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Abstract [en]: The aim of the following work is to discuss the impact of recent city planning politics on neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro. Starting with the question of the role that neighbourhood can play as a resource for its inhabitants, it discusses the case of the communidade Vila Autódromo and its resistance against the construction works for the olympic...
Abstract [en]: Heterogeneity is a lived reality – but not all is judged the same way. Looking at social inequality in Mexico and the USA it can be seen how on the one side sexism and racism keep on existing in plural heterogen societies, but on the other side there are always countermovements. Going further from this it can be...
Abstract [de]: Die Mehrzahl der Entwicklungsländer hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten verfassungsrechtliche Schritte zur Dezentralisierung der politischen und administrativen Strukturen unternommen. Allein in den 1990er Jahren wurden in etwa 70 Ländern Dezentralisierungsgesetze verabschiedet (H. FUHR 1999). Auch dies war eine Konsequenz der Krise des Zentralstaats. Mittlerweile hat sich die anfängliche – vor allem in EZ-Kreisen verbreitete – Dezentralisierungseuphorie etwas gelegt....
Abstract [en] Polarization isn’t just a challenge for politics, it is a challenge for many democratic societies. And it is a topic that questions much we hoped about civil society, within state borders and on a global scope. There are referenda and elections with results many thought would never happen. Taken as such polarization seems one of the biggest threats we...
