Frontiers and Ghettos

Are Ghettos Good or Bad?

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Academic Entrepreneurship – Gendered Discourses and Ghettos

In this paper, based on texts on academic entrepreneurship as well as on interviews with teachers and researchers at two Swedish universities, we will explore how local discourses of academic entrepreneurship are constructed and gendered. We see this as an important basis when discussing how gender mainstreaming interventions can be introduced in the complex and elusive arena of academic entrep...

Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes When did ghettos go bad ? *

Cutler and Glaeser (1997) show that urban residential segregation has a strong adverse effect on labor market and social outcomes of young African-Americans relative to whites. We show that this effect is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. There is little evidence of such an effect from 1940 to 1970; rather, it emerged between 1970 and 1980, and it grew stronger during the 1980s.  2000 Els...

Medical discoveries in the ghettos: the anti-typhus battle.

Can We Speak of Ghettos in Czech Cities?

This paper covers the processes of ghettoization in socially excluded areas in the Czech Republic that are settled mainly by the Roma. I have attempted to document the logic of ghettoization using the case of an area called Poschla that emerged in Vsetín in 2006. On the basis of semistructured interviews with inhabitants and social workers, I endeavoured to find out whether Poschla was in the p...