1,315 research outputs found
Morele verontrusting en wetenschappelijke bijziendheid
No full textIn de tweede AGORA van dit jaar werd in de recensierubriek de studie ‘Wijken voor Illegalen. Over ruimtelijke spreiding, huisvesting en leefbaarheid’ (2004) van Arjen Leerkes e.a. kritisch besproken. AGORA-redacteur Maarten Loopmans meent dat de onderzoekers zich blindelings hebben laten inzetten binnen het heersende discours van repressie en uitwijzing van illegalen. Hij uit bovendien onderzoekstechnische kritiek. Arjen Leerkes en Marion van San, de belangrijkste auteurs van het onderzoek, leggen uit waarom Loopmans’ zienswijze onjuist is
De puzzel om te overleven in een achtergestelde gemeenschap. De rol van informele governance structuren voor huisvestingsvoorziening in Accra en Winneba, Ghana
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Verdringing door natuurbescherming en hervestiging: nieuwe bruggen bouwen in sociale relaties
No full textPurpose: This study utilises a case study approach among the displaced Baka communities of East Cameroon to deepen current understandings of social impact of conservation-induced displacement and to foster collaboration between host communities and sedentarized victims of conservation-induced displacement as an approach for diminishing social impact. Using a critical epistemological perspective, and departing from a critique of the sustainable livelihood approach with its focus on assets and capitals. The study seeks to reveal the extent to which the processes of dominance and subordination affect institutions of marginalization and exclusion which in turn, affect livelihood outcomes for victims of conservation-induced displacement. To inform this evaluation, this study’s theoretical framework was rooted in Paulo Freire's (1970; 2000) dialogical and anti-dialogical theories of dominance and action. This study explores the theoretical and practical dimensions of Freire’s theories as a means of harnessing the power of dialogue in inverting dominant discourse which subjects certain groups in a population to marginalization and exclusion following displacement and sedentarization.
Research Methods: Mixed methods case study. Data on the discourse of dominance and subordination were collected through semi-structured and structured interviews with Baka participants, representatives of the government and non-governmental organisations, and the host Bantu community members. Findings were deductively analyzed using tenets of Freire's (1970) anti-dialogical theory. The course of action on dominant discourse inversion was also executed by participatory methods of photovoice and community football under the guidance of Freire’s dialogical theory of action.
Findings: The findings suggest that although conservation-induced displacement has led to negative social impacts on the displaced and resettled, building social relations between the displaced and host communities is a first step in tackling processes and institutions of marginalization and exclusion which exacerbate impoverishment among displaced and resettled groups. This outcome vindicates nature conservancy as the sole culprit responsible for negative livelihood outcomes of people living in and around protected areas.status: Publishe
Modaliteiten in de productie van ruimte in Kenya's snel veranderende steden
No full textThis PhD research focuses on the social production of urban space within two rapidly transforming secondary cities of Kenya—Voi and Kisumu. The aim is to examine the conditions under which urban space is produced and used in contemporary Voi and Kisumu, vis-à-vis the current realities and exigencies of urban transformation dynamics within the two cities. The study assesses the institutional capacity and practices of both the ‘official’ and ‘popular’ agents involved in the production of urban space, and examines how their respective knowledges, demands, practices and views on space are unrolled and integrated in (re)producing various urban spatialities. Using the perspective of social constructionism, the study conceptualizes urban space not as a fixed objective entity but as a ‘social construction’ that is highly contingent upon a series of events, experiences, practices and power geometries that shape the relations between various social groups and institutional logics in the city. The PhD research leverages on the Lefebvrian concepts of the production of space and the right to the city to provide a critical reading of how marginalized groups employ various forms of social innovation and insurgent urbanism to appropriate and defend crucial spaces of livelihoods, shelter and urban services.
Besides providing a framework for a critical understanding of contested spatial productions within rapidly transforming cities of the Global South, the analytical tools employed in this PhD research could facilitate a better framing of urban dynamics and contribute to policy solutions that are more attentive to the complex African urban experience. This is not to say that the conceptual and theoretical insights are limited only to Africa. On the contrary, the conceptual framework employed here is critically reflexive of the power relations between different groups, and seeks to imagine the possibilities of learning between different contexts in ways that differ from historical patterns of urban knowledge production and sharing. The aim therefore is to foster learning between different (geographical) contexts that might eventually help pluralize the production of urban knowledge across the North-South divide.status: Publishe
Threatened or Empowered? The Impact of Neighborhood Context on Community Involvement in Antwerp, Belgium
No full textUsing a citywide register of community involvement, this article tests two competing theories for explaining active citizenship through neighborhood context: one that emphasizes the opportunities available in the neighborhood, whether at the level of the individual, the social environment, or the physical environment, and one that explains how active citizenship can be regarded as a reaction to threats in the neighborhood. The present analysis suggests that both effects apply but in separate parts of the city. The analysis reveals a spatial dichotomy: In the nineteenth-century inner city, participation is more problem-related, whereas in the periphery, participation is explained by opportunities available. Simultaneously, the results warn against overemphasizing the neighborhood context as a determinant for participation
De 'invisible meydan'. Het discours over publieke ruimte in Istanbul en Brussel, 1830 - 2000
No full textThis dissertation proposes to apply Henri Lefebvres approach of the production of space to the analysis of public space. A thus historically informed socio-economic analysis of public space does prevent research from falling into the trap of orientalism, rehearsing only the age-old argument that public space in the so-called Orient did not exist due to a lack of democracy, the
lack of women moving in public space, the dominance of Islam and indeed the mere physical lack of the square. A historical discourse analysis of the term meydan (square) and publicspace in Istanbul between 1830-2000 uncovered the genealogy of this knowledge. The comparison with Brussels (a city where nobody would question the existence of public space) in the same period and with relatively similar material, showed not only that the discourse about public space in
the two cities followed similar logics and were influenced by similar models, it also helped to single out their characteristics. The emergence of private ownership of urban land during the nineteenth century, interestingly, appears as an important condition to expropriate and demolish the existing urban fabric in order to open up public space.status: Publishe
Participatie en coproductie in ruimtelijke planning: het doen herleven van de politieke dimensie van burgerbetrokkenheid bij ruimtelijke projecten
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Port expansion project: Port of Phillipsburg St. Maarten Netherlands Antilles
No full textThe Sint Maarten Ports Authority (SMPA) , wishes to expand the present port of Phillipsburg, due to the increase of cargo throughput and forecast for the cruise tourism. The SMPA has appointed Grabowsky&Poort International BV as the main consultants for the port development. To give this report a more complete character, a summary of the Port Lay-out Study, the Wave Climate Study [ref.: 3J and the wave Penetration Study [ref.: 2J are included. These three studies were performed during my work emplacement at GrabowskY&Poort International BV.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Niet op zijn plaats? Het verkennen van de grensgebieden van seksualiteitsonderzoek in geografie
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Hoe God aanwezig is in het werk van Maarten ’t Hart
No full textMaarten ’t Hart is widely regarded as the prototypical Dutch author who has left his Orthodox Reformed background behind. Yet religion is present throughout his work. In her dissertation Religion im Werk von Maarten ’t Hart (2022), German theologian Christina Bickel describes the playful manners in which ’t Hart deals with religion as an inspiring way to open the mind of modern man to transcedental reflections. Her interdisciplinary approach combining literary analysis, theological hermeneutics and homiletics, offers a surprising example of the reception of a Dutch author within a foreign cultural context.Maarten ’t Hart is widely regarded as the prototypical Dutch author who has left his Orthodox Reformed background behind. Yet religion is present throughout his work. In her dissertation Religion im Werk von Maarten ’t Hart (2022), German theologian Christina Bickel describes the playful manners in which ’t Hart deals with religion as an inspiring way to open the mind of modern man to transcedental reflections. Her interdisciplinary approach combining literary analysis, theological hermeneutics and homiletics, offers a surprising example of the reception of a Dutch author within a foreign cultural context.Maarten ’t Hart is widely regarded as the prototypical Dutch author who has left his Orthodox Reformed background behind. Yet religion is present throughout his work. In her dissertation Religion im Werk von Maarten ’t Hart (2022), German theologian Christina Bickel describes the playful manners in which ’t Hart deals with religion as an inspiring way to open the mind of modern man to transcedental reflections. Her interdisciplinary approach combining literary analysis, theological hermeneutics and homiletics, offers a surprising example of the reception of a Dutch author within a foreign cultural context
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