This article sets out a conceptual/operational framework designed to analyse how the state has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis of literature ...and legislation in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, thereby providing an overview of housing financialization in Southern Europe. We identify six modes of housing financialization (mortgage debt, mortgage securitization, social rented housing, market rental housing, housing companies, "not-for-housing housing"), characterized by relative autonomy and specific mechanisms, plus a number of cross-cutting dimensions. Our conceptual/operational framework allows to systematically inquiry whether the state has passively adapted to global transformations or shaped these transformations in turn, therefore advancing two main contributions: first, contributing to a more precise conceptualization of the mechanisms of housing financialization; and, second, providing operational instruments to explore state action and policy in housing financialization beyond Southern Europe.
The article compares the community functions of schools and the support to schools from the municipality representatives and community depending on the location of the school – in peripheral or ...semi-peripheral rural areas, rural small towns, outer suburbs and also in towns, i.e., at various distances from the town. It is based on controlled interviews with school headmasters and mayors of the respective municipalities and on the collection of information from annual school reports and school inspection reports. A total of 57 schools of two districts in the south-west of Czechia were evaluated. The assumption that complete rural schools in peripheries have the greatest community functions was confirmed; but complete rural schools in semi-peripheries also received similar assessment. However, a fully functioning rural "community school" was not found in the case study area. Schools in towns show weak community functions, because community functions in towns are provided by other institutions and facilities.
Publishing in English is now essential for securing tenure and promotion in the social sciences and humanities in Spain, as academic performance is largely evaluated by number of publications in ...journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) or Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). This relatively new situation has forced academics with varying levels of English to dedicate significant time, effort, and money to obtaining publishable texts. This article investigates academic translation in terms of widespread and invisible translation and editing practices into English, providing a different perspective from previous studies of the transnational circulation of knowledge. Based on semi-structured interviews with scholars from sociology and translation studies, it reflects on their strategies, choices, and preferences for how their texts should be translated or edited, as well as the relationships and routines they develop with their trusted language professionals. All the interviewees expressed a preference for assimilatory strategies or, in other words, the assimilation of their texts into standard or ‘native’ academic English, which should be seen as a means to covet the prestige unfairly reserved for Anglophone scholars. One of the key contributions of this article is to move beyond the popular notion of epistemicide, exploring through empirical detail the linguistic, methodological, and structural issues that these semi-peripheral academics highlight in relation to publishing in the lingua franca for global academia.
Purpose. The paper aims to examine the impact of the oblast center on regional socio-economic development in the context of the center-periphery relationship. Methodology / approach. The general ...scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization, graphic method) and special ones (statistical analysis, comparison, organizational and managerial modeling) were the basis of the methodological approach. The author improved the scientific-methodological approach to the comprehensive evaluation of a region’s socio-economic development in terms of the center-periphery relationships based on interrelated stages and methods. It stipulates the research of the impact each district of a region has on the major socio-economic parameters of an oblast; calculation of the District Socio-Economic Development Index and its comparison with the district’s distance to the oblast center; evaluation of interdependencies between the districts’ shares in major socio-economic parameters of respective oblasts and their distance to the oblast center; and analysis of the development intensity of the oblast districts depending on their distance to the oblast center. Results. Testing the scientific-methodological approach on the example of three oblasts of Ukraine (Lvivska, Poltavska, and Chernihivska), which are developing in different spatial-geographic, socio-economic, and demographic conditions, has contributed to substantiating the features of generation and development of the center-periphery relationships in the regions with different initial development conditions; outlining the areas of socio-economic centers’ impact on the districts; detecting the intensity of positive stimulus generation and their absorption in the region considering the role of local “growth poles” in the process. Originality / scientific novelty. The paper further develops the theoretical-methodological foundations of researching the center-periphery relationships in a region at the oblast center – oblast area level. The results of calculations following the author’s methodological approach have allowed developing the space structure for Ukrainian regions under research in the context of the center-periphery relationships. Practical value / implications. The conducted research based on the methodology developed by the author is quite important both in terms of the scientific-methodological aspect and in the context of addressing the important regional development tasks and searching for balanced and coherent spatial development.
Das Buch nimmt die (Re)Produktion der historischen Zeit in der kommerziellen Presse in den Blick - ein Medium, das von der Kategorie Zeit entscheidend gepragt wird. Die Analyse arbeitet Zeit als ...zentrale Ressource fur die Verhandlung der Zugehorigkeit zur Moderne heraus Die polnischsprachige Gesellschaft der Teilungsgebiete bietet in dieser Hinsicht ein herausragendes Beispiel, das paradigmatisch fur viele Gesellschaften in ihrer Modernisierungsphase' gelten kann. Die Analyse der polnischsprachigen Zeitschriften zeigt sehr ambivalente Muster einer temporalen Selbstverortung als Nation in Europa, gegenuber den Nachbarn, sowie innerhalb der modernen Narrative von Fortschritt und Revolution. Diese Muster zeugen von den unterschiedlichen Moglichkeiten und Einschrankungen, die das moderne Selbstverstandnis von Gesellschaften charakterisieren. Semi-Peripherialitat stellt dabei sowohl eine spezifisch-polnische als auch eine in viele andere soziale Konstellationen ubertragbare Position des Dazwischen-Sein' in der modernen Welt dar.
Anarchy in the World-System Demirel, Ege
Journal of world-systems research,
04/2024, Letnik:
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The world-system has been in a crisis for a while. The decline of U.S. hegemony, the rise of China, and Russia’s assertive foreign policy are the most important issues regarding the course of the ...world-system. On the one hand, the United States and its allies (in Samir Amin’s words, “the triad”) have desperately tried to protect the status quo. On the other hand, China and Russia have tried to create an alternative to sustain the capitalist world-system instead of U.S. hegemony. For this reason, to analyze the world-system, I argue that core-periphery relations should be reevaluated regarding China and Russia with the concept of semi-core. This study aims to evaluate the possible outcomes and prospects in the world-system in light of the rivalry between core and semi-core, and asserts that the world-system is in the phase of interregnum that consists of instabilities and disorders. This phase of interregnum has stemmed from the existence of semi-core and the structural crisis of the system.
This article explores the transition of integrated periphery countries to a semi-periphery status. It sets out to refine the broad category of 'semi-periphery', distinguishing between upper and ...lower-order semi-periphery. It shows that compared to established members of the automotive semi-periphery, newcomers are often poorly equipped to thrive in the new competitive environment. Since it takes decades of organic accumulation to develop competitive assets that provide resilience, newcomers that used to thrive in the competitive environment of the integrated periphery often turn out to be the weakest members in the semi-periphery. Based on expert interviews, the article illustrates the theoretical arguments comparing the evolutionary trajectories of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries. We show that Austria, exemplifying the case of within-category upgrading (within the upper semi-periphery), can leverage its strong innovation potential, dense network of capable domestic-owned suppliers, tradition of cluster-based and industry - university collaboration, and developed market for technology. In contrast, the between-category transition of Hungary was propelled by the rising wage-level, while other indicators would not qualify it for the club of semi-periphery countries. Evolutionary trajectories in the lower-order semi-periphery can easily be derailed if industrial policy gets stuck in its - previously highly effective - integrated-periphery role.
•We combine the multi-level perspective (MLP) and historical institutionalism (HI).•Electric mobility transition becomes embedded in the incumbent energy regime.•While Polish state-led EM projects ...have failed, niche ventures expand on international markets.•Successful projects do not green Polish transport but support sustainable transitions elsewhere.•Ultimately, the role of the state is crucial in steering electric mobility transition.
This paper examines electric mobility transition in Poland which dates back to the beginning of the 1990s when Polish niche-level actors started to innovate with new technologies for low carbon transportation. By drawing on the multi-level perspective (MLP) on sustainability transitions in combination with historical institutionalism (HI) in political economy, the analysis reconstructs patterns of interactions between regime- and niche-level actors running projects in e-mobility. We pursue a two-pronged, mixed-method empirical approach that uses primary written sources and semi-structured expert interviews (N = 25) with key actors in the field. Such an approach allows us to study e-mobility transition as embedded in the incumbent energy regime of a given country. The case of Poland reveals heavy reliance on coal for electricity production and difficulties to break away from the fossil fuel regime, both in the energy and transportation sector. We find that the e-mobility transition in Poland is a double-paced process, where projects led by Polish state actors have failed thus far, while projects led by private, niche-level actors met with international interest. At the same time, the analysis shows that the successful ventures may not necessarily green Poland’s transportation system, but their performance at international markets may rather contribute to e-mobility transitions in other parts of the world.
This paper employs the notion of abjection to explore how debatessurrounding Ana Brnabić, the first openly lesbian prime minister in Serbia andEastern Europe, stir affectively lined layers of ...prejudice across the political spectrum.Drawing upon a range of empirical sources, I argue that the actors engaging indebates about Brnabić’s both private and public life are entangled in a loop ofabjection which, while comprising gender, sexuality, ‘race’, and the body, reflectsstrong patriarchal undercurrents as structural features of Serbian politics.
This article discusses the integration of scholars from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) into the broader field of European political science. Evaluating data from 2000 to 2020, we ask whether CEE ...scholars managed to “close the gap” stemming from the initially underdeveloped state of post-communist political science. We contend that the results are rather mixed: CEE scholars have been increasingly present, yet achieved only very limited access to the top levels and mostly remain in a position of dependency. Using the case of Czechia, we discuss the factors that have likely contributed to the perpetuation of this state of integration with limited convergence.
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