Cities and the political imagination
How can we recognize the political in the city? How might urban scholars engage with forms of urban politics outside of established sites of research such as those associated with … Continue reading
Human Rights as an Ideology? Obstacles and Benefits
[Behind paywall] Sociology has an important part to play in understanding human rights. In this article, I trace obstacles within sociology to theoretically conceptualize human rights as an ideology. These … Continue reading
Central Banks, Technocratic Power, and the Fear of Democracy — Economic Sociology and Political Economy
Jacqueline Best has an interesting new article that starts with catchy and provocative analogy and then presents thought-provoking discussion and arguments: “What do border guards and central bankers have in … Continue reading
Defending Politically Vulnerable Organizations Online
A new report published by the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) details how media outlets, human rights groups, NGOs, and other politically vulnerable organizations face significant cybersecurity threats—often at the … Continue reading
What Can ‘Disruptive Urban Technologies’ Tell Us about Power, Visibility and the Right to the City?
If urban scholars are to go beyond an approach that addresses the creation of the technological city as a slash-and-burn approach, aiming to radically reorder the social in the mode … Continue reading
The End of Public Space (Redux?)
Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Don Mitchell (1995, 2016) has debated the nature public space, and why under late capitalism, public space has a tendency to both ‘end’ and be produced…
Know Your City: Slum Dwellers Count
In February 2018, Slum Dwellers International (SDI) launched a landmark publication titled “Know Your City: Slum Dwellers Count,” showcasing the extraordinary contribution of the Know Your City (KYC) campaign to … Continue reading
Tourism and Degrowth: Impossibility Theorem or Path to Post-Capitalism?
Originally posted on ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology:
by Robert Fletcher, Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blázquez-Salom and Ivan Murray “Touristification” of cities is increasingly met by discontent of local…
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