Cfp: Participatory Urban Governance Beyond Western Democracies: Motivations, Expressions, and Outcomes
Participatory Urban Governance Beyond Western Democracies: Motivations, Expressions, and Outcomes
The Special Issue aims to bring together contributions from different geographical, political and economic contexts – from South American cities marked by privatization and spatial fragmentation (Portes & Roberts 2005, Goldfrank & Schrank 2009, Caldeira & Holston 2015, Montero et al 2023), through young Central and Eastern European democracies (Poljak Istenič & Kozina 2020, Paliokaitė & Sadauskaitė 2023) and African countries characterised by increased uncertainty and low levels of trust (Zeiderman 2015, Majogoro et al 2025, Gbeku Alidzi et al 2026) and Southern Asian cities reliant on patronage politics and informal socio-political networks (Chattopadhyay 2015, Hasan Swapan 2016, Patel at al. 2016), to Central and Eastern Asian states defined by the presence of strong central governments (He & Warren 2011, Lin 2026, Knox & Carmichael 2026) and theocratic political systems in the SWANA region (Ali 2025, Komarolya & Sajedi 2026) – in order to critique and contextualise the conceptualisations of participatory urban governance by interrogating the engagement of citizens and other societal actors across different stages of the ‘result chain’ (Emerson & Nabatchi 2015).
Call for papers: Special Issue
Knowledge infrastructures and social transformations in the post-digital society
Call for papers: Special Issue
Gendered subjectivities: constructing identities, bodies and belonging in digital environments