Weathering the Change: How Street Vendors are Shaping Their Future in the Face of Climate Challenges in ASEAN
These three case studies have been developed as part of an Oxfam project titled ‘Improved Social Protection and Labor Rights for Women Workers in ASEAN’s Agri-Food Sector’, funded by DGD … Continue reading
Co-producing Urban Spaces – Collaborative Methods Towards an Insurgent Urbanism
How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Canedo analyses practices that arise from the protagonism of marginalized communities and the accumulative … Continue reading
Informational Peripheries – Rethinking the urban in a digital age
‘Informational peripheries’ are a combination of digital, material, territorial, infrastructural and social marginalisations that emerge from informational control, redlining, manipulation and blockading. This book argues that in a digital age, … Continue reading
The Politics of Unpaid Labour
This book presents a theory of the politics of unpaid labour which explains why and how its study is important for addressing inequality in precarious work. It focuses on the … Continue reading
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation
Corridors entail and promote pervasive logics of (dis)connectivity. Over the years, corridors have become increasingly predominant across a range of spaces, places and territories. Their prevalence reflects a critical global … Continue reading
Measuring small towns – why definitions matter?
The definitions used to classify settlements are critical in determining the allocation of resources. To fulfil their functions, urban centres need financial resources and technical capacity. This is especially important … Continue reading
Re-learning culture in cities beyond the West
Urban scholars have long engaged with the role of culture in cities. Tracing this debate, this article outlines the evolutions of culture as an object of study in inquiries on … Continue reading
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