The techno-centric gaze
Much of the existing research on citizen participation technologies takes the technology as its starting point, focusing primarily the identification and analysis of technical barriers to adoption and assessing opportunities … Continue reading
The Production of Space by the Street Vending System
Street vending draws its substance from the space, the street, and the economic exchange lies on the simultaneous presence of two actors: the customer and the vendor. Thus, it seems … Continue reading
Hegel’s Hipsters: Claiming Ownership in the Contemporary City
Property is both revered and reviled. Praised for its connections to autonomy, agency, power and community, property attracts scorching critiques for its implication in exclusion, inequality and injustice. This article … Continue reading
The future of Humanitarian Crises is Urban
Humanitarian crises, manifest through displacement and disasters, are increasingly striking urban settings. And with more than 50 per cent of the world’s population now living in urban areas, there are many … Continue reading
You can’t silence the data when it’s so deafening: The poor have borne the cost of tax and welfare reforms.
Originally posted on RIGHTS in context DERECHOS en contexto:
This article was published in Left Foot Forward. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published today the distributional results…
The Architecture of ‘Passive Revolution’: Society, State and Space in Modern Mexico
This article analyses the political economy of Henri Lefebvre’s concept of ‘state space’ with specific attention directed towards the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City, completed in 1938. The … Continue reading
The informal city and rights in South East Asian Cities
David Sweeting – Using intersecting ideas between informality developed by Ananya Roy; the state of exception by Giorgio Agamben; theories on rights to the city by David Harvey and Henri … Continue reading
Emissaries of Empowerment
Cronin-Furman et al – In the following pages, we trace the process by which the term “empowerment”, which was initially introduced into development discourse by feminists in the Global South … Continue reading
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