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Housing crisis in a time of democratic backsliding | CAPS22

Theory & Research By looking into housing status, entitlements, infrastructure and policies, the panel “Housing crisis in a time of democratic backsliding” provided an analysis that helps to explain social contradictions and what kind of political action is possible by people excluded and/or repressed given authoritarian spatial dynamics in a society

By Sabrina Fernandes

Housing crisis in a time of democratic backsliding | CAPS22

Milton Santos: space, technique, and globalization

Theory & Research The relationships between the local and the global in the shaping of space comprise a set of fundamental categories of Milton Almeida dos Santos, one of the greatest Brazilian thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century

Milton Santos: space, technique, and globalization

COVID as the (Second) Death of Neoliberalism?

In Perspective If COVID-19 emergency measures are aimed more at safeguarding the profits of banks and large corporations than securing wages and welfare programmes, then this crisis is in fact an opportunity to increase wealth inequality.

By Pedro Salgado

COVID as the (Second) Death of Neoliberalism?

Fragmentary Governance of the COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and Contradictions of the AKP Regime

In Perspective Turkey encountered the COVID-19 pandemic under troublesome circumstances. The AKP has paid much effort to upholding a positive image among the public, while relying on its intense control over media and allegedly misrepresenting unemployment rates and coronavirus statistics.

By Ülker Sözen

Fragmentary Governance of the COVID-19 Crisis in Turkey and Contradictions of the AKP Regime

Confronting Corporate-Driven Food Systems in the Time of COVID-19: Contradictions and Potential in South Africa’s Civil Society

In Perspective While governments across southern Africa have imposed State of Emergency-type COVID-19 regulations, a number of ‘people’s coalitions’ have emerged in several countries.

By Boaventura Monjane

Confronting Corporate-Driven Food Systems in the Time of COVID-19: Contradictions and Potential in South Africa’s Civil Society