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
Pathways to development: from politics to power
A country’s pathway to development is shaped less by institutional type than by the nature of the politics and power relations that underpin these institutions and which shape how they … Continue reading
Urban Informality and the Built Environment
This open access book looks at how the built environment allows different urban processes to interact and how it groups elements together. We propose to explore urban informality by analysing … Continue reading
15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review
In academia and political debates, the notions of ‘degrowth’ has gained traction since the dawn of the 21st century. While some uncertainty around its exact definition remains, research on degrowth … Continue reading
Politics and the Urban Frontier
Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations … Continue reading
Seeing democracy as a city
Urbanisation is changing landscapes, social relations and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanisation is also changing the ways democracy is understood and practiced. Nevertheless, the relation between urbanisation and … Continue reading
2024 State of Civil Society Report
Civil society is being tested like never before by a series of multiple and accelerating crises. Amid growing conflict and repression, in 2023 civil society faced mounting obstacles that made … Continue reading
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