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    ISSN: 0042-0980 , 0042-0980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications Ltd.
    Angaben zur Quelle: 60,10, Seiten 1949-1967
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: belonging ; neighbourhood ; public familiarity ; 归属感 ; 邻里 ; 公众熟悉度 ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Urban scholars commonly expect that residents show more neighbourhood belonging, the longer they live in an area. An imagery of fixed settlements thus remains dominant in a rapidly changing world. Recent research challenged classic assumptions but the alternative of elective belonging hardly differentiated between symbolic and practical neighbourhood use. As belonging is performatively maintained, this differentiation may be needed. What defines residents’ belonging in a neighbourhood in digital mobile times? Does length of residence alone result in place-based practices, familiarity with other people and ultimately in more belonging? Our analyses of survey-data from four Berlin neighbourhoods show that length of residence correlates with belonging, but not in a simple linear way. The use of infrastructure and especially public familiarity, which depends on the settlement as specific historical configuration, affect this relationship.
    Abstract: 城市学者普遍认为,居民在一个地区居住的时间越长,就越有邻里归属感。因此,固定定居点的意象在瞬息万变的世界中仍然占主导地位。最近的研究对经典假设提出了质疑,但选择性归属的替代方案 几乎没有区分象征性和实际的邻里功能。由于归属感是通过行动来维持的,因此可能需要对它们进行区分。在数字化、移动化时代,如何定义居民对社区的归属感?仅仅长时间的居住就会带来基于地方的实践、与他人的熟悉并最终带来更多的归属感?我们对柏林四个街区的调查数据进行了分析,发现居住时间长短与归属感相关,但并非以简单的线性方式相关。基础设施的使用,尤其是公众熟悉度,会影响这种关系。而公众熟悉度取决于作为特定历史配置的定居点。
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (449 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2019
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Migration ; Mobilität ; Jugend ; Europäische Union ; Stadt ; migration ; mobility ; youth ; European Union ; city ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Migration wird oft als soziales Problem dargestellt, das mit Benachteiligungen einhergeht. Allerdings hat die Migrationsforschung in den letzten Jahren gezeigt, dass Migration sich u.a. durch Klasse, Geschlecht und Ethnizität ausdifferenziert. Diese Studie fokussiert auf das Konzept der sozialen Klasse. Die Studie schlägt vor, Mobilität als Ressource zu betrachten, die in der Gesellschaft ungleichmäßig verteilt ist. Wie beeinflusst die soziale Klasse der Migrant_innen ihre räumliche Mobilität und die Art und Weise, wie sie mit Migrationsregimen interagieren? Wie beeinflusst ihre Mobilität die Prozesse von Klassenformation, in denen sie während der Migration involviert werden? Die Analyse erfolgt durch die Untersuchung der Migrationsgeschichten von jungen italienischen Migrant_innen, die seit 2008 nach Berlin zugewandert sind. Sie basiert auf einem Mix an Methoden, bzw. einer Online-Umfrage, 40 Interviews, drei Fokus-Gruppen und zahlreichen teilnehmenden Beobachtungen. Erstens untersucht der theoretische Teil die Entwicklung des Konzeptes der sozialen Klasse und deckt die Leerstellen der Klassenforschung auf. Zweitens wird im empirischen Teil den Zugang italienischer Migrant_innen zu Wohnen und Arbeit in Berlin untersucht. Schließlich beweist die Studie, dass das Regime der „freien“ EU-Binnenmigration wohl durch die Entstehung von Grenzen auf lokaler Ebene gekennzeichnet ist. Nach der Analyse scheint dieses Regime eher eine Lebensführung zu favorisieren, in der permanente Mobilisierung der eigenen Arbeitskraft notwendig ist. Die Studie bestätigt, dass Mobilität als Ressource zu betrachten ist, die zunehmend relevant für den Lebensunterhalt ist, und plädiert deshalb dafür, eine kritische Perspektive auf Migration zu entwickeln, die den Fokus auf die Frage nach der Kontrolle und Eigentum von Mobilität setzt.
    Abstract: Migration has been studied for long time as a social problem, both for migrants and for sending and destination countries. However, research shows that migration has become increasingly differentiated along social, economic, gender and cultural lines. The present study unravels the concept of migration by introducing social class as a crucial intervening variable. It suggests considering mobility as an income-generating resource unevenly distributed across the population. How does the social class of migrants affect their mobility and the ways how it is incorporated into a migration regime? How is mobility related to processes of class formation in contemporary capitalism? The study focusses on the case of young Italian migrants who moved to Berlin after the economic crisis of 2008. Firstly, it tackles the rise, decline and renaissance of the class concept, showing the blind spots of class analysis. Secondly, the empirical part, based on a web survey, 40 interviews, 3 focus groups and several participant observations, explains how Italian migrants access resources in Berlin developing a life conduct predicated on mobility. The imperative to move spills over from the domain of spatial mobility into the domain of work, with the refusal of doing the same job “forever”, and into that of reproduction, with the construction of flexible forms of emotional engagement. The research highlights how newcomers enter processes of social differentiation on the housing and labor market. Endless mobilization of young labour force appears as the main policy goal for the governance of intra-EU migration. The analysis finally suggests considering mobility as a class-related resource, whose ownership and control should become a crucial issue for the understanding of contemporary societies.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    ISBN: 9783832553104
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (134 Seiten)
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rauschgift ; Stadtviertel ; Berlin ; Kottbusser Tor (Berlin) ; Verschmutzung ; Sicherheit ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände
    Abstract: Das Kottbusser Tor in Berlin-Kreuzberg wird sowohl wegen seiner Vielfalt und seines Community-Aktivismus gefeiert als auch wegen Schmutz, Drogen und Gefahr gemieden. Wie die Bewohner*innen ihren Kiez sehen, wird oft in Anekdoten und politischen Statements dargestellt, aber kaum systematisch untersucht. Deshalb hat ein Forschungsteam des Georg-Simmel-Zentrums für Metropolenforschung an der Humboldt-Universität im Auftrag des Bezirksamtes Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg an Haustüren geklingelt und nachgefragt: Wodurch fühlen sich die Menschen in ihrem Wohngebiet unsicher? Würden sie denken, dass mehr Polizeipräsenz die Un-/Sicherheit erhöhen würde? Was erwarten sie von anderen Anwohner*innen, und inwiefern tragen solche Erwartungen zum Gefühl der Sicherheit bei? Trägt die alltägliche Nutzung der Nachbarschaft zum Sicherheitsgefühl bei? Dieses kleine Buch stellt die Ergebnisse der Studie vor. Es engagiert sich kritisch mit der berühmten These, dass "Augen auf der Straße" soziale Kontrolle und damit mehr subjektive Sicherheit erzeugen, und untersucht die Relevanz von Dunkelheit, Dreck und Drogen sowie von Achtsamkeit, Gemeinsamkeit und Zugehörigkeit. Die Studie zeigt, dass das Sicherheitsempfinden in einer städtischen Nachbarschaft von vertrauter Öffentlichkeit abhängt. Sie zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass Menschen einschätzen können, was sie um sich herum sehen (eine Fähigkeit, die bei wiederholter Nutzung von Orten zunimmt) und darauf vertrauen, dass andere Bewohner*innen ihnen den Rücken freihalten. Dabei muss den Menschen nicht immer alles gefallen, was sie an ihrem Wohnort erfahren. Aber in dichten Stadtgebieten mit hoher Diversität profitieren die Bewohner*innen von gegenseitigem Wiedererkennen, wenn es um das Sicherheitsempfinden geht.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2020
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Bildungspolitik ; soziale Ungleichheit ; Kolonialpolitik ; Q-Methodik ; Educational Policy ; social Inequality ; Colonial Policy ; Q-methodology ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Bildung ist ein Instrument, das zur Bekämpfung von Armut, Ungleichheit und sozialer Ausgrenzung in jeder Gesellschaft eingesetzt werden kann. Für eine nachhaltige und ganzheitliche nationale Entwicklung ist daher eine gerechte Verteilung der Bildungsressourcen unter den Menschen erforderlich. Dies ist jedoch nicht immer ohne Weiteres zu erreichen, insbesondere in Afrika, wo der Kolonialismus in vielen Ländern teilweise zu einer ungleichen Entwicklung unter den Menschen geführt hat. Schon bald nach der Eingliederung der Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (heute Ghana) in die Kolonialherrschaft vernachlässigte die Bildungspolitik der Kolonialisten den nördlichen Teil des Landes. Obwohl es einige Studien zum Kolonialismus in Afrika im Allgemeinen gibt, wurde nur wenig darüber berichtet, welche Rolle er bei der Schaffung eines ungleichen Bildungswesens spielte. Auch die Auswirkungen von aktiven Förderungsmaßnahmen, die zur Überbrückung der Kluft zwischen dem Nord-Süd-Gefälle in Ghana eingeführt wurden. Die wichtigsten Fragen, die diese Studie daher zu beantworten versucht, sind die Folgenden: Was waren die kolonialen Begegnungen mit dem Norden Ghanas, die die Unterentwicklung des Bildungswesens in der Region bewirkten? Wie überbrücken die aktiven Förderungsmaßnahmen bzw. die positive Diskriminierung die Kluft zwischen dem Norden und dem Süden des Landes? Zur Beantwortung der Forschungsfragen wurde in der Studie ein methodengemischter Ansatz verwendet, bei dem Tiefeninterviews, Q-Methoden, Dokumentenanalyse und Beobachtung als Datenerhebungsmethoden Einsatz fanden. Es stellte sich heraus, dass die Kolonialisten eine bewusste Strategie verfolgten, den Norden zu einer Reserve ungelernter Arbeitskräfte zu machen, was erklärt, warum sie dort anfangs nur wenige Schulen bauten. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen darüber hinaus, dass die positive Diskriminierung die Nord-Süd-Lücke nicht wie erwartet schließt. So kommt man zu dem Schluss, dass die Ausbeutung weitesgehend für die Unterentwicklung des Bildungswesens in Nordghana verantwortlich ist.
    Abstract: Education is a tool that can be used to fight poverty, inequality, and social exclusion in every given society. Thus, for a sustainable and holistic national development, there is the need for an equitable distribution of educational resources among the people. This is however hardly achievable, especially in Africa where colonialism has partly brought about unequal development among the people in many countries. Soon after the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) was incorporated under colonial rule, the educational policy of the colonialists did not favour the northern part of the country. Even though, there have been some studies on the colonialism of Africa in general, little has been done regarding the role it played in (re)producing unequal development of education in Africa. Likewise, the impact of an affirmative action instituted to bridge the gap between the north-south divide in Ghana has not been evaluated. The main questions this study thus seek to answer are: What were the colonial encounters with the north that brought about the underdevelopment of education in the area? How is the affirmative action bridging the gap between the north and the south? To answer the research questions, the study used a mixed-methods approach where in-depth interviews, Q methods, document analysis and observation were adapted as data collection methods. It was revealed that the colonialists adopted a deliberate strategy of making the north an unskilled labour reserve, thus accounting for why they did not build many schools there in the beginning. The findings of the study also show that the effect of the affirmative action has not been able to appreciably contribute to closing the north-south gap as expected. It is concluded that exploitation largely accounted for the underdevelopment of education in northern Ghana.
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    In:  Journal of environmental policy and planning 21,2019,4, Seiten 358-372
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of environmental policy and planning
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 21,2019,4, Seiten 358-372
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rainwater harvesting ; institutions ; imaginaries ; urban infrastructure ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Studies of rainwater harvesting regularly highlight the rich diversity of technologies used for rainwater harvesting in cities, but rarely devote attention to the equally diverse logics driving rainwater harvesting projects (RWHPs). To rectify this omission this paper presents research from a city – Berlin – which has a long pedigree of rainwater harvesting that has given rise, over the past 30 years, to an astonishingly varied range of schemes. We analyse and compare three cases encapsulating three distinct project types prevalent in the city: public, grassroots and commercial. The paper demonstrates the nature of diversity between the three and illustrates how diverse logics of rainwater harvesting co-exist within one city. More fundamentally, it unpacks these logics using concepts of sociotechnical imaginaries, urban infrastructures in transition and institutional obduracy and change. It is demonstrated, thereby, how each project reflects a particular imaginary of why urban rainwater should be harvested, how and for whom, and how these imaginaries have emerged out of particular institutional and infrastructural contexts in the course of Berlin’s post-reunification development. The paper concludes with reflections on the implications of this conceptually grounded, cross-case comparison for environmental research and policy.
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    Note: Originally published as: Ourania Papasozomenou, Timothy Moss & Natàlia García Soler (2019) Raindrops keep falling on my roof: imaginaries, infrastructures and institutions shaping rainwater harvesting in Berlin, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 21:4, 358-372, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623658
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  • 6
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2018
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Verdrängung ; städtische Arme ; globaler Süden ; soziale Ungleichheit ; Charles Tilly ; Wohnen ; Displacement ; urban poor ; global South ; social inequality ; Charles Tilly ; Housing ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Wie gehen die städtischen Armen mit Wohnraumverdrängung um? Welche Strategien entwickeln sie? Und welche Elemente bestimmen, welche Strategien die städtischen Armen einsetzen? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, entpacke ich die Idee von ‚Strategien zur Bewältigung von Bedrohung durch Verdrängung‘, um zu soziologischen Konzeptualisierungen eben dieser Strategien zu gelangen. Dazu nutze ich einige der Konzepte in Bourdieus [1986] Kapitalbegriff sowie die Anwendung von Tillys [1999] Theorie der dauerhaften Ungleichheit als Rahmenkonzept. Empirisch identifiziere und analysiere ich die Anti-Verdrängungs-Strategien der städtischen Armen in den komplexen Wohnsituationen von São Paulo und Istanbul. Der Analyse zufolge wirken sich die ermittelten Strategien zur Vermeidung von Verdrängung oder zur Verbesserung der Wohnsituation langfristig auf die Betroffenen oder den Wohnungsmarkt nicht positiv aus. Im zweiten Schritt der Analyse argumentiere ich, dass die Mehrheit der Strategien mit den Ursachen und Verstärkungsmechanismen der dauerhaften Ungleichheiten übereinstimmt, welche Tilly identifiziert hat. Dadurch entsteht, wie ich in der Arbeit darlege, zwangsläufig der Prozess der andauernden Wohnungsungleichheit, der trotz der Bemühungen der städtischen Armen wenig Aussicht auf Veränderung zeigt. Das heißt nicht, dass die städtischen Armen keine Kämpfe gewonnen haben oder dass sich nicht individuell ihre Situationen verbessert haben, sondern, dass das größere Bild der Ungleichheiten in der Wohnungswirtschaft wenig erfolgsversprechend ist. Selbst wenn einige Menschen beispielsweise Vermögenswerte in Form von ökonomischem Kapital schaffen, scheinen die städtischen Armen dem zukünftigen Verdrängungsdruck nicht zu entkommen. Obwohl die Anti-Verdrängungs-Strategien somit den Verdrängungsdruck teilweise vorübergehend mildern können, untergraben die dauerhaften Ungleichheiten auf dem Wohnungsmarkt eine substanzielle und nachhaltige Veränderung im Interesse der städtischen Armen.
    Abstract: How do the urban poor cope with housing displacement? What kinds of strategies do the urban poor develop? And what elements shape which strategies they deploy? To answer these questions, I unpack the idea of strategies for “coping” with the threat or uncertainty of displacement to arrive at sociological conceptualizations of these strategies – ones anchored in Bourdieu’s [1986] concept of capital as well as the application of Tilly’s [1999] theory of durable inequalities to housing. Empirically, I identify and analyze the anti-displacement strategies of the urban poor within the complex housing contexts of São Paulo and Istanbul by breaking down the housing market into sub-housing markets (housing forms) as they are used by the urban poor in each local context. Combining existing analytic frameworks with my original data, I also speculate about the effects of the identified strategies for the urban poor in terms of durable housing inequalities. According to the analysis, the identified strategies to avoid displacement or improve housing are not positively impacting the urban poor or the housing environment in the long run. To account for this, in the second step of the analysis I argue that the majority of strategies align with the causes and reinforcement mechanisms of durable inequalities that Tilly identified. This is not to say no battles have been won or that no individual situations have improved, but to say that the larger picture of housing inequalities warrants little optimism. Even when some new housing forms create assets in form of economic capital (e.g., land titles), the urban poor don’t seem to escape future displacement pressures. Therefore, although the anti-displacement strategies may temporarily ease displacement pressure, the durable inequalities of the housing market undermine substantial and sustainable change in the interest of the urban poor.
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    In:  Geoforum 89,2018, Seiten 96-106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Geoforum
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 89,2018, Seiten 96-106
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rainwater harvesting ; sociotechnical imaginaries ; urban infrastructure ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Studies of rainwater harvesting regularly highlight the rich diversity of technologies used to collect, treat and reuse rainwater in cities, but rarely devote attention to the equally diverse visions that drive rainwater harvesting projects. To rectify this omission this paper presents research from a city – Berlin – which has a long pedigree of rainwater harvesting that has given rise, over the past 30 years, to an astonishingly varied range of schemes. From a database of over 250 rainwater harvesting projects we select, analyse and compare three case studies which encapsulate three distinct project types prevalent in the city: public, grassroots and commercial. The paper demonstrates the nature of diversity between the three and illustrates how diverse logics of rainwater harvesting co-exist within one city. More significantly, it shows how each scheme reflects a particular imaginary of why urban rainwater should be harvested, how and for whom, and how these imaginaries have emerged out of particular institutional and infrastructural contexts in the course of Berlin’s post-reunification development. These empirical findings are interpreted using STS concepts relating to sociotechnical imaginaries, urban infrastructures in transition and institutional obduracy and change.
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    Note: First published as: Natàlia García Soler, Timothy Moss, Ourania Papasozomenou, Rain and the city: Pathways to mainstreaming rainwater harvesting in Berlin, Geoforum, Volume 89, 2018, pp. 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.010 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    In:  Journal of Urban Affairs 40,2018,8, Seiten 1182-1183
    ISSN: 1467-9906 , 1467-9906
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (3 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of Urban Affairs
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Angaben zur Quelle: 40,2018,8, Seiten 1182-1183
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Rezension ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    ISBN: 978-3-8325-4813-1
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (76 Seiten)
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Seit einigen Jahren wird in Berlin verstärkt über "Jugenddelinquenz" diskutiert und geforscht. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Auftragsstudie beleuchten Talja Blokland und Vojin Šerbedžija den Jugendalltag in den Kreuzberger Wohngebieten Mehringplatz und Düttmann-Siedlung. Dabei legen sie den Fokus auf die Erfahrungen und Sichtweisen von - meist auffällig gewordenen - Jugendlichen. Diese Schwerpunktsetzung ermöglicht den AutorInnen, die Ursachen und Umstände von deviantem Verhalten differenziert und kontextbedingt zu analysieren. Blokland und Šerbedžija zeigen auf, dass die jungen, sehr kiezorientierten Menschen mehrheitlich in prekären Verhältnissen aufwachsen. Dies spiegelt sich in Geldmangel, schulischen Problemen und einem erschwerten Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt wider und wird zusätzlich durch Ausgrenzungs- und Rassismuserfahrungen im städtischen Raum verstärkt. Die AutorInnen argumentieren, dass diese überwiegend strukturellen Probleme sowohl mit dem Aufeinandertreffen unterschiedlicher Logiken als auch mit dem gesellschaftlich ungleichen Zugang zu Ressourcen und Kapital zusammenhängen. Die Studie liefert Erkenntnisse und Vorschläge dazu, wie man durch institutionelle Perspektivwechsel, Raumgestaltung und generations- bzw. schichtübergreifende Begegnungen (Public Familiarity) der Gewalt, Kriminalität oder gefühlten Unsicherheit auf lokaler Ebene entgegenwirken kann.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2017
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Soziologie, ; Identität ; Raum ; Stadtsoziologie ; Berlin ; Prenzlauer Berg ; Sozialtheorie ; öffentlicher Raum ; Grenzziehungen ; kollektives Erinnern ; Normen ; social identity ; place identity ; urban sociology ; Berlin ; Prenzlauer Berg ; social theory ; boundary work ; public space ; sociology ; collective memory ; norms ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Diese Dissertation diskutiert am Beispiel der symbolischen Kämpfe zwischen kürzlich Zugezogenen und den Resten alteingesessener subkultureller Gruppen im Berliner Stadtteil Prenzlauer Berg die Frage, welche Rolle Orte bei der Konstruktion räumlicher und sozialer Identitäten spielen und entlang welcher Grenzziehungen diese Identifikationen organisiert werden. Empirisch stützt sich die Arbeit auf Tiefeninterviews mit den oben genannten Gruppen und einer Mediendiskursanalyse zum umstrittenen Symbol „Prenzlauer Berg“. Soziale Identität, das simultane Wechselspiel interner Identifikation und externer Kategorisierung (Jenkins 1996), ist eng verbunden mit der Frage nach Zugehörigkeit. Das Konzept des elective belonging (Savage et al. 2005) zeigt die Verbindung von Lebensstil und Wohnort. Diese Arbeit weist darüber hinaus auf den Zusammenhang zwischen einer starken symbolischen und praktischen Nachbarschaftsnutzung (Blokland 2011) der Zugezogenen und deren hoher Ortsidentifikation hin. Die eingesessene Subkultur Prenzlauer Bergs interpretiert diese symbolische Nutzung als einen Angriff auf die alte Ordnung im Kiez und bezieht ihre Verbindung mit dem Ort, infolge der fundamentalen Wandlungsprozesse, aus dem Erinnern (Halbwachs 1991) an eine Zeit, in der sie selbst sich den Raum aneigneten. Damit stellen sie der neuen Bedeutung Prenzlauer Bergs eine frühere Bedeutung, d.h. eine spezifische Vorstellung räumlicher Normalität, entgegen. Ausdruck dieser konkurrierenden Definitionen von Zugehörigkeit sind symbolische Grenzziehungen (Lamont; Molnár 2002) gegenüber neuen Bewohner_innen, die sich auch im medialen Diskurs über den Prenzlauer Berg wiederfinden. Dabei wird klar, dass die subkulturellen Stimmen zwar die Definition von Zugehörigkeit dominieren, der identifikatorische Zugriff auf die Nachbarschaft aber nur noch selektiv gelingt. Demgegenüber müssen die kürzlich Zugezogenen stetig um die Legitimation ihrer Zugehörigkeit kämpfen.
    Abstract: This thesis explores the role of place within constructions of social and spatial identities, and symbolic boundary work using the case of existing subcultural groups and affluent newcomers in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. Empirically, this work draws on in-depth-interviews with both groups as well as a media discourse analysis of the contested meanings of the symbol ‘Prenzlauer Berg’. Social identity, understood as the simultaneous interplay of internal identification and external categorization (Jenkins 1996) is strongly related to a sense of belonging. While the concept of elective belonging (Savage et al. 2005) shows a connection between lifestyle and neighbourhood, this thesis also points to the strong relationship between symbolic and practical neighbourhood use (Blokland 2011), and place identification of newcomers. Subcultural groups read the newcomers’ symbolic neighbourhood use as an attack on the old order of the “Kiez”. Due to substantial neighbourhood change, these subcultures draw on remembering times (Halbwachs 1991) when their neighbourhood use was strong, both symbolically and practically. In this process, an old meaning of the neighbourhood (i.e. a specific notion of what the place used to be) is constructed in contrast to new meanings. These constructions are expressed in symbolic boundary work (Lamont; Molnár 2002) towards newcomers, a process which powerfully connects to media discourse. It becomes clear, then, that although a definition of belonging is dominated by the subculture, their access to the neighbourhood in terms of identification is only selective. In contrast, newcomers have to constantly defend their legitimacy to belong.
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    In:  Water Alternatives 10,2017,1, Seiten 22-40
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Water Alternatives
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,2017,1, Seiten 22-40
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water reuse ; TPSN ; governance ; sociospatial politics of water ; Germany ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Politikwissenschaft
    Abstract: Much social science literature on water reuse focuses on problems of acceptance and economic problems, while the spatial and political dimensions remain under-researched. This paper addresses this deficit by reformulating the issue in terms of sociospatial politics of water reuse. It does this by drawing on the work of Mollinga (2008) and the Territory Place Scale Network (TPSN) framework (Jessop et al., 2008) to develop an analytical approach to the sociospatial politics of water in general, and water reuse in particular. The paper argues that Mollinga’s understanding of water politics as contested technical/physical, organisational/ managerial and regulatory/socioeconomic planes of human interventions can be deepened through further reflection on their implications for the four sociospatial dimensions of the TPSN framework. Such a comprehensive, multidimensional approach re-imagines the politics of water reuse, providing researchers with a heuristic device to trace the interventions through which water reuse plans disrupt existing arrangements, and avoid a concern for individual preferences and simplified notions of barriers and enablers. The potential of the analytical framework is explored using an empirical illustration of water reuse politics in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in Germany.
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    In:  56,11, Seiten 2225-2241
    ISSN: 0042-0980 , 0042-0980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London, England : SAGE Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 56,11, Seiten 2225-2241
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: local politics ; nexus ; renewable energy ; urban infrastructure ; wastewater ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Infrastructures are key interfaces of urban resource use, connecting production to consumption, cities to their hinterland and energy to water and land use. They have, however, received scant attention in debates on nexus thinking in general, and the urban nexus in particular. Drawing on an emergent critical literature on the nexus in urban studies and science and technology studies, this article examines practices of (attempted) inter-sectoral infrastructure integration at the interface of urban wastewater treatment and regional energy provision in Germany. It analyses the nexus approaches and experiences of eight German cities / city-regions as so-called ‘flexibility providers’ in regional energy markets for electricity, gas and heating. It demonstrates how the practices of wastewater utilities operating in energy markets involve far more than technical adaptation, requiring in addition a major reordering of existing material, spatial and institutional configurations to both wastewater and energy systems. This is proving a deeply political process with important implications for our understanding of socio-technical transitions at the water-energy nexus.
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    In:  Utilities policy 41,2016, Seiten 163-171
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (9 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Utilities policy
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 41,2016, Seiten 163-171
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
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    Note: First published as: Leslie Quitzow, Weert Canzler, Philipp Grundmann, Markus Leibenath, Timothy Moss, Tilmann Rave (2016) The German Energiewende – What’s Happening? Introducing the Special Issue. Utilities Policy 41 (August): 163-171. Doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2016.03.002 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    Dissertation note: Masterarbeit Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät 2016
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Institutionalisierung ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziale Bewegungsorganisationen ; Städtisch ; New York ; Protest ; Ressourcen Mobilisierung ; Wohnen ; Urbane Studien ; Widerstand ; Resistance ; Urban Studies ; Urban ; Housing ; Social Movement Organizations ; New York City ; Institutionalization ; Protest ; Resource Mobilization ; Social Policy ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die Untersuchung von Soziale Bewegungen (SMs)ist ein wachsendes Feld in den Sozialwissenschaften. Diese Arbeit trägt dazu bei, einen Blick auf die Institutionalisierung Sozialer Bewegungsorganisationen (SMOs) zu erhalten. Es werden einige SMOs die in New York City für bezahlbaren Wohnraum streiten analysiert. Die Arbeit begründet, dass die Institutionalisierung und Professionalisierung von SMOs nicht immer das Risiko einer De-radikalisierung, De-politisierung oder De-mobilisierung bedeutet. SMOs können eine Balance zwischen Konflikten und kooperativen Machtbeziehungen mit dem Staat eingehen. In den 1960er und 1970er Jahren beschrieben Studien Neue Soziale Bewegungen (NMs)oft als antibürokratisch. Neuerdings sehen Sozialwissenschaftler die Tendenz von SMOs sich zu institutionalisieren und sogar von der Regierung kooptiert. Um die Institutionalisierung von SMOs i NYC zu untersuchen wurden die Kategorien externe und interne Ressourcen und externe Netzwerke entwickelt und verglichen. Diese Arbeit argumentiert, dass der Grad der Institutionalisierung der SMOs ihre Ziele definiert. Generell haben SMOs unterschiedliche Kapazitäten und Ressourcen. Externe Finanzierung dieser SMOs hat einen Einfluss auf ihre interne Organisation und ihre politische Orientierung in Richtung Reformpolitik. Um diese Frage zu untersuchen wurde ein methodologischer Rahmen entwickelt indem die Institutionalisierung und die politische Agenda definiert wurde. Qualitative Methoden (semi-standardisiere Interviews) wurden genutzt um die verschiedenen SMOs in drei verschiedene Gruppen, Fragebezogene Gruppen, Nachbarschaftsgruppen und Schirmorganisationen sortiert.
    Abstract: The study of Social Movements (SMs) is a growing field in the social sciences. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute a nuanced approach to the institutionalization of urban Social Movement Organizations (SMOs). It explores several SMOs fighting for affordable housing in New York City (NYC). This thesis argues that the institutionalization and professionalization of SMOs does not always entail the risk of a de-radicalization, depolitization or de-mobilization of collective action. SMOs can maintain a balanced conflictive and cooperative power-relationship with the state. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, research on SMs often described New Social Movements (NSMs) as antibureaucratic. More recently, social scientists see SMOs as becoming institutionalized and even co-opted by governments. In order to study the institutionalization of SMOs in NYC, categories as external and internal resources and external networks were developed and compared. In this thesis it is argued that the degree of institutionalization of SMOs defines their goals. Generally, SMOs have different capacities and resources. Moreover, external funding of these SMOs does have an impact on their internal organization and their political stance towards reform policy. To study this, a methodological framework was developed through which institutionalization and the political agenda could be defined. In doing so, qualitative methodology (semi-standardized interviews) is applied to categorize the different SMOs into three different types, namely issue-concerned groups, neighborhood groups and umbrella organizations.
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    In:  Local environment 22,2016,3, Seiten 269-285
    ISSN: 1354-9839 , 1354-9839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Local environment
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis, 2017
    Angaben zur Quelle: 22,2016,3, Seiten 269-285
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: water–energy nexus ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; infrastructure ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Issues of connectivity between different infrastructure sectors have received surprisingly little attention in recent research. Despite huge interest in issues of sectoral integration surrounding the water–energy nexus, researchers have rarely considered what this might mean for the coupling of infrastructure systems for water/wastewater and energy services. Consequently, the implications of greater connectivity for the governance and socio-spatial constitution of infrastructures are largely unexplored. This paper addresses this research gap with a case study of an attempt to use treated wastewater to produce biomass for energy on degraded land in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany. It takes water reuse for energy crop production as an exemplar of work at the water–energy nexus in order to explore the institutional, spatial and physical dimensions involved in connecting two infrastructure systems to this end. It argues that cross-sectoral integration reaches far beyond issues of technological compatibility, revealing often hidden but crucial differences in the institutional and spatial configuration of energy and wastewater systems. On the basis of a comparative analysis of the institutional arrangements of the region’s wastewater and energy systems together with an empirical study of initiatives to use treated wastewater to grow energy crops the paper draws conclusions, firstly, on the potential and limitations of this particular exemplar and, secondly, on the broader implications of the case for understanding institutional challenges of cross-sectoral connectivity on the one hand and prospects for reconfiguring infrastructural relations between cities and rural areas on the other.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Matthias Naumann & Katharina Krause (2017) Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region, Local Environment, 22:3, 269-285, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2016.1195799
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    In:  Social Studies of Science 46,2016,4, Seiten 559-582
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Studies of Science
    Publ. der Quelle: : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,2016,4, Seiten 559-582
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Berlin ; Germany ; infrastructure ; socio-technical transitions ; technology ; Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This article takes an historical perspective on current attempts to ‘open up’ established, centralized systems of urban infrastructure to alternative technologies designed to minimize resource use and environmental pollution. The process of introducing alternative technologies into, or alongside, centralized urban infrastructures is not a novel phenomenon, as is often assumed. The physical and institutional entrenchment of large technical systems for urban energy, water or sanitation services in industrialized countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries did not close the door completely on alternatives. I investigate a number of alternative technologies used in Berlin in the interwar period (1920–1939), in order to reveal the rationales developed around each technology and the ways in which each emerged, disappeared and re-emerged or survived across highly diverse political regimes. The selection of cases is guided by the desire to illustrate three different phenomena of alternative technology diffusion (and exclusion) experienced in Berlin: (1) technologies promoted by early pioneers and discarded by their successors (waste-to-energy), (2) technologies modifying traditional practices that were at odds with modernized systems (wastewater reuse for agriculture) and (3) technologies co-existing alongside the dominant centralized system throughout the 20th century (cogeneration). The empirical findings are interpreted with reference to their contribution to scholarship on urban socio-technical transitions.
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    ISSN: 1753-5069 , 1753-5069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,1, Seiten 63-85
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: coproduction ; commons ; energy transition ; remunicipalisation ; social movements ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores new geographies of coproduction emerging in urban energy politics. It analyses processes of remunicipalisation of urban utilities, involving the re-establishment of public ownership with a strong democratic and ecological agenda for governing energy infrastructures, with case studies of the German cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Seeking ways of understanding these developments which transcend conventional binaries such as public vs. private ownership or consumer vs. producer, we interpret them in relation to debates first about coproduction and then about urban commons. This latter concept, we argue, provides deeper analytical purchase on new grassroots energy initiatives and the politics that unfold in remunicipalisation conflicts, offering a new avenue for enriching research on the coproduction of energy.
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    Note: Originally published as: S. Becker, M. Naumann & T. Moss (2017) Between coproduction and commons: understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg, Urban Research & Practice, 10:1, 63-85, DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1156735
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät 2014
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Diskriminierung ; Ethnizität ; Soziale Mobilität ; Quartierswahl ; Soziale Netzwerke ; Discrimination ; Ethnicity ; Social Mobility ; Neighborhood Choice ; Social Networks ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Wohnstandortwahl sozial mobiler Türkisch-Deutscher in Berlin, welche in einem sozioökonomisch benachteiligten Viertel wohnen oder von einem solchen in ein status-höheres Quartier gezogen sind. Neben den Motiven für die Quartierswahl werden auch die Konsequenzen des Bleibens oder Gehens beleuchtet, insbesondere bezogen auf Sozialkapital, Netzwerke und ethnische, soziale sowie lokale Identifikation(en). Dabei besteht zum einen die Frage nach der Relevanz des Raumes, und insbesondere von Nachbarschaft als Gemeinschaft. Bezogen auf Netzwerke und Identifikation(en), geht es zweitens darum herauszufinden, ob es Prozesse der sozialen Schließung gibt, die auf der Zugehörigkeit zu einer ethnischen oder sozialen Gruppe basieren. Für die Befragten ist das Quartier ein Ort, der im Idealfall eine bestimmte Art von sozialen Beziehungen enthält, welche durch Familiarität entstehen und sich in gemeinsamen Momenten der Soziabilität ausdrückt. Wenn diese Familiarität besteht ist die symbolische sowie praktische Quartiersnutzung hoch, unabhängig vom sozialen Status des Quartiers. Wenn eine Nachbarschaft hingegen durch Anonymität und Feindseligkeit gegenüber ethnischen Minderheiten gekennzeichnet ist, dann ist die Quartiersnutzung gering. Im Gegenzug werden andere Orte mit hoher Familiarität aufgesucht. Diese Orte, für die Fortgezogenen oft das alte Quartier, sind nicht nur für die Alltagspraxis relevant, sondern auch symbolisch für die Identifikation mit einem Ort.
    Abstract: The present work deals with neighborhood choice of upwardly mobile Turkish-Germans, analyzing their motives for staying in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood, or moving from a disadvantaged to a more advantaged one. Furthermore, the consequences of moving or staying are analyzed, in terms of social capital, network composition, and processes of identification. The focus is twofold. First, the recurring question is for the relevance of place, and specifically the neighborhood as community. Second, particularly when dealing with networks and identification(s), the question is whether there are processes of groupness and social closure, based on ethnic or social class background. For the Turkish-Germans, the neighborhood presents a place which ideally contains a particular set of social relations, emerging through public familiarity and expressed in shared moments of sociability. If these characteristics are present in a neighborhood, irrespective of socioeconomic status, practical and symbolic neighborhood use is high. If a neighborhood, on the other hand, is characterized by anonymity and hostility towards ethnic minorities, neighborhood use is low. In turn, other places with high public familiarity and sociable relations are frequented, which then become important in symbolic terms, for identification.
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    In:  Energy research & social science 11,2015,January, Seiten 225-236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Energy research & social science
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2016
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,2015,January, Seiten 225-236
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: energy autarky ; urban energy transitions ; Berlin ; Hong Kong ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Whilst cities are widely regarded as playing a pivotal role in energy transitions, recent research is highlighting the enormous variety of urban responses. This differentiated picture of urban energy transitions is helpfully opening up the debate to the multifarious factors shaping urban energy policy. What is in danger of getting lost in these powerfully 'presentist' narratives is a sense of where these urban responses are coming from and how historical legacies of energy production and use are influencing future options. This paper uses a comparative historical analysis of two iconic 'electric cities' - Berlin and Hong Kong - to explore the legacies of past socio-technical configurations for today's attempts to realign urban energy systems. It investigates firstly, how, in response to their respective geo-political isolation prior to reunification in 1990/1997, the two cities strove to maximise local energy autarky for security reasons. The paper, secondly, demonstrates how political and economic reintegration in the 1990s has initiated a realignment of each city's energy policy, as power grids become regionalised and local generation capacity questioned. We conclude by drawing implications from these historical legacies of energy autarky and regionalisation for the cities' responses to the low carbon challenge today.
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    Note: First published as: Timothy Moss and Maria Francesch-Huidobro (2016) Realigning the electric city. Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong, Energy Research & Social Sciences 11 (January): 225-236 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.10.002 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2012
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; soziale Ungleichheit ; Armut ; städtische Armut ; Verarmungsprozess ; Entwicklungstrends ; social inequality ; Poverty ; urban poverty ; impoverishment process ; development trends ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Das Phänomen der Armut zählt zu den größten Problemen der Großstädte. Die im Fokus dieser Arbeit stehende Armut in zwei Städten kann nur mit einer breiteren Betrachtung der sozialen Ungleichheit, zunehmender Arbeitslosigkeit, der Verschlechterung von Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen, der Einkommensdisparitäten etc. verstanden werden. Diese Merkmale sind in zunehmendem Maße in Städten der Industrieländer wie Berlin zu spüren. Die wachsende Ausbreitung von Armut in den industrialisierten Gesellschaften sowie in den sogenannten Schwellenländern führte zu einer breiteren Diskussion über das Armutsphänomen auf internationaler Ebene. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird das Phänomen der Armut in zwei Großstädten untersucht. Mexiko-Stadt und Berlin sind zwei unterschiedliche Städte mit ähnlichen sozialen Problemen. Mexiko-Stadt ist die ,typische’ Stadt in einem Schwellenland, die sich von Städten der Industrieländer durch den Grad der sozialen Ungleichheit, die ausgeprägte Kluft zwischen arm und reich sowohl strukturell als auch funktionell deutlich unterscheidet. Berlin andererseits nähert sich nach der Wiedervereinigung den Problemen anderer großen Metropolen an. In den letzten Jahren traten folgende Phänomene auf: das Entstehen neuer Formen der Armut, eine wachsende Zahl von Sozialhilfeempfängern, eine zunehmende Migrationsbevölkerung ohne wirtschaftliche Perspektiven u.a. Die Studie fasst Untersuchungsergebnisse und Berichte über Armut in Mexiko-Stadt und Berlin zusammen. Es handelt sich nicht um die Erhebung neuer empirischer Daten, sondern um die Selektion, Darstellung und Analyse verschiedener Studien zu Armut in beiden Städten. Die Analyse widmet sich der Armut unter dem Gesichtspunkt gemeinsamer Aspekte, verschiedener Charakteristiken und der jeweiligen Entwicklungstrends in den zwei untersuchten Städten.
    Abstract: The phenomenon of poverty is one of the most serious problems of big cities. The focus of this doctoral thesis is an examination of poverty in two major cities, which must be understood on a broader basis while considering social inequality, rising unemployment, deterioration of working and living conditions, income disparities, etc. These increasing characteristics are notable in cities of developed countries such as Berlin. The growing spread of poverty in industrialized societies and in emerging countries has led to a broader discussion about the phenomenon of poverty at the international level. This doctoral thesis analyzes the phenomenon of poverty in two major cities. Mexico City and Berlin are two different cities with similar social problems. Mexico City is a ,typicalʼ city in a emerging country, which is structurally as well as functionally different from cities of developed countries by the degree of social inequality and the pronounced gap between rich and poor. On the other hand, after its reunification Berlin faces problems of other large cities. In recent years the following phenomena have occurred: the emergence of new forms of poverty, a growing number of welfare recipients, an increasing migrant population without economic prospects etc. This study summarizes investigative findings and reports on poverty in Mexico City and Berlin together. The goal is not to collect new empirical data, but rather to emphasize the selection, presentation and analysis of various studies on poverty in both cities. The analysis focuses on poverty from the standpoint of common aspects, differing characteristics and the respective development trends in the two researched cities.
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2012
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Stadtpolitik ; Kreative Stadt ; Urban Governance ; Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft ; creative city ; urban governance ; urban politics ; cultural and creative industries ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Seit mehr als zehn Jahren wird in Städten weltweit über die „Kreative Stadt“ debattiert. Doch können Städte Kreativität fördern? Aus einer stadtsoziologischen Perspektive wird zunächst gefragt, welche Möglichkeiten die Stadt zur Entfaltung von Kreativität bietet. Das Verhältnis von Kreativität und Stadt wird als eine Wechselwirkung konzipiert, bei der Städte besondere Gelegenheitsstrukturen und Möglichkeitsräume für die Entstehung und Bewertung von Kreativität darstellen können, die mit Anthony Giddens Strukturationstheorie als Regeln und Ressourcen interpretiert und in den Interaktionen, Beziehungen und Institutionen verortet werden, die mit und zwischen Kreativtätigen in Städten entstehen. Aus einer Governanceperspektive wird dann gefragt, welche sozialen und soziopolitischen Arrangements sich zur Koordination von Kreativität in Städten herausbilden. Im Fokus der empirisch-analytischen Untersuchung stehen horizontale Kooperationsformen wie Netzwerke und Steuerungskreise von kreativwirtschaftlichen und öffentlichen Akteuren deren Ziel die Unterstützung der kreativwirtschaftlichen Branchen ist. Diese Governancestrukturen werden als intermediäre Strukturen betrachtet, die für die Beförderung von Kreativität wesentliche Koordinations- und Vermittlungsleistungen erbringen können. In einem explorativen, multimethodischen, qualitativen Fallstudienansatz werden jeweils zwei Governancearrangements in Berlin und London untersucht. Allen gemeinsam ist, dass sie eher symbolische Funktionen erfüllen, die Kooperationsbereitschaft anzeigen als Abstimmungs- und Aushandlungsprozesse und die Erarbeitung gemeinsamer Problemdefinitionen und Lösungsansätze. Trotz intensiver „Kreative Stadt“ - Diskussionen bildet „Kreativität als Ressource der Stadtentwicklung“ noch kein Deutungsrahmen, mit dem sich politische Mehrheiten für gezielte Strategien in den Städten mobilisieren lassen.
    Abstract: In the last decade, creativity has been promoted as the new key resource of urban development. From a governance perspective, the empirical-analytical inquiry focuses on the question how the ‘creative city’ has been translated into new governance processes and how creativity can be governed in cities. The empirical research draws on four governance arrangements between creative industries stakeholders and public bodies in Berlin and London and is based on an embedded multi-case-study-design with different qualitative methods such as interviews, content analysis and participant observation. These unfolding governance arrangements share objectively several productive features for success and policy innovation in that particular policy field: they combine a diversity of new actors and stakeholders in open and inclusive designs, exhibit passion and endurance of key actors, display a common interest and are matched by supportive, new strategic objectives from the two urban governments. Nevertheless, they also miss several features: a common frame of reference for defining a problem and for integrating disparate knowledge between all stakeholders, no prior cooperation experiences, hardly any financial resources, and eventually, a rather opportunistic and week commitment by urban governments. As in many other cities, the idea of a ‘creative city’ was rather used a ‘rhetorical device’ by urban politics to refashion existing policies instead of appropriate policy-making that supports cultural production in its multifaceted ways.
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    In:  International journal of river basin management 12,2014,4, Seiten 329-339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of river basin management
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 12,2014,4, Seiten 329-339
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; spatial fit ; Dongjiang River ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore how classic upstream-downstream conflicts of water resources management can be interpreted more broadly in terms of spatial misfits and disparities between the river basin, territorial jurisdictions, degrees of political influence and socio-economic conditions. It applies the analytical concept of spatial fit in order to explore issues of governance in managing water in the Dongjiang River basin, selected by virtue of the huge political and economic asymmetries existing between the upstream Jiangxi Province and the downstream Pearl River delta region. Using the concept of spatial fit, the paper explores the complex environmental, socio-economic and political geographies which frame the interdependencies of water use and management within the river basin. It analyses attempts by stakeholders at different levels and locations in the basin to advance their own water-related interests and the initiatives some are developing to share benefits and costs more equitably across the basin.
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    Note: First published as: Frederick Lee & Timothy Moss (2014) Spatial fit and water politics: managing asymmetries in the Dongjiang River basin, International Journal of River Basin Management, 12:4, 329-339, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2014.917420
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2012
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Stadtsoziologie ; Erinnerungskultur ; Wirkung ; Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas ; quantitative Befragung ; Pierre Bourdieu ; öffentlicher Raum ; urban sociology ; Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe ; memorial culture ; quantitative survey ; effect ; Pierre Bourdieu ; public space ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: In dieser Studie wird erstmals die Frage untersucht, wie das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas in Berlin auf die Besucher wirkt. Dafür wird eine quantitative Befragung von 500 Besuchern durchgeführt. Zunächst werden die Erinnerungskulturtheorien von Jan und Aleida Assmann und Horst-Alfred Heinrich vorgestellt. Anschließend wird das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas örtlich und zeitlich eingebunden, indem das Konzept des repräsentativen öffentlichen Raums eingeführt und die Erinnerung an die Opfer des Holocaust in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR beleuchtet werden. Es folgt die Darstellung der Entstehung des Denkmals. Über die Rezeption von Denkmälern existieren in den Sozialwissenschaften bisher keine Theorien. Daher wird auf die kunstsoziologische Theorie von Pierre Bourdieu, auf eine Studie über die Wirkung von Gedenkstätten von Bert Pampel und auf eine Untersuchung über die emotionale Wirkung von Gemälden von Dorothée Halcour zurückgegriffen. Für die Untersuchung wird angenommen, dass sich die Besucher aufgrund ihres Bildungsgrades, ihrer Nationalität, ihres Alters und ihres Sozialisationsortes in ihren Reaktionen auf das Denkmal unterscheiden. Weiterhin wird angenommen, dass die Umstände des Denkmalbesuchs die Wirkung des Denkmals beeinflussen. Die Befragung zeigt: Personen mit niedrigerem Bildungsgrad konnten sich das Denkmal seltener erschließen als Personen mit höherem Bildungsgrad. Diese Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Teile der Bevölkerung nicht an der Erinnerung an den Holocaust teilhaben können, wenn die Materialisierung der Erinnerung über Kunst geschieht. Die Nationalität beeinflusste wesentlich, wie die Befragten das Denkmal bewerteten: So beurteilten Deutsche das Denkmal häufiger negativ und seltener positiv als Ausländer. Die Ergebnisse der Befragung werden abschließend im Kontext erinnerungspolitischer Debatten diskutiert.
    Abstract: This study asks how the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin affects its visitors. The study comprises a quantitative survey of 500 visitors. First the study introduces the theories of memory by Jan and Aleida Assmann and Horst-Alfred Heinrich. This is followed by the concept of the so-called representative public space that locates the memorial topographically. This chapter also shows the historical context of the memorial. It describes the development processes of earlier monuments to remember the victims of the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 2005. The study then shows the development process of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. There are no theories on the effects of memorials in the social sciences. The study uses Pierre Bourdieu''s theory of art sociology as well as a study on the impact of memorial sites by Bert Pampel and a study on the emotional effects of paintings by Dorothee Halcour as a theoretical frame. The most resultant hypothesises tested by the research state that visitors differ in their reactions to the memorial according to their education, their nationality and their age. Furthermore the study presumes that the circumstances of visiting the memorial affect how people react to the memorial. The results show that visitors with lower levels of education are less often able to develop an understanding of the memorial compared to visitors with a higher education background. The results indicate that these visitors are excluded from the intended remembrance of the Holocaust when the materialization of the memorial is implemented with artistic measures. Nationality plays a significant role too and influences visitors when judging the memorial. Germans more often have negative and less often positive judgements than foreign visitors. Finally the results of the research are discussed in the context of the cultural debate around the significance of memorials.
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    In:  Social Sciences 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Sciences
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: resilience ; vulnerability ; rules in use ; water conflict ; water scarcity ; institutions ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small catchment—are socially constructed; that is, how they are not given but rather the product of stakeholders’ perceptions of threats and suitable responses to them. Secondly, the paper emphasizes the role of institutions—both formal and informal—in framing these vulnerability constructions and resilience strategies. Particular attention is paid to the importance of informal ‘rules in use’ emerging in the wake of (formal) ‘institutional voids’ and how they work against collective solutions. Thirdly, by choosing a small-scale, commonplace dispute to study vulnerability and resilience, the paper seeks to redress the imbalance of resilience research (and policy) on dramatic disaster events by revealing the relevance of everyday vulnerabilities, which may be less eye-catching but are far more widespread.
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    In:  International Journal of the Commons 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International Journal of the Commons
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Ubiquity Press
    Angaben zur Quelle: 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: commons ; human geography ; place-making ; politics of scale ; property rights ; reclaiming the commons ; spatial fit ; spatial planning ; spatiality ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Geografie und Reisen
    Abstract: This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand the literature on the commons for conceiving of spatiality primarily as the local, physical context of commons use and regulation but also, on the other hand, the spatial science literature for generally neglecting the commons, both conceptually and empirically. The paper then pinpoints important exceptions in the fields of human geography and planning studies, assessing how these works contribute to a more thorough and robust understanding of the relationship between spatiality, the commons and their governance. The analysis of these select works making explicit reference to the commons is complemented with a reflection on how broader debates in the spatial sciences can enrich spatial research on the commons. The final section turns to the papers of the special feature, summarizing each of the papers in order and indicating how they each contribute to the themes developed in the editorial.
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    In:  20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Taylor & Francis : Taylor & Francis, 2015
    Angaben zur Quelle: 20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Local energy transitions ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; Ownership ; Commons ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany’s energy transition through the lens of organization and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels the paper develops a novel way of conceptualizing the institutional to urban and regional energy transitions in terms of agency and power, ideas and discourse, and commons and ownership. This analytical heuristic is applied to a two-tier empirical study of the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The first tier involves a survey of the organizational landscape of energy infrastructures and services in cities, towns and villages in Brandenburg. The second tier comprises a case study of current, competing initiatives for (re-)gaining ownership of the power grid and utility in Berlin. The paper draws conclusions on the diverse and dynamic organizational responses to the Energiewende at the local level, what these tell us about urban and regional energy governance and how they are inspired by – or in opposition to – new forms of collective ownership resonant of recent debates on reclaiming the commons. It concludes with observations on how relational approaches to institutional research and the notion of the commons can guide and inspire future research on socio-technical transitions in general, and urban energy transitions in particular.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Sören Becker & Matthias Naumann (2015) Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions, Local Environment, 20:12, 1547-1563, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2014.915799
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    In:  42, Seiten 38-47
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
    Angaben zur Quelle: 42, Seiten 38-47
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; Water Framework Directive ; politics of scale ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Scholars of environmental governance are increasingly intrigued by issues of scale. Efforts to institutionalise river basin management represent a pertinent exemplar, as they aspire to strengthen hydrological vis-à-vis political-administrative scales of governance. The EU Wa-ter Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious policy initiatives worldwide to reconfigure water management planning around the hydrological scale of river basins. Whilst it is widely assumed that the WFD is rescaling water governance in Europe, few em-pirical studies have been conducted to ascertain how far this is the case, what scalar strate-gies and practices are emerging and to what effect. The paper addresses these open issues with a study analysing the multi-scalar actions of water authorities, water management or-ganisations, local authorities and interest groups involved in implementing the WFD. It in-vestigates how stakeholders are acting scalar from the local to the European scale and back to further their interests in the course of WFD implementation, focussing on the Wupper sub-basin in Germany. Drawing for conceptual insight on the human geography debate on the politics of scale and processes of rescaling, we demonstrate how all relevant stakeholders are increasingly working across scales to advance their interests but in very different ways, with different degrees of deliberation and to different effect. A typology of multi-scalar action is developed to interpret this diversity. The paper draws conclusions on how multi-scalar action is altering not only power relations between the actors but also the scalar configurations themselves.
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    Note: First published as: Frank Hüesker and Timothy Moss: The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Land Use Policy 2015, 42 (January), pp.38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.07.003 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2012
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Soziale Netzwerke ; Nachbarschaften ; soziale Integration ; elektronische Kommunikation. ; Social networks ; neighbourhoods ; social integration ; electronic communication ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Städtische soziale Netze wie Nachbarschaften, lokale Vereine oder Bürgerinitiativen bestehen aus eher lockeren, schwächeren Beziehungen, die oft nur zeitlich begrenzt und nur bis zu einem gewissen Grad für die einzelne Person von Bedeutung sind. Dennoch können sie ein Gefühl der sozialen Integration stärken und wichtige Unterstützungsleistungen bieten, beispielsweise in Form von Informationen und Hilfestellungen. In Zeiten von Facebook und anderen Sozialen Netzwerken stellt sich hierbei die Frage, ob internetbasierte Soziale Netzwerke das Potenzial bieten, die Bildung schwacher Beziehungen, also „weak ties“ vor Ort zu unterstützen. Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet dieser Frage, indem sie die Kommunikationsstrukturen in nachbarschaftlichen sozialen Netzen mit denen in „Hybriden Sozialen Netzwerken“ vergleicht, die sowohl elektronische als auch face-to-face-Kommunikation nutzen. Hierbei werden die Aspekte herausarbeitet, die auf Unterschiede in Bezug auf den Prozess der sozialen Integration hinweisen. Insgesamt wurden 78 persönliche Interviews geführt und qualitativ über den Grounded Theory-Ansatz ausgewertet. Die empirischen Erkenntnisse lassen darauf schließen, dass es in lokalen sozialen Netzen neben den „weak ties“ zusätzlich „very weak ties“ gibt, die das individuelle Gefühl der sozialen Integration mitbestimmen. Diese sehr schwachen Bindungen wirken dabei sowohl in Nachbarschaften als auch in Hybriden Sozialen Netzen eher indirekt über passive Interaktionen (z.B. Beobachtungen) und bestimmen je nach persönlicher Einstellung, ob sich aus dem jeweiligen sozialen Netzwerk heraus engere Bindungen ergeben oder nicht. Während sich jedoch schwache Bindungen in nachbarschaftlichen und Hybriden Sozialen Netzen in vielen Aspekten ähneln, ergeben sich über elektronische Kommunikationsformen ganz neue Formen lokaler sozialer Netzwerke, die eine Ausweitung persönlicher sozialer Netzwerke vor Ort fördern können.
    Abstract: Urban social networks like neighborhoods, local associations or civic initiatives are bound by loose and weak ties that are usually only temporarily and to a certain degree important for individuals. However, they can support a feeling of social integration and are a source of support, e.g. in terms of information or help in everyday life. In times of facebook and other social networks, we face the question, if internet based social networks could help to support local weak ties, i.e. local relationships. In this context, this dissertation compares communication structures between neighbors with those within “hybrid social networks”, which integrate both virtual and face-to-face contacts. Here, differences can give a hint on new processes of social integration within local social networks that use both virtual and face-to-face communication. The empirical basis consists of 78 personal interviews that were evaluated on basis of the Grounded Theory approach. The results of this evaluation have revealed that in local social networks, a feeling of social integration is not only dependent on weak ties, i.e. active contacts, but also on “very weak ties” that are characterized by passive interactions (e.g. observations of network contacts). According to the individual attitude, very weak ties determine if local contacts will become stronger or not. Whereas weak ties show similar features in neighborly and hybrid social networks, the threshold to knit very weak ties is lower in hybrid networks. Thus, electronic communication can indeed initiate new forms of local social networks and broaden individual local contacts.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin
    Angaben zur Quelle: 142,1–2, Seiten 187-208
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water ; infrastructure ; Berlin ; Brandenburg ; climate change ; global change ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren
    Abstract: Global change is posing a major challenge to existing forms of natural resource use, socio-economic development and institutional regulation. Although trends such as climate change, socio-economic transformation and institutional change are global in their scope, they have very specific regional outcomes. Regionally distinct coping strategies are required which take into account both the diversity of regional impacts of global change and the local contexts of appropriate responses. This paper explores the impacts of global change on the management of water infrastructure systems in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in terms of three concurrent and overlapping challenges: climate change, socio-economic change and institutional change. It subsequently examines how regional actors in the water sector are addressing these three dimensions of global change.
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    In:  46,1, Seiten 1-6
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: New York : Springer
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,1, Seiten 1-6
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: water management ; multilevel governance ; problems of scale ; rescaling ; Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Environmental governance and management are facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Water management is a field particularly sensitive to issues of scale because the hydrological system with its different scalar levels from small catchments to large river basins plays such a prominent role. It thus exemplifies fundamental issues and dilemmas of scale in modern environmental management and governance. In this introductory article to an Environmental Management special feature on “Multilevel Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale,” we delineate our understanding of problems of scale and the dimensions of scalar politics that are central to water resource management. We provide an overview of the contributions to this special feature, concluding with a discussion of how scalar research can usefully challenge conventional wisdom on water resource management. We hope that this discussion of water governance stimulates a broader debate and inquiry relating to the scalar dimensions of environmental governance and management in general.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss & Jens Newig (2010) Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate, Environmental Management, 46:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9531-1
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    In:  Environment & planning. A, Economy and space 41,2009,6, Seiten 1480-1495
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (35 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Environment & planning. A, Economy and space
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 41,2009,6, Seiten 1480-1495
    DDC: 711
    Keywords: Raumplanunug ; Verwaltung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper makes the case for studying intermediary organisations as a window on the shifting governance of water and energy services in Europe today. It explores the notion of intermediaries and intermediation in a wide range of literatures and demonstrates how the governance concept can provide focus to the term, indicating how intermediaries can influence the pursuit of collective goals under shifting governance structures and processes. Against this conceptual backdrop the paper sets out the key governance challenges emerging from the ongoing transformation of socio-technical systems (addressing water and energy services) in terms of changing relations between the state and the utility, between service provider and user, between infrastructure and urban systems and between infrastructure and the environment. It subsequently provides empirical illustration of the emergence of intermediaries in the water sector across Europe, the relational nature of their work, the interests they pursue and the impacts they are having.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2009): Intermediaries and the governance of socio-technical networks in transition, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 41:6, 1480-1495, DOI: 10.1068/a4116
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    In:  International journal of urban and regional research 32,2008,2, Seiten 436-451
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of urban and regional research
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley
    Angaben zur Quelle: 32,2008,2, Seiten 436-451
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores the unfamiliar, but increasingly prevalent problem of overcapacity in urban infrastructure systems in regions subject to dramatic socio-economic restructuring. Taking the case of water supply and wastewater disposal systems in Eastern Germany as an example, it examines firstly how infrastructure overcapacities have emerged since reunification in 1990, resulting from sharply declining water consumption in the wake of ‘shrinking’ processes but also from infrastructure expansion. Secondly, the paper analyses what impact chronic overcapacity is having on the governance of water infrastructure systems. This empirical analysis is framed conceptually in terms of the current debate on the changing relationship between infrastructures and the localities they serve. It assesses specifically how far and in what ways the phenomenon of overcapacity in technical networks resonates with the ‘splintering urbanism’ thesis developed by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin. It argues that the serious technical and economic problems posed by overcapacity are intensifying spatial disparities in service quality and price and – more fundamentally –are challenging the supply-driven ‘modern infrastructural ideal’ of universal and equitable water services.
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    Note: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Timothy Moss (2008): ‘Cold spots’ of Urban Infrastructure: ‘Shrinking’ Processes in Eastern Germany and the Modern Infrastructural Ideal. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(2), pp.436-451, which has been published in final form at doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00790.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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    In:  International journal of river basin management 5,2007,2, Seiten 121-130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of river basin management
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 5,2007,2, Seiten 121-130
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: floodplain restoration ; institutions ; river basin management ; policy implementation ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The task of restoring floodplains, as a means of improving flood protection or providing other benefits, poses multi-dimensional challenges to policy-makers and project managers alike. Involving essentially a reconfiguration of the interaction between a river and adjacent low-lying land, floodplain restoration affects a wide range of institutions designed to secure a variety of private and public goods associated with water and land use. A scheme to restore a floodplain requires the successful enrolment of these institutions in such a way as to create a result acceptable to the principal stakeholders. This is a highly complex process. This paper, based on EU-funded research on the policy contexts and selected pilot schemes of floodplain restoration in Germany, France and England and Wales, provides a critical appraisal of the institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration. In particular, it explores how recent shifts in problem awareness and problem-solving in a number of relevant policy fields are creating windows of opportunity for more integrated approaches to restoring floodplains. At the same time it demonstrates the emergence of a new policy delivery gap emanating from the growing complexity of new generation floodplain restoration schemes.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2007) Institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration in Europe, International Journal of River Basin Management, 5:2, 121-130, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2007.9635312
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    In:  Innovation 17,2004,1, Seiten 11-23
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (13 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Innovation
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 17,2004,1, Seiten 11-23
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper summarises the main results from a study into methods of imple-menting sustainable development principles in EU Structural programmes. It demon-strates how 12 pilot regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications which are compatible with structural funding procedures, rele-vant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to programme partner-ships. The selected regions – from France, Germany, the UK, Sweden and the Neth-erlands – vary considerably in terms of their size and structural characteristics. These differences had an important bearing on the paths they chose to integrate sustainable development principles into their Structural Funds programmes and management practices. Conclusions are drawn on how other regions might promote sustainable devel-opment in the context of Structural Funds programmes on the basis of these experi-ences in terms of developing new methodologies, redesigning programme objectives, adapting management tools and opening up procedures to greater participation and dialogue.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss and Heidi Fichter (2004) Promoting Sustainable Development in EU Struc-tural Funds Programmes: Lessons from Regional Case Studies, Innovation - European Jour-nal of Social Science Research 17:1, 11-23 https://doi.org/10.1080/1351161042000190718
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    In:  Sustainable development 11,2003,1, Seiten 56-65
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    Titel der Quelle: Sustainable development
    Publ. der Quelle: New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,2003,1, Seiten 56-65
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper assesses and compares the experiences of 12 Objective 1 and 2 regions across the EU which conducted pilot projects on methods of promoting sustainable development by means of Structural Funds programmes. It demonstrates how the regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications which are compatible with structural funding procedures, relevant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to programme partnerships. The paper analyses their experiences in terms of developing new methodologies, redesigning programme objectives, adapting management tools and opening up procedures to greater participation and dialogue. A central argument is that the success of the efforts to promote sustainable development via structural funding depends to a considerable extent on the ability of those involved to address local or regional issues of concern, to build on existing procedures and objectives of programme management and to respect the institutional framework of operation.
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    Note: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Timothy Moss and Heidi Fichter (2003) Lessons in promoting sustainable development in EU Structural Funds programmes, Sustainable Development 11:1, 56-65, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.204. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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    In:  Land use policy 21,2003,1, Seiten 85-94
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Land use policy
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 21,2003,1, Seiten 85-94
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; Water Framework Directive ; institutional change ; land use ; governance ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper examines the prospects for the interactive governance of water and land use following an initiative to institutionalise integrated river basin management. Taking an institutionalist perspective it first presents river basin management as a tool for overcoming problems of spatial fit and institutional interplay over water and land use. A case study of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Germany then explores opportunities and requirements for governance in future water management. On the basis of these findings the paper tests the validity of the thesis that the success of EU policy reform depends on the degree of ‘fit’ with existing institutional structures and practices.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2004) The governance of land use in river basins: prospects for overcoming problems of institutional interplay with the EU Water Framework Directive. Land Use Policy 21:1, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.10.001 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    In:  Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 35,2003,3, Seiten 511-529
    ISSN: 0308-518X , 0308-518X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (39 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 35,2003,3, Seiten 511-529
    DDC: 710
    Keywords: Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores the interrelationships between urban land use, resource consumption and utility service provision with a study of brownfield regeneration from an infrastructure perspective. Drawing on recent research into the spatial strategies of utility companies following liberalisation and privatisation the paper identifies disused industrial sites as “cold-spots” of infrastructure systems where energy and water consumption has recently collapsed. A case study of Berlin analyses first the challenges facing the city’s three major utilities as a result of shifting patterns of resource consumption and over-capacity in parts of their networks. The second part examines the responses of the three utilities to these challenges in the context of recent institutional changes to infrastructure provision, examining how the utilities are moving towards greater spatial differentiation in their network management and what interest they have in brownfield regeneration.
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2003) Utilities, land-use change and urban development: Brownfield sites as “cold-spots” of infrastructure networks in Berlin, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 35:3, 511-529, DOI: 10.1068/a3548
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  19,5, Seiten 473-479
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (7 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 19,5, Seiten 473-479
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    Note: First published as: Jens Newig & Timothy Moss (2017) Scale in environmental governance: moving from con-cepts and cases to consolidation, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 19:5, 473-479, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2017.1390926
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Journal of urban technology 7,2000,1, Seiten 63-84
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of urban technology
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Carfax, Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 7,2000,1, Seiten 63-84
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: waste water ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2000) Unearthing Water Flows, Uncovering Social Relations: Introducing New Waste Water Technologies in Berlin, Journal of Urban Technology, 7:1, 63-84, DOI: 10.1080/713684106
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