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- Ek Österberg, Emma, 1977, et al.
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Kommunen som upphandlare, entreprenör och arbetsgivare i arbetsmarknadsintegration av utrikesfödda
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att inkludera utrikesfödda på arbetsmarknaden är en nyckelutmaning för integrationen och samhällsutvecklingen. Under senare år har flera reformer initierats i syfte att stärka genomförandet av integrationspolitiken där en mångfald aktörer involverats i insatserna för arbetsmarknadsintegration, däribland kommuner och andra lokala organisationer. Lokala initiativ för arbetsmarknadsintegration står i centrum för forskningsprojektet, Förändrade roller, framväxande nätverk: kommuner som upphandlare, arbetsgivare och entreprenör i arbetsmarknadsintegration. Kännetecknande för dessa initiativ är att de tar form och utvecklas lokalt i samverkan mellan kommuner, andra offentliga organisationer, företag och ideella organisationer. Projektet fokuserar på kommunernas roller i skapandet och spridningen av lokala, innovativa initiativ för arbetsmarknadsintegration av utrikesfödda. I rapporten diskuterar författarna sina resultat halvvägs in i projektet. Rapporten ger möjlighet att under pågående forskningsprojekt dela preliminära resultat och skapa en diskuss-ionskanal för forskare och praktiker. Tre roller diskuteras i rapporten, 1) kommunen som upphandlare, 2) kommunen som arbetsgivare, och 3) kommunen som entrepre-nör. I alla dessa roller driver, stödjer, styr och organiserar kommuner integrationspolitiska insatser i samverkan med andra – företag, ideella organisationer och offentliga myndigheter. Hur det går till och vad det betyder för kommunerna och dess samverkansparter och för möjligheten att nå framgång i integrationsarbetet är frågor som diskuteras i texten.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Urban commoning practices in the repair movement: Frontstaging the backstage
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environment and planning A. - 0308-518X .- 1472-3409. ; 52:6, s. 1150-1170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Citizen-led repair initiatives that collectively create urban commons, questioning the configuration of production, consumption, and discarding within neoliberal capitalism, have emerged in recent years. This paper builds on recent discussions of the openness of the commons by examining the role of repair in commoning. It is informed by the case of the Bike Kitchen in Göteborg, using in-depth interviews as well as ethnographic and visual observations to support the analysis. Through repair practices, commoning communities can reinvent, appropriate, and create urban commons by transforming private resources – bicycles – creating common, liminal, and porous spaces between state and market. This openness of the commons allows commoners to shift roles unproblematically, alternating between the commons, state, and market. We argue that commoners’ fluid identities become the vehicle by which urban commoning practices expands beyond the commons space. This fluidity and openness also fuels the broad recruitment of participants driven by diverse and entangled rationales. Beyond the porosity of spatial arrangements, we illustrate how the dramaturgic representation of space, through simultaneous frontstaging and backstaging practices, also prevents its enclosure and allows the creation of openings through which urban commoning practices are accessed by newcomers. Finally, we call into question strict definitions of ‘commoner’ and the commoning/repair movement as limited to those who are politically engaged in opposing the enclosure of the commons. Rather, commoners become political through action, so intentionality is less relevant to prompting social change than is suggested in the literature.
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- Chies, Bruno, et al.
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Ideella krafter måste vara en del av staden – inte bara i broschyrer
- 2021
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Ingår i: Göteborgs-Posten.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- DebattDet är dags att Göteborg bestämmer sig. Vill staden vara i bak- eller framkant vad gäller hållbarhet inte bara på papper utan också i handling? Låt oss skapa ett framgångsrikt exempel på hur ideellt föreningsliv också kan ha rum i centrala delar av staden, som Masthuggskajen, skriver bland annat Bruno Chies, Solidariskt Kylskåp och Carl Thorshag, Cykelköket Göteborg.
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- Gutberlet, Jutta, et al.
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Waste Pickers and Their Practices of Insurgency and Environmental Stewardship
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Environment and Development. - : SAGE Publications. - 1070-4965. ; 30:4, s. 369-394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Informed by different grassroots learning and educational practices engaged in waste management, and drawing from the concepts of insurgent citizenship and environ- mental stewardship, we examine the role of waste picker organizations and movements in creating new pathways towards more sustainable environmental waste governance. Two case studies (Argentina and Brazil) demonstrate how waste pickers inform and educate the general public and raise the awareness of socio-environmental questions related to waste management. Different educational practices are used as strategies to confront citizens with their waste: to see waste as a consumption problem, resource, and income source. Our paper draws on grassroots learning (social movement learning and insurgent learning) and education (stewardship) aimed at the transformation of waste practices. We argue that waste pickers play an important role in knowledge production promoting recycling, in landfilling less and recovering more resources. We conclude that waste pickers act as insurgent citizens and also are environmental stewards.
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- Kain, Jaan-Henrik, 1960, et al.
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Characteristics, challenges and innovations of waste picker organizations: A comparative perspective between Latin American and East African countries
- 2022
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Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 17:7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Waste picker organisations (WPOs) around the globe collect, transport and process waste to earn their living but represent a widely excluded, marginalised and impoverished segment of society. WPOs are highly innovative, created by grassroots out of “nothing” to deliver economic, social and environmental sustainability. Still, we do not know how such innovations are developed, and how they are disseminated and adopted by other groups. This article examines characteristics, challenges and innovations of WPOs across five countries in Latin America and East Africa. It is based on quantitative and qualitative data regarding modes of organisation and management, gender, received support, business orientations, environmental and social contributions, and innovations developed in response to multiple challenges. The paper provides a comprehensive understanding of WPOs’ activities and their grassroots innovations in the Global South. The study shows how WPOs contribute significantly to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the societies they serve as well as the wider urban societies. To start and maintain WPOs in informal settlements with a lack of infrastructure, institutional frameworks, and public and private investors is a difficult quest. WPOs take many different organisational forms depending on the complexity of local realities, ranging from advanced collective organization as cooperatives to small self-help groups and microentrepreneurs. Self-organisation into regional and national networks provides economic opportunities, autonomy and stability as well as political influence. Yet, institutional support is fundamental and the lack thereof threatens their existence. Sustaining WPOs as important providers of socio-environmental benefits through governmental and non-governmental actions is a worthwhile undertaking that builds sustainability.
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- Kain, Jaan-Henrik, 1960, et al.
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What Makes a Compact City? Differences Between Urban Research in the Global North and the Global South
- 2020
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Ingår i: Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - : University of Gothenburg. - 2000-8058. ; 24:4, s. 25-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Compact cities are promoted in policy as a response to current societal challenges, but it is unclear or ambiguous what qualities or benefits a compact city is supposed to deliver. The concept of the compact city is widely debated in the research literature, and there are numerous arguments both for and against compact cities. However, many studies or reviews tend to apply a delimited approach, discussing a confined number of qualities or basing the assessment on fairly narrow empirical material. Research is also carried out from within a number of separate disciplines or “discourses”. This paper aims to provide a clearer and more consolidated understanding of the wide spectrum of qualities that make up the compact city in support of better planning, governance and management of cities in the Global South. The objective is to present a review of current articles discussing the compact city in order to capture similarities and differences in the academic discourse between Global North and Global South contexts, and to outline a comprehensive compact city taxonomy. This is achieved by answering three questions: (1) What types of urban qualities are discussed in scientific articles studying urban compactness? (2) (How) do articles focusing on Global North and Global South contexts differ when it comes to exploring compact city qualities? and (3) Do the findings indicate areas of research withing the broader scope of urban compactness where research should be initiated or strengthened? The analysis is based on literature searches in the Scopus database for 2012-2015 using the search term “compact city”. A quantitative assessment was carried out, sifting out what terms are used to label purported (or debated) qualities of compact cities. Papers are sorted into different categories according to geoeconomic context (i.e. Global North, BRICS, Global South). The outcome is an extended taxonomy of compact city qualities, including twelve categories. Weaknesses in compact city research aimed at cities in the Global South were identified, linked in particular to nature, health, environmental issues, quality of life, sociocultural aspects, justice and economy, as well as a significant lack of compact city research linked to urban adaptability and resilience.
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- Norbäck, Maria, 1978, et al.
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The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Policy & Administration. - : Wiley. - 0144-5596 .- 1467-9515. ; 56:4, s. 632-647
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the challenges and opportunities for novel governance instruments for labour market inclusion of foreign-born citizens, developed by local governments in collaboration with non-profit civil society organisations in Sweden. It is informed by the case of the collaborative arrangements developed between the city of Gothenburg and work integration social enterprises (WISE). The article builds upon collaborative governance and innovation literature and focuses specifically on the first reserved public procurements for buying work training and other services from WISE. Our findings show how a tool that originates from a market governing mechanism can develop into a collaborative governance and innovation instrument. The design and implementation of the reserved procurements set in motion collaborative innovation through creation of collaborative spaces, joint ownership and empowerment, and by turning market governance mechanisms into collaborative governance. First, the 'looseness' and 'openness' of the governmental arrangements and collaboration spaces created by local actors enabled collaborative innovation. Second, the longstanding innovativeness and collaboration of WISE also played an important role in the development of this collaborative instrument. Third, the small scale of WISE and the larger scale of municipal contracts resulted in scaling up strategies that helped shape collaborative, rather than competitive, practices among WISE, as well as the implementation and diffusion of the innovation. We end the article by discussing the study's implications for collaborative governance and innovation between local governments and civil society.
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- Scaini, Anna, et al.
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Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience
- 2024
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Ingår i: AMBIO. - : SPRINGER. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused on the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede the translation of research on sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers that in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The three challenges comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during research projects into successful knowledge application; (ii) scaling up knowledge in time when research projects are short-term and potential impacts are long-term; and (iii) scaling up knowledge across space, from local research sites to larger-scale or even global impact. Some potential pathways for funding agencies to overcome these challenges include providing targeted prolonged funding for dissemination and outreach, and facilitating collaboration and coordination across different sites, research teams, and partner organizations. By systematically documenting these challenges, we hope to pave the way for further innovations in the research cycle.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Grassroots innovations in 'extreme' urban environments. The inclusive recycling movement
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. - : SAGE Publications. - 2399-6544 .- 2399-6552. ; 41:2, s. 351-374
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Waste pickers all over the world work innovatively to reduce the environmental footprint of cities as they struggle to meet their critical livelihood obligations. Informed by the case of waste picker organizations (WPOs) this article examines how grassroots initiatives and extreme-niche innovations are created and sustained by mobilizing resources, rationales and relations. The study is informed by a cross-national survey and in-depth interviews with WPOs in Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Kenya and Tanzania, and builds upon theories of grassroots innovation movements. The findings show how operating in contexts of extreme scarcity, these grassroots organisations tap into local resources, e.g. tacit knowledge, economies of affection and other socially embedded institutional resources. Blending material and environmental rationales, contributes to expanding their audiences and to gaining further support. In such deprived urban contexts, radical and cumulative crises and events hindering residents’ livelihoods can paradoxically also spark ingenuity out of necessity, and the transformation of these settings into extreme niches of innovation. Finally, the mobilization of relations through the formation of networks linking WPOs with supportive intermediaries and global circuits of solidarity becomes another fundamental resilience strategy by which WPOs can navigate contested environments and insert their extreme-niche innovations in governmental structures. By simultaneously adopting a broad repertoire of strategies of insertion, contention, and mobilization WPO and their innovations thrive in highly constrained environments. We conclude with reflecting on how ‘extreme’ niches of innovation − at the cracks of the formal city, economy and waste systems − can unleash the creative power of stigmatized, illiterate and neglected grassroots to experiment with new solutions in resource-poor environments.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Inclusive and sustainable waste governance: Strengthening innovative linkages between local governments and waste picker organisations
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This policy brief focuses on how local governments can develop more inclusive, democratic and sustainable waste gover- nance by partnering with, and strength- ening the role of, grassroots waste picker organizations and networks. Informed by action-research in Argentina, Brazil, Kenya, Nicaragua, and Tanzania, it shows how waste picker organisations are resilient forms of organizing which have contributed towards environmental education, advocated for more sustainable waste management solutions and developed grassroots innova- tions that contribute to a clean and healthy environment, as well as to more inclusive economiesand decent work.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environment and Urbanization. - : SAGE Publications. - 0956-2478 .- 1746-0301. ; In Press
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socioenvironmental change. The paper shows how these networks are an emblematic case of grassroots governmentality, whereby urban poor communities contribute to building more inclusive environmental regimes by developing technologies of power more typical of the powerful. These technologies include enumeration, with its resulting self-knowledge; the production of discourses and rationalities of social inclusion and environmental sustainability; and engagement in open and diverse alliances, at times with actors holding apparently antagonistic interests. The paper also reveals how recycling networks are a representative case of deep and green democracy. It is deep democracy, as grassroots networks strive to gain deep and true representativeness in their territories. It is green democracy, as it illustrates alternative pathways to environmental governance that is not limited to state and global organizations, but that also includes a range of control techniques emanating from the communities themselves.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness
- 2023
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Ingår i: Urban Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0042-0980 .- 1360-063X. ; 60:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we build on the concept of incompleteness, as recently developed in both organisa- tional and urban studies, to improve our understanding of the collective actions of grassroots organisations in creating and governing critical infrastructures in the changing and resource-scarce contexts of urban informal settlements. Empirically, the article is informed by the case of resident associations providing critical services and infrastructure in informal settlements in Kisumu, Kenya. Findings suggest three organisational processes that grassroots organisations develop for the production and governance of incomplete grassroots infrastructures: shaping a partial organi- sation but creating the illusion of a formal and complete organisation; crafting critical (and often hidden) material and organisational infrastructures for the subsistence of dormant (but still visi- ble) structures; and moulding nested infrastructure that shelters layers of floating and autono- mous groups embedded in communities. In a resource-poor environment, the strategy is to create incompleteness, less organisation and to keep it partial and limited to a minimum of ele- ments. The article also explores the political implications of organisational and infrastructural incompleteness by examining how it leads to efforts to craft loose and ambiguous governmental arrangements, connecting them materially and politically to formal infrastructure systems. These governmental arrangements are shifting and in the making, and therefore also incomplete. The article reveals how grassroots organisations mobilise a wide range of (in)visibility approaches. It concludes by exposing the hidden power of ‘incompleteness’ and the potential in hiding certain elements of incompleteness from outsiders, while rendering other elements visible when per- ceived as useful.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance
- 2022
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Ingår i: Urban Geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0272-3638 .- 1938-2847. ; 44:7, s. 1259-1284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the everyday, collective, and identity resistance mobilized by the urban poor to (re)gain their right to the commons and contest urban exclusion. Informed by the community of waste pickers at La Chureca, the city dump of Managua, Nicaragua, the paper, builds on theories of discard studies, urban commons, and Bayat’s everyday resistance. It shows, first, how deprived communities can create their own commons through quietly encroaching on public space and using such resources as waste. Second, it reveals how activating passive networks (e.g. spatial and professional solidarity, kinship) can be fundamental in commoning, by triggering intermittent collective resistance, giving rise to more permanent active networks (cooperatives and trade unions). Third, it shows how simultaneous strategies of collaboration with the state can be mobilized when necessary. Finally, it demonstrates how constructing a resistance identity becomes an important sociocultural mechanism for claiming access to the commons, on the basis of a heterogeneous configuration of territorial, environmental, professional, family, and spiritual identities. Resistance identity stems from and supports individual and collective resistance, to maintain access to the commons. We conclude that all forms of everyday, collective, and identity resistance are essential, and none alone is sufficient to (re)gain the commons.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Residents' collective strategies of resistance in Global South cities' informal settlements: Space, scale and knowledge
- 2022
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751. ; 125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the strategies of resistance articulated by residents of informal settlements response to urban exclusion. Building upon resistance and urban social movements literature the paper is informed by the case of the Villa Rodrigo Bueno in Buenos Aires, a self-constructed villa miseria, and its residents' stories of resistance to attempts of evictions and upgrading programs. In the paper we show how resistance is mobilized, first through its simultaneous disconnection, due to its remoteness and isolation; and reconnection to local and global supportive networks. While disconnection facilitated self-construction, densification and the blooming of informal entrepreneurship; reconnection through relational and multiscalar sites enabled unexpected encounters with distant actors that contributed to resist evictions. Second, the long-term learning and development of self-knowledge (i.e. construction, or housing law), embedded in the remoteness of the informal settlement, contributed to shift expertise from city officers to residents; redefining the role of informal residents into active citizens and experts in policy making, and turning informal settlements into settings of wider social change.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Urban qualities and residents’ strategies in compact global south cities: the case of Havana
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-7772 .- 1566-4910. ; 37:1, s. 529-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research and policy argue for more compact cities to respond to sustainable development challenges. However, what actually needs to be made more compact and how, is under examined, particularly in global South cities where north notions of urban qualities are adopted without being questioned. Informed by a qualitative study in informal and compact neighborhoods in Havana, this paper explores which qualities are important to deliver more just cities, and what strategies are developed by residents to strengthen beneficial qualities and address detrimental qualities in contexts of informal urbanization and compactness. It shows how the street, human capital, neighborhood, housing affordability, citizenship and vibrancy are significant compact city qualities neglected in the literature. Finally, the paper shows how diverse strategies are developed by residents to draw upon these qualities, such as self-help urbanism, learning and innovation, economic entrepreneurship, networks of solidarity, economies of reciprocity, local imaginaries and active citizenship.
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- Zapata, Patrik, 1967, et al.
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The Territorial Embeddedness of Novel Labour Integration Policy: Something Old, Something New and Something Borrowed
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - 2001-7413. ; 27:2, s. 1-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines how local governments can develop new practices in labour integration policy through cross-sector collaborations, and the role of territorial embeddedness in enabling them. The paper is informed by three initiatives for labour market integration of immigrants led by the city district of an urban suburb in the city of Göteborg, in collaboration with actors from the public sector, private sector, and civil society. The paper contributes to research into institutional entrepreneurship and local governments. First, it shows the importance of undermining old, or traditional, practices in labour market integration as part of the process of developing new ones. It also reveals how new practices and organizational forms are added to existing ones, instead of replacing them. Thus, expanding the scope of the public sector in the local labour market integration policy field through elaborative rather than radical change. Second, it reveals the importance to diffuse the new practices, beyond the boundaries of the collaboration that facilitates their creation. Third, the paper illustrates how, rather than hindering, the territorial embeddedness of these collaborative coalitions in marginalized urban suburbs provides access to a wide repertoire of resources, practices, and ideas to facilitate change. Paradoxically, the territorial embeddedness also hampered the diffusion of new practices in the broader field of labour market integration.
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- Zapata, Patrik, 1967, et al.
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Vinnovas beslut försvagar kampen mot klimatkrisen
- 2023
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Ingår i: Dagens Samhälle.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Vinnova beslöt nyligen att inte finansiera några projekt inom utlysningen av forskningsmedel för forskning om ”Civilsamhällets lösningar för ett resilient samhälle – klimatanpassning och social resiliens”. De 55 projekt – sammansatta av forskare och partnerorganisationer från civilsamhället, kommuner och regioner – som sänt in projektansökningar fick den 29 september via e-post beskedet att inget forskningsprojekt får medel. Utlysningen drogs in just innan beslut skulle meddelas. Efter att ansökningar skrivits och bedömningar gjorts. Vinnova hade ändrat sina prioriteringar utifrån en 20-procentig minskning av budgeten inför kommande period. Vi som skriver under denna debattartikel är representanter för ett tiotal av de ansökningar som svarade på Vinnovas utlysning. Några exempel på projekt mellan kommuner, regioner och civilsamhället som hade ansökt om forskningsmedel är ”Föreningsstärkning i glesa miljöer”, ”Västerbotten odlar för beredskap och social sammanhållning”, ”Lokal valuta – verktyg för mobilisering av gräsrotsinitiativ” och ”Smarta växter i klimatets tjänst 2.0”. Med den här debattartikeln vill vi ställa ett antal frågor till Vinnova, och därmed regeringen. Vi kan förstå att Vinnova måste rätta sig efter ändrade förutsättningar, men hur gick diskussionerna om vad som skulle prioriteras bort och vad som skulle vara kvar? Beslutet är inte neutralt, utan förstärker vissa samhälls- och ekonomiska sektorer och försvagar andra – det vill säga civilsamhället. Vilka argument låg bakom den konkreta nedskärningen? Anser Vinnova att det civila samhället inte kan (eller ska) spela någon roll i klimatanpassningsprocesser och processer som skapar social hållbarhet? Vad anser Vinnova är civilsamhällets roll för att stärka samhällets sociala resiliens? Lågt räknat har vi lagt en månads arbetstid per ansökan, alltså 55 månader. Det är dryga fyra års arbetstid. Med tanke på civilsamhällets resurssvaghet – ytterligare försvagat efter regeringens minskning av stöd till civilsamhällets organisationer och folkbildning – är det inte bara ett stort slöseri utan också respektlöst att låta oss skriva ansökningarna och bedöma dem, för att sedan i sista stund lägga ner utlysningen. Att som statlig myndighet och i förlängningen regeringen inte säkerställa en utlysnings finansiering visar på stora brister i förståelsen för hur forskning och innovationsutveckling i partnerskap går till, och liten eller ingen respekt för civilsamhällets organisationers förutsättningar. Även i denna del vill vi ha en förklaring till beslutet med bakomliggande motiv. I sitt beslut reproducerar Vinnova de perspektiv på samhället som lett till de komplexa sociala och miljömässiga problem vi står inför. Beslutet försvagar Sveriges förmåga att kämpa mot klimatkrisen eftersom en grön omställning måste inkludera civilsamhället – som forskningen visar. Även Sveriges demokratiska tradition av samhällsdialog och samskapande undermineras, när tidigare fastställda beslut abrupt ändras. Detta riskerar att erodera tilltron till våra samhällsinstitutioner. Till fördel för vad? Ida-Lina Frisell Aasland Områdeschef socialt företagande, Maträtt och Resursrätt Mette Adolfsson Projektledare och landsbygdsutvecklare, Häradsbäck Marcus Aronsson Vd, UA Vision Nordic AB Ester Barinaga Professor i socialt entreprenörskap, Lunds universitet Nikolas Berg Ekopedagog och verksamhetsansvarig i Medskaparna, Ludvika María José Zapata Campos Docent, Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs universitet Frida Berry Eklund Medgrundare, Klimatkollen Heiti Ernits Forskare och föreningsaktiv, Viskaforsbygdens Teknik-, elektronik och spelförening Shaofang Gong Professor i kommunikationselektronik, Linköpings universitet
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- Barinaga, Ester, et al.
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Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlements
- 2023
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Ingår i: Urban Geography. - 0272-3638.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines how dwellers in Kenya's informal settlements engage in continuous tinkering of a particular grassroots infrastructure: local currencies. The article argues that the malleability of these grassroots infrastructures enables grassroots networks to actively and creatively engage in reclaiming and reorganizing money, a critical infrastructure. The argument is built in three steps. First, it presents the notion of money as an infrastructure and local currencies as grassroots infrastructures. Second, it follows the development of the Kenyan local currencies from paper- to blockchain-based, and identifies malleability as a key trait of small-scale grassroots infrastructures. Third, it highlights the extent to which malleability enables grassroots networks to engage proactively and creatively with the city through tinkering practices that continuously adapt these local infrastructures to the community using them. The article ends with a discussion of the implications of grassroots monetary infrastructures for the understanding of urban politics within urban studies.
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- Canada, E., et al.
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Putting Fairness into the Gig Economy: Delivery Cooperatives as Alternatives to Corporate Platforms
- 2023
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Ingår i: Societies. - : MDPI AG. - 2075-4698. ; 13:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, platform capitalism has expanded greatly in the delivery sector. The consolidation of an oligopoly controlled by a few corporate platforms has led to precarious working conditions for "gig economy" workers. Increasing protests and strikes have led to the reform of labour directives and to the emergence of alternative ways of organising work through platform cooperatives. This article examines how these emergent platform cooperatives are mobilised and their challenges and implications. Barcelona, the cradle of many platform economy and delivery sector start-ups, is a critical case for examining the recent birth of alternative delivery cooperatives. This article is informed by the cases of three cooperatives, organised by those working as riders, providing delivery services in the city of Barcelona: Mensakas, Les Mercedes, and 2GoDelivery. The paper shows how the embeddedness of these nascent platform cooperatives in favourable governance arrangements, a supportive social and solidarity movement, the knowledge and experience of workers, and the territory where the cooperatives are embedded are essential for their creation. This multi-layered embeddedness is necessary, but not sufficient, to explain how platform cooperatives thrive. The study concludes that the agency of platform workers, who triggered this transformation, was essential for the emergence of alternative ways of organising work in the platform economy.
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- Zapata Campos, Maria Jose, et al.
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Nothing to lose: the rationales of grassroots financial innovations in contexts of extreme scarcity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Social Enterprise Journal. - 1750-8614. ; 19:2, s. 193-212
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Highly deprived urban contexts, such as informal settlements in the global south, can turn into niches of extreme innovation and sparkle ingenuity out of necessity. But what are the rationales behind the participation of disadvantaged communities in social innovations? Why do they engage in grassroots innovations? What is it that makes these grassroots try novelties and continue experimenting with them, even when the perceived benefits are not clear yet? This paper aims to examine and conceptualize the rationales for engaging in grassroots financial innovations in the context of extremely deprived urban settings.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Nothing to lose: the rationales of grassroots financial innovations in contexts of extreme scarcity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Social Enterprise Journal. - : Emerald. - 1750-8614. ; 19:2, s. 193-212
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeHighly deprived urban contexts, such as informal settlements in the global south, can turn into niches of extreme innovation and sparkle ingenuity out of necessity. But what are the rationales behind the participation of disadvantaged communities in social innovations? Why do they engage in grassroots innovations? What is it that makes these grassroots try novelties and continue experimenting with them, even when the perceived benefits are not clear yet? This paper aims to examine and conceptualize the rationales for engaging in grassroots financial innovations in the context of extremely deprived urban settings. Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on the case of grassroots organizations which have started experimenting with the development of a community currency in Kisumu, Kenya. This paper is informed by in-depth interviews with members of three grassroots organizations involved in the community currency, together with observations and meeting participation since 2019. FindingsThe rationales argued by the participants for engaging in this grassroots innovation are framed in various ways: as a means for seeking poverty alleviation (the development framing); as a challenge to conventional imaginaries of innovations (the digital framing); and as an innovation embedded in community and trust relations (the community framing). These framings have a mobilizing effect that initially draws participants into the innovation. Yet, what explains persistent participation despite the decreasing influence of these framings over time is the organizational space and strategies of incompleteness accommodating these experiments. Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the emerging body of grassroots innovations movements literature. While research has progressed in its understandings of the challenges of scaling up innovative practices, the examination of the grassroots initiatives stemming from extremely deprived settings, and the rationales and framings behind, have been under examined. This paper comes to bridge this gap.
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