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Landlord opposition to rent control and the politics of class monopoly rent 房东反对租金管制与阶级垄断租金政治

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241234546

Matthew B. Anderson, Graham Zickefoose, Tate Andrie, Tony Newton

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Re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Residential eldercare and David Harvey's capital switching in a new era 中国城市建筑环境的再利用：居住式养老服务与大卫-哈维在新时代的资本转换

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241227235

James Lawson, Feng Xu

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The lactosocial at Data Saheb’s Shrine (Lahore-Pakistan): Piety, flows, commons, and the community Data Saheb 神殿（巴基斯坦拉合尔）的哺乳社会：虔诚、流动、公有和社区

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241228496

Asif Mehmood, S. Hasnain

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Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialisation 奢华威尼斯：作为阿尔法领土化的旅游化进程的传播

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-02-04 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241227405

Carla Tedesco, Matteo Basso, Chiara Mazzoleni, Valeria Morea

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Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialisation 奢华威尼斯：作为阿尔法领土化的旅游化进程的传播

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-02-04 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241227405

Carla Tedesco, Matteo Basso, Chiara Mazzoleni, Valeria Morea

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Thinking across agrarian class hierarchies in guest worker programs: Limitations to worker and farmer collective strategies 在客籍工人计划中跨越农业阶级等级的思考：工人和农民集体战略的局限性

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241227234

M. Dudley, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Michelle Tynan, Anna Zoodsma

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Socioecological topologies of student debt in the United States 美国学生债务的社会生态拓扑结构

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1177/19427786231214447

Rae Baker, Dylan M. Harris

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The labor of strikes: Unions, workers, and the 2023 US strike wave 罢工的劳动：工会、工人和 2023 年美国罢工浪潮

Human Geography Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1177/19427786241227171

Tod Rutherford

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University and resistance: New state and new struggles 大学与抵抗运动新国家与新斗争

Human Geography Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/19427786231220336

Raouf Ahmad Peerzada, Amrita Sharma, Samyuktha Kannan

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The language of intractability and the Gaza War: Conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is historically problematic and misses how much contemporary Israel has become a role model for ethno-nationalists worldwide 棘手的语言与加沙战争：将反犹太主义与反犹太复国主义混为一谈在历史上是有问题的，而且忽略了当代以色列在多大程度上已成为全世界种族民族主义者的榜样。

Human Geography Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/19427786231220046

John Agnew

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