Making Rivers, Producing Futures. The Rise of an Eco‐Modern River Imaginary in Dutch Climate Change Adaptation DOI Open Access

Lotte De Jong,

Gert Jan Veldwisch, Lieke Melsen

и другие.

Опубликована: Янв. 11, 2024

In the field of climate change adaptation, future matters. Amongst others, river futures justify way adaptation projects materialize in rivers. this paper, we challenge ways which dominant paradigms and expert claims monopolise truth concerning policies designs futures, side-lining delegitimizing alternative futures. Currently, limited work is done to critically reflect on power context adaptation. We conceptualized through imaginaries: collectively performed publicly envisioned reproductions riverine socionatures, mobilized social life order. Through Border Meuse project case study, a stretch south Netherlands proclaimed success story Dutch water management, elucidated how three modern imaginary, market-driven imaginary an eco-centric merged materialized as eco-modern imaginary. Importantly, not only merged, also their aligned regimes merged. To end, argue that George Orwell’s famous quote “Who controls past, future: who present, past” can be extended ‘Who future, see act rediscover past’.

Язык: Английский

Delayed redevelopment in urban expansion: opportunities for the preservation and revitalisation of collective memory in Shiqiao Town, Chengdu DOI Creative Commons
Shibin Tang, Qian Guo

Built Heritage, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 9(1)

Опубликована: Май 13, 2025

Abstract During rapid urban expansion, historic districts that are overtaken by the core can experience divergent fates. Some have catered to tourism and commercial real estate undergone architectural lifestyle changes, thus resulting in loss of folk culture. Additionally, as a result funding shortages or property disputes, other appear decayed but regained attention, collective memory these is valued. This paper uses Shiqiao Town Chengdu, China, case study explore redevelopment districts, with focus on preserving revitalising during expansion. Via participant observations, semistructured interviews, netnography, natural language processing, policy content reviews, this investigated memories based everyday lives public perceptions residents, aim facilitating interactions between social groups, city. Unlike previous practices related creative destruction, current offer opportunities for physical preservation representation memory, thereby attaining mutually beneficial outcome both economic development heritage conservation. The goal initiative promote continuous reconstruction forming framework focused ‘Original Memories’, ‘Stable Linkages’, ‘Continuous Reconstruction’. also highlights potential issues delayed redevelopment, such authenticity, accuracy cultural promotion, resident participation, offering insights future similar districts.

Язык: Английский

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Headlining justice from coalfields to clean futures: How the Australian newsprint media frames a just energy transition DOI Creative Commons

Rachel Walters,

Megan Farrelly, Wikke Novalia

и другие.

Energy Research & Social Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 125, С. 104131 - 104131

Опубликована: Май 15, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The urban realm and the municipal bureaucracy: Recognizing the role of place as disruptor to organizational traps DOI
Kevin Keenan

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Май 27, 2025

Urban place offers potential to disrupt municipal bureaucratic cultures—conceptualized as organizational traps in public administration theory—that stymie policy formulation, implementation, and innovation. Drawing on 17 in-depth interviews with actors survey responses from 103 urban households, this paper three interventions the diffusion literature. First, I demonstrate that leaders workers engage multiple outside of organization, those also interact amongst themselves at times magnify different ideas advocacy. These activities occur realm, which overlaps realm is thus informed by features an way life. Second, complex intertwined involves lateral learning transfer through city a broadly defined set varying levels formal connection bureaucracy. The occurs not only advancement: external learn about internal development implementation. Third, respondents offered place-based, or “hyper-localized” methods, deficits known managerialism.

Язык: Английский

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The Politics of Memory and Placemaking—The Territoriality of Sewol’s Memory DOI
HaeRan Shin

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0
Making Rivers, Producing Futures. The Rise of an Eco‐Modern River Imaginary in Dutch Climate Change Adaptation DOI Open Access

Lotte De Jong,

Gert Jan Veldwisch, Lieke Melsen

и другие.

Опубликована: Янв. 11, 2024

In the field of climate change adaptation, future matters. Amongst others, river futures justify way adaptation projects materialize in rivers. this paper, we challenge ways which dominant paradigms and expert claims monopolise truth concerning policies designs futures, side-lining delegitimizing alternative futures. Currently, limited work is done to critically reflect on power context adaptation. We conceptualized through imaginaries: collectively performed publicly envisioned reproductions riverine socionatures, mobilized social life order. Through Border Meuse project case study, a stretch south Netherlands proclaimed success story Dutch water management, elucidated how three modern imaginary, market-driven imaginary an eco-centric merged materialized as eco-modern imaginary. Importantly, not only merged, also their aligned regimes merged. To end, argue that George Orwell’s famous quote “Who controls past, future: who present, past” can be extended ‘Who future, see act rediscover past’.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

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