An Introduction to Population Geographies: Lives Across Space

Routledge eBooks, 2017

2001

Since introduced their analytical framework for transnational understandings of immigrant communities, studies of transnational spaces or transnational social fields have produced rich illustrations of the ways in which space and social relations are being shaped by migrant networks that operate across the boundaries of multiple nation states. Much of this work has been driven by investigations focusing on the US and

Participatory Design Theory, 2018

Elites and Governance in China. London: Routledge, Xiaowei Zang and Chien-wen Kou (eds.), 73-93., 2013

One of the less noted paradoxes of contemporary China is that the decline of the planned economy has been accompanied by an increase in the influence of town planners, architects and urban designers. The new ‘Urban and Rural Planning Law’ (2008), which mandates formal ‘master planning’ for every scale of administrative territory from the Nation down to the village, underscores the alignment of governmental and professional commitment to purposefully shape the built environment for political, economic and social ends. The elite discourse and practice of ‘master planning’ that has emerged in recent years, then, manifests not only in grandiose mega-projects like the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai Expo; but also in thousands of other development projects across the nation: new ‘CBDs’, urban housing estates, county development zones, ‘new villages’ and so on. Taking examples from various scales of planning this paper demonstrates that in contemporary China, elite discourses of planning are just as likely to affect distant villages or peri-urban suburbs as the heart of Beijing or Shanghai. Moreover, the significance of contemporary ‘master planning’ lie less in discourses of national resurgence, than in a new manifestation of utopian modernism launched by Hu Jintao through his ‘theory of scientific development’: within this paradigm, the key objective of government planners is to re-order and standardise the built environment so as to render communities and economies more transparent and governable.

In Dodge M Kitchin R and Perkins C Editor Rethinking Maps New Frontiers of Cartographic Theory London Routledge 2009 P 220 243, 2009

Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace, 2017

This chapter examines the wide and fruitful deployment of the community of practice framework in language and the workplace research. Past research is critically reviewed in order to explore the affordances and constraints of positioning aggregates of co-workers in this way. During the earliest applications of the notion of communities of practice in workplace research it became obvious that it can be a powerful theoretical model for examining both the actions of workplace participants and the social structures that they reproduce and resist. Building on such insight, the author recommends that a nuanced and layered understanding of ‘communities’ or ‘groups’ and their practices can further enrich research in language and the workplace as the field moves forward. Future directions are suggested as a way to expand understanding of communities of practice at work (and their frontiers), including research into mobile workplaces, workplaces with mostly transient membership, and the relationship between workplaces, community belonging, layered timescales and spatial trajectories.

The papers in this book, based on conference proceedings of the 2003 joined conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Association of European Schools of Planning, investigate the challenges that Urban and Regional Planning is faced with today. The contributors deal with the questions of contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political, and physical spaces and center their arguments on the notion that social and physical networks are transforming the way in which we see planned cities and regions. The book's five sections focus on models of network society, the impact of physical networks, the challenges faced by planners in a society heavily reliant on new technology, local networks, such as community networks, and a comparison between spatial and policy networks. The Network Society is essential reading for everyone interested in urban studies, city and regional planning and urban design.

Mossière, G. (2017). « The ‘Discipline of the Veil’ Among Converts to Islam in France and Quebec: Framing Gender and Expressing Femininity », Dans Anna-Mari, Almila et David Inglis (dir.), The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices, UK : Routledge, p. 163-173.