The point of departure in this article are the pressing challenges in countless rural
communities that provide the backdrop for the emergence of socially innovative approaches …

As a prominent and performative discourse, The Smart City has the potential to shape urban
futures. Yet, its mostly top-down implementation and dominantly technocratic definition of …

This issue discusses the concept of social innovation (SI) as a potentially transformative
factor in urban planning and local development. SI represents an alternative to economic …

Conventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing
between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the …

For the last decade, urban actors around the globe have been struggling to adapt to a post-
crisis and austerity context through increasing social mobilization and experimentation …

This paper examines how the concept of participation in planning has been constructed by
state and nonstate actors in the politico-institutional context of Singapore. Our objective is to …

Critically engaging with literature on post-politics, blockchain and algorithmic governance,
and drawing also on knowledge gained from undertaking a three-year empirical study, the …

This PhD rests at the intersection of technopolitical innovation and implementation,
governance solutions and translocal political movements. Emerging technologies like …

Sub-Saharan African countries rank amongst the lowest in electricity access and highest in
energy poverty in the world. As a result, the region is one of the leading destinations for …