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REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory design of built environment strategies to enhance movement, wellbeing, and quality of life among incarcerated men. [PDF]

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act
Giné-Garriga M, Palma C, Signo S, Isanta C, Romeva R, Portillo SA, King AC, Cortés MA, Ballester D, Sebastiani EM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Resetting the clock by integrating urban nature and its biodiversity into the 15-minute city concept. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Kabisch N, Egerer M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Piloting participatory budgeting - how to get citizens perspective across?

, 2021
Kurkela Kaisa, Sinervo Lotta-Maria
openaire   +1 more source

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

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

Beyond the Populist Moment: Nationalism and the Democratic Chain of Conflict

Constellations, EarlyView.
Michaelangelo Anastasiou
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