"exactly 100 years ago, in 1923, Vienna City Council, took the innovative decision to build 25,000 units of subsidised public housing, financed by new taxes on land, rents and luxury goods."
Today 60% of Vienna's population live in subsidised housing.
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Open access! @SlamaMartin and I wrote on diasporic returns in and through contemporary Indonesia’s political and religious field. The article is now out in the Bijdragen: brill.com/view/journals/bki/…
Vol. 6, Iss. 1 (2022) is now LIVE! This is a special issue of the JIOWS organised by @SlamaMartin and Iain Walker and includes articles from @astralaims, @AkbarKeshodkar and @Franziska_Fay. It is entitled: Plurilocal Communities in the Indian Ocean World jiows.mcgill.ca/issue/view/9
We are pleased to announce that the @IndianOceanJnl
has a new issue out — a special issue organised by Iain Walker and Martin Slama on the Indian Ocean as Diasporic Space.
Be sure to read these fascinating articles here:
jiows.mcgill.ca
Martin Slama: are we now researching in a post-community era, where the more appropriate term for understanding what people do together is 'sociality', or even 'scalable sociality'? #DIAS2018
The starting keynote discussion on ‘rethinking communities in the age of the digital’, with Crystal Abidin, Martin Slama, Jack Qiu, and hosted by @UniLeiden’s Bart Barendregt. #DIAS2018
Interesting issue raised by Crystal Abidin at #DIAS2018 about how adding a hashtag to an experience may not yet make one a member of a 'community'. When people claim solidarity with vicitms of catestrophes online, are they just selfishly drawing eyeballs their own way?