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Memory-Making in Kiruna - Representations of Colonial Pioneerism in the Transformation of a Scandinavian Mining Town 基律纳的记忆制造——斯堪的纳维亚采矿小镇转型中的殖民先锋主义表现

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.2019111104

Johanna Overud

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引用次数: 3

Thematic Section : Narrating the City and Spaces of Contestation 专题部分:叙述竞赛的城市和空间

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.19111

Ragnhild Claesson, Pål Brunnström

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Black, LGBT and from the Favelas: an Ethnographic Account on Disidentificatory Performances of an Activist Group in Brazil 黑人、LGBT和来自贫民窟:对巴西一个激进组织的不认同表现的民族志描述

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.2019111124

Rubens Mascarenhas Neto, Vinícius Pedro Correia Zanoli

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Culture Unbound Vol. 11 Editorial 文化散装卷11社论

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2019111i

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, J. Meese, J. Dahlin, J. Olsson

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Narratives of a Fractured Trust in the Swedish Model: Tenants’ Emotions of Renovation 瑞典模式中信任破裂的叙述:租户的装修情绪

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.2019111141

D. Polanska, Åse Richard

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引用次数: 15

Narrating the Gender-equal City - Doing Gender-equality in the Swedish European Capital of Culture Umeå2014 讲述性别平等的城市——在瑞典欧洲文化之都做性别平等

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.201911129

C. Hudson, Linda Sandberg

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引用次数: 3

Unruly Gestures: Seven Cine-Paragraphs on Reading/Writing Practices in our Post-Digital Condition 不守规矩的手势:七段关于我们后数字时代的阅读/写作实践

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.2019111190

J. Adema, K. Kuc

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引用次数: 1

Remaking the People’s Park: Heritage Renewal Troubled by Past Political Struggles? 重塑人民公园:历史政治斗争困扰的遗产更新?

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.201911178

J. Pries, Erik Jönsson

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引用次数: 1

Maintaining Urban Complexities: Seeking Revitalization without Gentrification of an Industrial Riverfront in Gothenburg, Sweden 保持城市的复杂性:在瑞典哥德堡的工业滨河地区寻求振兴，而不是高档化

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.201911153

Gabriella Olshammar

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Introduction: Narrating the City and Spaces of Contestation 导言:叙述竞赛的城市与空间

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.20191111

Ragnhild Claesson, Pål Brunnström

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