Governance: The art of governing after governmentality

Abstract: As Michel Foucault and others have shown, from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, Western political discourse has perpetuated an art of governing aimed at societies and populations. This article argues that this modern art of governing is now coming undone, in the name of governance. The discourse on governance is taking us from an art of governing premised on producing…

Democracy unbound? Non-linear politics and the politicization of everyday life

Abstract: In liberal modernity, the democratic collective will of society was understood to emerge through the public and deliberative freedoms of associational life. Today, however,democratic discourse is much more focused on the formation of plural and diverse publics in the private and social sphere. In these ‘non-linear’ approaches, democracy is no longer seen to operate to constitute …

Global Social Policy Digest

Edisi

(2013), 13(1)

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1177/1468018

Deskripsi Fisik

Global Social Policy 13(1) 100– 119, 2013

Judul Seri

Global Social Policy

No. Panggil

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Contesting contestation: Global social policy prescriptions on pensions and h…

This article discusses the conceptualization of global social policy in its dimension of prescriptions on national social policy. By studying the global health systems discourse and comparing it to the discourse on pensions, the applicability and validity of common notions of contestation and struggle between global social policy actors and their ideas are discussed. On the basis of conceptu…

Institutions, discourse and welfare: Brazil as a distributional regime

This article aims at broadening the scope of global and regional social policy studies to include the ‘Global South’. A strategic-relational approach, based on a combination of the ASID framework with a historical-institutionalist approach to social and distributional policies, serves as point of departure. In the final section, the theoretical reflections are exemplified by an empirical ca…

The cultural construction of global social policy: Theorizing formations and …

Thinking about global social policy can take many paths, ranging from empirical studies to theoretical reflections, from in-depth investigations to conceptual clarifications. This article provides a cultural and constructivist perspective to the debate on how to theorize global social policy. The main argument of this article is that a combination of world society theory and discourse analys…

Histological evaluation of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound on osteochondritis…

Background: The clinical use of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) was recently evaluated in cases of osteochondritis dissecans of the humeral capitellum (elbow OCD). However, the mechanism underlying the effect of LIPUS in elbow OCD is not well understood. The aim of this study was to histopathologically evaluate the effect of LIPUS irradiation on elbow OCD. Methods: Fifteen patients wit…

Does source population size affect performance in new environments?

Small populations are predicted to perform poorly relative to large populations when experiencing environmental change. To explore this prediction in nature,data from reciprocal transplant, common garden, and translocation studies were compared meta-analytically. We contrasted changes in performance resulting from transplantation to new environments among individuals originating from different…

Environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system: A scaled discour…

The past two decades have witnessed a growing body of research that draws on post-structuralist theory to interrogate environmental discourses in planning. Grounded in the interpretative tradition,this approach rejects essentialist ontology to assume environmental discourses being socially constructed and linked to different policy arenas at multiple geographical scales. Widely applied in the e…

Agglomeration and simplified housing boom

Both ‘spatial skewness’ in population sizes, incomes and house prices and ‘agglomeration economies’are important features in many countries. This paper uses a solvable core-periphery model capturing the two features to specify a market-induced housing boom under the condition of a fixed or very inelastic housing supply. Two main insights emerge from our analysis. First, there exists a r…

A comparative assessment of the factors associated with station-level streetc…

The proliferation of streetcar projects in US cities is one of the most significant transportation developments of recent years, yet little is known about the factors that contribute to streetcar ridership or whether these factors differ from those related to light rail transit use. This study uses multivariate models to examine differences in the factors related to average weekday station boar…

Farms are not zoos: A post-colonial study on enclosure and conservation of mi…

This paper explains the importance of distinguishing de facto from de jure property rights, confused by some economists, in heritage conservation planning. A comparative study on three Hong Kong examples of British colonial military buildings is used to show how neither de jure private property rights nor de facto close access is a solution to the problem of open access to heritage buildings. A…

A ‘Bedford Falls’ kind of place: Neighbourhood branding and commercial re…

Drawing on in-depth stakeholder interviews and media accounts, we explore a case of civic activism over the opening of a strip club in a neighbourhood of Etobicoke, one of six municipalities amalgamated in 1998 to form the current City of Toronto, Ontario. In 2008, the growing residential gentrification of the area had not yet extended into the commercial district and the opening of the strip c…

Homeless people’s leisure practices within and beyond urban socio-scapes

With increased inequity and polarisation in society, access to leisure has become even more crucial for ensuring the humanity and health of people living in urban poverty. Homeless people constitute the hard edge of urban poverty, and literally embody broader inequities in society given that they face increased risk of illness and an early death. Scholars have explored the material and psychoso…

Homogeneity tests of Tiebout sorting: A case study at the interface of city a…

The Tiebout hypothesis has stimulated 50 years of research into the relationship between residential location and local taxes and services. One line of research has focused on socioeconomic homogeneity as an indicator of Tiebout sorting. I argue that spatial dependence of socioeconomic variables confounds attempts to attribute sorting to Tiebout processes. Socioeconomic sorting is investigated …

Labour (im)mobility and monopsonistic exploitation of workers in the urban in…

It is well-recognised in labour economics that employers in monopsonistic competition have market power to set wages below the productivity of workers if workers are immobile, which causes monopsonistic exploitation of workers. Monopsonistic exploitation is propelled by employers’expectations about the degree of (im)mobility of workers and therefore by ex post mobility of workers. It hence be…

Providing places for structures of feeling and hierarchical complementarity i…

This paper reflects upon intellectual possibilities of Raymond Williams’ classic study The Country and the City (1975) within current urban and regional research. First, the paper canvasses the relevance of the book by constructing a frame of reference based on its citations in urban and regional studies. The principal findings of this approach discern frequent use of the main points develope…

The heterogeneity of housing-tenure choice in urban China: A case study based…

This paper investigates the heterogeneity of housing-tenure choice in the city of Guangzhou based on a household survey. Using methods of finite mixture regression, we identified three groups with distinct housing-tenure choice subprocesses, which we labelled as the ‘urban elites’,the ‘native plebeians’ and the ‘lower masses’, accordingly. The urban elites group includes affluent lo…

Out of Place? The Effects of Demolition on Youths’ Social Contacts and Leis…

Most Dutch cities have adopted urban restructuring policies aimed at creating a socially mixed population in deprived neighbourhoods. This entails the demolition of low-cost, social rented housing units, which leads to the displacement of their residents. While researchers have investigated the social effects of displacement on adults, this study is the first to provide insight into the effects…

Urban Growth and Climate Adaptation in Australia: Divergent Discourses and Im…

Managing urban growth is inherently contentious. Government policies seek to facilitate and spatially contain growth, while balancing public and private interests. The need for climate adaptation strategies in the urban context is recognised but arguably poorly institutionalised in growth management policies or in urban governance more broadly. This paper considers how debates around urban adap…

Youth Drinking in Public Places: The Production of Drinking Spaces in and Out…

This article explores youth drinking in Zurich, Switzerland, on both public squares away from nightlife areas, referred to as ‘square street drinking’ and on the street within the vicinity of nightclubs, defined as ‘club street drinking’. Taking a relational space approach, the analysis adds a social perspective to the dominant economicpolitical perspective to drinking in urban nightli…

Open to Business? An Exploration of the Impact of the Built Environment and Z…

Urban residential neighbourhoods, including migrant neighbourhoods, have become important incubation zones for small businesses in recent years and policy-makers and academics alike are wondering which local factors affect this development. This paper analyses the extent to which migrant neighbourhood characteristics related to the built environment and the local regulations matter in determini…

Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment

Abstract This paper considers the very large differences in adaptive capacity among the world’s urban centres. It then discusses how risk levels may change for a range of climatic drivers of impacts in the near term (2030–2040) and the long term (2080–2100) with a 2°C and a 4°C warming for Dar es Salaam, Durban,London and New York City. The paper is drawn directly from Chapter 8 of C…

Advocacy for urban resilience:UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign

This paper reviews what local governments in more than 50 cities are doing with regard to disaster risk reduction. It draws on the reports of their participation in the global Making Cities Resilient Campaign and its 10 “essential” components, and on interviews with city mayors or managers. These show how resilience to disasters is being conceived and addressed by local governments,especia…

Adapting the built environment: the role of gender in shaping vulnerability a…

The relationship between the built environment and vulnerability and resilience is a little-studied area of research, and demands an exploration of constraints and windows of opportunity. Given gender roles and the division of labour between women and men within urban poor households, the impacts of climate extremes are likely to be gendered. But conceptualizing gender only in terms of the vul…

Institutionalizing climate change adaptation at municipal and state level in …

This paper is a report on one of three related case studies in Latin America and shows the progress in the city of Chetumal, and the larger state of which it is the capital (Quintana Roo), in disaster response, especially with regard to cyclones. It also shows the progress in land use and ecological planning through the development of certain tools, which have changed the approach from one of …

Individual, communal and institutional responses to climate change by low-inc…

The relationship between “coping” and “resilience” increasingly features in academic, policy and practical discussions on adaptation to climate change in urban areas. This paper examines this relationship in the context of households in “extreme poverty” in the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. It draws on a quantitative data set based on 550 household interviews in low-income and informa…

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because it offers powerful tools to identify and critique dualist constructions of nature and culture that work to uphold Eurocentric knowledge and the colonial p…

Ontologies of Indigeneity: the politics of embodying a concept

This paper asks how Indigenous ways of being and knowing can become legitimized within western theorizations of ontology, given the ongoing (neo)colonial relations that shape geographic knowledge production. My analysis emerges within my narrative accounts of being a Kwakwaka’wakw scholar in two spaces of knowledge production: a geography conference and a potlatch. Through these stories, I en…

Inscribing thoughts: the animation of an adventure

This short reflection on my writing practice pivots off Roland Barthes’ announcement, in his last lecture course The Preparation of the Novel 1978–80, that he wanted ‘to track the Work from its Projection to it’s accomplishment: in other words, from Wanting-to-Write to Being-Able-to- Write, or from the Desire-to-Write to the Fact-of-Writing’. Here I reflect how Barthes, through animat…

Introduction: writing creatively – process, practice, and product

For most academic geographers writing remains the primary means through which we communicate our work. Typically, of course, in monographs and journal articles, but with ongoing creative efforts to engage geographical audiences through practices beyond academic publishing – something cultural geographies in practice has long featured – that writing sees a myriad of expressions.1 Nevertheles…

Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography

This contribution is a reflection on the process of becoming a poet as a geographer. It charts my journey into the world of poetry and reflects on the cross-overs between academic geography and poetic practice in the past. It considers the way in which geography and poetry can inform each other in the practice of writing creatively, and tentatively suggests how this engagement might influence m…

Opening Ungava to industry:a decentring approach to indigenous history in sub…

This article examines the period leading up to the establishment of the Schefferville iron mine in subarctic Québec, Canada, with a focus on the years 1937–54. The beginning of iron ore mining at Schefferville was a decisive moment in the growth of the modern Québec state, opening the way for the industrial exploitation of the province’s natural resources – mineral and otherwise – in …

Ontology and indigeneity: on the political ontology of heterogeneous assemblages

The first challenge faced by a project that seeks to bring concerns with ontology and indigeneity into a conversation is to sort out the various (and possibly divergent) projects that are being mobilized when the former term is used, not the least because what do we mean by ontology impinges upon how we can conceive indigeneity. In this article I play a counterpoint between two ‘ontological�…

Undoing ‘marginality’: The islands of the Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan …

The islands in the delta of the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan have for a very long time been of little interest to anybody. It was a hostile environment for human settlement, exploitable resources were limited and nobody could think of options for alternative forms of land use. The area was classified as ‘marginal or empty land’. Things started to change dramatically in the 1990’…

Middle Alternatives Revisited: How the neither/nor Response Acts as a Way of …

A persistent problem in the design of bipolar attitude questions is whether or not to include a middle response alternative. On the one hand, it is reasonable to assume that people might hold opinions which are ‘neutral’ with regard to issues of public controversy. On the other, question designers suspect that offering a mid-point may attract respondents with no opinion, or those who lean t…

Choosing the Number of Categories in Agree–Disagree Scales

Although agree–disagree (AD) rating scales suffer from acquiescence response bias, entail enhanced cognitive burden, and yield data of lower quality, these scales remain popular with researchers due to practical considerations (e.g., ease of item preparation, speed of administration, and reduced administration costs). This article shows that if researchers want to useADscales, they should off…

Response Error in Earnings: An Analysis of the Survey of Income and Program P…

This article examines the problem of response error in survey earnings data. Comparing workers’ earnings reports in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their detailed W-2 earnings records from the Social Security Administration, we employ ordinary least squares (OLS) and quantile regression models to assess the effects of earnings determinants and d…

Investigating Response Errors in Survey Data

This special issue of Sociological Methods & Research contributes to recent trends in studies that exploit the availability of multiple measures in sample surveys in order to detect the level and patterning to measurement errors. Articles in this volume focus on topics in one of (or some combination of) the three areas: (1) those that develop and test theoretical hypotheses regarding the behavi…

Italian Sociologists’ Approach to Qualitative Interviews

It is common to come across interviews, both transcribed and recorded, that were conducted according to remarkably different strategies that seem to contrast with the recommendations and indications of a large part of the literature on this subject. To understand the reasons behind these different strategies, I will present the outcomes of a study carried out among Italian sociologists who base…

Matrix Assisted Structural Hypothesis Construction: Further Explorations

In January 2011 (BMS issue 109), this journal published our article on a new process for developing a structural hypothesis, using a matrix approach and multi-dimensional data analysis techniques (Cohen and Tresser, 2011). The present article continues to develop the matrix assisted hypothesis construction method (matrix method for short) and offers directions for research utilizing this approa…

Reliability of Self-reports of Financial Data in Surveys: Results From the He…

This article reports an investigation of errors of measurement in self-reports of financial data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), one of the major social science data resources available to those who study the demography and economics of aging. Results indicate significantly lower levels of reporting reliability of the composite variables in the HRS relative to those found for ‘‘su…

Law, Development and Innovation

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ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-13311-9

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Judul Seri

SxI – Springer for Innovation /SxI – Springer per l'Innovazione Volume 13

No. Panggil

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Handbook of LGBT Elders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Principles, Practic…

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ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-03623-6

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xviii, 691 hlm.;ill.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Homicide Data Sources: An Interdisciplinary Overview for Researchers

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ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-19881-1

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Judul Seri

SpringerBriefs in Criminology

No. Panggil

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Inhibition of influenza virus replication by constrained peptides targeting n…

Background: Because of high mutation rates, new drugresistant viruses are rapidly evolving, thus making the necessary control of influenza virus infection difficult.Methods: We screened a constrained cysteine-rich peptide library mimicking m-conotoxins from Conus geographus and a proline-rich peptide library mimicking lebocin 1 and 2 from Bombyx mori by using influenza virus RNA polymerase (…

You Say You Want a Revolution: the Arab Spring, Norm Diffusion, and the Human…

Abstract We discuss how the Arab Spring is a reflection of the resiliency of the human rights regime. In order to accomplish this, we explore the extent to which the Arab Spring represents norm diffusion among Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states. Specifically, we examine the cases of Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain and consider how economic and demographic changes created space for human r…

Retrieving the Differences: the Distinctiveness of the Welfare Aspect of Huma…

Abstract Recently, the idea that all rights are positive and costly has come to prominence in international human rights law. This has been taken to imply that there are no reasons to object to providing economic, social, and cultural rights with the same level of protection than civil and political rights. The present contribution aims to reject this undifferentiated view. It argues that eve…

Ageing with Dignity: Old-Age Pension Schemes from the Perspective of the Righ…

Abstract The ‘dignity and worth of the human person’ emphasised in international human rights instruments resonate strongly in relation to the world’s ageing population, which is projected to be the fastest growing population group in the world and often among the most vulnerable. While elderly persons as a group are heterogeneous and their socio-economic life situation varies significa…

A good life : human rights and encounters with modernity

This is a book about hope, the hope that we have ways to live together in a rapidly changing world which will enable us to ‘live a good life in the modern world’. It goes beyond hope and suggests how we may do this. The how is a critical question at a time when rapid change is impacting on all societies. What will be the human outcomes of political turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere?…