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Gaza: Cage Politics, Violence and Health
This blog is the second of the health in urban development blog series. View also:
Health in secondary urban centres: Insights from Karonga, Malawi
Health in secondary urban centres: Insights from Karonga, Malawi
This blog is the first of the health in urban development blog series. View also:
Gaza: Cage Politics, Violence and Health
If you are interested in DPU’s new MSc in Health in Urban Development, more information can be found on our website.
Reflections on Waste, Informality, and Scaling Up
Also by Ruchika Lall – Finding Spaces of Longitudinal Learning and Institutional Reflexivity
Finding Spaces of Longitudinal Learning and Institutional Reflexivity
Also by Ruchika Lall – Reflections on Waste, Informality, and Scaling Up
Between Upgrading and Resettlement: Fieldwork reflections from locations in Colombo
This post was prepared by Balint Horvarth, Mateo Lu, Fernando Toro, Nada Sallam and Karlene Stubbs with editorial support from Tim Wickson and Barbara Lipietz
Lessons from Kampala on Reflexivity in Development Practice
The international field trip is an integral component of the MSc Development Administration and Planning (DAP). After months of desk-based research in London, our cohort traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to understand how development initiatives are formulated and implemented in a specific context.
Cultura Negada: Reflecting on Racialised Urban Violence and Practices of Resistance in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Prominent academic debates around violence in the city most often seem to be concerned with how structural economic and political drivers codify violence into the urban space. To appropriate Harvey’s terminology, with how urbanisation by dispossession – in other words marginalisation – of urban groups contributes to increasing crime rates and gangs-related violence.
The politics of urban reconstruction in Syria
In April 2018 the Syrian government modified and extended an earlier Damascus-only urban reconstruction decree (Decree 66), to now be applied nationwide in Syria. This new law (Law 10) allows the Syrian government to award contracts for reconstruction to national and international investors, and to compensate citizens in the form of shares in regulatory zones.
Refugee reception and housing practices in Greece. Notes from a workshop on inclusiveness and development planning.
This is a short story from a contested place: the town of Kilkis, located 40 km’s away from the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) where, as in other rural areas in Greece, the economic crisis brought unemployment and depopulation. For its crucial location at the crossroads of migration routes, Kilkis has also been at the centre of the tragic events during the so called refugee crisis of 2015.
“The Limits of Consensus?”: Somaliland’s 2017 presidential election observed
By Conrad Heine with Michael Walls
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