This chapter maps the emergence and development of urban environmental history (UEH) in South Asia and the lessons it offers to understand and analyze pertinent questions of urban environmental governance in recent times. However, it acknowledges the limits of historical research (especially due to...
Building on field research conducted during my Ph.D., which focused on urban natures and – in particular – post-industrial, riverside Turin (Italy), the presentation discusses urban political ecology and atmosphere literature, considered as two different, yet potentially complementary, fields of res...
Le Réseau des acteurs de l’histoire et la mémoire de l’immigration (RAHMI) a lancé en 2008 un programme expérimental de collecte pour recueillir la mémoire oubliée de populations immigrées engagées dans la vie de la région. Différents groupes de personnes ont été visés par cette collecte qui a permi...
Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has mainly evolved within the discipline of geography to examine the power relations that produce uneven urban spaces (infrastructures and natures) and unequal access to resources in cities. Its increasingly poststructuralist orientation demands the questioning of recei...
Thirty years after the death of Michel Foucault, notwithstanding the fact that his thought has profoundly shaped the contemporary reflection and contributed to move beyond structuralism, the Urban Political Ecology in general and the Urban Political Ecology of water in particular are still dominated...
Universal primary education (UPE) is one of the main aims of Official Development Aid (ODA). In the last years, the issues of aid effectiveness were widely discussed in the literature. Little empirical evidence of its effectiveness exists, particularly for fragile states. In these countries, mainly...
"The international education goals enshrined in the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have had a significant impact in sub-Saharan African countries. Are they likely to achieve the varied developmental roles ascribed to education, such as poverty reduction, improvements in child mortality, fert...