Department of Politics, People & Place
Recent Submissions
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Fake News in Context: Truth and Untruths
(Article)Fake News appears to be the most modern of social problems. After bursting onto the scene in 2016, spurred in no small part by then Presidential candidate Trump and his commitment to a post-truth style of politics, Fake ... -
Hidden Culture
(Technical Report)Urban leaders globally have shown increasing interest in the city as a site for artistic and culture-led regeneration, and as such attempts to measure the value of culture and the impact of cultural growth have increasingly ... -
High Performance in African Public Services: Can Ubuntu Leadership save the day?
(Article)Emerging from indigenous communities in South Africa, the philosophy of Ubuntu has been heralded as a context-resonant leadership model befitting the African context. Ubuntu privileges moral and humanistic approaches to ... -
Crisis y Retos de la Democracia
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Nuevos Movimientos Sociales: de la calle a los ayuntamientos.
(Book)Los días 24 y 25 de noviembre de 2016 se celebró en la Univer-sitat de Girona un Seminario Internacional sobre movimientos sociales. En este, en el que colaboraron tanto la propia universidad (Facultad de Derecho) como la ... -
Retos y Respuestas Actuales de la Democracia. Presentación.
(Article)El presente monográfi co se aproxima a algunos de los principales fenómenos que afectan a las democracias actuales, particularmente a las europeas, así como a algunas de las respuestas ofrecidas – desde el mundo académico, ... -
Movimientos de okupación y políticas públicas urbanas: los casos de Madrid, Barcelona y Bilbao
(Article)The aim of the article is to identify the impacts of the squatting movement on public policies in Spain (1984-2018). Through the hermeneutics of social processes, three cases are compared (Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao). ... -
Agenda Setting and Democratic Innovation: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007)
(Article)This article suggests that a common feature among democratic innovations is the lack of an agenda setting function. First, it argues that a lack of control over their own agendas opens democratic innovations to manipulation ... -
Cultural and Creative Districts as Spaces for Value Change
(Book chapter)This chapter considers the notion of value appropriation embodied in physical space, as well as the process through which value is constructed through space. Drawing on the case study of the Ouseburn Valley in the North ... -
Entrepreneurial Universities in a Changing Eduscape: Conceptualising an International Branch Campus as a University Spinout
(Book chapter)Research on entrepreneurial universities has sought to explain the actions and impact of these organizations, however few studies have considered the changing landscape of education in the context of the entrepreneurial ... -
Problematising Hidden Culture
(Book chapter)In the last chapter, culture and the wider creative paradigm were argued to be one of the most notable areas of economic activity of the new millennium, and as Lazzeretti et al (2018) note, has come to dominate policy and ... -
Defining Value in the Creative Economy
(Book chapter)The creative and cultural industries as the primary focus of this book, constitute the most distinct area of economic growth of the new Millennium, and are increasingly viewed as an emerging paradigm in their own right ... -
The Hidden Value of Underground Networks and Intermediaries in the Creative City
(Book chapter)In this chapter, the value produced from creative performance in collective spaces and processes is examined by drawing on creative relationships and networks. For some, the city can be read as a series of bounded spaces, ... -
Business, Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Financial Crisis: The Global Challenge of Embedding Human Rights in Organizations and Human Resource Management Practices
(Book chapter)The relationship between business and human rights is important and complex. The social responsibility of business is evolving as Multinational Corporations become more pervasive and powerful; their global footprint can ... -
Integrating Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of a Global Financial Crisis: Enabling Sustainability through Executive Remuneration and Reward Strategy
(Book chapter)In spite of the potential synergies and mutual interdependence of corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), they have developed and been practiced independently of each other. The Global Financial ... -
Precariousness in Unlikely Places: The Role of High-Skilled Migrant Worker Networks in Resisting and Reproducing Precarity
(Book chapter)Research on changes to work and employment in the European Union (EU) have highlighted the increase in precarious forms of work (ILO 2012; McKay et al. 2012) especially among migrant workers (Anderson 2010; Potter and ... -
Operational dilemmas in safety-critical industries: the tension between organizational reputational concerns and the effective communication of risk
(Article)Organizations involved in safety-critical operations often deal with operational tensions especially when involved in safety-critical incidents that is likely to violate safety. In this paper, we set out to understand ... -
Determinants of Informal Entrepreneurship in Africa
(Article)This study investigates the determinants of informal entrepreneurship in Africa. Using a crosssection of 21,954 firms from 47 African countries, the study estimates several multivariate models to examine the factors that ... -
The dark side of transparency: Problematising the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a Public Sector Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption Initiative
(Article)This study explores the dark side of transparency by problematizing the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a transparency, accountability and anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. It does ...
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