Museums in former residences: castles, palaces and manor houses

Museums and Workers: Negotiating industrial heritage in the former Yugoslavia

The article discusses tensions, ambiguities, and political implications of the fact that what is nowadays negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of the lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place given to the working communities, their members as ...

Stephen Castles

International migration is an important factor in social, cultural and political change in East Asian. The paper discusses both emigration and immigration countries, using the Philippines as an example for the former, and Japan and Malaysia for the latter. It is argued that population mobility is an important element of the cross-border flows and transnational networks that constitute globaliza...

Place, Capital Flows and Property Regimes: The Elites’ Former Houses in Beijing’s South Luogu Lane

Place is seen as a process whereby social and cultural forms are reproduced. This process is closely linked to capital flows, which are, in turn, shaped by changing property regimes. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between property regimes, capital flows and place-making. The goal of this paper is to highlight the role of changing property regimes in the p...

Thomas Lacroix and Stephen Castles

The Castles Project

We describe the goals of the CASTLES (CfA-Arizona-SpaceTelescope-LEns-Survey) project including a sample of NICMOS images of gravitational lenses and a brief list of the preliminary findings.