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Re-forming resource entrepôts: Urban investment, extraction, and Beira’s Grande and Golden Peacock Hotels 重塑资源entrepôts:城市投资、开采、贝拉大酒店、金孔雀酒店

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231208286

Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini

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Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale 在煤的阴影下生与死:在勒法莱勒重新定位社会死亡及其争论

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231211425

Thembi Luckett

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If ‘it all breaks down’: The Norwegian refugee crisis as a geography of chaos 如果“一切都崩溃了”:挪威难民危机是一个混乱的地理

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231203822

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn

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Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market 直播土地:缅甸数字土地市场的骗局和确定性

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231205958

Hilary Oliva Faxon, Courtney T Wittekind

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Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial 为外星人搬土

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231204701

Jeffrey S Nesbit

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No name in the street: Unknowability, Black women, and missing geographies 街上没有名字:不可知，黑人女性，以及缺失的地理位置

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231206899

Aaron Mallory

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The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism 去自动化的政治:对平台资本主义的不满

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231205105

David Bissell

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The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman 智能电网群岛:安曼网络(非)连接的基础设施

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231209656

Kendra Kintzi

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Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina “世界饮食之都”中的减肥、治疗和暂时性:北卡罗莱纳州达勒姆的减肥训练

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231206621

Annie Morgan Elledge

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Atmospheric negations: Weaponising breathing, attuning irreducible bodies 大气否定:武器化呼吸，调谐不可还原的身体

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Environment and Planning D-Society & Space Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/02637758231203061

Mikko Joronen

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