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HOW LOCAL PRACTICES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL INNOVATION DEVELOP: And Why This Matters for Urban Transformations
This article addresses a critical gap in extant theorizing of urban transformations by focusing on the political and temporal dimensions of how innovations emerge, develop and become institutionalized into alternative systems of the everyday such as social centres, community gardens or urban commons. Going beyond...
ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects
Pipelines and refineries, hydropower dams, and solar and wind power projects feeding into emerging transnational energy networks make up the thrust of a new push for infrastructural expansion in the global South. This article argues that understanding the effects of this expansion requires attending to the multiple...
PUBLIC-MAKING IN HYPER-DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York
Queens is the most diverse county in the country and much of its diversity comes from relatively recent immigration. It is therefore exactly the kind of place that a variety of theorists have argued cannot have ‘a public’ through which questions of politics, plans and policies can be discussed and debated. In this...
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Glovo Rider stands outside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, waiting for more orders from one of the several fast-food chain restaurants in that corner (detail from a photo by Nicolás Palacios, March 2024)
Stop EACOP (African Crude Oil Pipeline) (detail from a poster photographed by Maren Larsen, June 2023)
A Taiwanese Public-Private Partnership Original Equipment Manufacturing factory where defective iPhone backs are being methodically destroyed under the watchful eye of local customs officials, offering a revealing look at the underside of China’s rapid urban and industrial expansion (detail from a photo by Yong Zhang, April 2019)
