Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the
relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality …

Recent discussions in development have moved away from holistic theorisation towards
more localised, empirical and inductive approaches. In development practice there has …

Ever since participation entered mainstream development discourse, critics have attacked it
as form of political control. If development is indeed an 'anti‐politics machine'(), the claim is …

Purpose–Responding to recent pleas both to critically analyze and to conceptually advance
social entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the political …

This article identifies power, subjectivity, and practices of freedom as neglected but
significant elements for understanding the ethics of social entrepreneurship. While the ethics …

Managerialism is today a frequently applied concept in studies of how ideas and practices
related to corporate management are diffused in society. Some assert that managerialism …

During the 1990s, civil society emerged as the prime political force in the policy agenda of
the major lenders and development agencies. An active civil society, it was believed, would …

Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political
transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers …

Employing thematic investigation and illustrated through case studies, Dodds explores how
global politics is imagined and practised by countries such as the US and other …

The great aid debate pits those who are radically opposed to foreign aid against those who
champion its managerial reform to achieve greater aid effectiveness. This article offers an …