Like in many cities and regions worldwide, densification is the current urban development
paradigm in Switzerland. Although considered one of the main policy mechanisms for …

The extraordinary context of the COVID-19 crisis gave governments around the world a freer
hand to reshape their socio-economic orders. Political economists studying East Central …

As many as twenty years after the overthrow of its authoritarian political regime, Serbia
remains a 'proto-democracy', supported by the economic ideology of wild neoliberalism …

In light of the recent rise of authoritarianism and processes of 'democratic backsliding'in the
Balkans (and other parts of CEE), the EU has projected an image of itself as a bastion of …

As a leading mechanism of the global neoliberal paradigm, financialization plays a
significant role in the growth of economies and changes in urban development patterns …

While Skopje 2014 intended to rebrand the city for international companies and tourists, the
lack of local accountability over the project raises questions about what happened to the …

In the face of protracted stagnation following the global financial crisis, democratic
governments who remain committed to neoliberalism are still required to secure popular …

This paper brings the “scale question” into the discussion of urban movements in Southeast
Europe and offers a multispatial framework for their analysis. It focuses on the shifting scale …

This article, through an anthropological lens inspired by Anthony Leeds' concept of locality,
examines the interplay between urban governance and autocratization in Shanghai's gated …

Urban megaprojects exhibit various distortions: special regulations, budget overrun,
additional funding sources, long-term timeframes, and ad-hoc actor networks. Coping with …