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Legitimacy (political)
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Dalmine and its Industrial Politics Translated into Type
The research examines the entanglement of urban rationalities and industrial biopolitics in constructing company towns' identities and spatialities, providing different housing typologies for its workers. An epitome of spatial production under industrial p ...
202310 recommendations which could significantly increase the effectiveness of Swiss climate policy
The Academic Citizens’ Assembly (ACA) is a model of a citizens’ assembly built on academic principles (evidence-based, lobby-free, no ideology), open to the whole society and, using a novel process and tools, scalable to potentially include millions of par ...
ClimAct (EPFL and UNIL)2022The resistance of stone: thick and fragmented urban collective memory in Gulou
In his seminal work, Halbwachs (1950: 132–139) already noted a homology between the resistance of stone and the resistance of cities’ inhabitants to being displaced or effaced. This contribution seeks to study the relationship between the built environment ...
2022Nurturing the socialist spiritual civilization: Interplay between anthropology and politics
Since the 1940s, rural traditional dance of the North-West region plays a pivotal part in the making of cultural policy in RPC. Transformed and politized by cultural cadres at Yan'an, social and recreational practices such as yangge dance became propaganda ...
2021Incremental Urbanism: A study of incremental housing production and the challenge of its inclusion in contemporary planning processes in Mumbai, India
Whilst urbanisation reached an unprecedented dimension, in a not so distant future half of the urban population will live in `informal¿ settlements. Often subsumed under the pejorative term slum, these habitats account for the majority of the future urban ...
EPFL2018WHO WALKS THE TALK? VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS’ ACTIONS AFTER SYMBOLIC SELF-REGULATION OF LIMITED AND GENERAL PARTNERS
This paper investigates if organizations use symbolic self-regulation to escape from normative pressure without complying in practices. I argue that, when an explicit regulatory environment does not support self-regulation initiatives, opportunistic organi ...
2016Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital
This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of VCs' characteristics signal the quality of an entrepreneurial venture and influence investment strategies of funds subject to self-regulation. In the first s ...
EPFL2016World politics of a space without territory
The Internet is increasingly becoming a political place in the World whose governance is therefore changed. In fact, classical political governance mechanisms appears to be overwhelmed by the emergence of this new space and its growing impact on the redefi ...
2013Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines
Alexandre Buttler, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, François Gillet, Thomas Spiegelberger, Heike Lischke
Mountain regions provide essential ecosystem goods and services (EGS) for both mountain dwellers and people living outside these areas. Global change endangers the capacity of mountain ecosystems to provide key services. The Mountland project focused on th ...
Resilience Alliance2013Transformation of Water Governance and Legitimacy
The public sector in Western Europe has experienced a shift from state-centric public governance to private and public-private governance since the end of the twentieth century. Debates in the political sciences have focused on whether a „higher‟ level of ...
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