This article considers the theoretical perspective of post-Foucauldian governmentality,
especially the insights and challenges it poses for applied researchers within the critical …

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention'in
Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring …

In recent years, discourse analysis has been deployed by academics as a methodology to
understand the urban policy implementation process, in particular, the ways in which key …

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and
allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy …

This paper offers a critical appraisal of the methodological capacity of Discourse Studies
(DS) in conducting urban research. Based on an extensive literature search, 125 …

One of the greatest challenges faced by the post-1994 South African democratic government
is an immense backlog and shortage of housing for poverty-stricken South Africans. Since …

It is a truism that politicians from countries around the world claim to be in the midst of a
'housing crisis'. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? This paper …

In this article, I explore some of the contested meanings of leadership coexisting within the
context of higher education. I report from my study about how academics at one university in …

This article presents a typology of designs for social research in the built environment.
Currently there is no such typology, while the notion of 'research design'is less known in the …

Circular economy (CE) literature discusses the need for cooperation between different
stakeholders to promote a CE; there is also an assumption regarding the benefits of loop …