By Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom (Auckland Harbour View 09) [CC BY 2.0 (httpcreativecommons.orglicensesby2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Intervention – “Reclaiming the ‘Liveable City’ as Normative Reference Point: Against Totalising Aspirational Political Discourses”

Steffen Wetzstein (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Universität Erfurt) This short commentary takes issue with the rise of totalising aspirational political discourses in urban politics and...
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Intervention – "Vernacular Values: Remembering Ivan Illich" by Andy Merrifield

by Andy Merrifield* I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest...
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