Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space最新文献

Steering FinTech: Techno-industrial policy for the data-driven economy in China's Greater Bay Area. 引导金融科技：中国大湾区数据驱动经济的科技产业政策。

IF 4.3 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-12-05 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X251394557

Dimitar Anguelov

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An empirically grounded conceptual framework of the determinants of economic resilience: Insights from seven major Canadian regions. 经济弹性决定因素的经验基础概念框架：来自加拿大七个主要地区的见解。

IF 4 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-11-19 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X251391204

Jesse Sutton, Godwin Arku

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'This big shadow that we need to turn into light' - How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work. “我们需要把这个巨大的阴影变成光明”——劳动力中介如何将商品化的家庭护理工作道德化。

IF 4 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-10-14 eCollection Date: 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X251377078

Christiane Meyer-Habighorst, Christina Mittmasser, Karin Schwiter

{"title":"'This big shadow that we need to turn into light' - How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work.","authors":"Christiane Meyer-Habighorst, Christina Mittmasser, Karin Schwiter","doi":"10.1177/0308518X251377078","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0308518X251377078","url":null,"abstract":"Domestic care workers have long been largely invisible in labour statistics and in public and policy debates. The emergence of digital labour intermediaries has exposed domestic care workers to a new, but problematic, individual visibility: to find jobs and customers, they must create digital public profiles with personal information. Accordingly, scholars emphasise that this individualised visibility poses risks to privacy and security of domestic care workers. We argue in this paper that labour market intermediaries create not only an individualised visibility of domestic care workers, but also a new collective visibility that leads to more public debate about their working conditions and societal recognition. Methodologically, our argument is based on qualitative interviews with founders and managing directors of companies who mediate domestic care work in Switzerland. Drawing on the concept and literature on market moralisation, we consider these companies to be moral entrepreneurs. Based on our interest in how they frame the social value of commodified care work, we applied a discourse-analytic perspective. We found that the moral entrepreneurs use four central narratives to highlight their societal contribution. They claim to formalise care work, increase the public recognition of care work, emancipate women and integrate migrants. Based on these findings, we discuss these moralising narratives as ambivalent: although they reify a problematic feminisation, migrantisation and neoliberalisation of domestic care work, they enhance the collective visibility of care workers. Subsequently, the increased visibility might contribute to put working conditions in domestic care on the public agenda and lead to positive change.","PeriodicalId":48432,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space","volume":"58 1","pages":"92-109"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12861503/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146108010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards a radical highway geography: Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism. 走向激进的高速公路地理：柏林与全球资本主义下城市物流的重塑。

IF 4 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-08-26 eCollection Date: 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X251361632

Susanne Soederberg

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Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance. 市政结构调整：全球发展金融的制度分析。

IF 4 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-08-21 eCollection Date: 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X251349100

Hanna Hilbrandt

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Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory. 通过收回积累：沿海萨利希地区的资本主义定居者殖民主义。

IF 4.6 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241312890

Thilo van der Haegen, Heather Whiteside

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Financialization, housing rents and affordability in Toronto. 多伦多的金融化、住房租金和可负担性。

IF 4 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2025-04-25 eCollection Date: 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308518X251328129

Martine August, Cloé St-Hilaire

{"title":"Financialization, housing rents and affordability in Toronto.","authors":"Martine August, Cloé St-Hilaire","doi":"10.1177/0308518X251328129","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0308518X251328129","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the links between financialization, rent increases and spatial inequality in Toronto, Canada. By drawing on qualitative data from the grey literature, corporate records and real estate events, we first find that financial landlords (REITs, REOCs, asset managers, private equity and institutions) attest to rent price increases as a strategy core to their financial structure, leading to a systematic undermining of affordability. Drawing on a Toronto-wide database of property rent levels, we then quantitatively demonstrate that financial firms charge higher rents, charge higher premiums to neighbourhood average rents and post the highest same-property quarterly rent increases, compared to other types of landlords. We analyzed the geography of financialization and rent, finding that financial firms charge the highest premiums to average rents in lower-income and racially marginalized 'Neighbourhood Improvement Area', (NIAs), capitalizing on the higher rent gap potential in devalued areas with lower rent levels. We conclude by stressing the importance of reining in on financial landlords, especially as they have become the largest acquirers of suites in Toronto in the past two decades.","PeriodicalId":48432,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space","volume":"57 5","pages":"517-535"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12313042/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial governmentality and the rhetoric of scarce resources: ‘Scientific and reasonable’ points systems in Shenzhen (China) 空间治理与稀缺资源的修辞：深圳（中国）“科学合理”的积分系统

1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241286335

Anne‐Christine Trémon