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After Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries joined EU, shrinkage issue assumed a new research approach, where majority of discussions concentrate on industrialization and population decline in the post-communist countries coping with the communism's consequences. Scholars have revealed that shrinking cities form a large share of Europe's large cities, however, they stress that it becomes obvious that current locality of emigration and drop of birth rates is situated in CEE. Lithuania is one of CEE countries that suffers great depopulation. Depopulation appears a great challenge for non-metropolitan cities and their residents, and also for decision makers. The purpose of my presentation is to introduce with urban shrinkage in Lithuania using an example of fourth biggest city in Lithuania – Šiauliai city. Presentation is based on the same logic (drivers, consequences and governance) that is presented in the 'heuristic model of urban shrinkage' introduced by a group of German, UK, Poland and other countries' scholars (Haase et al., 2014). The research allowed to point out that main drivers of shrinkage of Šiauliai fall into three main groups: political, economic and demographic; whereas consequences of shrinkage most heavily hits demographic situation of the city. National and Local governments are looking for ways how to deal with shrinkage, but so far not very successfully. Presentation has quantitative and qualitative sides: statistics numbers introducing with drivers and consequences of shrinkage, and most recent qualitative information collected via semi-structured interviews with local authorities of the city. Research grant DOTSUT-149 (09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0062) from Research Council of Lithuania

After Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries joined EU, shrinkage issue assumed a new research approach, where majority of discussions concentrate on industrialization and population decline in the post-communist countries coping with the communism's consequences. Scholars have revealed that shrinking cities form a large share of Europe's large cities, however, they stress that it becomes obvious that current locality of emigration and drop of birth rates is situated in CEE. Lithuania is one of CEE countries that suffers great depopulation. Depopulation appears a great challenge for non-metropolitan cities and their residents, and also for decision makers. The purpose of my presentation is to introduce with urban shrinkage in Lithuania using an example of fourth biggest city in Lithuania – Šiauliai city. Presentation is based on the same logic (drivers, consequences and governance) that is presented in the 'heuristic model of urban shrinkage' introduced by a group of German, UK, Poland and other countries' scholars (Haase et al., 2014). The research allowed to point out that main drivers of shrinkage of Šiauliai fall into three main groups: political, economic and demographic; whereas consequences of shrinkage most heavily hits demographic situation of the city. National and Local governments are looking for ways how to deal with shrinkage, but so far not very successfully. Presentation has quantitative and qualitative sides: statistics numbers introducing with drivers and consequences of shrinkage, and most recent qualitative information collected via semi-structured interviews with local authorities of the city. Research grant DOTSUT-149 (09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0062) from Research Council of Lithuania

This article presents an account of food citizenship based on a governmentality framework. Moving beyond the dichotomy of democratic or neoliberal accounts of food citizenship, a food governmentality framework is presented. This Foucaultian inspired framework conceptualises food citizenship as identity formation in relation to various modes of power that govern food systems and subjects in significantly different ways. The article empirically illustrates how food citizenship relates to food governmentality by focussing on the food-related activities of a Transition Town initiative in the Netherlands (The Hague) called Den Haag In Transitie (DHIT). By defining food as a community issue, and employing holistic-spiritual and collaborative knowledge, food citizens in the DHIT case render sustainable food systems governable in radically new ways. I argue that this type of citizenship can be considered neo-communitarian food citizenship and moves beyond democratic or neoliberal accounts. Finally, the article reflects on neo-communitarian citizenship and argues for a nuanced understanding of food citizenship, moving away from either democratic romanticism or neoliberal criticism.

Reinventing Village Government dalam Penganggaran Desa menuju Good Village Governance. Penelitian ini berusaha untuk mengkaji pengalaman dan pemahaman pengelola keuangan Desa Tau di Kabupaten Sumbawa. Hal ini dilatarbelakangi oleh implementasi UU Desa beserta berbagai implikasinya. Meningkatnya jumlah anggaran yang dikelola desa menjadikan adanya peningkatan terhadap tuntutan kinerja penyelenggaraan pemerintahan desa beserta pengelolaan keuangannya, tetapi dari berbagai fenomena menunjukkan bahwa tuntutan tersebut belum terpenuhi secara optimal terutama ditinjau dari upaya mewujudkan Good Governance lokal desa. Fenomenologi-hermeneutika sebagai metode dalam penelitian kualitatif ini, digunakan untuk menemukan makna dan hakikat dari pengalaman dan pemahaman informan dalam pengelolaan keuangan desa. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa pengelolaan keuangan desa belum optimal dilaksanakan sehingga belum memenuhi aspek atau indikator tercapainya GVG. Adanya tekanan eksternal yang diterima aparatur pemerintah desa dari masyarakat dan pihak swasta menjadi penyebab laten terjadinya dysfunctional behavior pada setiap tahapan dalam pengelolaan keuangan desa sehingga mempengaruhi upaya terwujudnya GVG. Tiga pilar utama Good Governance, baik pada tingkat daerah maupun skala desa harus bersinergi, menyatukan visi dan misi jika ingin mewujudkan GVG.

After Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries joined EU, shrinkage issue assumed a new research approach, where majority of discussions concentrate on industrialization and population decline in the post-communist countries coping with the communism's consequences. Scholars have revealed that shrinking cities form a large share of Europe's large cities, however, they stress that it becomes obvious that current locality of emigration and drop of birth rates is situated in CEE. Lithuania is one of CEE countries that suffers great depopulation. Depopulation appears a great challenge for non-metropolitan cities and their residents, and also for decision makers. The purpose of my presentation is to introduce with urban shrinkage in Lithuania using an example of fourth biggest city in Lithuania – Šiauliai city. Presentation is based on the same logic (drivers, consequences and governance) that is presented in the 'heuristic model of urban shrinkage' introduced by a group of German, UK, Poland and other countries' scholars (Haase et al., 2014). The research allowed to point out that main drivers of shrinkage of Šiauliai fall into three main groups: political, economic and demographic; whereas consequences of shrinkage most heavily hits demographic situation of the city. National and Local governments are looking for ways how to deal with shrinkage, but so far not very successfully. Presentation has quantitative and qualitative sides: statistics numbers introducing with drivers and consequences of shrinkage, and most recent qualitative information collected via semi-structured interviews with local authorities of the city. Research grant DOTSUT-149 (09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0062) from Research Council of Lithuania

After Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries joined EU, shrinkage issue assumed a new research approach, where majority of discussions concentrate on industrialization and population decline in the post-communist countries coping with the communism's consequences. Scholars have revealed that shrinking cities form a large share of Europe's large cities, however, they stress that it becomes obvious that current locality of emigration and drop of birth rates is situated in CEE. Lithuania is one of CEE countries that suffers great depopulation. Depopulation appears a great challenge for non-metropolitan cities and their residents, and also for decision makers. The purpose of my presentation is to introduce with urban shrinkage in Lithuania using an example of fourth biggest city in Lithuania – Šiauliai city. Presentation is based on the same logic (drivers, consequences and governance) that is presented in the 'heuristic model of urban shrinkage' introduced by a group of German, UK, Poland and other countries' scholars (Haase et al., 2014). The research allowed to point out that main drivers of shrinkage of Šiauliai fall into three main groups: political, economic and demographic; whereas consequences of shrinkage most heavily hits demographic situation of the city. National and Local governments are looking for ways how to deal with shrinkage, but so far not very successfully. Presentation has quantitative and qualitative sides: statistics numbers introducing with drivers and consequences of shrinkage, and most recent qualitative information collected via semi-structured interviews with local authorities of the city. Research grant DOTSUT-149 (09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0062) from Research Council of Lithuania

The problems that arise in relation to the implementation of village government are human resource capacity and institutional capacity in community empowerment. It is undeniable that villages in the Border have diversity in terms of the capacity of the village human resources and village institutions. For established villages, the implementation of the Village Law and the PP Village does not raise serious problems that can actually provide space for innovation to improve the welfare of rural communities. However, another story is that villages with minimal capacity certainly need efforts so that the village government is able to do better things for its people. Especially community empowerment for poverty alleviation through increasing income of poor families. By using qualitative research methods, supported by in-depth interviews in data collection and supporting sekounder data, this study provides an illustration of how village government empowered communities in villages as well as Indonesia's border areas.Keywords: community empowerment, village government, border area

Wie kann Kulturpolitik so gestaltet werden, dass - im Sinne einer Cultural Governance - nicht nur Politik und nachgeordnet Verwaltung in Entscheidungsprozesse einbezogen sind, sondern auch die Betroffenen: Künstler_innen, Kulturschaffende, Bürger_innen? Welche Allianzen und Konflikte entstehen in Verhandlungssituationen? Und wie argumentieren Vertreter_innen von Politik, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft? Anke Simone Schad entwickelt anhand der Beispiele Linz und Graz einen Rahmen für Governance-Analysen und bietet darüber hinaus Antworten auf die Fragen, woran Cultural Governance oft scheitert und wie gutes Regieren idealerweise aussehen könnte