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Migrants' involvement in smuggling increases alongside restricted cross-border movement and violent borders, yet this dynamic is usually examined from migrants' position as clients. In this article, we move away from migrants and smugglers as two separate roles and question migrants' aspirations to and experiences of resorting to smuggling networks as workers in the context of EU land borders, where direct violence is used daily to fight cross-border crime. By doing so, we move further the examination of fluid relations in smuggling provisions and the way they are intertwined with care and exploitation, as shaped and circumscribed by violent borders. The article illustrates the intersections between border violence and migrants' active involvement in smuggling by drawing on the case study of an anonymised Border Town and multi-site, multi-author fieldwork from Serbia and Bosnia. By questioning migrants' experiences of shifting roles from clients to service providers, and by taking into account their work in smuggling provision, we show that, in a situation of protracted vulnerability orchestrated by border violence, state and law enforcement, the categories – "migrant" and "smugglers" – can blur.

International audience ; This paper presents the articles of the special issue on Latin America and places the papers in the broader context of Latin America in the 21st Century. It suggests to interpret Latin American reality from three contradictions connected to the development model, the political conflicts and the international insertion of the Region. It follows with a discussion about the consequences of Chinese presence on territories and the debates regarding extractivism. ; Cet article présente les contributions du dossier consacré à l'Amérique latine en replaçant les contributions dans le contexte plus large de l'Amérique latine au XXIe siècle. Il propose d'interpréter cette réalité à partir de trois contradictions liées au modèle de développement, aux conflits politiques et à l'insertion internationale du sous-continent. Sont ensuite présentés les conséquences de la présence chinoise sur les territoires ainsi que les débats sur l'extractivisme.

The current trend of higher education for sustainable urban development links with parallel developments in urban governance and environmental pedagogy. Many programs and policies identify cities and citizens as key drivers of change for sustainable futures, however scholarly work on the related pedagogies is lacking. These endeavors are clearly present in the Tampere city-region, Finland. Supported by national educational and city-regional strategies, the city is promoting sustainable lifestyles and infrastructures by means of multistakeholder governance including citizen participation and sustainability education. This paper analyzes, as a case study of transdisciplinary sustainability education, a collaboration between Tampere University, a skateboarding high school, and the Hiedanranta urban district developed as a real-life laboratory of sustainable urban development. We explore the pedagogical dimensions of the collaboration by drawing from the theoretical perspective of 'positive recognition' and conceiving the Hiedanranta skatescape—a socio-physical entity formed around skateboarding—as a 'boundary object'. The paper suggests urban environments act as boundary objects that enable productive collaboration between various actors when informed by pedagogies of positive recognition. In conclusion, we propose that the value of this approach, binding together multistakeholder governance and transdisciplinary learning, lies in its capacity to encourage novel forms of sustainable agency. ; publishedVersion ; Peer reviewed

How and why neoliberal policies spread across political jurisdictions is a fundamental question for economic geographers and critical policy scholars. Many accounts inspired by the policy mobility approach point to neoliberalism as having a conditioning effect on the ease and speed with which policies transverse the globe. Yet the role that social movements and transnational advocacy networks play in shaping and at times facilitating neoliberal policy diffusion has been under-examined. In this article, I bring a new perspective to the policy mobilities literature, by incorporating insights from radical feminist and critical disability theorising. Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, I argue that in their haste to scrutinise and theorise neoliberalism as a project of the Right, policy mobility scholars have neglected the mobilising role of the transnational left. Elements of the Left have leant critical support to market-based models of state restructuring, out of concern for minority rights and the welfare state's denial of individual agency and choice. To illustrate my argument, I use a case study of the disability movement and the policy model of individualised funding, which is driving the current trend towards greater marketisation in the provision of disability services.

International audience ; After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

International audience ; After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

International audience ; After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

The subject of agroecology, although it emerged independently late in French research, is now one of the six major themes studied by INRAE. INRAE is a French public institution resulting from the recent merger between the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the National Institute for Research in Science and Technology for the Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA), which took effect on 1st January 2020. The decree merging the two establishments specifies that INRAE's main missions are to "carry out, organise and coordinate, on its own initiative or at the request of the State, all scientific and technological research in the fields of agriculture, food, forestry, environment, water, biodiversity, bioeconomy, circular economy, and sustainable land and risk management in the aforementioned areas of competence". Under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAA), INRAE prides itself on being the first institute in the world to be specialised in agriculture, food and environment. Thanks to this position, the institute claims to be able to contribute to the "necessary transitions", namely the agroecological, nutritional and energy transitions.

International audience ; After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

International audience ; After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

In 2013, Aleppo province was engulfed in violence. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and affiliated Shi'a militias executed a campaign of massacres in the rural areas located on the eastern fringes of the province. The violence caused an exodus from this region, eventually dissipating local rural communities entirely. What can explain such extreme and brutal political violence perpetrated at a local level in the east Aleppo countryside throughout 2013? To find an answer, I analyse the personal accounts of those who witnessed the violence and YouTube videos. Taken together, these sources provide a visceral description of the massacres-in particular the summary executions in the village of Rasm al-Nafl, as a case study of extreme violence in one of the poorest rural areas of Syria. Problematizing mono-causal sectarian explanations, I argue that a deeper non-sectarian complex of rurality and a process of subaltern othering in combination with opportunism, governmental retribution, and strategic military concern for territorial control in order to secure alternative supply routes to Aleppo, ultimately led to the eradication of life and cultural genocide in these rural areas.

International audience ; In recent years, mass retailing has undergone an important and rapid evolution, despite a generally unstable political and economic framework. We were witnessing an evolution and remodeling of the large retailers. In fact, large-scale retailers continue to win new shares in the retail market. In addition, it knows the introduction of new forms (Hard discount) and targeted new locations (local trade). This new strategy is adopted by "Aziza", a new hard-discount local food retailer, which appeared in 2014. It belongs to the Slama group active in the agri-food sector via GIAS brands (Goldina, Nejma), Ice Cream (Nassim), Hightech (MB). The strategy of the new chain is to locate near the most populated areas including the popular neighborhoods. This brand now has more than 170 stores spread mainly in large and medium-sized cities.

International audience ; After being at the root of industrial development, the contemporary urban policy discourse is now characterized by a growing interest for environmental preservation and ecosystem services. Alternatively, citizens involved in ecological restoration and management on public spaces tend to be more and more valued. In the last 20 years, North American municipalities were among the first to favor environmental stewardship through community organizing. This thesis investigates different territorial inscriptions of civic environmentalism linked to renaturation practices in analogous urban contexts of the

The subject of agroecology, although it emerged independently late in French research, is now one of the six major themes studied by INRAE. INRAE is a French public institution resulting from the recent merger between the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the National Institute for Research in Science and Technology for the Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA), which took effect on 1st January 2020. The decree merging the two establishments specifies that INRAE's main missions are to "carry out, organise and coordinate, on its own initiative or at the request of the State, all scientific and technological research in the fields of agriculture, food, forestry, environment, water, biodiversity, bioeconomy, circular economy, and sustainable land and risk management in the aforementioned areas of competence". Under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAA), INRAE prides itself on being the first institute in the world to be specialised in agriculture, food and environment. Thanks to this position, the institute claims to be able to contribute to the "necessary transitions", namely the agroecological, nutritional and energy transitions.

Background Nowadays, not only countries but also cities and regions communicate directly with residents in other countries using public diplomacy. Public diplomacy includes all official efforts to convince targeted sectors of foreign opinion to support or tolerate the strategic objectives of the government of a state, region or city. By branding your place to residents in other countries, you can make your place an attractive place to move to. On the other hand, you can also demolish your place brand reputation among other target groups and stakeholders. Aim This paper aims at discussing the role of public diplomacy in place branding for attracting new residents. We will focus on refugees. Once the refugees have obtained the right to stay in Sweden, they have the right to settle down wherever they want. However, they do not settle down in different parts of Sweden by random, but as a response to municipal public diplomacy communication strategies in branding places. Design We use an exploratory case study design to discuss how the two cities Borlänge and Malmö work with public diplomacy and place branding in attracting refugees to settle down in these cities. Both cities relied on immigrant labour but entered a painful deindustrialisation process in the late 1970s. However, in the 1990s the cities' development took different turns. We develop a conceptual framework based on public diplomacy and place branding. The empirical material is based on policy documents decided by the respective city halls, statistics from Statistics Sweden and previous research. Findings The place branding of Borlänge targets just the residents. For non-residents the brand is weak and for refugees unattractive. No public diplomacy communication is reported in the policy documents from Borlänge. Malmö works actively with place branding and public diplomacy to attract new residents from abroad, and refugees re-settling from other parts of Sweden. The city is seen as a multicultural and superdiverse, a city where natives are a ...