Peter Walters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Walters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Walters |
| SIGNATURE | WALTERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1831-1494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Babatana Rainforest in Solomon Islands: A Practice-Based Field Trip for Unlearning the World
This paper explores practice-based learning pedagogies to support unlearning amongst Australian-based students. Drawing on reflective practices from students as part of a field trip to the Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project in Solomon Islands – an Indigenous-led conservation and carbon offset project – our paper reveals the myriad of ways fieldwork experiences disrupted students’ prior knowledge, including in ways that supported them to unl…
Engaging with informality and the subaltern in overlooked cities: Towards an agenda for climate change research in the Global South
Climate research in the Global South tends to focus on large (>10 million population) cities. However, most of the urban poor in the South live in smaller cities. The knowledge and experience of the urban poor in smaller cities is highly contextualized, therefore, knowledge about these cities and the plight of their subaltern populations and the contours of informality cannot easily be ‘extrapolated’ from megacities. Rather than empirical prescri…
Locating agency at the urban grassroots: Resistance and reworking in the everyday politics of informal settlements
Agency of the urban poor living in informal settlements in Southern cities can manifest in numerous ways in their encounters and negotiations with the formal state and various other actors located in the hierarchy of power relations. A certain form of agency rooted in oppositional consciousness can emerge from their everyday experiences of various forms of structural violence and oppression. Drawing on ethnographic case studies carried out in two…
It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification
The impact of gentrification in cities is well established. The continuous evolution in geolocation and social media is intensifying the contest between competing stakeholder claims to authenticity about gentrifying places. In this article, we examine the way that different geolocative social media define a struggle over the rights to authenticity in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brisbane, Australia. Local voices are often submerged by th…
Service Delivery and Accountability of Urban Officials: Evidence from Urban-based Local Government in Bangladesh
This study compares the state of city government service delivery for communities living in different areas with different level of affluence in Rajshahi City in Bangladesh. Based on the results of a qualitative study, we found a significant service disparity between the affluent and the poor communities. This disparity is due to the inability of the poor to hold service providers accountable, attributable to a lack of knowledge about services an…
Patron Client Relationships and a Right to the City: A Bangladeshi Case Study
We highlight how the intentions of a government to improve services and transparency across a city, by providing an enhanced right to the city for the urban poor can be futile when political gatekeeping is not relinquished at the grassroots level and the poor are not mobilised and educated about their rights. A qualitative case study of poor informal settlements was conducted in Rajshahi Bangladesh, to investigate a greater right to the city as t…
A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion, blocked access to services and other forms of structural violence. Such coercive control is legitimized through the discursive formation of informal settlements as criminal and unsanitary, and of the…
The politics of gendered space: Social norms and purdah affecting female informal work in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Labor markets are still heavily gendered everywhere, even when women's participation in the labor market is greater now than at any other time in history. Existing research shows poor women's participation in the informal economy is higher than men's in many parts of the Global South. However, this is not the case in Bangladesh. Poor Muslim women's participation, particularly where they require access to public space, is lower than men due to per…
Community, Aesthetics, and Authenticity: The Retail Curatorship of a Rapidly Gentrifying Australian Streetscape
While change to the retail landscape is a vital component of the gentrification narrative, most literature engages with the gentrification of retail from an objective position. In this article, we explore the process of rapid gentrification of Boundary Street, West End in Brisbane, Australia through the eyes of retailers themselves using photo elicitation. Retailers to varying degrees see themselves as custodians of the street and a disappearing …
A marriage of convenience: Street vendors' everyday accommodation of power in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The limits to participation: Urban poverty and community driven development in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
This article analyzes ways in which urban informal settlements most in need of Community Driven Development (CDD) programs might be overlooked in favor of better functioning poor communities. In a study of two informal settlements in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, one site benefitted from the support of a community based urban poverty reduction intervention from an international donor. The other, poorer, and with greater social challenges, would not quali…
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban popul…
Strangers in my home: Disaster and the durability of the private realm
The three realms of home, neighbourhood and public space comprise distinct socio-spatial entities, each with distinct sets of social relations and rules governing social interaction. The home, or private realm, is characterised by intimacy and familiarity; the parochial sphere is where people interact as neighbours or acquaintances; and the public realm is where strangers are encountered as a matter of course. While the contours of these realms a…
The Role of Faith-based Organizations in Environmental Governance: The Case of Forestry in Solomon Islands
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have played a significant role in environment-related forms of development and governance in Melanesia, including the Solomon Islands. Yet despite their centrality, there remain significant gaps in understandings of processes and outcomes associated with FBO engagement in environment-related development interventions. This paper addresses this gap by analysing the place of the Christian Fellowship Church (CFC), an…
Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: When science meets culture
The problem of community resilience in two flooded cities: Dhaka 1998 and Brisbane 2011
Mothers' perceptions of support in the workplace: A sense of entitlement or resignation
This article investigates mothers' 'sense of entitlement' to workplace supports for family responsibilities. While 'family-friendly' workplace provisions have become more prevalent alongside the increasing labour force engagement of mothers, the notion of an 'ideal worker' unencumbered by family responsibilities continues to inform practice in many workplaces. Potential indicators of, and pressures for, change include employees' sense of entitlem…
Young people's lived experience of the ‘street’ in North Lakes master planned estate
This article explores young people's lived experience of the ‘street’, defined as outdoor public/private spaces, such as streets, shopping centres, corner stores within a Master Planned Estate in Australia. A strong market-based planning rationale has significantly constrained young people's access to, and use of, public space and the public realm. Young people are often left with little option but to occupy spaces through paths of least resistan…
Early Gentrification and the Public Realm: A Case Study of West End in Brisbane, Australia
West End is an inner-city neighbourhood in Brisbane, Australia, about to experience profound change. In the next two decades the population of West End is planned to increase fourfold as the result of local and state government urban consolidation policies, with little planning for services and amenity to cater for this increase. Interviews with 50 residents of West End are used to describe the nature and qualities of a strong existing public rea…
Hermeneutik: Die Geschichte der abendländischen Textauslegung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Hermeneutik gilt heutzutage meistens als Bestandteil der Philosophie. Das ist aber eine verkürzte Sicht ihrer Gegenwart und erst recht ihrer Geschichte. Denn von Haus aus bezeichnet Hermeneutik alle Verfahren zur Auslegung von Texten. Sie begann in der Antike mit der Neu-Interpretation klassischer Dichter. Anschließend lernten die Christen die jüdische Bibel im Sinne ihres Evangeliums auszulegen. Sodann brauchte auch schriftliches Recht Interpret…
Impacts of Urban Consolidation on Urban Liveability: Comparing an Inner and Outer Suburb in Brisbane, Australia
Urban consolidation involving increasing densification around existing nodes of urban infrastructure is a strategy pursued by all levels of government for addressing rapid population growth in urban regions. This has both positive and negative impacts on the everyday lives of residents (or their urban liveability as perceived by them), even though urban consolidation is commonly resisted by residents. This paper aims to better understand impacts …
A Limit to Reflexivity: The Challenge for Working Women of Negotiating Sharing of Household Labor
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of in…
The Politics of Housing Consumption: Renters as Flawed Consumers on a Master Planned Estate
Master planned estates offer package dreams of homeownership to those wanting to live among others who share their lifestyle aspirations. Yet we show in this paper how divisions can arise between housing tenure types, with owner-occupiers constructing private rental tenants as a problem. Extending Bauman’s concept of the flawed consumer using Rose’s writings on ethopolitics, we show how renters are viewed as failing in three domains of social lif…
The Governmentality of Master Planning: Housing Consumption, Aesthetics and Community on a New Estate
The emergence of advanced liberalism as a political rationality has been accompanied by a trend towards more privatized forms of governing, in which market actors assume many of the responsibilities that were formerly state-provided. As a result, the problems of rule regarding who or what to govern and by what means are increasingly preoccupying private actors. This paper examines the privatized governmentalities of rules posed by a property deve…
Qualitative archiving: Engaging with epistemological misgivings
In this article it is argued that epistemological concerns about the archiving of qualitative data are mis‐directed. Almost all interpretive data makes either an implicit or explicit claim to knowledge in a broader context than the research project on which it is based. The ability to re‐interpret these data in the light of changing broader contexts is entirely consistent with the project of interpretive and constructivist epistemologies which fr…
The Politics of Housing Consumption: Renters as Flawed Consumers on a Master Planned Estate
Master planned estates offer package dreams of homeownership to those wanting to live among others who share their lifestyle aspirations. Yet we show in this paper how divisions can arise between housing tenure types, with owner-occupiers constructing private rental tenants as a problem. Extending Bauman’s concept of the flawed consumer using Rose’s writings on ethopolitics, we show how renters are viewed as failing in three domains of social lif…
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban popul…
Impacts of Urban Consolidation on Urban Liveability: Comparing an Inner and Outer Suburb in Brisbane, Australia
Urban consolidation involving increasing densification around existing nodes of urban infrastructure is a strategy pursued by all levels of government for addressing rapid population growth in urban regions. This has both positive and negative impacts on the everyday lives of residents (or their urban liveability as perceived by them), even though urban consolidation is commonly resisted by residents. This paper aims to better understand impacts …
A marriage of convenience: Street vendors' everyday accommodation of power in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Governmentality of Master Planning: Housing Consumption, Aesthetics and Community on a New Estate
The emergence of advanced liberalism as a political rationality has been accompanied by a trend towards more privatized forms of governing, in which market actors assume many of the responsibilities that were formerly state-provided. As a result, the problems of rule regarding who or what to govern and by what means are increasingly preoccupying private actors. This paper examines the privatized governmentalities of rules posed by a property deve…
Growing old in a new estate: Establishing New Social Networks in Retirement
The benefits of a strong proximal social network for people as they advance in age are well documented, but the continuation or development of social networks may be challenged when people relocate to a new home on retirement. This paper explores the personal network development of older residents who have moved to a new suburban (but not age-specific) residential development in a general urban setting. Drawing on a case study of a new outer-subu…
The politics of gendered space: Social norms and purdah affecting female informal work in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Labor markets are still heavily gendered everywhere, even when women's participation in the labor market is greater now than at any other time in history. Existing research shows poor women's participation in the informal economy is higher than men's in many parts of the Global South. However, this is not the case in Bangladesh. Poor Muslim women's participation, particularly where they require access to public space, is lower than men due to per…
The problem of community resilience in two flooded cities: Dhaka 1998 and Brisbane 2011
Locating agency at the urban grassroots: Resistance and reworking in the everyday politics of informal settlements
Agency of the urban poor living in informal settlements in Southern cities can manifest in numerous ways in their encounters and negotiations with the formal state and various other actors located in the hierarchy of power relations. A certain form of agency rooted in oppositional consciousness can emerge from their everyday experiences of various forms of structural violence and oppression. Drawing on ethnographic case studies carried out in two…
Qualitative archiving: Engaging with epistemological misgivings
In this article it is argued that epistemological concerns about the archiving of qualitative data are mis‐directed. Almost all interpretive data makes either an implicit or explicit claim to knowledge in a broader context than the research project on which it is based. The ability to re‐interpret these data in the light of changing broader contexts is entirely consistent with the project of interpretive and constructivist epistemologies which fr…
A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion, blocked access to services and other forms of structural violence. Such coercive control is legitimized through the discursive formation of informal settlements as criminal and unsanitary, and of the…
The limits to participation: Urban poverty and community driven development in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
This article analyzes ways in which urban informal settlements most in need of Community Driven Development (CDD) programs might be overlooked in favor of better functioning poor communities. In a study of two informal settlements in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, one site benefitted from the support of a community based urban poverty reduction intervention from an international donor. The other, poorer, and with greater social challenges, would not quali…
Early Gentrification and the Public Realm: A Case Study of West End in Brisbane, Australia
West End is an inner-city neighbourhood in Brisbane, Australia, about to experience profound change. In the next two decades the population of West End is planned to increase fourfold as the result of local and state government urban consolidation policies, with little planning for services and amenity to cater for this increase. Interviews with 50 residents of West End are used to describe the nature and qualities of a strong existing public rea…
A Limit to Reflexivity: The Challenge for Working Women of Negotiating Sharing of Household Labor
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of in…
Distributing Decline: Swedish Social Democrats and the Crisis of the Welfare State
IN SWEDEN, AS ELSEWHERE, ECONOMIC TRAUMA HAS BROUGHT the future of the welfare state onto the political agenda. The conjuncture at the end of the 1970s of a faltering economic performance together with an acute fiscal crisis has called into question the viability of welfare commitments. A widespread body of opinion sees the welfare state as a volume of expenditure which needs to be trimmed to accord with more limited economic means. Some argue mo…
Community, Aesthetics, and Authenticity: The Retail Curatorship of a Rapidly Gentrifying Australian Streetscape
While change to the retail landscape is a vital component of the gentrification narrative, most literature engages with the gentrification of retail from an objective position. In this article, we explore the process of rapid gentrification of Boundary Street, West End in Brisbane, Australia through the eyes of retailers themselves using photo elicitation. Retailers to varying degrees see themselves as custodians of the street and a disappearing …
Strangers in my home: Disaster and the durability of the private realm
The three realms of home, neighbourhood and public space comprise distinct socio-spatial entities, each with distinct sets of social relations and rules governing social interaction. The home, or private realm, is characterised by intimacy and familiarity; the parochial sphere is where people interact as neighbours or acquaintances; and the public realm is where strangers are encountered as a matter of course. While the contours of these realms a…
Young people's lived experience of the ‘street’ in North Lakes master planned estate
This article explores young people's lived experience of the ‘street’, defined as outdoor public/private spaces, such as streets, shopping centres, corner stores within a Master Planned Estate in Australia. A strong market-based planning rationale has significantly constrained young people's access to, and use of, public space and the public realm. Young people are often left with little option but to occupy spaces through paths of least resistan…
It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification
The impact of gentrification in cities is well established. The continuous evolution in geolocation and social media is intensifying the contest between competing stakeholder claims to authenticity about gentrifying places. In this article, we examine the way that different geolocative social media define a struggle over the rights to authenticity in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brisbane, Australia. Local voices are often submerged by th…
Mothers' perceptions of support in the workplace: A sense of entitlement or resignation
This article investigates mothers' 'sense of entitlement' to workplace supports for family responsibilities. While 'family-friendly' workplace provisions have become more prevalent alongside the increasing labour force engagement of mothers, the notion of an 'ideal worker' unencumbered by family responsibilities continues to inform practice in many workplaces. Potential indicators of, and pressures for, change include employees' sense of entitlem…
The Legacy of Olof Palme: The Condition of the Swedish Model
THE SHOCK INDUCED IN SWEDEN BY OLOF PALME'S assassination was not translated into any dramatic political consequences. In the absence of any identifiable culprit or motive Swedes could do little more than speculate inconclusively whether responsibility might lie in a vendetta against Palme pursued by some foreign agency or, less likely but more insidious, in some unsuspected pathology within their own society. The assassination served no obvious …
Patron Client Relationships and a Right to the City: A Bangladeshi Case Study
We highlight how the intentions of a government to improve services and transparency across a city, by providing an enhanced right to the city for the urban poor can be futile when political gatekeeping is not relinquished at the grassroots level and the poor are not mobilised and educated about their rights. A qualitative case study of poor informal settlements was conducted in Rajshahi Bangladesh, to investigate a greater right to the city as t…
Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: When science meets culture
Sweden’s Public Sector Crisis, Before and After the 1982 Elections
WHEN THE SWEDES BEAT A RETREAT FROM KEYNES THAT surely signals a climacteric.’ Thus Andrew Shonfield clinched his argument that the unwillingness of the industrialized countries to offset the deflationary consequences of the 1979 oil shock reflected a general crisis of confidence in the principles of the mixed economy. The loss of Keynesian innocence in the 1970s came to different countries in different ways. In Sweden it came comparatively late …
The Sixties
Journal Article THE SIXTIES Get access Peter Walters Peter Walters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1973mar, March 1973, Pages 361–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/26.1973mar.361 Published: 01 March 1973
Planning, Control and the Capacity of Government
Journal Article PLANNING, CONTROL AND THE CAPACITY OF GOVERNMENT Get access Peter Walters Peter Walters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXIX, Issue 3, SUMMER 1976, Pages 351–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054165 Published: 01 July 1976
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Sweden’s Public Sector Crisis, Before and After the 1982 Elections
WHEN THE SWEDES BEAT A RETREAT FROM KEYNES THAT surely signals a climacteric.’ Thus Andrew Shonfield clinched his argument that the unwillingness of the industrialized countries to offset the deflationary consequences of the 1979 oil shock reflected a general crisis of confidence in the principles of the mixed economy. The loss of Keynesian innocence in the 1970s came to different countries in different ways. In Sweden it came comparatively late …
Distributing Decline: Swedish Social Democrats and the Crisis of the Welfare State
IN SWEDEN, AS ELSEWHERE, ECONOMIC TRAUMA HAS BROUGHT the future of the welfare state onto the political agenda. The conjuncture at the end of the 1970s of a faltering economic performance together with an acute fiscal crisis has called into question the viability of welfare commitments. A widespread body of opinion sees the welfare state as a volume of expenditure which needs to be trimmed to accord with more limited economic means. Some argue mo…
The Legacy of Olof Palme: The Condition of the Swedish Model
THE SHOCK INDUCED IN SWEDEN BY OLOF PALME'S assassination was not translated into any dramatic political consequences. In the absence of any identifiable culprit or motive Swedes could do little more than speculate inconclusively whether responsibility might lie in a vendetta against Palme pursued by some foreign agency or, less likely but more insidious, in some unsuspected pathology within their own society. The assassination served no obvious …
The Governmentality of Master Planning: Housing Consumption, Aesthetics and Community on a New Estate
The emergence of advanced liberalism as a political rationality has been accompanied by a trend towards more privatized forms of governing, in which market actors assume many of the responsibilities that were formerly state-provided. As a result, the problems of rule regarding who or what to govern and by what means are increasingly preoccupying private actors. This paper examines the privatized governmentalities of rules posed by a property deve…
Qualitative archiving: Engaging with epistemological misgivings
In this article it is argued that epistemological concerns about the archiving of qualitative data are mis‐directed. Almost all interpretive data makes either an implicit or explicit claim to knowledge in a broader context than the research project on which it is based. The ability to re‐interpret these data in the light of changing broader contexts is entirely consistent with the project of interpretive and constructivist epistemologies which fr…
Growing old in a new estate: Establishing New Social Networks in Retirement
The benefits of a strong proximal social network for people as they advance in age are well documented, but the continuation or development of social networks may be challenged when people relocate to a new home on retirement. This paper explores the personal network development of older residents who have moved to a new suburban (but not age-specific) residential development in a general urban setting. Drawing on a case study of a new outer-subu…
The Politics of Housing Consumption: Renters as Flawed Consumers on a Master Planned Estate
Master planned estates offer package dreams of homeownership to those wanting to live among others who share their lifestyle aspirations. Yet we show in this paper how divisions can arise between housing tenure types, with owner-occupiers constructing private rental tenants as a problem. Extending Bauman’s concept of the flawed consumer using Rose’s writings on ethopolitics, we show how renters are viewed as failing in three domains of social lif…
Impacts of Urban Consolidation on Urban Liveability: Comparing an Inner and Outer Suburb in Brisbane, Australia
Urban consolidation involving increasing densification around existing nodes of urban infrastructure is a strategy pursued by all levels of government for addressing rapid population growth in urban regions. This has both positive and negative impacts on the everyday lives of residents (or their urban liveability as perceived by them), even though urban consolidation is commonly resisted by residents. This paper aims to better understand impacts …
A Limit to Reflexivity: The Challenge for Working Women of Negotiating Sharing of Household Labor
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of in…
Hermeneutik: Die Geschichte der abendländischen Textauslegung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Hermeneutik gilt heutzutage meistens als Bestandteil der Philosophie. Das ist aber eine verkürzte Sicht ihrer Gegenwart und erst recht ihrer Geschichte. Denn von Haus aus bezeichnet Hermeneutik alle Verfahren zur Auslegung von Texten. Sie begann in der Antike mit der Neu-Interpretation klassischer Dichter. Anschließend lernten die Christen die jüdische Bibel im Sinne ihres Evangeliums auszulegen. Sodann brauchte auch schriftliches Recht Interpret…
Young people's lived experience of the ‘street’ in North Lakes master planned estate
This article explores young people's lived experience of the ‘street’, defined as outdoor public/private spaces, such as streets, shopping centres, corner stores within a Master Planned Estate in Australia. A strong market-based planning rationale has significantly constrained young people's access to, and use of, public space and the public realm. Young people are often left with little option but to occupy spaces through paths of least resistan…
Early Gentrification and the Public Realm: A Case Study of West End in Brisbane, Australia
West End is an inner-city neighbourhood in Brisbane, Australia, about to experience profound change. In the next two decades the population of West End is planned to increase fourfold as the result of local and state government urban consolidation policies, with little planning for services and amenity to cater for this increase. Interviews with 50 residents of West End are used to describe the nature and qualities of a strong existing public rea…
The problem of community resilience in two flooded cities: Dhaka 1998 and Brisbane 2011
Mothers' perceptions of support in the workplace: A sense of entitlement or resignation
This article investigates mothers' 'sense of entitlement' to workplace supports for family responsibilities. While 'family-friendly' workplace provisions have become more prevalent alongside the increasing labour force engagement of mothers, the notion of an 'ideal worker' unencumbered by family responsibilities continues to inform practice in many workplaces. Potential indicators of, and pressures for, change include employees' sense of entitlem…
The Role of Faith-based Organizations in Environmental Governance: The Case of Forestry in Solomon Islands
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have played a significant role in environment-related forms of development and governance in Melanesia, including the Solomon Islands. Yet despite their centrality, there remain significant gaps in understandings of processes and outcomes associated with FBO engagement in environment-related development interventions. This paper addresses this gap by analysing the place of the Christian Fellowship Church (CFC), an…
Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: When science meets culture
The limits to participation: Urban poverty and community driven development in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
This article analyzes ways in which urban informal settlements most in need of Community Driven Development (CDD) programs might be overlooked in favor of better functioning poor communities. In a study of two informal settlements in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, one site benefitted from the support of a community based urban poverty reduction intervention from an international donor. The other, poorer, and with greater social challenges, would not quali…
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban popul…
Strangers in my home: Disaster and the durability of the private realm
The three realms of home, neighbourhood and public space comprise distinct socio-spatial entities, each with distinct sets of social relations and rules governing social interaction. The home, or private realm, is characterised by intimacy and familiarity; the parochial sphere is where people interact as neighbours or acquaintances; and the public realm is where strangers are encountered as a matter of course. While the contours of these realms a…
Community, Aesthetics, and Authenticity: The Retail Curatorship of a Rapidly Gentrifying Australian Streetscape
While change to the retail landscape is a vital component of the gentrification narrative, most literature engages with the gentrification of retail from an objective position. In this article, we explore the process of rapid gentrification of Boundary Street, West End in Brisbane, Australia through the eyes of retailers themselves using photo elicitation. Retailers to varying degrees see themselves as custodians of the street and a disappearing …
A marriage of convenience: Street vendors' everyday accommodation of power in Dhaka, Bangladesh
A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion, blocked access to services and other forms of structural violence. Such coercive control is legitimized through the discursive formation of informal settlements as criminal and unsanitary, and of the…
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