Neoliberal Governance and Uneven Development in Jersey City

Technocratic Values and Uneven Development in the “Smart City"

My student elective: surgery in Jersey City.

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City-Regions, Neoliberal Globalization and Democracy: A Research Agenda

This paper argues that research on city-regions could benefit from more sustained and critical attention to the question of democracy. That is, it should examine more closely how decisions in city-regions are made, why they are made that way, and how they can be made more democratically. Much current research on politics in cities has framed the issue in terms of citizenship. That work has prod...

Small Cities, Neoliberal Governance and Sustainable Development in the Global South: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda

Development and environmental issues of small cities in developing countries have largely been overlooked although these settlements are of global demographic importance and often face a “triple challenge”; that is, they have limited financial and human resources to address growing environmental problems that are related to both development (e.g., pollution) and under-development (e.g., inadequ...

The -dotbuster- Attacks: Hate Crime against Asian Indians in Jersey City, New Jersey

Within a nine-month period from June 1987 to February 1988, over 15 Asian Indian people were brutally attacked in or around Jersey City, New Jersey. All of the incidents took place after a local newspaper published a letter from the -Dotbusters, an organization vowing to rid the community of Indians. This study illustrates how growing resentment and conflict between ethnic groups can manifest i...