Transylvanian Saxon Symbolic Geographies

T. Georgescu, The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania (Budapest: CEU Press, 2016), pp. x, 279, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 9789633861394.

in various functions. Many worked in very remote areas, like district medical officers in the colonial past, others in highly specialist tasks where Indonesian doctors were not yet available. This section is largely based on the memories of individual doctors and their family members. It offers valuable material that would not be available from missionary or government archives, but demonstrate...

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Temporary Migration of Transylvanian Roma to Hungary

The study is focused on the impact that migration has on the communities of origin. The population under study is representative of two categories of Roma who work in the informal economy in Hungary. Some of them are temporarily employed in low skilled jobs, while the others are small traders. The degree of deprivation, the lack of resources (agricultural land, formal jobs) as well as a good kn...

Saxon: an Extensible Multimedia Annotator

This paper introduces Saxon, a rule based document annotator that is capable of processing and annotating several document formats and media, both within and across documents. Furthermore, Saxon is readily extensible to support other input formats due to both it’s flexible rule formalism and the modular plugin architecture of the Runes framework upon which it is built. In this paper we introduc...

Software-sorted geographies

This paper explores the central role of computerized code in shaping the social and geographical politics of inequality in advanced societies. The central argument is that, while such processes are necessarily multifaceted, multiscaled, complex and ambivalent, a great variety of ‘software-sorting’ techniques is now being widely applied in efforts to try to separate privileged and marginalized g...