The Politics of Evidence
Conference Report – Who decides what data is needed, how it should be collected – and why and how it is used as evidence? What drives their choices? Politics of what … Continue reading
Militarization of Cities: The Urban Dimension of Contemporary Security
Katarína Svitková – Cities are, by their very nature, prone to manifestations of political violence and vulnerable to disasters of various kinds. As nodes of population, infrastructure, investment, centers of … Continue reading
Degrowing Our Way to Genuine Progress
Erik Assadourian – Since the very creation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) indicator, people have criticized it as a poor measure of societal progress. Even the father of the … Continue reading
Urban poverty ‘without an outside’?
Dolf te Lintelo – Contemporary urban geography perspectives are very actively seeking for connections rather than posit dichotomies between the urban and the rural, the urban and the suburban, the … Continue reading
Why a war on poor people?
Daniel Little – American conservatives for the past several decades have shown a remarkable hostility to poor people in our country…One piece of the puzzle seems to come down to ideology … Continue reading
Local state constructions of urban citizenship
Liela Groenewald – This study explores local state constructions of citizenship for the residents of informal settlements in urban South Africa during the first decade of local democracy, with a … Continue reading
Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide
The movement to build, support, and sustain liveable cities worldwide is well underway, with individuals all over the globe and across numerous industries committed to leading the charge. Today, we’re … Continue reading
The 7 Points on Alleviating Poverty
Originally posted on Transnational Planning:
The 7 Points to Alleviating Poverty Continuing from the article on the oversimplification of “poverty”, to developing principles that will help navigate the complex landscape…
Women and Land Rights
Women’s land rights remain one of the most important sites of social, political and economic contestation in postcolonial Africa. Land is not only a source of food, employment and income; … Continue reading
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