The Fanonian Turn: Review—Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (eds), Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology, Routledge, New York & London, and Nigel C. Gibson (ed.), Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth, Daraja Press, Montreal, Quebec 法农转向：评论——Leswin Laubscher、Derek Hook和Miraj Desai（编辑），《法农，现象学与心理学》，Routledge，纽约和伦敦，Nigel C.Gibson（编辑）《今日法农：地球受难者的理性与反抗》，Daraja出版社，魁北克蒙特利尔

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192191

Sayan Dey

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Domestic Lobbying for External Change: Textile Sector and Pakistan’s Entry into Generalised System of Preferences Plus 国内游说外部变革:纺织行业和巴基斯坦进入普遍优惠制+

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192314

S. Munir

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“Heroes and Villains”: Media Constructions of Minoritized Groups in Hong Kong’s Season of Discontent “英雄与恶棍”：香港不满季中未成年群体的媒介建构

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192326

M. Bhowmik, K. Kennedy, A. Chan, J. Gube

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Geopolitics, Conflict and Narratives: An Assessment of Kashmir Conflict after the Abrogation of Article 370 地缘政治、冲突和叙事：对废除第370条后克什米尔冲突的评估

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192318

Saroj Kumar Aryal, Sania Muneer

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Rethinking Decolonization in “Sub-Saharan Africa”: Toward Reinventionism 重新思考“撒哈拉以南非洲”的非殖民化:走向重塑主义

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192330

E. Lock

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Forgotten and Exploited: The Plight of Migrant Female Domestic Workers Interrelated to Human Rights Violation in Ethiopian Towns 被遗忘和被剥削:埃塞俄比亚城镇中与人权侵犯相关的移徙家庭女工的困境

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192309

Lombebo Tagesse, Kassahun Asres, A. Erulkar

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Ethical Challenges and Obligations in Health Journalism in India 印度健康新闻的伦理挑战与义务

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192329

Dilnaz Boga

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An Empirical Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Village Exploitation on the Local Economy: Evidence from a National Cultural Policy 中国传统村落开发对地方经济的实证评价——来自国家文化政策的证据

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192313

Zhimin Li, Youze Lang, Guoqiang Lou, Jizhou Zheng

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The Smart City as Policy Concept in the Arab World: A Critical Research into the Strategic Visions of Urban Development in Abu Dhabi 阿拉伯世界的智能城市政策理念——阿布扎比城市发展战略愿景的批判性研究

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192316

O. A. K’Akumu, Abdullah Mazen Alhamoudi

{"title":"The Smart City as Policy Concept in the Arab World: A Critical Research into the Strategic Visions of Urban Development in Abu Dhabi","authors":"O. A. K’Akumu, Abdullah Mazen Alhamoudi","doi":"10.1177/00219096231192316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096231192316","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews the smart city as a policy concept in Abu Dhabi. It conceptualizes smart city development goals into urban and extra-urban and review smart city development programmes in terms of ex-post and ex-ante. Extra-urban refers to development goals that go beyond the spatial or conceptual boundaries of the city. This will help to demonstrate how the pursuit of extra-urban may compromise the attainment of urban development goals. The paper uses Abu Dhabi as the frontline city in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the race to attain the smart city status, having led consistently in the McKinsey Global Institute poll of 2018 and the global indexing exercises conducted by the International Institute for Management Development and Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2020 and 2021. The study has used qualitative document analysis method to review policy documents regarding the smartification initiatives in Abu Dhabi. The analysis reveals that ex-post programmes are more urban dweller oriented or urban centred with programmes involving the digitization of government services and free Wi-Fi connectivity in public transport, while ex-ante smartification programmes (as seen in the development of Masdar city) tend to be extra-urban, elitist and global in nature but do not take into account social sustainability.","PeriodicalId":46881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian and African Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49402701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why Sanctions Termination Doesn’t Put an End to Humanitarian Crises: The Case of Sudan 为什么终止制裁不能结束人道主义危机：以苏丹为例

IF 1 4区社会学

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/00219096231192319

Yaohui Wang, Amel Y. A. Alfakiali, Yuhuang Niu

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