Growing awareness of the size and organizational potential of informal economies in the era
of globalization has triggered a profusion of research on linkages between the formal and …

The introduction to the special issue starts from the observation that the political nature of
rebel governance is so far understudied. Moving beyond the functionalism and …

The expansion of capitalism produces contests over the definition and control of resources.
On a global scale, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification …

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre
has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed …

Throughout the world, climate change adaptation policies supported by the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have provided significant sources of …

Treating the “state” as a finished product gets in the way of understanding it. The state is
always in the making. This article, which acts as the Introduction to a special issue, argues …

This special issue furthers the study of natural resource management from a critical
institutional perspective. Critical institutionalism (CI) is a contemporary body of thought that …

The concept of resilience in ecology has been expanded into a framework to analyse human-
environment dynamics. The extension of resilience notions to society has important limits …

Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and
governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in …

The diversity of political spaces, availability of cheap labor, ease of access to powerful
figures, and safety net of a foreign passport attract researchers to the developing world …