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Urban governance and climate change experiments. (2013)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H., & Caston Broto, V. (2013). Urban governance and climate change experiments. In H. Mieg, & K. Topfer (Eds.), Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development (72-87). Routledge

Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine (2013)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2013). Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31(3), 522-537. https://doi.org/10.1068/d15711

This paper critically examines the notions of spatial emptiness and ruination through their unsettled appearance in the archive of colonization. Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine/Eretz Israel, it illustrates how the encount... Read More about Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine.

The retreating state: Political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space (2013)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2014). The retreating state: Political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space. Political Geography, 39, 58-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2013.11.004

In their article, “Political geographies of the object,” Meehan, Shaw, and Marston (2013) introduce and explore some of the implications of object-oriented ontology (OOO) for political geography. Their analysis uses The Wire – a television drama abou... Read More about The retreating state: Political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space.

Left in the waiting room of history? Provincializing the European child. (2013)
Journal Article
Finn, M., & McEwan, C. (2015). Left in the waiting room of history? Provincializing the European child. Interventions, 17(1), 113-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2013.858984

This paper highlights an important lacuna within critiques of infantilizing (neo-)colonial European discourses: the failure to question whom or what was the ‘child’ against which non-Europeans were gauged. The premise is that the unacknowledged figur... Read More about Left in the waiting room of history? Provincializing the European child..

Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure (2013)
Journal Article
Castán Broto, V., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), 1934-1948. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12050

Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments... Read More about Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure.

Performance of the local health system and contingent influences in Northeast-Brazil: breaking vicious and virtuous circles (2013)
Journal Article
Medeiros, R., & Atkinson, S. (2013). Performance of the local health system and contingent influences in Northeast-Brazil: breaking vicious and virtuous circles. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 18(11), 3431-3442. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1413-81232013001100032

Organizational theory has long emphasized the importance of contingent, environmental influences on organizational performance. Similarly, research has demonstrated the importance of local political culture and informal management on the performance... Read More about Performance of the local health system and contingent influences in Northeast-Brazil: breaking vicious and virtuous circles.