The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a practitioner‐scholar reflection on the 2026 Tower Hamlets local elections, in which the Aspire party secured thirty‐three of forty‐five council seats, the Labour Party was reduced to five and the Green Party emerged as an equal opposition force.
Gulay Icoz
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Creating Local "Citizen's Governance Spaces" in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives. [PDF]
Urban Aff Rev Thousand Oaks CalifBherer L, Dufour P, Montambeault F.
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The Perils of Proportional Representation for Ethnic Minorities
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Two arguments about ethnic minorities run through the debate over replacing first past the post. One promises that proportional representation would represent minorities better; the other worries that it would empower the parties they have most reason to fear. This article argues that the promise is unreliable and the worry real.
Tarunabh Khaitan
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Community wellbeing and lived experiences during urban redevelopment in New Zealand: Te Hotonga Hapori - Connecting communities qualitative study protocol. [PDF]
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The Changing Electoral Politics of Pursuing Climate Action in the UK
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Action on climate policy in the UK has been at a crossroads since 2021. The UK's previously world‐leading performance in emissions reduction was derived largely from eliminating coal from electricity supply and relied on a broad political consensus regarding the issue's importance.
Matthew Paterson +5 more
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Social and spatial transformations are reshaping cities and our ways of life, creating new demands for the planning of public urban spaces. Tactical urbanism, popularized since the 2010’s as a response to conventional top-down approaches to urban ...
Josephine Besker, Alva Lo Svensson
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Design and validation of a qualitative interview for the study of the role of physical activity in urban public spaces in the social inclusion of immigrant women (Spanish version). [PDF]
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