Performing success and failure in governance: Dutch planning experiences

K Van Assche, R Beunen, M Duineveld - Public administration, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present an analytical framework for analyzing the functions of failure and success
ascriptions in public administration. The framework incorporates concepts and insights from …

Understanding empirical boundaries: A systems-theoretical avenue in border studies

J Jacobs, K Van Assche - Geopolitics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this contribution is to present a conceptual framework with potential application
across the interdisciplinary field of border studies. This framework should embrace …

[PDF][PDF] Visible and invisible informalities and institutional transformation in the transition countries of Georgia, Romania, and Uzbekistan

K Van Assche, A Shtaltovna… - Informality in Eastern …, 2013 - academia.edu
In this chapter we outline a perspective on institutional transformation that locates the focus
of analytic reflection and policy intervention in configurations of formal and informal …

Narratives of place and self

K Van Assche, P Teampău, K Van Assche… - … : Imagining and (Re-) …, 2015 - Springer
In this chapter, we discuss several narrative dynamics central to the functioning of local
cosmopolitanism. We look at the interplay between biographical, autobiographical and …

Identities on the Move

K Van Assche, P Teampău, K Van Assche… - … : Imagining and (Re-) …, 2015 - Springer
In this chapter, we dwell on some of the more ambiguous and fluid phenomena in identity
construction and place making encountered in Sulina, phenomena rendering the …

Pirates, fish and Tourists

P Teampău, K Van Assche - The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta …, 2014 - books.google.com
“Sulina, little town lost on the shore/Sulina, you are the nest of happiness/Sulina, I call you in
a whisper/in the dark night, dear town./So many memories born out of the little houses/and …