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The Political Meaning of Informal Urbanization
, 2019 Many countries in the Global South are relatively young democracies. The resilience and legitimacy of their political systems rely largely on their ability to integrate and represent millions of citizens who are ‘excluded’ from formal social, political, and economic structures.
Rocco, Roberto (author) +1 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke +3 more
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data [PDF]
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research.
Aysit Tansel, Elif Oznur Kan
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Including Urban Informality for Economic Development in Masvingo City, Zimbabwe
Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues, 2020 The informal sector has been excluded in the development of cities despite playing a big role in providing livelihoods to a lot of urban dwellers. Their contribution to the city economy has been marginalized despite the size of this sector and the ...
Average Chigwenya, Prisca Simbanegavi
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Elevating Informality: Street Vending, Design Politics, and the Remaking of Public Space in Bandung
Urban PlanningTeras Cihempelas, an elevated pedestrian walkway in Bandung, Indonesia, presents a unique case of integrating informal street vending into formal urban infrastructure.
Sidh Sintusingha
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Informality in Urban Metabolism
, 2022 There is an urgent need to optimize resource use in cities and the Urban Metabolism (UM) approach is widely adopted to quantify urban flows as it allows policymakers to translate results into action plans that mitigate resource consumption and associated emissions. It has also proved relevant to the establishment of evidence-based Circular Economy (CE)
Choueiri, Yasmina +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
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PlaNext, 2017 In her 2010 book, The Just City, Susan Fainstein evaluates justice in her case-study cities (Amsterdam, New York and London) though a three dimensional analysis of justice (Equity, Diversity and Democracy).
Anaïs De Keijser
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