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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Unleashing the transformative power of deliberation with contextual citizens. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
Lambert-Mogliansky A, Frérot I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Participatory budgeting empowers citizens in decision-making

, 2023
openaire   +1 more source

Scaling up Participatory Democracy. Citizen Engagement in Budgeting in Brazil and Norway

, 2018
Can participatory democracy only occur at the local level? What happens when participatory democracy goes to scale? The view that modern societies are too big and too complex to be governed by ordinary citizens is ingrained in the social sciences. Even supporters of participatory democracy often assume that it works best in relatively small communities
openaire   +2 more sources

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Procedural and Institutional Framework of Regional Development in the Context of the EU-Moldova Action Plan Implementation [PDF]

, 2008
Osoian, Ion
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Exploring legitimacy in a municipal budget decision in Switzerland: empirical insights into citizens' perceptions. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
Hänggli Fricker R, Wellings T, Zai F, Yang JC, Majumdar S, Bernhard L, Weil L, Hausladen CI, Pournaras E.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Democratic Alarmism: Coherent Notion or Contradiction in Terms?

Constellations, EarlyView.
James S. Pearson
wiley   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source