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Parnreiter, Christof

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“…These essentially derive from the regulatory and calculative practices of a globalized and globally financed property industry (David and Halbert 2014;Heeg and Bitterer this issue;Schweber 2013). However, they also testify to the increased involvement of global institutions such as the UN and World Bank in urban policy making within the frameworks of the 'urban age' discourse (Brenner and Schmid 2014;Parnreiter 2011).…”

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Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm‐making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000

Grubbauer

2015

Global Networks

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In this article, I explore how international actors in the development of real estate projects affect building practices in local markets. The focus is on the dynamics of interaction and exchange of knowledge between the disciplines of architecture and construction. Using the German ECE group and its expansion in the region as a case study, I look at shopping centre development in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the past two decades. I seek to show that the implementation of globally circulated design and planning solutions relies heavily on the particular construction practices and technologies available in a local market. I also argue that the role of marketization in diffusing building practices in the construction sector is as powerful as the work of global architects. Nonetheless, judging from the existing links and feedback between architectural practices and the construction industry, there is a definite need for further research to bridge the gap between analysis of knowledge mobility within the field of urban studies on the one hand and construction studies research on the other.

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Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm‐making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000

Grubbauer

2015

Global Networks

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“…To understand how local water management is transformed we use the concept of travelling models as a theoretical guide (Tait and Jensen 2007;Rottenburg 2009;Peck and Theodore 2010;Parnreiter 2011;Peck 2011;Steur 2011;Behrends et al 2014;Weisser et al 2014). A travelling model is defined as an abstraction of the social world (model) that is transferred, often through a political process, from one cultural context to another.…”

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Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

Schnegg

Linke

2016

Int J Commons

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Abstract:In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups. While the state withdrew from managing resources directly, it continued to circumscribe the ways in which local communities should govern them. In so doing, a "new commons" was created. Inclusive participation became the leitmotif of the new management scheme and in particular the participation of women was a major political and societal goal. In this article, we use the notion of travelling models as a theoretical guide to explore how the idea of participation emerged in international development discourses and how it was then translated through national legislation into the local context. The results of the analysis show that more than 20 years after the formulation of international conventions the average participation of women in local water committees remains low. However, older women do manage the funds associated with water and thus occupy one of the most important functions. Our explanation takes the wider social and cultural field into account and shows that gender and generational roles provide elder women with autonomy and authority which prepare their ways into these new official roles. We conclude by considering whether and how the travelling model of participation has been changing local social structures in general and the role of elder women in particular.

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Urban Agriculture: Models-in-Circulation from a Critical Transnational Perspective

Schwab

Caputo

Hernández-García

2018

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Urban Agriculture (UA) is practiced around the globe (Biel, 2016), supported and advocated by a diversity of actors ranging from local neighbourhood groups to supra-national bodies (e.g. FAO, 2014;Mougeot, 2006;UN Habitat, 2014). As such, UA must be understood as one of planning's current "models-in-circulation" (Roy and Ong, 2011), characterised by the traveling of ideas and policies in a globalised world (Healey, 2013). UA operates at a diversity of scales and engages a variety of actors. Yet, as a model in circulation, only some of the ways in which UA is practiced are presented globally and influence the way UA is perceived, thus disregarding UA's highly specific manifestations in different social/economic/political contexts around the world. We use a critical transnational perspective for a qualitative analysis of collective (rather than individual) UA practices happening in smallscale, left-over public spaces in three very different locations in Latin America and Europe (Bogotá and Medellin in Colombia, and Vienna in Austria) to get insights into how policies and initiatives inspired by typical models-in-circulation affect the situation on ground. The analysis shows that the reliance on such models can act like a filter impeding the acknowledgment that actors, objectives and barriers for UA practices are more complex, nuanced and multifaceted than those which a simple model can contain. As a result the benefits UA can yield are only partially attained. The conceptual device of translocal is subsequently formulated as one conveying the traveling of ideas locally, which can enrich and root models in circulation. Abstract 2Urban Agriculture (UA) is practiced around the globe (Biel, 2016), supported and advocated by a 3 diversity of actors ranging from local neighbourhood groups to supra-national bodies (e.g. FAO, 4 2014; Mougeot, 2006;UN Habitat, 2014). As such, UA must be understood as one of planning's 5 current "models-in-circulation" (Roy and Ong, 2011), characterised by the traveling of ideas and 6 policies in a globalised world (Healey, 2013). UA operates at a diversity of scales and engages a 7 variety of actors. Yet, as a model-in-circulation, only some of the ways in which UA is practiced 8 are promoted globally and influence the way UA is perceived, thus disregarding UA's highly 9 specific manifestations in different social/economic/political contexts around the world. We use a 10 critical transnational perspective for a qualitative analysis of collective (rather than individual) 11 UA practices happening in small-scale, left-over public spaces in three very different locations in 12 Latin America and Europe (Bogotá and Medellin in Colombia, and Vienna in Austria) to gain 13 insights into how policies and initiatives inspired by typical models-in-circulation affect the 14 situation on ground. The analysis shows that the reliance on such models can act like a filter 15 impeding the acknowledgment that actors, objectives and barriers for UA practices are more 16 complex, nuanced and multifaceted than t...

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Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm‐making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000

Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm‐making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000

Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

Urban Agriculture: Models-in-Circulation from a Critical Transnational Perspective

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