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Judge, nudge, or engage? Gender-related pressures and responses among street-level bureaucrats working with migrants [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines the ideology and identity conflicts related to gender, as experienced by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) working with migrants in the capital cities of Athens and Berlin.
Glyniadaki, Katerina
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article builds on recent interventions into the study of planetary urbanization that call for greater interaction with the multiple social struggles and standpoints that embed this process. To do so, we advocate for academic engagement between planetary urbanization and the concept of the ‘construction state’. This is a term used in Japan
Laam Hae, Jamie Doucette
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THE CONTESTED URBANISM OF ABANDONMENT: The Afterlife of Two Distressed Neighborhoods in Detroit
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In post‐industrial cities in decline, what happens to leftover spaces after abandonment? This question lies at the root of trying to make sense of entrenched distress in neighborhoods in deindustrializing Detroit, a city struggling for more than five decades with disinvestment, job losses, population shrinkage, a collapsed housing market ...
Martin J. Murray +2 more
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Mastering the alienating forces of street-level bureaucracy: A relational account of practices creating meaningfulness in the Danish child welfare services [PDF]
, 2023 Kirstine Karmsteen
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Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal Economy [PDF]
social organization, development, bureaucracy ...
Hart, Keith
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RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Since the 1980s and 1990s, art has played a pivotal role in urban planning, especially when instrumentalized within large‐scale urban renewal operations. This instrumentalization has been broadly linked to public policy schemes and public–private partnerships, often involving the implementation of spectacular cultural centers positioned as ...
Claudia Seldin
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Reinventing Central Office [PDF]
, 1995 This report presents a provocative description of a school system where resources, authority, and accountability reside primarily at the school ...
Diana Lauber +6 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With reference to Simmel's work, this article puts forward the notion of ‘stranger views’, which are expressive on the one hand, of the experiences of those who occupy a marginal position in society characterised by experiences of belonging and non‐belonging, and on the other, of our own position as researchers, probing spaces of non‐belonging
Simon Stewart, Marianela Barrios Aquino
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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