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Critical Urban Studies -- Critical Urban Studies -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Critical Urban Theory -- 1: City -- 2: Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban Politics -- 3: Seeing Like a City: How to Urbanize Political Science -- 4: Reflections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical Epistemology -- 5: Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics -- 6: Keeping It Critical: Resisting the Allure of the Mainstream -- Part II: Critical Urban Policy -- 7: The Trouble with Diversity -- 8: Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality? -- 9: Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods? -- 10: Dispersal as Anti-Poverty Policy -- 11: Beyond Sprawl and Anti-Sprawl -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

"Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions. This work improves our understanding of the importance of governance, how it can be strengthened and the principles that underpin good governance, in order to prevent degradation of rangelands and ensure their sustainability. It describes the nature of governance at different levels: community governance, state governance, international governance, and the unique features of rangelands that demand collective action (issues of scale, ecological disequilibrium and seasonality). A series of country case studies is presented, drawn from a wide spectrum of examples from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and North America. These provide contrasting lessons which are summarised to promote improved governance of rangelands and pastoralist livelihoods"--

Interventions with fraternity men have been critiqued for an exclusive aim at decreasing negative behaviors and lacking consideration of male gender role socialization. The purpose of this study was to address those noted gaps in the literature. This study conducted an objectives-based evaluation of a strength-based, gender-sensitive program aimed at teaching fraternity men leadership skills. Findings indicated that participants were satisfied with the program and the six programmatic objectives were met such as increased self-awareness of leadership strengths and weaknesses, how gender norms influence leadership development, and how to connect men's health with leadership. Participants recommended that the program be more structured and to have a Greek co-instructor. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

AbstractCritical urban theory and critical urban studies form the subject of two recent edited collections on approaches to the analysis and transformation of the contemporary capitalist city. In an exchange of commentaries by the respective editors and contributors, the introduction explains the genesis of each book and previews some of the key observations. Peter Marcuse then offers his assessment of Critical Urban Studies: New Directions, which is reciprocated by a commentary on Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City by Jonathan Davies, David Imbroscio and Warren Magnusson.

The 2008 financial crash and ensuing austerity have brought critical perspectives on political economy into academic debates in democratic theory and public administration. One important area of contention regards "collaborative" and "network" forms of governance. Advocates argue that these comprise an epochal shift that resolves many pitfalls of state and market oriented governance, a consensus that was especially popular during the 1990's and early 2000's. This chapter reports research carried out in five cities in Europe (Athens, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Nantes) exploring the impact of austerity politics on the ideology and practice of collaborative governance – would it endure, or be unravelled by, post-crash exposure to austerity and distributional conflict? The chapter concludes that severe austerity erodes the foundations for strong collaborative governance. The inability to survive the return of distributional conflict leads us to conclude that collaborative governance is fully functional only in times of growth.

In recent years the nature of policy and politics has witnessed significant transformations. These have challenged perceptions about the ways in which policy is studied, designed, delivered and appraised. This book –the first in the New Perspectives in Policy and Politics series - brings together world-leading scholars to reflect on the implications of some of these developments for the field of policy studies and the world of practice. First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, the book offers critical reflections on the recent history and future direction of policy studies. It advances the debate by rethinking the ways in which scholars and students of policy studies can (re)engage with pertinent issues in pursuit of both scholarly excellence and practical solutions to global policy problems