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While research on the sharing economy has sought to illustrate business models within the sharing economy, the focus of this research has largely been on unicorns Airbnb, Uber, and other technology-driven market platforms. Furthermore, inductive approaches to study business models in the sharing economy fail to distinguish between the multitude of practices – in particular, those practices that pr

There is a growing interest within place branding research for how experiences of safety influence the image of the city (e.g. Coaffee and Van Ham, 2008).Previous research demonstrates that fear is socially constructed and amplified by mass media (Avraham and Ketter, 2008) and social media (Doosti et al., 2016; Jansson, 2018). The realm of media has become more complex in an era characterised as p

Adaptation is regarded as a panacea among policy circles. This paper offers a somewhat different perspective, using life narratives to investigate the conflictual nature of adaptation in and around vulnerable communities in Nepal and Maldives. Our analysis results in a framework with three dimensions: (1) qualitative differences in type of conflict; (2) the relative positions of the conflicting ac

The Winter Palace (TWP) was a venue and association within the left-wing alternative environment in Malmö between 1987–1989, with premises in the port area. The venue ran a pub and café; arranged concerts, public lectures, and movie screenings; broadcasted radio; published fanzines; and more. The idea was that the proceeds would be used to build a Southern Swedish center for anarchist propaganda a

Building on narratives of students in adult education in Sweden, where the majority of the students are young adults, this paper argues that adult education has both negative and positive aspects in helping individuals to be recognised as valuable. Students, often part of the precariat class, have not always been able to survive in the job market and have a history of failing in upper secondary sc

In the context of growing concerns over climate change and peak oil, biofuels for transport are attracting considerable support from the European Union (EU). However, the sustainability of biofuels is under increasing debate. Furthermore, the complexity of the biofuels industry (involving different resources and feedstock suppliers, different logistics providers and options, a range of technologie

The uprisings in the Middle East in 2011 had repercussions in Morocco too, where demonstrators demanded a reform of the political system. The king managed to diffuse the protests by presenting a new constitution which was accepted by 98,5 percent of the voters in a referendum in July 2011. While the new constitution introduces some limited restrictions on the king’s power, the bulk of executive po