Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1177/09697764231203537
Francesco Chiodelli, Sara Caramaschi, Margherita Grazioli
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing. It argues that, although individual and family meanings, aspirations, perceptions, and expectations have usually been overlooked in studies on urban informality, their analysis is fundamental for a sophisticated understanding of the genesis, features, and developing trajectories of informal housing. To this end, the article investigates the informalization process of temporary self-promoted housing units (the so-called casette, i.e. “little houses”) built in the aftermath of the 2009 earthquake in the city of L’Aquila, Italy. Although it is exceptional, the phenomenon of the casette illuminates several traits of other informal housing practices. Thus, it offers two interrelated conceptual insights for a deeper, fine-grained understanding of the varied ontologies of housing informality. First, it illustrates the concurrence of simultaneous drivers, differing in nature (e.g. subjective and objective, structural and agency-related, micro and macro) at the root of the production of informal space, where a key role is also played by inhabitants’ meanings, aspirations, perceptions, and expectations. Second, it shows that informality is not a fixed and unambiguous state. On the contrary, it is a field traversed by intertwined forces in a perpetual state of tension, so that a housing unit can move through different shades of (il)legality entailing varied combinations of subjective and objective drivers.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1177/09697764231201571
David Bassens, Duncan Lindo
At the heart of the Eurozone crisis was a dramatic divergence in interest rates between member states and a reversal of previously booming cross-border credit expansion from ‘core’ to ‘periphery’ by European banks. The resulting crisis and retreat behind national borders across the Eurozone challenged European elites’ decade-long project of producing European scale as a space for financial accumulation. The Eurozone crisis has been well-described but post-crisis geographies of financial integration have received limited attention. We chart the financial positionality of member states and the relations between them in the period 2012–2019 using a variety of metrics including intra-Eurozone cross-border bank lending. The post-crisis period is dominated by the European Central Bank’s determination to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the Euro and its financial system. The resulting asset purchases give it a qualitatively different place in the Eurozone financial system and end the crisis period’s retreat behind national borders. But they do not restore pre-crisis dynamics, and, in addition, unevenness along national lines remains. The crisis era core and peripheral labels still hold but the data also reveal important nuances: not least that the distribution of giant banks matters and offshore financial centres cut across core/periphery boundaries. Yet, even as there is no return to booming core-to-periphery credit, German lending into the Eurozone and its counterpart, Italian borrowing, symbolizes the continuing fragility of the Eurozone banking system. European Central Bank efforts ended the crisis, but more than asset purchases will be required if we are not to remain stuck in 2012.
欧元区危机的核心是成员国之间利率的巨大差异，以及欧洲银行此前从“核心”到“外围”蓬勃发展的跨境信贷扩张出现逆转。由此产生的危机和欧元区各国退到国界后，挑战了欧洲精英们长达十年的计划，即将欧洲规模扩大为金融积累的空间。欧元区危机得到了很好的描述，但危机后金融一体化的地理分布却受到了有限的关注。我们使用包括欧元区内部跨境银行贷款在内的各种指标，绘制了2012-2019年期间成员国的金融状况及其之间的关系图表。后危机时期的主要内容是欧洲央行(European Central Bank)决心“不惜一切代价”拯救欧元及其金融体系。由此产生的资产购买使其在欧元区金融体系中的地位发生了质的变化，并结束了危机期间躲在国界后面的局面。但它们并没有恢复危机前的动态，此外，各国之间的不平衡依然存在。危机时期的核心和外围标签仍然有效，但数据也揭示了重要的细微差别:尤其是大银行的分布很重要，离岸金融中心跨越了核心/外围的界限。然而，尽管从核心到外围的信贷不会重现繁荣，但德国向欧元区提供的贷款和意大利向欧元区提供的贷款，象征着欧元区银行体系的持续脆弱性。欧洲央行(ecb)的努力结束了危机，但如果我们不想在2012年陷入困境，就需要的不仅仅是资产购买。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1177/09697764231201572
Anna Kłoczko-Gajewska, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Edward Majewski, Adam Wilkinson, Matthew Gorton, Barbara Tocco, Adam Wąs, Monia Saïdi, Áron Török, Mario Veneziani
Shortening food supply chains attracts increasing support from policymakers, to improve returns to farmers and stimulate rural development. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence regarding the impacts of short food supply chains on local economies. To address this, the article quantifies the impacts of short food supply chains on local economies, using the Keynesian-based Local Multiplier 3 method (LM3), applied to a unique dataset of 122 farm businesses from five European Union countries (France, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom). Estimations cover 305 market chains, comprising both short and long food supply chains, in which sampled farmers participate. The results indicate that the revenues from farm production remain largely within local economies, generating a substantial multiplier effect (LM3 > 2). This effect stems from purchases of farm inputs locally including, in the first instance, hiring local labour, as well as the expenditures of local suppliers that re-spend part of their revenues within the local area. The multiplier effects of short food supply chains are similar to long food supply chain equivalents as both use largely local labour and source tradable inputs locally. In shaping food chain policy a broader set of socioeconomic benefits to local development from selling through short food supply chains should be considered.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1177/09697764231205223
Elisabeth Kirndörfer
This article combines postcolonial and feminist geography approaches to make sense of refugees’ everyday lives in Europe. The article weaves ‘global’ accounts on migration and ‘local’ negotiations of inclusion and exclusion into one story: how young refugees, within urban spaces of arrival, challenge and reformulate European orders of belonging and citizenship. Departing from works that conceptualise arrival within the urban fabric, it suggests a postcolonial lens to young refugees’ intimate and embodied processes of emplacement. My explorations are based on field research conducted in the East German city of Leipzig. This local urban context provides unique insights into how migration-related phenomena are negotiated in a very particular European region in which postsocialist and postcolonial histories of migration intersect. Based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations, the article interprets the young peoples’ articulations as ways of ‘speaking back’ to and countering the violent and hierarchical segmentation of the (post)colonial world. In creating alternative spaces of belonging, citizenship and encounter, they decentre Europe from below.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/09697764231201568
Márton Czirfusz
In recent years, geographical scholarship has paid an increasing amount of attention to the accumulation strategies of energy and public utility companies. This article contributes to these debates by emphasizing the multiscalar nature of profit extraction by transnational energy companies through financialization, dependent power relations, and state regulation regarding transnational energy companies. Empirically, this article analyzes German energy companies’ activities in Hungary. These energy giants bought Hungarian gas and electricity providers, networks, and power plants during the privatization waves of the 1990s, and largely left the Hungarian market after the 2010s re-nationalization process. Previous literature emphasized nation-state agency in the Hungarian energy sector’s development. This study—based on an analysis of companies’ annual reports, media coverage, and financial statements—draws attention to firm-level strategies in understanding techniques and strategies of accumulation by German energy companies in Hungary.
{"title":"Financialization, dependence, and state regulation: The accumulation strategies of German energy companies in Hungary","authors":"Márton Czirfusz","doi":"10.1177/09697764231201568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764231201568","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, geographical scholarship has paid an increasing amount of attention to the accumulation strategies of energy and public utility companies. This article contributes to these debates by emphasizing the multiscalar nature of profit extraction by transnational energy companies through financialization, dependent power relations, and state regulation regarding transnational energy companies. Empirically, this article analyzes German energy companies’ activities in Hungary. These energy giants bought Hungarian gas and electricity providers, networks, and power plants during the privatization waves of the 1990s, and largely left the Hungarian market after the 2010s re-nationalization process. Previous literature emphasized nation-state agency in the Hungarian energy sector’s development. This study—based on an analysis of companies’ annual reports, media coverage, and financial statements—draws attention to firm-level strategies in understanding techniques and strategies of accumulation by German energy companies in Hungary.","PeriodicalId":47746,"journal":{"name":"European Urban and Regional Studies","volume":"413 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135273243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1177/09697764231197963
Kārlis Lakševics, Yvonne Franz, Annegret Haase, Bahanur Nasya, Daniela Patti, Ursula Reeger, Ieva Raubiško, Anika Schmidt, Andris Šuvajevs
Periods of forced migration to and in Europe have been common in the past decade and show no expectation of stalling due to ongoing armed conflicts, global inequalities and the adverse effects of climate change. Nevertheless, the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees continues to depend on temporary, ad hoc solutions. In the context of housing financialisation and shortage of affordable housing across European cities, this decreases opportunities for integration and securing other needs, such as jobs, language acquisition and childcare, but increases the risk of refugee homelessness and social exclusion. Based on cross-national Urban Living Labs exchanges in Leipzig, Riga, Lund, Helsingborg and Vienna, this commentary argues for a European agenda for long-term housing solutions for forced migrants in the arrival and settling phases that tackle issues from discrimination to access, to belonging. Importantly, creating long-term housing solutions for refugees would benefit whole housing systems as instruments of social inclusion.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1177/09697764231201563
Nufar Avni
In this commentary, I use the current protest movement in Israel as an entry point to discuss urban autonomy and social protest in an age of growing polarization between progressive cities and reactionary states. While the nationwide protest is not explicitly framed in urban versus national terms, it has a clear urban dimension. Tel-Aviv-Jaffa is not only the place where the protest movement is the strongest, but the municipality also leverages the protest to demand enhanced autonomy against the right-wing government’s illiberal agendas. I suggest that viewing urban protest through an urban autonomy lens is useful to fully unpack the current wave of protest and situate it within the larger political processes that shape it.
{"title":"Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel","authors":"Nufar Avni","doi":"10.1177/09697764231201563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764231201563","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary, I use the current protest movement in Israel as an entry point to discuss urban autonomy and social protest in an age of growing polarization between progressive cities and reactionary states. While the nationwide protest is not explicitly framed in urban versus national terms, it has a clear urban dimension. Tel-Aviv-Jaffa is not only the place where the protest movement is the strongest, but the municipality also leverages the protest to demand enhanced autonomy against the right-wing government’s illiberal agendas. I suggest that viewing urban protest through an urban autonomy lens is useful to fully unpack the current wave of protest and situate it within the larger political processes that shape it.","PeriodicalId":47746,"journal":{"name":"European Urban and Regional Studies","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134975853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/09697764231188303
Alessandro Colombo, Marco Allegra
Cova da Moura was established in the municipality of Amadora in the mid-1970s as a bairro clandestino (‘informal’ or ‘illegal neighbourhood’). Since then, it has grown into a community of thousands of residents; having escaped the large rehousing operations of the 1990s, Cova da Moura is today one of the few surviving bairros clandestinos in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, as well as a ‘distressed urban area’. In the four decades of its life, Cova da Moura has passed through different eras of policymaking, and has been the object of a variety of public interventions. The article provides a critical assessment of the Iniciativa Bairros Críticos (Critical Neighbourhoods Initiative, 2005–2013), as an example of a policy initiative embodying a normative vision of collaborative governance. The case of the Iniciativa Bairros Críticos in Cova da Moura provides some lessons on how collaborative governance design can address key challenges that ‘distressed urban areas’ pose to public intervention – but at the same time shows us the unavoidable pitfalls of the process, as well as the limits of their reach vis-à-vis broad, structural issues.
Cova da Moura于20世纪70年代中期在阿马多拉市建立，作为一个“非正式”或“非法社区”。从那时起，它已经发展成为一个拥有数千居民的社区;Cova da Moura逃离了20世纪90年代的大规模拆迁行动，如今是里斯本大都市地区为数不多的秘密小屋之一，也是一个“破败的城区”。在其40年的生命中，Cova da Moura经历了不同的政策制定时代，并一直是各种公共干预的对象。本文对“关键社区倡议”Críticos(2005-2013年)进行了批判性评估，将其作为体现协作治理规范愿景的政策倡议的一个例子。Cova da Moura的Iniciativa Bairros Críticos的案例提供了一些关于协作治理设计如何解决“贫困城市地区”对公共干预构成的关键挑战的经验教训，但同时也向我们展示了这一过程中不可避免的陷阱，以及它们在-à-vis广泛的结构性问题上的局限性。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/09697764231194316
Mário Vale, Angeliki Peponi, Luís Carvalho, Ana Patrícia Veloso, Margarida Queirós, Paulo Morgado
While the role of cities and regions is increasingly acknowledged for climate action and discussed in the literature on sustainability transitions, the specific condition of peripheral regions has received less attention. This article develops a bibliometric review to shed light and discuss how the (multi-dimensional) notion of periphery has been conceived and implicitly declinate in different literature streams studying low-carbon sustainability transitions at the sub-national level. While the studies explicitly addressing the issues of peripherality are still scarce, the article identifies four critical dimensions that contribute to frame structural bottlenecks and opportunities: socio-spatial unevenness, asset fragility, network positionality and agency and the multi-scalar embeddedness of transition policies. At the interface of urban and regional studies and sustainability transitions’ research, these dimensions open up new research challenges and trading zones ahead for peripheral regions on navigating troubled waters of sustainability transitions.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1177/09697764231188304
Elena Calegari, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Marzia Freo, A. Reggiani
This study contributes to understanding the multidimensional effects of the European Union Cohesion Policy and highlights the importance of considering a wider range of well-being indicators when evaluating regional policies. The Extended Regional Development Index is an index of regional well-being that measures a broader set of regional outcomes. We examine the effects of Cohesion Policy on the Extended Regional Development Index in European Union-27 regions from 2007 to 2013, analysing the distributional effects on different quantiles of the index. Our findings highlight the Cohesion Policy’s role in supporting regional well-being and individual income levels during the double recession of 2008 and 2011. Moreover, the policy contributes to a process of convergence between regions, especially in light of increased disparities due to the European Union’s eastern enlargement.
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