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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digitalisation is widely framed as a route to more efficient and participatory public administration. In authoritarian settings, however, digital governance often works less as administrative improvement than as a technopolitical instrument for managing dissent and insulating policy from contestation.
Arash Beidollahkhani
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
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Urban PlanningA key advantage of public participation GIS (PPGIS) tools has been seen as increasing the polyphony of urban planning by reaching the wisdom of crowds.
Eveliina Harsia, Pilvi Nummi
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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr +10 more
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Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
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Genre, Sexualité et SociétéThe analysis of LGBTI+ activism, when it is place-based, is still often marked by a dual tendency: urban and parisian, eluding LGBTI+ commitments outside the capital and in the countryside.
Joséphine Deneux
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Active citizens and the historical identity of a city: The case of Bratislava-Podhradie [PDF]
Slovenský Národopis, 2015 Social changes after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989 and the emergence of foreign companies, investors and development groups led to the rapid building development of the city, which offers an opportunity for an urban-ethnological analysis of ...
Daniel Luther
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In 2023, the American Ornithological Society announced it will phase out the English eponymous (honorific) names of 152 bird species in the United States and Canada, some of which are named after historical figures with racist, genocidal, or otherwise violent histories that serve as reminders of ornithology's exclusive origins.
Kirsten Vinyeta +3 more
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Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Signatories of global conservation treaties have pledged to support Indigenous peoples' rights and roles in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystems. Movements embracing biocultural concepts (e.g. Indigenous ecological knowledge, cultural ecosystem services) and governance approaches (e.g. sacred natural sites, biosphere reserves) have provided
Marco J. Haenssgen +12 more
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