{"title":"Transnational Urban and Rural Migrant Governance: The Case of the Indigenous Mexican Migrant Community in Los Angeles","authors":"S. Krannich","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.8579466525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.8579466525","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of transnational migrant governance is even more important when migration involves groups who are excluded and marginalized in the country of residence as well as in the country of origin. This is especially the case for indigenous Mexican migrants who have no full citizenship and no economic opportunities in Mexico and who are illegal and socially discriminated against in the United States. Therefore, the central question addressed by this paper is how indigenous migrants actually face these challenges and whether they organize and construct their own community governance as an answer to social exclusion and marginalization in ways which go beyond conventional “state” or “market” forms of organisation. Based on data collected from ethnographic research in Los Angeles, I argue that indigenous migrants from Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca build their own governance structures through a well institutionalized community based on a diverse network of migrant organizations, which open up wide transnational sociocultural and political spaces that connect their urban community in Los Angeles with their rural communities back in Oaxaca. Here, in contrast to other migrant groups, they apply their traditional indigenous community governance approaches, called usos y costumbres and tequio y cargo , as a means of sustaining identity and belonging, sharing social and economic capital and securing an independent toehold in the host nation.","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125143576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial - Cultural Practices, Civic Engagement and Forms of Organisation: International, transnational and multi-level aspects of local governance","authors":"Tony Gore, Carlos Nunes Silva","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.8585577274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.8585577274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126700847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review - How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy","authors":"P. Wells","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.3998655385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.3998655385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131394244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture and Governance: heritage safeguarding in Cape Verde","authors":"Maria Isabel Lemos","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.7643658753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.7643658753","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis presented in this article is dedicated to the observation of political initiatives to safeguard intangible cultural heritage (ICH), with a special focus on asymmetries in governance and potential long-term resolutions carried out at national and local levels. The case study presented reveals the evolution of the political, institutional and legislative mechanisms implemented by the Cape Verdean state since its entry into the ICH global conservation system. Furthermore, the gaps, outcomes and opportunities configured in this specific context are addressed as a contribution to the reflection upon diverse models of governance. The study, based on critical heritage studies and anthropology, is built on data collected through a mixture of methodologies such as participant observation, interviews and archival analysis. Data collection took place during an ethnographic fieldwork visit to the archipelago as part of a six-month internship at the National Heritage Institute. The contribution of the analysis, besides the observation of a specific case, lies in the consideration of the ICH political category as a long-term project. It also considers the asymmetries between the stakeholders and scales involved in such heritagization processes as a topic which is central to its success.","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114247943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review - Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary studies of austerity","authors":"Catherine Harris","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.2482544635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.2482544635","url":null,"abstract":"evidence. The three parts of the book create a coherent journey: Part One outlining the key issues, theory and context; Part Two providing detailed examples of the range of experiences of youth marginality and intersecting factors; and Part Three exploring young people’s resistance to marginalisation . The combination of these chapters bookended by synthesising introductory and concluding chapters by the editors result in a balanced, engaging and persuasive account.","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133045440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How ‘Local’ are Action Plans submitted by Open Government Partnership Local Participants?","authors":"M. Chatwin, Mary Francoli","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.9258898236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.9258898236","url":null,"abstract":"This paper asks, “Are the action plan commitments of Open Government Partnership (OGP) Local Program participants designed to address locally identified problems in a way that is responsive to their unique technological, organizational and contextual envir onments?” To answer this question, document analysis is used to critically examine the OGP Local Action Plans to assess whether unique contextual characteristics influence the application of broad open government tenets within individual commitments. In addition, a Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) lens is employed to determine whether action plans address locally relevant problems and construct viable and measurable solutions in collaboration with local stakeholders. This analysis allows for the identification of commonalities in the conceptualization and application of open government as well as providing a window into how local context (geographic, social, political, economic, technological) and institutional environment influences the nature, scope and characteristics of implementation.","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127339018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Graduate Atlas: visualizing the spatial inequality of employment outcome for university graduates of Britain","authors":"Yang Yu","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.5624534643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.5624534643","url":null,"abstract":"The plot demonstrates visualization of the estimated spatial differences of employment outcomes in a heatmap, the stronger the intensity the better the employment outcome. The odds ratio of being in a high-class occupation is ranged from 1.64 to 2.62, it suggests they are considerable spatial variations in graduate outcome by geographic origin. In England, a clear North-South divide is present where graduates originally from London and peripheral areas could see a better chance to get in a professional occupation than their peers from elsewhere. Besides, South coast (e","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115896684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad Hosein Abbasi, B. Abdullah, Muhammad Waseem Ahmad, A. Rostami, J. Cullen
{"title":"Bringing fuel poverty forward from post-intervention evaluations to design and decision-making stages","authors":"Mohammad Hosein Abbasi, B. Abdullah, Muhammad Waseem Ahmad, A. Rostami, J. Cullen","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.9393348874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.9393348874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116104048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Shenga, M. Cotton, Joshua Kirshner, L. Howe
{"title":"The dynamics of urban household energy poverty and energy transition in Mozambique","authors":"Carlos Shenga, M. Cotton, Joshua Kirshner, L. Howe","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.4945826875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.4945826875","url":null,"abstract":"Among developing nations, Mozambique has set an ambitious target to achieve universal energy access by 2030 and thus meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7 to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. By the end of 2024 the government expects to double domestic electricity access to 64 per cent of the population. Yet the quantitative evaluation of electricity access rates belies challenges of energy service affordability, household budgeting, and fuel and technology availability and choice. With growing concern over issues of energy poverty and energy justice for vulnerable low-income communities, this study provides an in-depth qualitative evaluation of the lived experience of energy access and energy poverty in urban Mozambique, through household interviews in the four biggest cities in the country. There are three main findings. First, we find qualitative indicators of energy wellbeing in urban households, however this energy wellbeing is divided politically – with energy service benefits felt most strongly in municipalities governed by the dominant party: Frelimo. Second, sustainable energy transitions in urban households are limited by the low uptake of renewable energy sources. Third, despite the majority having grid-connected electricity access, many urban households continue to use non-renewable fuels (gas and charcoal) for cooking and view renewable sources, such as solar panels, as a short-term energy fix. We argue therefore that greater policy emphasis upon small-scale renewable energy investment, uptake and implementation in urban localities is needed to spur action on sustainable energy poverty alleviation.","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128728148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Siddharth Sareen, Markus Waage, P. Smirnova, Jeffery Boakye-Botah, Morten Ryen Loe
{"title":"Double energy vulnerability in the Norwegian low-carbon urban transport transition","authors":"Siddharth Sareen, Markus Waage, P. Smirnova, Jeffery Boakye-Botah, Morten Ryen Loe","doi":"10.3351/ppp.2022.3953567323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.3953567323","url":null,"abstract":"Household energy poverty and transport energy poverty are increasingly recognised as entangled in energy social science. The intersection of these related phenomena is growing due to twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation, whereby transport modes are increasingly electrified, and household electricity use is digitalised. Sectoral coupling enables energy flexibility, which is crucial for enabling greater renewable energy penetration in the electricity mix to advance decarbonisation agendas. Yet there are potential negative outcomes of this cross-sectoral hyper-integration, in terms of exacerbating existing inequalities and creating new ones. Digitalised systems can exclude marginalised groups, constitute intrusion on privacy, reallocate resources such as public space and electricity to certain transport modes at the expense of others, and drive dynamic electricity tariffs that penalise those with inflexible usage patterns, who typically include energy-poorer households. This paper examines how these issues play out in the under-privileged neighbourhood Østre Bydel in affluent Stavanger, Norway – a city targeting low-carbon urban transport transitions where energy poverty is an under-studied concern. Based on 45 structured interviews with households in the neighbourhood conducted during autumn 2021 complemented by desk study, the paper analyses double energy vulnerability in the city’s systemic transition to low -carbon transport coterminous with rapidly digitalised electric infrastructure. per cent, and one estimated this to be in the 6-10 per cent range. While estimates, these self-perceptions show that energy poverty as a phenomenon spans a breadth that transcends definition and categorisation with a single number.","PeriodicalId":162475,"journal":{"name":"People, Place and Policy Online","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134492583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}