Neither private nor new: unpacking narratives of ‘ocean privatisation’
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DOI: 10.1007/s40152-025-00416-1
Abstract: Joining others who call attention to the ways in which the ocean, its spaces, and its resources are being commodified, enclosed, and extracted in ways that benefit some at the expense of others, this paper… read more here.
Keywords: new unpacking; unpacking narratives; privatisation; ocean privatisation ... See more keywords
'A Very Costly Industry': the cost of Britain's privatised railway
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2017.04.002
Abstract: Abstract This paper is concerned with the financial performance of the British passenger rail industry since privatisation in the mid-1990s. This experiment, which not merely transferred a state-owned and fully integrated industry into the private… read more here.
Keywords: cost britain; privatisation; industry cost; industry ... See more keywords
De-privatisation and remunicipalisation of urban services through the pendulum swing: Evidence from Germany
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.07.030
Abstract: Abstract This paper explores and examines the distribution of environmental conflicts in Germany between 1985 and 2015, analysing the main causes for environmental conflicts related to privatisation and de-privatisation processes of urban services in 80… read more here.
Keywords: privatisation; urban services; privatisation remunicipalisation; remunicipalisation urban ... See more keywords
The build-operate-transfer model as an infrastructure privatisation strategy for Turkmenistan
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2016.12.002
Abstract: Turkmenistan is in the process of privatising the state-owned enterprises that help to provide infrastructure for economic development. Build-operate-transfer (BOT) has become a popular mechanism in developing countries for infrastructural privatisation. A Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) analysis… read more here.
Keywords: build operate; operate transfer; privatisation;
Lateral-privatisation of the publics: Hong Kong’s spatial struggles
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DOI: 10.1057/s41289-020-00127-5
Abstract: Hong Kong is one of the most ‘public’ open space challenged cities in the world. As a result of the city’s ‘patchwork’ planning practices, the privatisation of all space has become a means of control… read more here.
Keywords: privatisation; space; hong kong; lateral privatisation ... See more keywords
Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities
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DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2019.1524197
Abstract: ABSTRACT As the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) spreads, key questions that attempt to identify both the nature and the increasing scope and scale of this phenomenon become empirically significant. The concern of this article… read more here.
Keywords: measuring privatisation; privatisation; privatisation education; education ... See more keywords
The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany
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DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2298292
Abstract: ABSTRACT The trend towards de-privatisation has reshaped the role of local governments and their delivery of public services across the world. Local de-privatisation encompasses the twin processes of remunicipalisation, whereby towns, cities, and rural districts… read more here.
Keywords: shifting terrain; terrain local; ilm kreis; privatisation ... See more keywords
Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection
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DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2330647
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper analyses different modes of provision for household waste collection and changes in that by Dutch municipalities in the period between 1998 and 2018. Based on a transition matrix, the shifts in the… read more here.
Keywords: political financial; financial factors; privatisation; waste ... See more keywords
Historical memory and educational privatisation: a portrait from Cambodia
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DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2017.1387065
Abstract: ABSTRACT Educational privatisation has received increasing scholarly attention in recent decades. In much of this work, educational privatisation is viewed as the outcomes of certain government policies or as the result of the influences of… read more here.
Keywords: privatisation; privatisation portrait; memory educational; historical memory ... See more keywords
Stakeholder attributes and attitudes during privatisation: a New Zealand case study
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DOI: 10.1108/ijpsm-09-2017-0258
Abstract: PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to focus on understanding of stakeholder attributes and attitudes towards privatisation. It examines the stakeholder attributes through the framework provided by Mitchellet al.(1997). By combining it with the concept… read more here.
Keywords: stakeholder; privatisation; process; attributes attitudes ... See more keywords
Seniors’ Long‐Term Care in Canada: A Continuum of Soft to Brutal Privatisation
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DOI: 10.1111/anti.12711
Abstract: We situate the contemporary crisis of COVID-19 deaths in seniors’ care facilities within the restructuring and privatisation of this sector Through an ethnographic comparison in a for-profit and nonprofit facility, we explore what we identify… read more here.
Keywords: care; privatisation; seniors long; term care ... See more keywords