Decentralization of land use governance creates new challenges for participatory approaches, including the involvement of highly diverse participants and the search for coherence among multiple regulations. In France, the 2000 law of Urban Reform and Solidarity (“Solidarité et Renouvellement Urbain”) provides a legal framework to land use decentralization. It requires the planning design proces...

We thank Josephine Woolf for her collaboration in obtaining funding; Alice Gladwin, Monique Cloherty, and Üta Drescher for their assistance in collecting the data; and Bob Blizard for his statistical advice on the project. Contributors: See bmj.com Funding: health service research project grant provided by the Wellcome Trust (reference 991026); the North and Central Thames Research Network (NoC...

Between the philosophies of representation and critique in environmental politics, this essay argues that the relationship between French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s theory of “machinic ecology” and the Zapatistas “ecological self-management” practices in the Lacandon jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, offers a compelling direction for a post-neoliberal ecopolitics. While normative...

This paper explores the role of threats from below in the emergence of electoral authoritarianism. Mass uprisings for democratic regime change undermine closed authoritarian regimes by making it difficult for autocrats to maintain their regimes through repression and co-optation. Anti-regime uprisings also promote the establishment of electoral authoritarianism by toppling existing closed regim...

INTRODUCTION: Immediate mobilization of repaired tendons has beneficial effects on the functional outcome of the repair, in both experimental animals and clinical studies. Therefore, many techniques for improving the strength of the tendon repair have been reported. The Teno Fix system (TFS) has been devised to improve initial flexor tendon repair strength and reproducibility without having to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and international protests of the violences prison industrial complex (PIC) have put matters health, safety, healing at forefront social justice struggles. Prison abolitionists around world are asking: How do we dismantle systems oppression foundational to carceral institutions within which from find ourselves needing heal? Or as Adaku Utah, Nigerian healer liberation educ...

Abstract At a time when the US federal government failed to act on climate change, California's success as subnational policy leader has been widely celebrated. However, landmark law drove wedge between two segments of state's environmental community. On one side was coalition “market-oriented” social movement organizations (SMOs), who allied with private corporations advance market-friendly po...

The alternative economies of the Ecoxarxes (eco-networks) are created by autonomous networks like-minded groups that use social currency and mutual support practices for producing exchanging goods, services knowledge in Spanish region Catalonia. Drawing on ethnographic research, we show these commoning projects aim to establish sustain predominantly framed as fostering cooperation, aid commons....

The literature on the recent exponential growth of extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented various processes through which this sector been empowered to expand its frontier, as well strategies that affected communities employ resist it. However, article we instead focus how some Maya-Mam residents San Miguel Ixtahuacán understood addressed divisive effects Marlin Mine, op...

Since the invention of the service user as a medico-political category, service user involvement has been advocated by policymakers and researchers as a way of empowering clients and ensuring service responsiveness and accountability in mental health care in the UK. However, our experience of involvement in this field over the past three decades suggests that these initiatives may have limited ...