Daniel Kudla
Biographic Data
| ID | 370361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Kudla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kudla |
| SIGNATURE | KUDLA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3562-8418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Technocratic localism and the constraints of Canada’s homelessness strategy
Despite substantial federal investments and recognising the right to housing, homelessness in Canada has risen sharply since 2019. We examine the evolution of Canada’s federal homelessness strategy through a ‘historically informed’ lens of neoliberal poverty governance. We introduce strategic action field theory (SAF) to conceptualise this governance arrangement as nested relations defined by vertical bureaucratic pressures, strategic contestatio…
Governing urban marginality in the post-Covid city: Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue
Masking Visible Poverty through 'Activation: Creative Placemaking as a Compassionate Revanchist Policy
Creative placemaking strategies are widely adopted by urban planners, local governments, and business communities in hopes to revive economically struggling urban areas. These strategies seek to attract pedestrian traffic by facilitating arts and cultural activities in underutilized urban spaces. While these are seemingly innocuous and uncontroversial urban design strategies, I argue that a particular creative placemaking tactic called 'activatio…
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates
Originally created in 1970 by a small group of business people in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, Business Improvement Districts (hereafter BIDs) have become commonplace urban revitalisation strategies in cities across the world. Many critical urban scholars have conceptualised BIDs as neoliberal organisations and have resultantly critiqued their role in contemporary urban governance. With BIDs now existing for over 50 years, the purpose of this pa…
Business improvement areas and the socio-cultural power of lobbying: Imposing market interests to affordable housing development
While studies have shown that Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) manage and control their physical urban spaces to generate local economic growth, little work has examined how these organizations lobby for their market interests during key decision-making processes. Drawing from the pragmatic sociology of critique, this paper develops a theoretical framework to explain how political-economic power is socio-culturally encoded during local governmen…
Managing territorial stigmatization from the 'middle: The revitalization of a post-industrial Business Improvement Area
Wacquant's territorial stigmatization concept asserts that state/private actors mobilize discourses of stigmatization about specific areas in a city in order to legitimize spatial solutions in an attempt to solve complex political-economic problems. Unlike conventional studies of territorial stigmatization which delineate the concept between the production of stigma from 'above' and the resistance of stigma from 'below,' this paper contributes th…
To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto
Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relationship between Twitter use, police image work, and public engagement in the Canadian context. On the basis of 8,174 police-related tweets sent by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and citizens, we advance the argument that despite its dialogical potenti…
Managing territorial stigmatization from the 'middle: The revitalization of a post-industrial Business Improvement Area
Wacquant's territorial stigmatization concept asserts that state/private actors mobilize discourses of stigmatization about specific areas in a city in order to legitimize spatial solutions in an attempt to solve complex political-economic problems. Unlike conventional studies of territorial stigmatization which delineate the concept between the production of stigma from 'above' and the resistance of stigma from 'below,' this paper contributes th…
Masking Visible Poverty through 'Activation: Creative Placemaking as a Compassionate Revanchist Policy
Creative placemaking strategies are widely adopted by urban planners, local governments, and business communities in hopes to revive economically struggling urban areas. These strategies seek to attract pedestrian traffic by facilitating arts and cultural activities in underutilized urban spaces. While these are seemingly innocuous and uncontroversial urban design strategies, I argue that a particular creative placemaking tactic called 'activatio…
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates
Originally created in 1970 by a small group of business people in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, Business Improvement Districts (hereafter BIDs) have become commonplace urban revitalisation strategies in cities across the world. Many critical urban scholars have conceptualised BIDs as neoliberal organisations and have resultantly critiqued their role in contemporary urban governance. With BIDs now existing for over 50 years, the purpose of this pa…
To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto
Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relationship between Twitter use, police image work, and public engagement in the Canadian context. On the basis of 8,174 police-related tweets sent by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and citizens, we advance the argument that despite its dialogical potenti…
Business improvement areas and the socio-cultural power of lobbying: Imposing market interests to affordable housing development
While studies have shown that Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) manage and control their physical urban spaces to generate local economic growth, little work has examined how these organizations lobby for their market interests during key decision-making processes. Drawing from the pragmatic sociology of critique, this paper develops a theoretical framework to explain how political-economic power is socio-culturally encoded during local governmen…
To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto
Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relationship between Twitter use, police image work, and public engagement in the Canadian context. On the basis of 8,174 police-related tweets sent by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and citizens, we advance the argument that despite its dialogical potenti…
Managing territorial stigmatization from the 'middle: The revitalization of a post-industrial Business Improvement Area
Wacquant's territorial stigmatization concept asserts that state/private actors mobilize discourses of stigmatization about specific areas in a city in order to legitimize spatial solutions in an attempt to solve complex political-economic problems. Unlike conventional studies of territorial stigmatization which delineate the concept between the production of stigma from 'above' and the resistance of stigma from 'below,' this paper contributes th…
Business improvement areas and the socio-cultural power of lobbying: Imposing market interests to affordable housing development
While studies have shown that Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) manage and control their physical urban spaces to generate local economic growth, little work has examined how these organizations lobby for their market interests during key decision-making processes. Drawing from the pragmatic sociology of critique, this paper develops a theoretical framework to explain how political-economic power is socio-culturally encoded during local governmen…
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates
Originally created in 1970 by a small group of business people in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, Business Improvement Districts (hereafter BIDs) have become commonplace urban revitalisation strategies in cities across the world. Many critical urban scholars have conceptualised BIDs as neoliberal organisations and have resultantly critiqued their role in contemporary urban governance. With BIDs now existing for over 50 years, the purpose of this pa…
Masking Visible Poverty through 'Activation: Creative Placemaking as a Compassionate Revanchist Policy
Creative placemaking strategies are widely adopted by urban planners, local governments, and business communities in hopes to revive economically struggling urban areas. These strategies seek to attract pedestrian traffic by facilitating arts and cultural activities in underutilized urban spaces. While these are seemingly innocuous and uncontroversial urban design strategies, I argue that a particular creative placemaking tactic called 'activatio…
Governing urban marginality in the post-Covid city: Introduction to the Virtual Special Issue
Technocratic localism and the constraints of Canada’s homelessness strategy
Despite substantial federal investments and recognising the right to housing, homelessness in Canada has risen sharply since 2019. We examine the evolution of Canada’s federal homelessness strategy through a ‘historically informed’ lens of neoliberal poverty governance. We introduce strategic action field theory (SAF) to conceptualise this governance arrangement as nested relations defined by vertical bureaucratic pressures, strategic contestatio…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works)