Housing, Personhood and Affect in Gentrifying Garden Villages of Amsterdam

This article offers insight into how housing, renovation, and gentrification are more than matters of upgrading material dwellings and neighborhoods, but they substantially engage residents’ very notions of who they are and how they are perceived. Using the lens of valuation, gentrification is presented as much more than an exclusionary market relationship but as a process that shows how human perspectives on selves emerge and transform along with housing discourse and relations and informs feelings of socio-spatial (in)justice. The case is the ongoing transformation of the working-class garden villages in postindustrial Amsterdam North, an area that has become subject to active urban redevelopment since the 2000s. The material upgrading of the industrial spaces and social housing makes tangible the long-term active residents’ historically sensorial relations with the built environment, around which their sense of self was shaped. Long-term residents and their children increasingly demand that the ongoing spatial improvement of the area does justice to the deeply embodied history of social emancipation in the garden villages.

Funding, Power and Community Development

This book critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. The chapters consider the evolution of funding in community development, and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the ‘bottom up’. Thematically, the book explores matters such as popular democracy, the shifting contours of the state–market relationship, prospects for democratising the state, the feasibility of community autonomy, the effects of managerialism, and hybrid modes of funding such as social finance. The book is positioned to stimulate critical debate on both policy and practice within the broad field of community development.

HEGEMONIA, CRISE ECONÔMICA E POLÍTICA: A DINÂMICA DOS CICLOS DO CAPITALISMO

O objetivo desta revisão bibliográfica é analisar as dimensões hegemônicas em um contexto global de crise econômica e política à luz dos ciclos do capitalismo. Todas estas facetas do poder político, militar e econômico descortinariam os nexos do quadro atual, representativos à sociedade. Assim, desenvolvem-se pontos acerca da perspectiva econômica da crise em âmbito global, dando destaque à relação de mercado estabelecida entre os países emergentes e a soberania de potências econômicas. Pode-se perceber não apenas a mudança em relação às políticas macroeconômicas, mas também em relação ao papel que os países emergentes passam a ter na conjuntura mundial e as subsequentes crises políticas em alguns desses países.Palavras-chave: Hegemonia. Crise econômica. Crise política. Ciclos do capitalismo. Macroeconomia.ABSTRACT The objective of this bibliographical review is to analyze the hegemonic dimensions in a global context of economic and political crisis in the light of the cycles of capitalism. All these facets of political, military and economic power would uncover the nexus of the current framework, representative of society. Thus, points are developed about the economic perspective of the crisis at a global level, highlighting the established market relationship between emerging countries and economic power sovereignty. One can see not only the change in relation to macroeconomic policies, but also in relation to the role emerging countries have in the global scenario.Keywords: Hegemony. Economic crisis. Political crisis. Cycles of capitalism. Macroeconomics.