Michelle Mouton
Biographic Data
| ID | 168280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Mouton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mouton |
| SIGNATURE | MOUTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3324-4808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Concealed infrastructures: New perspectives on the sociotechnical production of the urban
Social sciences are now critically focusing on decentering the hegemony of knowledge production. The politics of knowledge and its colonial spatiality are starting to have an impact on how we theorize and study spaces. Against this backdrop, this theme issue brings together a diverse set of papers to politicize the multi-scalar spatiality of infrastructure studies. The papers are assembled using two provocations (as reflected in the title). First…
Discursive vehicles and the making of infrastructures: Learning from Delhi and Québec
In the midst of a material turn that has been embraced by a number of disciplines and fields, and as we are witnessing an infrastructural moment in academic and operational circles alike, this article seeks to re-conceptualize the relationship between infrastructures and discourses. To carry out this agenda, we bring forward the notion of discursive vehicles, as a tool to explore how discourses can make, remake, and unmake infrastructures. Using …
Arthropod presence and their relevance in South African archaeological deposits
Arthropod biology, entomology and forensic entomology are well-established fields in South Africa, yet their application in local archaeological studies is underdeveloped. Here, we discuss the nature of arthropod (mainly insects) presence reporting from excavation and laboratory analyses of archaeological materials in South Africa. We assess the shortcomings of reporting trends, explore interpretive possibilities based on a case study from two Ea…
All That Is Urban Melts into Data: Circulations of Matter, Energy, and Data in the Digital City
International audience
(Im)material Streams in the City: Ecologies, Economies, Electrons
International audience
Les chroniques de « l’aller vers: Au cœur d’un service d’accompagnement à l’insertion sociale et professionnelle
Internet et ses espaces: Vers une économie politique de la production urbaine par les centres de données
Dès l’apparition d’Internet, la recherche en études urbaines et en géographie a examiné les infrastructures qui soutiennent son développement : câbles sous-marins, antennes, fibre optique et centres de données. L’analyse de la dimension matérielle des infrastructures a été riche et féconde et renseignait sur l’impact des technologies de l’information sur la production urbaine. Aujourd’hui, l’ampleur des usages d’Internet et la massification dans …
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: Evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)
Austerity urbanism has emerged as a powerful concept to explore the political and socio-spatial consequences of cuts in public spending, but interrogations remain regarding public actors’ shifting role in urban production in times of increased budgetary constraints. This article focuses on Land Value Capture (LVC), a financing mechanism that has been gaining traction amongst scholars and practitioners alike. While LVC can be framed as a valuable …
A River of Data Runs Through It: Examining Urban Circulations in the Digital Age
There is a deepening need for dialogue between (digital) urbanists and Internet Studies scholarship. In this paper we are interested in "urbanizing" Internet Studies by thinking about how digital infrastructures create and control circulations, movement, flows, and streams within urban contexts. More specifically, we think about circulations and concentrations of natural, human, and digital resources by way of Urban Political Ecology to better un…
Negotiated windfalls: Mapping how public actors pursue and share land-value capture in Nanterre-la-Folie, France
Shell disc beads and the development of class-based society at the K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex (South Africa)
The K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex is widely regarded as the centre for the development of class-based society out of earlier ranked communities between c. AD 900 and AD 1300 in northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe, and eastern Botswana. Beads made from ostrich eggs, the shells of Achatinidae snails, and freshwater bivalves formed an important part of the K2-Mapungubwe economy. Although thousands of shell beads have been excavated at the K2…
Marco Z. Garrido, The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila
Sorti il y a deux ans, l’ouvrage de Marco Garrido a reçu un accueil enthousiaste : quatre récompenses distinctes de la part de différentes sections de l’American Sociological Association, ainsi qu’un prix de la Society for the Study of Social Problems. Pour un public français, le livre évoquera sans doute l’article de Chamboredon et Lemaire (1970) qui a fait date dans l’histoire de la sociologie urbaine : il s’agit en effet d’explorer les conséqu…
Governing cities as more-than-human entities: From the population of databases to the legibility of urban populations
The field of urban studies has scrutinised digital technologies and their proliferation, but rather little attention has been paid to databases. Furthermore, contributions to date have focused almost exclusively on how digital technologies interface with human populations in cities. By contrast, we draw attention to databases maintained by city governments that contain identifying information about pet dogs and their legal owners in cities. Metho…
Worlding infrastructure in the global South: Philippine experiments and the art of being ‘smart’
This article explores the material dimensions of ‘smart city’ initiatives in the context of postcolonial cities where urban utilities are qualified as deficient. It argues that while such projects may very well be another manifestation of urban entrepreneurialism, they should not be dismissed as an already-outdated research object. Rather, they can be analysed in light of postcolonial cities’ development agenda. Here, I document and analyse the o…
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city
The critical research agenda on smart cities has become increasingly interested in the political–economic relations between digital technologies and everyday urban life. It is now clear that in the smart city, quotidian activities have become valorized as data, and are produced, extracted and circulated with little, if any, remuneration to those individuals from whom they have been abstracted. Smart-city scholars often call this process ‘digital …
Konrad H. Jarausch. Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century
Débats autour des races canines et de la santé publique à Montréal et au Québec (2016–2019)
Strategizing the for-profit city: The state, developers, and urban production in Mega Manila
This article explores the evolving role of real estate developers in the wider metropolitan region of Manila, the Philippines. We argue that, given the relational nature of these actors, they are a relevant object of analysis for the formulation of "mid-level" theories that take into account both global, macroeconomic trends and local, history-dependent contingencies. As we consider developers' activities and interactions with a wide range of pub…
When the dog bites’: What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a ‘model city’ for dog-bite prevention
The Kinderlandverschickung: Childhood Memories of War Re-Examined
During the Second World War, the Nazis evacuated over two million children from war- torn cities through the Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung program. The program's stated purpose was to provide children and youth with the nutrition and safety no longer available to them in big cities. But an arguably equally important goal was to separate children from their families in order to indoctrinate them and incorporate them into the Volksgemeinschaft.…
Towards ‘smart cities’ as ‘healthy cities’: Health equity in a digital age
Missing, Lost, and Displaced Children in Postwar Germany: The Great Struggle to Provide for the War's Youngest Victims
In the final months of World War II, more than a million German children took to the roads in search of family and home. Although the majority returned home with little institutional support, hundreds of thousands of other German children could not. Some were orphaned; others remained in camps, children's homes, or foster families in areas that no longer belonged to Germany. Most challenging for authorities were those who were alone and too young…
Robert Loeffel. Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth
Journal Article Robert Loeffel. Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth. Get access Robert Loeffel. Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth.New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. x, 258. $85.00. Michelle Mouton Michelle Mouton University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages …
From Adventure and Advancement to Derailment and Demotion: Effects of Nazi Gender Policy on Women's Careers and Lives
Journal Article From Adventure and Advancement to Derailment and Demotion: Effects of Nazi Gender Policy on Women's Careers and Lives Get access Michelle Mouton Michelle Mouton University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Department of HistoryOshkosh, WI 54901 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 4, Summer 2010, Pages 945–971, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0361 Published: 01 Jul…
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk: Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918–1945
Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a radically different, racially driven gender and family policy. This book explores Weimar and Nazi policy to highlight the fundamental, far-reaching change wrought by the Nazis and the disparity betw…
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city
The critical research agenda on smart cities has become increasingly interested in the political–economic relations between digital technologies and everyday urban life. It is now clear that in the smart city, quotidian activities have become valorized as data, and are produced, extracted and circulated with little, if any, remuneration to those individuals from whom they have been abstracted. Smart-city scholars often call this process ‘digital …
Strategizing the for-profit city: The state, developers, and urban production in Mega Manila
This article explores the evolving role of real estate developers in the wider metropolitan region of Manila, the Philippines. We argue that, given the relational nature of these actors, they are a relevant object of analysis for the formulation of "mid-level" theories that take into account both global, macroeconomic trends and local, history-dependent contingencies. As we consider developers' activities and interactions with a wide range of pub…
Worlding infrastructure in the global South: Philippine experiments and the art of being ‘smart’
This article explores the material dimensions of ‘smart city’ initiatives in the context of postcolonial cities where urban utilities are qualified as deficient. It argues that while such projects may very well be another manifestation of urban entrepreneurialism, they should not be dismissed as an already-outdated research object. Rather, they can be analysed in light of postcolonial cities’ development agenda. Here, I document and analyse the o…
Boundary Crossings: Oral History of Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa - a Comparative Perspective
A1 University of Northern Iowa, USA A2 Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
When the dog bites’: What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a ‘model city’ for dog-bite prevention
Negotiated windfalls: Mapping how public actors pursue and share land-value capture in Nanterre-la-Folie, France
Governing cities as more-than-human entities: From the population of databases to the legibility of urban populations
The field of urban studies has scrutinised digital technologies and their proliferation, but rather little attention has been paid to databases. Furthermore, contributions to date have focused almost exclusively on how digital technologies interface with human populations in cities. By contrast, we draw attention to databases maintained by city governments that contain identifying information about pet dogs and their legal owners in cities. Metho…
Towards ‘smart cities’ as ‘healthy cities’: Health equity in a digital age
Missing, Lost, and Displaced Children in Postwar Germany: The Great Struggle to Provide for the War's Youngest Victims
In the final months of World War II, more than a million German children took to the roads in search of family and home. Although the majority returned home with little institutional support, hundreds of thousands of other German children could not. Some were orphaned; others remained in camps, children's homes, or foster families in areas that no longer belonged to Germany. Most challenging for authorities were those who were alone and too young…
Shell disc beads and the development of class-based society at the K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex (South Africa)
The K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex is widely regarded as the centre for the development of class-based society out of earlier ranked communities between c. AD 900 and AD 1300 in northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe, and eastern Botswana. Beads made from ostrich eggs, the shells of Achatinidae snails, and freshwater bivalves formed an important part of the K2-Mapungubwe economy. Although thousands of shell beads have been excavated at the K2…
Boundary Crossings: Oral History of Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa - a Comparative Perspective
A1 University of Northern Iowa, USA A2 Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
Social Transformation and the Family in Post-Communist Germany
A Reversal of Fortunes? Women, Work and Change in East Germany
Introduction Chapter 2. Rhetoric and Reality:Women's Employment in the GDR Chapter 3. The Unification Process Chapter 4. Changing States: Redefining Women,Work and Welfare Chapter 5. The 'Defeminisation' of Waged Labour Chapter 6. Linking the Local and the Global: Women in the Textile and Clothing Industry Chapter 7. Hearing Voices: Women's Responses to Change Chapter 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index
Rescuing Children and Policing Families: Adoption Policy in Weimar and Nazi Germany
When the First World War ended, Germany experienced an unprecedented period of political revolution, economic turmoil, and social upheaval. Among the myriad problems facing the nation was one concern that cut across party lines and prompted attention at both the national and local levels. Lawmakers, doctors, clergy, and ordinary Germans across the political spectrum agreed that the breakdown of the family had weakened the nation, contributed to m…
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk: Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918–1945
Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a radically different, racially driven gender and family policy. This book explores Weimar and Nazi policy to highlight the fundamental, far-reaching change wrought by the Nazis and the disparity betw…
From Adventure and Advancement to Derailment and Demotion: Effects of Nazi Gender Policy on Women's Careers and Lives
Journal Article From Adventure and Advancement to Derailment and Demotion: Effects of Nazi Gender Policy on Women's Careers and Lives Get access Michelle Mouton Michelle Mouton University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Department of HistoryOshkosh, WI 54901 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 4, Summer 2010, Pages 945–971, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0361 Published: 01 Jul…
Robert Loeffel. Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth
Journal Article Robert Loeffel. Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth. Get access Robert Loeffel. Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth.New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. x, 258. $85.00. Michelle Mouton Michelle Mouton University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages …
Missing, Lost, and Displaced Children in Postwar Germany: The Great Struggle to Provide for the War's Youngest Victims
In the final months of World War II, more than a million German children took to the roads in search of family and home. Although the majority returned home with little institutional support, hundreds of thousands of other German children could not. Some were orphaned; others remained in camps, children's homes, or foster families in areas that no longer belonged to Germany. Most challenging for authorities were those who were alone and too young…
When the dog bites’: What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a ‘model city’ for dog-bite prevention
The Kinderlandverschickung: Childhood Memories of War Re-Examined
During the Second World War, the Nazis evacuated over two million children from war- torn cities through the Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung program. The program's stated purpose was to provide children and youth with the nutrition and safety no longer available to them in big cities. But an arguably equally important goal was to separate children from their families in order to indoctrinate them and incorporate them into the Volksgemeinschaft.…
Towards ‘smart cities’ as ‘healthy cities’: Health equity in a digital age
Strategizing the for-profit city: The state, developers, and urban production in Mega Manila
This article explores the evolving role of real estate developers in the wider metropolitan region of Manila, the Philippines. We argue that, given the relational nature of these actors, they are a relevant object of analysis for the formulation of "mid-level" theories that take into account both global, macroeconomic trends and local, history-dependent contingencies. As we consider developers' activities and interactions with a wide range of pub…
Marco Z. Garrido, The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila
Sorti il y a deux ans, l’ouvrage de Marco Garrido a reçu un accueil enthousiaste : quatre récompenses distinctes de la part de différentes sections de l’American Sociological Association, ainsi qu’un prix de la Society for the Study of Social Problems. Pour un public français, le livre évoquera sans doute l’article de Chamboredon et Lemaire (1970) qui a fait date dans l’histoire de la sociologie urbaine : il s’agit en effet d’explorer les conséqu…
Governing cities as more-than-human entities: From the population of databases to the legibility of urban populations
The field of urban studies has scrutinised digital technologies and their proliferation, but rather little attention has been paid to databases. Furthermore, contributions to date have focused almost exclusively on how digital technologies interface with human populations in cities. By contrast, we draw attention to databases maintained by city governments that contain identifying information about pet dogs and their legal owners in cities. Metho…
Worlding infrastructure in the global South: Philippine experiments and the art of being ‘smart’
This article explores the material dimensions of ‘smart city’ initiatives in the context of postcolonial cities where urban utilities are qualified as deficient. It argues that while such projects may very well be another manifestation of urban entrepreneurialism, they should not be dismissed as an already-outdated research object. Rather, they can be analysed in light of postcolonial cities’ development agenda. Here, I document and analyse the o…
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city
The critical research agenda on smart cities has become increasingly interested in the political–economic relations between digital technologies and everyday urban life. It is now clear that in the smart city, quotidian activities have become valorized as data, and are produced, extracted and circulated with little, if any, remuneration to those individuals from whom they have been abstracted. Smart-city scholars often call this process ‘digital …
Konrad H. Jarausch. Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century
Débats autour des races canines et de la santé publique à Montréal et au Québec (2016–2019)
A River of Data Runs Through It: Examining Urban Circulations in the Digital Age
There is a deepening need for dialogue between (digital) urbanists and Internet Studies scholarship. In this paper we are interested in "urbanizing" Internet Studies by thinking about how digital infrastructures create and control circulations, movement, flows, and streams within urban contexts. More specifically, we think about circulations and concentrations of natural, human, and digital resources by way of Urban Political Ecology to better un…
Negotiated windfalls: Mapping how public actors pursue and share land-value capture in Nanterre-la-Folie, France
Shell disc beads and the development of class-based society at the K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex (South Africa)
The K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex is widely regarded as the centre for the development of class-based society out of earlier ranked communities between c. AD 900 and AD 1300 in northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe, and eastern Botswana. Beads made from ostrich eggs, the shells of Achatinidae snails, and freshwater bivalves formed an important part of the K2-Mapungubwe economy. Although thousands of shell beads have been excavated at the K2…
Internet et ses espaces: Vers une économie politique de la production urbaine par les centres de données
Dès l’apparition d’Internet, la recherche en études urbaines et en géographie a examiné les infrastructures qui soutiennent son développement : câbles sous-marins, antennes, fibre optique et centres de données. L’analyse de la dimension matérielle des infrastructures a été riche et féconde et renseignait sur l’impact des technologies de l’information sur la production urbaine. Aujourd’hui, l’ampleur des usages d’Internet et la massification dans …
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: Evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)
Austerity urbanism has emerged as a powerful concept to explore the political and socio-spatial consequences of cuts in public spending, but interrogations remain regarding public actors’ shifting role in urban production in times of increased budgetary constraints. This article focuses on Land Value Capture (LVC), a financing mechanism that has been gaining traction amongst scholars and practitioners alike. While LVC can be framed as a valuable …
Arthropod presence and their relevance in South African archaeological deposits
Arthropod biology, entomology and forensic entomology are well-established fields in South Africa, yet their application in local archaeological studies is underdeveloped. Here, we discuss the nature of arthropod (mainly insects) presence reporting from excavation and laboratory analyses of archaeological materials in South Africa. We assess the shortcomings of reporting trends, explore interpretive possibilities based on a case study from two Ea…
All That Is Urban Melts into Data: Circulations of Matter, Energy, and Data in the Digital City
International audience
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