Partnerships have offered Britain's New Labour government a pre-existing structure for urban policy delivery that appears ideally suited to the discourses of the Third Way it supports. This article considers why the New ...

This paper critically examines new modes of behaviour change promoted by the contemporary British state, providing a critique of libertarian paternalism as an emergent form of government in the UK. We analyse the multivalent ...

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of recent work that analyzes the nexus of post-socialist transition and sustainability. Beyond this broad aim, the paper also proposes two analytical insights. ...

Despite its apparent irrelevance as a scale or space of sociocultural organisation, the neighbourhood is back on the political agenda. At an international level, the neighbourhood -- or, more specifically, the 'global ...

This paper explores a dual absence — the absence of the state within contemporary geographical analyses of nature; and the absence of nature within contemporary explorations of state power. We argue that the modern state ...

In a desire to create a space of dialogue for scholars working at the interface of Geography and Science and Technology Studies we arranged a special paper session at the Annual International Conference of the Royal ...

This article explores the potential for a more ordinary sense of urban environmental justice. While great progress has been made over the last 30 years in connecting environmental politics to the everyday concerns of urban ...