Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett and Lea K. Allen (eds.) (2012): Rethinking the Informal City

Authors

  • Patricia Graf BTU Cottbus Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Industriesoziologie

Keywords:

Informality, Formality, City, Latin America

Abstract

This review discusses the book 'Rethinking the informal City. Critical perspectives from Latin America', edited by  Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett and Lea K. Allen from a political science perspective considering broader research on formality, informality and city governance in Latin America.

Author Biography

Patricia Graf, BTU Cottbus Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Industriesoziologie

Dr. Patricia Graf

Personal data:

  • 09/2012 – present academic assistant at the chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology, Brandenburg University of Technology
  • 2011-2012 selected entrant for the coaching program for post-docs “Karrierekompass” (career compass) of the University of Potsdam
  • Winter semester 2011/12 lecturer on “Founding and Team” for the business-plan contest Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Summer semester 2011 Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen
  • 09/2009 – 09/2012 project leader of “Frauen und ihre Karriereentwicklungen in naturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsteams” („Women and Their Career Developments in Scientific Research Groups“), Chair of Innovation Management and Founding, University of Potsdam
  • 04/2006 – 10/2006 Baden-Wuerttemberg certificate of tertiary didactics
  • 7-10/2007 visiting researcher at the Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, promoted by the DAAD
  • 10/2005 – 09/2009 academic assistant at chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Boeckh / Institute of Political Science, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen
  • 06-09/2002 project management for the German Corporation for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Chile

Academical Training

  • 1/21/2011 Dr. rer. soc., faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen; doctoral thesis about: “Innovationspolitik in Mexiko. Interaktionsprozesse zwischen Bund und Gliedstaaten” (Innovation Policy in Mexico. Processes of Interaction between Federal and Member States)
  • 06/2005 Magistra Artium in political science, recent German literature and art history, Karl-Eberhard University of Tübingen
  • 09/2000 – 04/2001 study abroad at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid
  • 10/1998 – 06/2005 studies of political science (1st major), recent German literature (1st minor) and art history, Karl-Eberhard University of Tübingen

Further academic and professional occupations

  • Editorial work at “Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft” (Femina Politica – Magazine for Feminist Political Science)

Memberships in Academic Associations and Clubs

  • Member of the International Political Sciences Association
  • Member of the Deutsche Akademikerinnen Bund (German Female Academics Association, Department Berlin
  • Member of the working groups „Politik und Geschlecht“ (Politics and Gender) and “Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft” (Comparative Political Science), DVPW German Association of Political Science
  • Member of the DVPW German Association of Political Science

References

References

Amen, Michael M., Noah J. Toly, Patricia L. McCarney and Klaus Segbers. 2011. Sighting or Slighting Cities in International Relations. In: Michael M. Amen, Noah J. Toly, Patricia L. McCarney and Klaus Segbers (eds.). New sites for international relations. Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 13–32.

Hernández, Felipe, Peter Kellett and Lea K. Allen (eds.). Rethinking the informal City. Critical perspectives from Latin America. [S.l.]: Berghahn Books.

Levitsky, Steven and Gretchen Helmke. 2004. Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics. A Research Agenda. In: Perspectives on Politics 2: 725–740.

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Published

2013-10-01

How to Cite

Graf, P. (2013). Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett and Lea K. Allen (eds.) (2012): Rethinking the Informal City. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research - CROLAR, 2(2). Retrieved from https://crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/88

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): Lo Urbano

Section

Book Reviews

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