Glyn Williams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3606762 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Glyn Williams |
| PRENOMES | Glyn |
| SOBRENOME | Williams |
| ASSINATURA | WILLIAMS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0293-5574 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 645 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Affordable housing, finance and the state
The scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to ‘affordable’ housing production. This article draws on research in six cities (Shanghai, Nairobi, Paris, Casablanca, Salford and Rome) to discuss the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state through a global comparative perspective. It adopts an urban statecraft …
Governing Covid-19 in India’s cities
Conceptualising public authority as continually performed, this paper traces the interplay between modes of legitimation, state capacity and scalar politics in governing the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite attempts to unify COVID responses nationally, governance practices differed across India’s cities: Ahmedabad (Gujarat) heightened policing, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) engaged its decentralised governance institutions, and Chennai (Tamil Nadu) sough…
Urban governance in the pandemic and beyond
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Responding to the growing issue of ‘journal hijacking’
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/4.0
Producing Planning Knowledge
This paper addresses an important, but under-studied, pathway for knowledge production in the field of urban planning: the practitioner engaging with academia through the writing of a PhD. Drawing on our own experiences of doctoral mentoring, in dialogue with PhD candidates, we reflect on the questions and challenges this form of knowledge production raises. The paper aims to extend planning theory’s recognition of ‘multiple epistemologies’ (Sand…
The Creation and Withdrawal of Spaces for Participatory Governance
This article examines how more democratic forms of state-citizen engagement can be engineered under less than favorable political conditions, through the case of the Village Development Committees under the Left Front government in West Bengal, India. Our research shows that these Committees embodied empowered participatory governance ideals and made meaningful contributions to citizens' participation within the local state, confirming the potent…
(Im)mobility at the margins
Expanded state-subsidised housing programmes in middle-income countries raise questions about the displacement and socio-spatial marginalisation of poor households. Examining these questions through people’s experiences of resettlement indicates the importance of mobility to their lives. Drawing on a mixed-method comparative study of Ahmedabad, Chennai and Johannesburg, we ask: How does the relocation of low-income households to urban peripheries…
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare
This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in whi…
Megaprojects, mirages and miracles
Large-scale inter-city infrastructure projects are proliferating across the Global South as industrial policy-makers have used spatial planning to purposefully transform regions’ economic and urban geographies. The Make in India policy and its promotion of industrial development corridors is emblematic of these trends, and this paper explores the relationship between this emergent national spatial vision and the subnational governance restructuri…
Childcare and academia
In this Viewpoint, we engage with the everyday politics of academia – specifically, how caring for young children continues to affect academic work and career trajectories in ways that could be better mitigated. This viewpoint piece collates the personal accounts of six development scholars who discuss their experiences of negotiating both academia and childcare, covering fieldwork, funding, career trajectories, sharing parental responsibilities …
Planning a ‘slum free' Trivandrum
This paper examines how India’s national urban development agenda is reshaping relationships between national, State and city-level governments. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the flagship programme that heralded a new era of urban investment in India, contained a range of key governance aspirations: linking the analysis of urban poverty to city-level planning, developing holistic housing solutions for the urban poor, and above …
Managing political space
This paper investigates governance reform which aims to ‘move the state’ closer to people, arguing that greater attention needs to be paid to two questions: how does political decentralisation affect the ways in which authority is exercised? And what spaces does it leave open for poor people’s agency? It focuses on West Bengal, an Indian innovator of decentralisation through panchayati raj (‘rule by local councils’) in the late 1970s, investigati…
Enacting participatory, gender-sensitive slum redevelopment? Urban governance, power and participation in Trivandrum, Kerala
Naturalists at Sea
On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and…
North by Degree
Making space for women in urban governance? Leadership and claims-making in a Kerala slum
This paper looks at the role of gender in the shaping and exercise of political authority. Its empirical focus is a slum in central Trivandrum, Kerala's capital city, which is undergoing a phased process of formalisation and rebuilding funded through a flagship Indian national programme, the JNNURM. The upgrade project should offer a dense network of 'invited' spaces for female participation within urban governance, both through women's presence …
Naturalists at Sea
Researching with impact in the Global South? Impact-evaluation practices and the reproduction of ‘development knowledge’
Long-standing questions about the production and control of knowledge about ‘the developing world’ have been given new urgency through the deployment of impact-evaluation practices within UK universities, highlighting the need for careful ethical reflection on the role of Northern researchers in both academia and practice. In this context, this article takes up the three underlying themes of this special issue – the conceptualisation, evaluation …
Scurvy on the Pacific voyages in the age of Cook
Much attention has been paid to Cook's record in dealing with scurvy on his three Pacific voyages; less to the experiences of his French and Spanish contemporaries. This article will examine the voyages of Bougainville, Surville, La Pérouse and Malaspina to illustrate the extent to which Cook's methods were known and applied. To serve as a comparison, the health record on the earlier British voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret will be considere…
Decentralisation and the Changing Geographies of Political Marginalisation in Kerala
One of the benefits often claimed for 'moving' the state closer to people through the institutional reforms of democratic decentralisation is an improvement in the inclusion of politically marginalised groups. Decentralisation promises to deliver both the closer physical presence of centres of government and the formalisation of practices of representation at the grassroots. These changes in turn are expected to provide opportunities for historic…
The disciplining effects of impact evaluation practices
The politics of defining and alleviating poverty
Performing Participatory Citizenship – Politics and Power in Kerala's Kudumbashree Programme
This article examines the operation of Kudumbashree, the Poverty Eradication Mission for the Indian State of Kerala. Kudumbashree operates through female-only Neighbourhood Groups, which aim to contribute to their participants' economic uplift, and to integrate them with the activities and institutions of local governance. As such, Kudumbashree echoes poverty alleviation programmes elsewhere in the Global South designed to link poverty alleviatio…
Discovering Cook's Collections
Tupaia
Tupaia: the remarkable story of Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. By Joan Druett. Random House, 2011. 440 pp. ISBN 978-1-86979-386-9 (hbk), NZ$55.00. In recent years there has been a surge of sc
Seeing the State
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the local level, and which are also informed by ideas that are circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on f…
Evaluating participatory development
Ever since participation entered mainstream development discourse, critics have attacked it as form of political control. If development is indeed an 'anti-politics machine' ( Ferguson, 1994 Ferguson J (1994) The Anti-politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press) [Google Scholar] ), the claim is that participation provides a remarkably efficient means of greas…
Postcolonial environmental justice
Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India
Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context
(Im)mobility at the margins
Expanded state-subsidised housing programmes in middle-income countries raise questions about the displacement and socio-spatial marginalisation of poor households. Examining these questions through people’s experiences of resettlement indicates the importance of mobility to their lives. Drawing on a mixed-method comparative study of Ahmedabad, Chennai and Johannesburg, we ask: How does the relocation of low-income households to urban peripheries…
The disciplining effects of impact evaluation practices
Participation and Power
Participation' has become an essential part of good developmental practice for Southern governments, NGOs and international agencies alike. In this article we reflect critically on this shift by investigating how a 'participatory' development programme - India's Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) - intersects with poor people's existing social networks. By placing the formalized process of participation in the EAS within the context of these varie…
The politics of defining and alleviating poverty
Calvinists Incorporated
Enacting participatory, gender-sensitive slum redevelopment? Urban governance, power and participation in Trivandrum, Kerala
They Sought a Country
Megaprojects, mirages and miracles
Large-scale inter-city infrastructure projects are proliferating across the Global South as industrial policy-makers have used spatial planning to purposefully transform regions’ economic and urban geographies. The Make in India policy and its promotion of industrial development corridors is emblematic of these trends, and this paper explores the relationship between this emergent national spatial vision and the subnational governance restructuri…
Differential risk strategies as cultural style among farmers in the Lower Chubut Valley, Patagonia1
Individual behavior can be analyzed in terms of utility maximization. In some cases the utility function might consist of profits, while in others the function is more complex and requires a clear understanding of the cultural factors affecting the perception of utility. This paper tries to determine the utility function among Welsh farmers in the Lower Chubut Valley, Argentina. Although the subsistence level of Welsh agriculture inhibits growth …
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare
This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in whi…
Childcare and academia
In this Viewpoint, we engage with the everyday politics of academia – specifically, how caring for young children continues to affect academic work and career trajectories in ways that could be better mitigated. This viewpoint piece collates the personal accounts of six development scholars who discuss their experiences of negotiating both academia and childcare, covering fieldwork, funding, career trajectories, sharing parental responsibilities …
Assessing Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
Recent interest in poverty and poverty relief has included debates that have moved beyond narrow concerns of consumption and income generation. Sen's research on entitlements and capabilities revolutionized approaches to poverty in the 1980s, and his work has itself been open to critical appraisals that have stressed empowerment and vulnerability as issues of equal importance. Some of these theoretical debates are briefly reviewed here, after whi…
State, Discourse, and Development in India
In this paper, I use the example of West Bengal's Panchayati Raj (local government reform) to address a number of wider issues of concern for geographers commentating on India's politics and development. Taking the work of Kaviraj as a point of entry, I examine the impact that the decentralisation of government has had on people's access to the state and on the internal politics of three rural communities in West Bengal. The complexities of the p…
Non-governmental organizations
Journal Article Non-governmental organizations: performance and accountability Get access Non-governmental organizations: performance and accountability. Edited by M. Edwardsand David Hulme. London: Earthscan. 1995. 259pp. Index. Pb.: £9.95. ISBN 1 85383 310 x. Glyn Williams Glyn Williams 1Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 1996, Page 818, ht…
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
The Americas and Civilization
Making space for women in urban governance? Leadership and claims-making in a Kerala slum
This paper looks at the role of gender in the shaping and exercise of political authority. Its empirical focus is a slum in central Trivandrum, Kerala's capital city, which is undergoing a phased process of formalisation and rebuilding funded through a flagship Indian national programme, the JNNURM. The upgrade project should offer a dense network of 'invited' spaces for female participation within urban governance, both through women's presence …
Researching with impact in the Global South? Impact-evaluation practices and the reproduction of ‘development knowledge’
Long-standing questions about the production and control of knowledge about ‘the developing world’ have been given new urgency through the deployment of impact-evaluation practices within UK universities, highlighting the need for careful ethical reflection on the role of Northern researchers in both academia and practice. In this context, this article takes up the three underlying themes of this special issue – the conceptualisation, evaluation …
Understanding 'political stability
In contrast to the party political turmoil that plagued New Delhi during the 1990s, West Bengal is an Indian state that has demonstrated remarkable stability. Atul Kohli has made much of this contrast, arguing that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has held power in West Bengal since 1977 through the combination of its organisational and ideological coherence. His wider conclusion is that the institutionalisation of political parties is esse…
Bilingualism, class dialect, and social reproduction
Peasant Society
Welsh Contributions to Exploration in Patagonia
IN 1965 the Welsh colony of Patagonia celebrated one hundred years of uninterrupted occupation of Patagonian territory. Various authors have paid token tribute to the importance of the colony in Latin American history (Bowen, 1966; Williams, G., n.d.; Williams, R. B., 1962). It was the first permanent settlement to be established south of the Rio Negro, and laid the foundation for subsequent colonization projects in Patagonia. However, of all the…
Social Conflict and Change within the Welsh Colony in Patagonia
The Americas and Civilization
Cihuatlan y Tepecoacuilco
They Sought a Country
San Pedro, Colombia
La emigración galesa a la Patagonia, 1865–1915
The Academic Labour Market--Economic and Social Aspects of a Profession
The Academic Labour Market - Economic and Social Aspects of a Profession. Efficiency in Universities: The La Paz Papers The Academic Labour Market - Economic and Social Aspects of a Profession. Studies in Education, Volume 3. By G. WILLIAMS, T. BLACKSTONE and D. METCALF. (Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1974. Pp. xvi + 566. Dfl. 42.50.)Efficiency in Universities: The La Paz Papers. Studies in Education, Volume 4. Edited by K. G. LUMSDEN. (Ams…
The Desert and the Dream
Differential risk strategies as cultural style among farmers in the Lower Chubut Valley, Patagonia1
Individual behavior can be analyzed in terms of utility maximization. In some cases the utility function might consist of profits, while in others the function is more complex and requires a clear understanding of the cultural factors affecting the perception of utility. This paper tries to determine the utility function among Welsh farmers in the Lower Chubut Valley, Argentina. Although the subsistence level of Welsh agriculture inhibits growth …
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
Industrialization and ethnic change in the Lower Chubut Valley, Argentina
The study of ethnicity must involve a social as well as a cultural component. I argue that ethnic salience relates to the connection between the ethnic group and changes in the wider economic structure. Drawing upon data from the Lower Chubut Valley, Argentina, I demonstrate that economic development has involved the loss of hegemony by the Welsh ethnic group, which experienced a collective downward mobility. A decline in the economic fortunes of…
Welsh Settlers and Native Americans in Patagonia
One of the geographical areas most neglected by historians of Latin America is Patagonia. This is particularly true of the second half of the nineteenth century, a period during which the area began to be opened up to European settlement. While it is true that some attention has been given to early European settlement on the one hand, and to the fate of the native Americans during the 'Conquest of the Desert' on the other, no one has thus far att…
Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution
The scale of the forced migration of Africans to the new world has been carefully charted by Curtin 55 and this black maritime trade has been surveyed by D. P
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
Shorter Notices
What is Wales
Bilingualism, class dialect, and social reproduction
Policy as containment within democracy
Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century
Theoretical and Historical Background Nationalist Uses of the Past Two Tongues, One Voice Towards a Welsh Economy Rise and Decline with the Welfare State Conclusions, Comparisons, and Forecasts Index
The Welsh in Patagonia
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