All Outputs (3)

Governing majorities in the Arab World: urban life beyond neoliberalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Harker, C. (2017). Governing majorities in the Arab World: urban life beyond neoliberalism. In L. Khirfan (Ed.), Order and disorder : urban governance and the making of Middle Eastern cities (41-69). McGill-Queen's University Press

This chapter examines how contemporary urban studies in the Middle East theorize the cities in which they are located. It is argued that many of these studies privilege neoliberalism as the key conceptual lens through which urban change is gauged. Th... Read More about Governing majorities in the Arab World: urban life beyond neoliberalism.

Informal Sector (2017)
Book Chapter
Harker, C. (2017). Informal Sector. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, & R. Marston (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of geography : people, the Earth, environment and technology. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0484

The informal sector designates forms of paid labor that are outside, or are placed beyond, legislative and regulatory frameworks, which designate the formal sector. The crude binary between formal and informal has subsequently been nuanced, leading t... Read More about Informal Sector.

Researching Spaces of Violence Through Family (2016)
Book Chapter
Harker, C. (2016). Researching Spaces of Violence Through Family. In C. Harker, K. Hörschelmann, & T. Skelton (Eds.), Conflict, violence and peace (1-16). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_20-1

This chapter uses families’ spatial practices as a lens for exploring violence. Geographical understandings of violence and conflict often focus on international terrorism and domestic governance. This can create situations where certain contexts, of... Read More about Researching Spaces of Violence Through Family.