This paper argues that a hybrid role for urban planners has emerged within the largely neoliberalised spaces of contemporary Australian governance. This new role is one that transcends previously rigid or clearly defined sectoral positions to blend public, private and community responsibilities in novel and complex ways. The first section of the paper briefly sketches the historical shifts that...

The empirical impulse of the discussion on organizational hybridity in public admini lTation is that in a broad variety of public policy :fields several sector-specific institutional fonn. overlap. Examples arc tax-exempted foundations in the field of education or cience, private v luntary a sociations providing public goods such as socia l ·ervices of various kinds or private goods such as hou...

The public administration literature uses the concept of hybridity to describe situations where policy designs involve the interaction of government, business, civil society, and not-for-profits. Yet the concept lacks a theoretical context and poses the empirical problem of distinguishing between hybrid and non-hybrid forms. This paradox – a concept that is widely used but seems to play no usef...

The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized women as women in an era when other women’s groups struggled to maintain critical mass and turned away from non-gender-specific public issues. This article addresses how these organizations fostered collective consciousness am...

What’s in a word? As it turns out, quite a lot. The vast majority of words in our language, including trademarked terms, signify a variety of conceptual meanings and senses. This idea of splintered definition— described in the psycholinguistics literature as “semantic ambiguity” and offered in two flavors: “homonymy” (divergent and unrelated meanings) and “polysemy” (divergent yet related sense...

In this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We ar...

In 1930 I described briefly a case of hybridity in which apparently there had been a union between an egg cell of Fragaria vesca L. (n = 7) from Hawaii and a single genom (n=7) of Fragaria virginiana Duchesne (n=28) from the eastern part of the United States. The variety of F . vesca used as the female parent had white fruit. This plant was isolated in a room containing no other plants and was ...