distinctions can only go so far in describing and situating the normative case study; eventually, it is best to turn to examples. In this section I do that by examining Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of the Great American Cities (Jacobs 1961), explaining the sense in which it is partly a normative case study. I will argue that Jacobs’s descriptions of neighborhood life made contributions not ...

Public sector innovation is often driven by informal groups of visionary key actors (‘transition arenas’). The WaalWeelde project in the Netherlands, where new river management strategies are designed with new groups of stakeholders, is one example. In this article the role of political leadership in these processes of innovation is further explored. In order to mediate between the transition a...

From different public and private instances, mechanisms have been set in action that allow for companies to obtain information in order to make decisions with a stronger foundation. This article is focused on the description of an entire information system for the business world, developed in the realm of the Chambers of Commerce of Spain, which have given rise to the creation of an authentic n...

Cultural stereotypes and considerable psychological research suggest that Russians are less happy and more stoic than Americans and Westerners. However, a second possibility is simply that cultural norms deter Russians from displaying happiness that they actually feel. To test this second possibility, three studies compared the emotional inhibition tendencies in U.S. and Russian student samples...

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste central to it. Drawing on the thick description domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, treat both as multisensory form knowing includes sixth sense, temporality, broader set values inform everyday food preparation. The notion highlights there much more cook's than act cooking, environmen...

Attitudes towards cultural heritage have long been characterised by an ‘endangerment sensibility’ concerned with preventing losses. Recently, however, critical scholars argued that loss can be generative, facilitating the formation of new values and attachments. Their arguments focused primarily on material heritage, whose risk damage disappearance is accelerating due to growing environmental c...

The United Kingdom’s ‘hostile environment for immigrants’ is having distressing effects on people of African Caribbean heritage, especially those who have been threatened with deportation. While some research demonstrates a strong connection between the threat deportation (deportability) and abjection, deportable migrants may also develop strategies (e.g. religious participation) to work around...

March 2020. On the borders of EU Europe, with Covid pandemic threatening human lives, sociality and welfare everywhere, Syrian refugees on ‘Balkan Route’, bombed out Idlib, are being beaten in forests wooden clubs by Romanian border guards before they thrown back onto Serbian territory for further humiliations.11 This episode other ones related next three paragraphs a selection from reports Fin...

This paper discusses the political relevance of ICT-architecture through a review of recent developments in the Netherlands, involving the bumpy introduction of a national smart card for public transport and the plans for electronic traffic pricing based on actual road usage of individual cars. One of the underlying themes is the centralised or decentralised storage of privacy-sensitive data, w...

This article discusses the relationship between certain institutional regulations of voting rights and elections, different levels of electoral participation, and the degree of political instability in several Latin American political experiences. A formal model specifies the hypotheses that sudden enlargements of the electorate may provoke high levels of political instability, especially under...