Search
Search Results
-
Short-term gains versus long-term strains: productivist policies and family resilience in China
This article studies the intricate dynamics of family resilience within the Chinese productivist regime over the course of seven decades, emphasizing...
-
Urban Agriculture and the Sustainability Nexus in South Africa: Past, Current, and Future Trends
Urban agriculture remains a topical issue that needs to be better understood in striving for sustainable cities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa....
-
Balancing instrumental rationality with value rationality: towards avoiding the pitfalls of the productivist ageing policy in the EU and the UK
The current dominant approach to active ageing policy in the EU and the UK is the productivist approach. Drawing on Weber’s concepts of instrumental...
-
Enacting food system transformation through the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines
Calls to transform food systems along more ethical and sustainable lines are mounting alongside debates about what constitutes transformative change...
-
The Legacy of Sweden’s Social Democratic State for Extractive Bargains with Indigenous Sámi Reindeer Herding Communities
This chapter explores how the Swedish state justifies its extractive bargains with Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding communities (RHCs). The conflict...
-
The “Rebuilding the World” Post-graduation Programme at ENSAP Bordeaux: Responding to Contemporary Urban and Environmental Issues, Through an Innovative Pedagogy with a Humanist Vision
For several decades there has been a growing awareness of the way in which the territorial development promoted by modernity has produced an...
-
Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia
In 2015, Willem Halffman and Hans Radder published in Minerva a paper, in which they diagnosed that our universities are colonized by “The Wolf of...
-
New Zealand’s Small-Town Disruptions and the Role of Immigrant Mobilities
Like in many other OECD countries, international migration has been increasingly visible in New Zealand’s rural and small towns, which had little or...
-
A Non-Productivist Design for Social Policies (1992)
The basic mission of the modern welfare state is legally to guarantee social security (or ‘welfare’) through monetary transfers, services, physical...
-
A Critique of “Productivist” Policy Responses to Population Ageing Focusing on Financial Outcomes in Retirement for Women
Focusing on financial outcomes in retirement for women, this paper critically examines the suite of “productivist” policies proposed by leading...
-
Revisiting employer housing: driving forces and provision structures in the industrial society, and trends in the post-industrial society
Housing the working population is of paramount importance in regions relying on substantial human capital influx. Given the inadequacies in the...
-
Going Against the Grain in the West Australian Wheatbelt
The vast wheatbelt of Western Australia marks a disruptive force on an ancient landscape, an upheaval wrought by the dispossessive ecologies of sheep...
-
Comparing Social Policy Responses Between Separate Crises: Taking the Case of Indonesia
This article draws on an institutional approach to compare social policy responses and changes between the Asian Financial Crisis and the current...
-
Global Food Governance
This article helps lay a basis for the kind of deep analysis of the stakes of global food governance that is required today, under the impact of the...
-
Domain F: Discourse
In this chapter, we examine how discourse—or the ways in which language is used to frame debates, policy and action—is a critical domain for...
-
Bioregional Agroecological Planning: Keys to Building Territorialized and Multifunctional Agrifood Systems
We are facing a long history of systematic dispossession and resource appropriation that is reflected today in the major socio-ecological conflicts...
-
Afterword: Temporary Measures
The disruptions that wracked food supply chains amid the COVID-19 pandemic were not exceptional circumstances so much as they were events that...
-
Societal Transformations and Governance Challenges of Coastal Small-Scale Fisheries in the Northern Baltic Sea
Our chapter adds a northern dimension to the discussion about the past, present and future of small-scale fisheries and their governance. For...
-
A Review of Recent Small Town Research in South Africa
Small town scholarship in South Africa in general, but within the discipline of geography in particular, has experienced a substantial interest over...
-
Dip** in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas
This chapter sets the scene for this book. It introduces issues that we relate with living, working and traveling in sparsely populated areas. We...