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transition was widely lauded as a textbook case, yet declining support for the political incumbent, factionalism, the phenomena of “state-capture” and the decline of state-owned entities has raised questions ... ) hegemony. Limited research in South Africa (SA) focuses on the influence of political contest - including alternation, coalition formation and factionalism on municipal Environmental Governance (EG
This paper has traced the historic spatial development of Windhoek through five distinct socio-political epochs. These different periods’ spatial, aesthetic, and representational effects on the ... the late eighteenth century, bringing significant political, social, and economic change to central and southern South-West Africa.2 These changes included the Cape Colonial and transatlantic slave
article finds that, due to the city’s multi-ethnic character and the residents’ strong metropolitan identity, ethnic identity has not constituted a powerful tool for political mobilisation of residents ... . ( 2017 ). The politics of developmentalism, citizenship and urban youth in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia [Thesis - Doctor of Philosophy].University of Manchester. Terrefe , B. ( 2020 ). Urban layers of political
analytic lens with which to explore the discursive, political, and material strategies used by individuals and communities to resist the threats of displacement. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Mabushi and ... , and give meaning to their everyday places in relation to or as a response to persistent threats of displacement. We see place-making as a political endeavour and draw attention to the choices people
against the state: the historical political favouring of some ethnic groups; the eviction of local populations from their lands by extractive industries, and their exclusion from the economic benefits; the ... individual and collective dynamics between institutions and citizens; cities are spatial, social, economic, political and environmental terrains of human interaction, privileged contexts of conflict due to
governance processes and demonstrates the power of political opportunities, the transformative role of unexpected consequences, and the importance of informed political leadership. It also shows how multi ... routes, demand for drugs is contingent on political context and socio-economic drivers (Jewkes et al., 2010) . As a result of changing global distribution flows from the Middle East, heroin reaches
Public transit agencies face a transformed landscape of rider demand and political support as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. We explore people’s motivations for returning to or avoiding public
shaped. Shaped not only by the distant historical factors but also by enduring cultural norms, post-apartheid political dynamics and emergent family and community ties in their study sites. In Lenasia and ... contemporary political neglect and gender norms. A key factor that makes Denver unique from their other two study sites is historical household formation. Men in Denver endure long journeys in search of economic
entrepreneurial education has a positive effect on their decision to be engaged in entrepreneurial activities. The government needs to minimize its political intervention in entrepreneurship programs. ... , securing livelihoods, creating decent jobs and promoting social and political stability (UN, 2015a) . Given the contributions of the informal sector to the economy of the LDCs, protecting the earnings and
road transport. Fuel price; Elasticity; Heterogeneity; Germany; Price elasticity Introduction Despite the long-lasting political negotiations on the global level for reducing greenhouse gas emissions ... . live722 Friedrich , R.J.: In defense of multiplicative terms in multiple regression equations . Am. J. Political Sci . 26 , 797 - 833 ( 1982 ) Frondel , M. , Flores , F.M. , Vance , C. : Heterogeneous
socio-political and cultural aspects such as formal or informal forms of governance. Currently, given the local circumstances and pressure for land and housing, peri-urban areas emerge as a key urban and ... includes political, sociopolitical and politico-religious structures which are rooted in the pre-colonial rather than in the formations of colonial and post-colonial states.” This also implies an alternative
the countryside and the city—the “traditional” and the “modern”—that drive the discourse of urbanism. Particularly given the way political discourse has instrumentalized queer people from the global ... -wavers, charged with promoting an illegal organization. Many were tortured. At the core of this political homophobia in the twenty-first century, today—from Eastern Europe through Asia to Africa—is the
local ZANU PF political party chairperson), and finally mukuru wevechidiki (the local ZANU PF political party youth chairman). It is common for these leaders to oscillate between Lydiate and the towns of ... when people would gather at will to discuss various matters ranging from community updates, projects, and political part party meetings. During a phone call interview with Community Leader Matambo, he
that urban informality should be viewed as a “site of critical analysis, [which] requires a more complex understanding of the political economy of urban informality across spatial, economic and political
we have obtained. We agree with scholars that warn that (im) mobility can be a political concern, as it entails questions of equity and justice (Karner et al. 2020; Verlinghieri and Schwanen 2020 ... professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands). She is also affiliated with Leibniz University Hanover (Germany) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). She is an economic geographer
political parties in the city of Frankfurt am Main and the local government agreed to support the cycling movement’s demands. As a result, the local government adopted an ambitious plan ‘Bicycle City ... quality of stay for a long time, but their citizens’ initiatives did not succeed in reducing car traffic despite being supported by various NGOs and political parties. Ultimately, the local government
material and temporal differences in housing infrastructure is the construction of temporary relocation areas (TRAs). The multifaceted challenges with the TRAs in Delft illustrate the political nature of ... TRAs in Delft illustrate the political nature of housing infrastructure as reported by (Lemanski 2019a, b) and how citizen-making is shaped in and through articulations of formality and informality, and
dynamics (Soja 1989) . In the continuity of this approach, the philosophy of the Data Domotopia is to focus on the socio-spatiotemporal state of modern society emerging and made visible in home-making ... various forms of political issues, inequalities, and domination (Barthes 2012) . The dwelling is also a complex social space because there is a discrepancy between the socialization of the dwellers, their
its best and most critical, this work also recognises that “doctoral student identity work [is] threaded with political as well as idiosyncratic tensions and unresolved questions” and that “academic ... questions—differentiating the empirical from the theoretical, the political from the academic stake. For instance, we would ask candidates ‘what is it that puzzles you?’, building a research question from
materially constructed spaces (Ombagi, 2019; Tucker & Hassan, 2020) . From digital worlds (Prinsloo et al., 20111), to political events (Scott, 2017) , to bureaucratic practices (Camminga, 2019) , this ... , but as material, social, technical, and political assemblages—as ambivalent technologies suspended between multiple possibilities (Pollio and Cirolia, 2022) . This way of seeing infrastructure
