Reform, Resistance, and Revolution
In this essay, I begin with the US case, then turn to the Arab world, and then look at global trends.
Research
Open Data in North America, Australia and New Zealand
As a publication, The State of Open Data will address the development of the open data movement over the past 10 years from a multitude of perspectives.
Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief
The 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy estimates that two billion (61 per cent) of the global employed population earn their living in the informal economy (ILO 2018).
The Future of Informal Work: Insights from India
This paper seeks to integrate a focus on informal workers, who comprise 61 per cent of the global workforce – a total of 2 billion workers - into the global discourse on the future of work.
Social Entrepreneurship as Field Encroachment: How a Neoliberal Social Movement Constructed a New Field
In explaining the emergence of new strategic action fields, in which social movements’ and organizations’ logic, rules and strategies are forged, inter-field dynamics remain under-explored.
Under Surface, Middle-Aged Women Push Anti-Trump Movement in US
It has been almost two years since Donald Trump’s surprising victory in the US Presidential election.
Review Essay: Why Tunisia?
Bringing Leadership Back In
Social movements drive economic, social, political, and cultural change. But who – or what – makes movements?
Human Rights as Membership Rights in World Society
Informal Worker Organising and Mobilisation: Linking Global with Local Advocacy
The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning te
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