Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced whose valued actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates mobilised urban planning practice, discussing three experiences which actively centred often-excluded voices, as way of disrupting hierarchie...

The aim of this paper is to extend discussion on subcontracted labour by focussing the process and role race racialization within it. existing literature has so far analysed factors that have encouraged employer decisions outsource labour, together with its effects conditions industrial relations. Missing, however, been any detailed analysis processes, pivotal elements in facilitation subcontra...

Abstract In January 1909, the students of Azhar, Islamic world’s most prestigious university, went on strike. Protesting recent curricular and administrative changes introduced by Egyptian Khedive, they demanded increased material support asserted university’s right to govern itself. After several weeks demonstrations that drew thousands supporters into streets Cairo, Khedive suspended reforms ...

Puerto Rico’s left-wing forces have long tried to unify, a goal that has proven difficult reach and even harder sustain. At its strongest, the Left faced intense repression from both United States island’s colonial government. Yet, activists intellectuals agree deeper differences account for collective inability build unity. Historically, in Rico split over national question. Pro-independence g...

The problem of the study. Russia experiences growth both universal solidarity and network communities, especially volunteer movements. available developments Solidarology course do not provide students all areas training programs with materials demonstrating specifics positive impact historically established concepts solidarity. purpose study is to identify similarities differences between two ...

© L p i Does immigrant-origin diversity undermine states’ willingness to engage in broad social redistribution, from enacting “living” minimum wage laws and progressive taxation, to providing public benefits in order to mitigate economic inequality? In asking this question, Will Kymlicka (2015), one of the staunchest defenders of multiculturalism, takes seriously the question of whether recogni...

The Civil Sphere offers a bold and original thesis about the critically important role that civil societies play in Western democracies. Although I will challenge Alexander’s thesis, it is important to state at the outset that The Civil Sphere is a valuable book packed with rich social histories, lively engagements with ancient and contemporary theories, and novel interpretations. There is much...

A central problem in the sociology of knowledge has been to show that sane people can intelligibly have quite different alternative understandings of the same problem, such as a kind of risk, without abandoning the idea that there is a real problem about which to disagree, and to show the social basis of both plurality and viability. In recent decades, attempts to make this problem tractable ha...

The standard criticism on the left of neoliberalism, whose ideological core is what Somers aptly calls ‘market fundamentalism’, is that it harms the economic interests of most people and is bad for the overall functioning of the economy. On the one hand, market fundamentalism leads to a rejection of the affirmative state and thus the massive under-provision of a wide range of public goods; on t...