Conjunctures and crisis : food, ecology and population, and the internationalization of capital
Using examples from Nigeria, the Sahel and Bangladesh, the A. shows how local or regional problems in the Third World are tied into the international economic order. - (DWG)
The author tries to explain the increasing proportion of unemployed population, which has gradually led to an employment crisis. The explanation is mainly sought for in the general economic development. The author draws special attention to the part
of the population which is the most severely affected by the employment crisis an the following socio-political consequences. (E. Jahn).
Capital accumulation ; Capitalism ; Commodification ; Crisis ; Dispossession ; Housing ; Neo liberalism ; Subprime crisis ; United States of America
Acumulación del capital ; Capitalismo ; Crisis ; Estados Unidos ; Mercaderización ; Neoliberalismo ; Vivienda
The article interrogates the key commodities involved (land, labor, money) and the always uneasy relations between spaces of social reproduction and capital. Such ambivalence is critical to understanding how new economic realities are formed
in light of retreating neoliberalism as markets become destabilized. The analysis provided suggests the commodities involved in the housing crisis are the basis for a countermovement against dispossession.
, the hypothesis of an emerging global agenda of life politics. It locates the biodiversity crisis within current controversies. It is suggested to trace the development of this policy area back to the early 20th century and to reread it in the light of different
The place of land in Japan's postwar development, and the dynamic of the 1980s real-estate bubble and 1990s banking crisis
Bank ; Capital accumulation ; Capitalism ; Crisis ; Economic growth ; Japan ; Landed estate ; Real estate market ; Social relations ; Uneven development
The A. argues that landed property was both internal to and constitutive of the social relations that marked the specificity of Japan's postwar capitalism. He suggests that the 1980s real-estate bubble and 1990s banking crisis were specific
Narratives of modernity, masculinity, and citizenship amid crisis in Abidjan's Sorbonne
Abidjan ; Citizenship ; Informality ; Ivory Coast ; Masculinity ; Narrative ; Political geography ; Political party ; Social geography ; Street ; Urban crisis ; Woman
Abiyán ; Calle ; Ciudadanía ; Costa de Márfil ; Crisis urbana ; Geografía política ; Geografía social ; Mujer ; Partido político
In this article, the A. relates prominent depictions of the African urban crisis, particularly informality, and its implications for masculine subjectivity in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He considers the Sorbonne, a nationalist space in Abidjan, where
partisans of former President Laurent Gbagbo contested the crisis narrative and their place in it. Literally and ideologically, Sorbonne orators and spectators moved themselves and their country from the periphery to the urban and global core.
[b1] Institute for Advanced Study, School of Economics, Toulouse, France
Czech Republic ; Economiccrisis ; Economic development ; Economic recession ; Foreign worker ; Induced effect ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Remittances
Crisis económica ; Desarrollo económico ; Efecto inducido ; Migración de trabajo ; Migración internacional ; Recesión económica ; República Checa ; Trabajador extranjero
This paper introduces certain trends and links between labour migration and remittances, during the current global economiccrisis. Remittances clearly represent the most stable source of finances for stimulating development in poor countries
, in comparison with other potential sources for financing development, even in times of economic recession or crisis and at both regional and global levels. According to carried out analysis of “immigration surplus”, labour migration does not constitute a burden
When all they thought was solid melted into air : resisting pauperization in Argentina during the 2002 crisis
Adaptation ; Argentina ; Economiccrisis ; Economy ; Household ; Living conditions ; Middle class ; Poverty ; Social geography ; Unemployment
Adaptación ; Argentina ; Clase media ; Condiciones de vida ; Crisis económica ; Economía ; Geografía social ; Paro ; Pobreza ; Unidad familiar
This article examines the actions that millions of new-poor Argentine citizens took when confronted with impoverishment during the country’s economiccrisis in 2002. It provides studies why some citizens perceived their hardship as a political
The effects of the crisis of 1994/95 on the Mexican labour market : the case of the city of Puebla
Capitalism ; Economiccrisis ; Economic impact ; Economic system ; Globalization ; Labour market ; Mexico ; Puebla ; Regulation theory ; Urban economy
The weaker sectors of the economy and the poorer segments of the Mexican population were affected by the economiccrisis of 1994-95. The paper attempts to link these global trends to the specific location of Puebla. The relationship between
This study provides a classification of the depression areas of Hungary on a historical base, and suggests several methods of handling the economiccrisis in these areas. - (JS)
Economiccrisis ; Immigration policy ; Migration ; Refugees ; Regional development ; Rural economy ; Tanzania
Tanzania has been known as a liberal host country for African refugees fot about three decades, despite the country itself is suffering from an economiccrisis. Tanzanian integrated rural settlements for refugees play an important role providing
long-term strategies to solve the refugee crisis locally when there is no hope of repatriation. With the mass influx of refugees after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 the integrated approach of rural settlements can no longer be an adequate strategy