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This paper contributes to the literature on labour migration by considering the class commonalities and differences as refracted through gender that are embedded within recruitment practices of different workers. Recent writings on the recruitment of labour migrants often distinguish between low-waged and middle-income workers without clearly addressing the linkages between recruitment practices of...
This article explores the constraints and contingencies of contemporary urban governance, with reference to the partial privatization (1999) and partial remunicipalization (2012) of the Berlin Water Company (BWB). It outlines the processes through which this major shift in Berlin politics occurred, showing how the mainstream consensus on privatization was disrupted and alternatives to apparent neoliberal...
Adaptation to climate change is widely recognized as a multi-level governance challenge because expected impacts and respective measures cut across governmental levels, sectors and societal domains. The present paper analyses the role of regional adaptation partnerships in Canada and England in the multi-level governance of climate change adaptation. We describe and compare three partnerships per...
The emergence of the economic crisis in 2007/2008 has increasingly exposed rural localities to exogenous shocks and ruptures within the globalised economy. Rather than focusing on economic growth alone, many commentators have begun examining how regions and localities can cope with economic crises by enhancing place resilience and reducing the vulnerability of places to global economic uncertainty...
Approaches to freshwater governance frequently focus on the identification, elicitation and measurement of diverse and competing stakeholder ‘values‘ relating to water resources. The categorisation of ‘values’ has politics – it defines the stakeholders involved, legitimises particular ‘ways of knowing’ and empowers certain developmental trajectories over others. This paper examines the emergence of...
‘Plates in a basket will rattle’ is a Cambodian proverb which infers that for those who live in the same household, collisions and conflicts between one another are to be expected. Focusing on marital dissolution as one consequence of such discordance, this paper draws on in-depth qualitative research conducted in 2004–2005 and 2011 with ever-married women who have experienced abandonment, separation...
The urban land use planning literature is rife with criticism of the deficiency of planning regimes in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, little is known of the magnitude of the economic impact of these land use planning regimes, leading to a lack of clear evidence to direct policy reforms. This study examines the economic benefit of Ghana’s land use planning regime to provide quantitative evidence of...
The Sri Lankan apparel sector positions itself as the “World’s #1 Ethically Sourced Destination”, where it is striving to make the “Made in Sri Lanka” label synonymous with quality and reliability, plus social and environmental accountability. A cornerstone of the sector’s efforts to be ethically compliant involves strict adherence to the stringent health and safety provisions of numerous ethical...
There has been growing interest in policy and among scholars to consider culture as an aspect of sustainable development and even as a fourth pillar. However, until recently, the understanding of culture within the framework of sustainable development has remained vague. In this study, we investigate the scientific discourse on cultural sustainability by analyzing the diverse meanings that are applied...
This paper offers an auto-ethnographic account of Midas, an immersive bio-media installation created by artist Paul Thomas. The experiences of the installation provide a stepping-off point for a discussion of the corporeal geographies and the nano-imaginaries that the work develops. Understanding the senses as a principle means whereby the body mingles with the world and with itself, we begin from...
Sub-national regions are at the center of the global, neo-liberal economy. In India, the broadening of democracy has shifted the onus from centralized, national parties, to regional and identity-based ones, with implications for governance. Further, sub-national states have become drivers of development, and compete within and outside national boundaries to attract investment. In the era of regions,...
This critical review debates the issues raised in Bassett and Fogelman’s 2013 article “Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature”. After summarising the main findings of their article, we examine the methodology that Bassett and Fogelman adopted. We question the narrow sample of journals analysed, which we argue has led to a bias in the conclusions drawn. We...
Although understudied in academia and mostly unheard of by the general public, the in situ/ex situ dichotomy has shaped—and still very much shapes—the development of the nature conservation movement and its institutional alliances in the last few decades. Latin for “in” and “out” of place, the in/ex situ dichotomy often stands for the seemingly less scientific dichotomy between wild nature and captivity...
This article examines how stressful commutes are changing the bodies that are caught up in this everyday mobility. Contrasting with psychological research on commuter stress that makes generalised claims about the commuting experience, this article develops a non-representational understanding of bodies. From this point of view, stress is seen as having a much more ambivalent and complex constitution...
Dominant theories of creativity and innovation in economic geography do not seem to apply to the UK videogames development sector, because it does not exhibit strong tendencies to cluster in urban areas or organise production through systems of horizontal inter-firm relationships. This paper explores alternative explanations of learning in this knowledge-intensive sector by focusing on work practices...
The past decade witnessed dramatic grow in the implementation of GPS, smartphones and other tracking technologies for collecting high resolution space–time data. These highly accurate data can be analyzed and displayed by various tools and techniques that bring forth new insights about the space–time movements of people and objects such as private cars or taxis. Those analytical tools allow researchers...
The idea of global householding was introduced as an attempt to contribute to four dimensions of migration research: (1) the household as a basic social institution in decisionmaking about migration; (2) the ways in which migration contributes, or does not contribute, to the reproduction of the household; (3) the phenomenal globalization of households in Asia over the past 2 decades; and (4) the relationship...
The challenges of householding across time and space inevitably strain marital roles and relationships, as well as providing temptations and opportunities for sexual infidelity, and is assumed to increase the propensity for marital breakdown. This paper raises questions about the assumed relationship between migration and marital disruption through qualitative evidence from Vietnam. We focus on 14...
Motorised transport infrastructure and increasingly specialised labour markets have resulted in energy intensive commuter patterns in many parts of the world. This is cause for concern due to the possibility of oil price shocks and the need to restrict the combustion of fossil fuels to minimise the chances of runaway climate change. The paper investigates methods to identify the spatial distribution...
This paper develops a household water security measurement for low-income peri-urban and rural communities (“colonias”) on the US–Mexico border. The complexity of a “no-win” waterscape – where water service exists but is relatively expensive and water quality is still precarious – precludes a meaningful assessment and analysis because there are no existing measurement tools to capture water insecurity...
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