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Arrival infrastructures: Migration and urban social mobilities KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2019. All Rights Reserved. This volume introduces a strategic interdisciplinary research agenda on arrival infrastructures. Arrival infrastructures are those parts of the urban fabric within which newcomers become entangled on arrival, and where their future local or translocal social mobilities are produced as much as negotiated. Challenging the dominance of national normativities, temporalities, and geographies of "arrival," ...
Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Cultural patronage has since long been a domain where urban elites can showcase a sense of philanthropy. The paper develops a heuristic that starts from cultural patronage activities in order to trace urban elite households and their professional and residential characteristics. The heuristic is deployed in Brussels, Belgium, where we use cultural patronage listings from five key ...
Taking Matters into Third Hands: Intermediaries and the Organization of the Creative Economy KU Leuven
Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities KU Leuven
The notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the ...
Stakeholder perceptions and involvement in the implementation of EMS in ports in Vietnam and Cambodia KU Leuven
To tackle environmental issues and ensure compliance with regulations, three ports in Vietnam and two ports in Cambodia implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS). The first steps of the EMS were completed during the period 2006-2007, with the establishment of the Port Environmental Policy, the Register of Environmental Aspects and an EMS Programme. Priorities in environmental protection have been identified for each of the ports. The ...
Public spaces in the occupied Palestinian territories KU Leuven
Most research on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has focused on macro and meso-levels of abstraction by exploring national territorial and urban scales. This article, however, takes a more micro-level approach by investigating one specific public space in detail. It analyses the transformation and use of Dawar, the main public space of the city of Nablus, during the First (1987-1993) and Second (2000-2005) Intifadas. Public spaces in ...
Turning to ontology in STS? Turning to STS through 'ontology' KU Leuven
We examine the evidence for the claim of an 'ontological turn' in science and technology studies (STS). Despite an increase in references to 'ontology' in STS since 1989, we show that there has not so much been an ontological turn as multiple discussions deploying the language of ontology, consisting of many small movements that have changed the landscape within STS and beyond. These movements do not point to a shared STS-wide understanding of ...