Kadıoğlu Polat, Defne
Through a case study of an immigrant dense working-class neighborhood in Berlin, this article asks how racial and territorial stigmatization figure into state-enabled financialized gentrification and resistance against it. While there is a discussion on territorial stigmatization in the gentrification literature, this debate remains understated in ...
zou, zhe zhang, yu-yan lee, su-hsin tsai, shu-chen
The coastal zone, situated at the sensitive interface between land and sea, serves as a pivotal area of human economic activities. As one of China’s economic special zones, Xiamen exemplifies the comprehensive trajectory of coastal governance in China. However, there are still research gaps in the human ecological transitions in coastal governance....
khambule, isaac
Governments played an essential role in mitigating the social, political, health and economic impact and outcomes of COVID-19. Most literature limits the role of the state at the national level by focusing on the pandemic’s impact on economic growth, unemployment, poverty and state responses. This approach neglects the role played by subnational go...
Gustafsson, Jennie
Rental housing tenants in Sweden and Europe are increasingly seeing their homes subsumed to market pressures. This thesis provides empirical and conceptual insights into the processes by which market and financial practices and logics shape the housing sector, through a critical analysis of rental housing in Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the thesis is ...
Gustafsson, Jennie
Rental housing tenants in Sweden and Europe are increasingly seeing their homes subsumed to market pressures. This thesis provides empirical and conceptual insights into the processes by which market and financial practices and logics shape the housing sector, through a critical analysis of rental housing in Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the thesis is ...
Gustafsson, Jennie
This paper uncovers the local state's complex intersections with the market and its multifaceted relations with the public through an in-depth qualitative case study of municipal housing privatization and urban renewal in one of the heartlands of the Swedish welfare state project, Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden. Drawing on the political-economic litera...
Becker, Felicitas Maria
This paper examines how both rhetoric about custom and practices drawing on elements of deep-rooted political culture remain relevant in post-colonial Tanzania. This is the case despite the Tanzanian government's aggressively modernising stance and the erasure of colonial-era 'traditional' chiefs after independence. The paper identifies three patte...
Sintomer, Yves Zhou, Yunyun
International audience
Tan, Lély
Les espaces créatifs ont fait leur apparition depuis une quinzaine d’années dans les villes. Ils sont une des expressions spatiales de la nouvelle économie de la connaissance. À Shanghai, l’émergence de ce type de structures se trouve être en contradiction avec les modes d’action de l’État local. Jusqu’alors, ce dernier agissait comme aménageur pri...
Poupeau, François-Mathieu
L'État local est en plein bouleversement. Au terme d'une décennie de réformes, il s'organise désormais autour d'un nouveau modèle d'administration, en " Y ", qui, étant par construction indéterminé, donne lieu à des configurations institutionnelles variables dans l'espace, le temps et selon les champs d'action. En s'appuyant sur un travail monograp...
