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URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO-AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain
Urban agriculture (UA) initiatives have become a key area of research, policymaking and activism in reaction to the dominance of global for-profit supply chains that have introduced significant food-related vulnerabilities in urban areas. However, empirical evidence shows that UA initiatives encounter powerful...
ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OR PASSIVE WITNESS? Role of City Councils in the Creation and Scrutiny of Cities’ International Cooperation
The growing role of cities in international relations and their impact on nation-states have been unprecedented in recent decades. What has yet to be revealed is the part that city councils play in this process. In this essay we examine whether city councils are active participants or are dominated by mayors and...
CAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed-methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden
In this article, we seek to contribute to the understanding and measurement of displacement through a dialectical mixed-methods study grounded in a dialogue between quantitative and qualitative approaches throughout the entire research process. Guided by a desire for social justice for the populations at stake, this...
JULY ISSUE
Young boys purchase produce at a small neighbourhood kiosk that is not connected to the grid despite an electric pole being only a few feet away, in Nakulabye informal settlement, Kampala, Uganda (photo by Penlope Yaguma, October 2023)
A detail of ‘communitarian pots in times of crisis’ as part of project No. 0160, ‘Community Practices, Local Policies and Governance for the Management of the Covid-19 Crisis in Intermediate Cities’ (image by Paz Ahumada, 2021)
A detail showing empty apartments in Gränby 2012 (photo by resident ‘Ciwan’, June 2012)
