Mustafa HasanovUtrecht University | UU
Mustafa Hasanov
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March 2019 - present
January 2015 - present
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Urban self-organization (USO) is an important topic within the field of contemporary participatory planning. This article aims to investigate the role of certain socio-psychological traits embedded within the notion of USO. We will argue that USO builds upon on the relationship between processes of community organizing, socio-spatial proximity and,...
Understanding how community groups take on the challenge of climate change is key to understanding the capacity of society as a whole to adapt in the face of climate change in ways that acknowledge a broader need for a sustainable societal transition. In order to show this it is important to identify what distinguishes self-organised responses to t...
Self-organization has been previously coined as a concept that describes the shifting relationships between citizen groups and institutional stakeholders in various fields, including sustainability and energy transitions. Yet, little has been known about what exactly the transformative power of self-organization is. The present article discusses pr...
Community food initiatives are gaining momentum. Across various geographical contexts, community food initiatives are self-organising, providing communities with inspiration, knowledge and the opportunity to work towards responsible and socially acceptable transformations in food systems. In this article, we explore how self-organisation manifests...
The phrase “local collective action” is increasingly being used to describe how civil society engages with, and acts upon, sustainability transformations. While existing research has framed local collective action as an outcome of creating a shared agenda on a local level, there have been calls for exploring the diversity of ideas, motives, and amb...
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All firms' business models are based on their interdependencies with other parties in their ecosystems. The Internet of Things (IoT) is beginning to fundamentally disrupt the agri-food industry, forcing the ecosystem to change. When an ecosystem is transforming, the interdependencies among its actors can create friction. Technology provider...
This Special Issue presents the seven best papers from the 30 th IFAMA 2020 World Congress, reflecting the richness and quality of the agri-food business and management scholarship that IFAMA facilitates and promotes. They reveal the diversity of research topics and current practices related to the most pressing agri-food business and management is...
Having endured benign neglect from the central government and general disdain from the rest of the country, Groningen has developed into a tenacious and self-reliant town where citizens are increasingly engaged with shaping and transforming their city. This chapter illustrates the eigenlogik of Groningen and its citizens through two recent yet deci...
Participate! Portraits of Cities and Citizens in Action offers an introduction to the complex world of urban development, identity and participation. It explains how the self-understanding of cities is mirrored in their approach to urban development. The basis of the book is formed by portraits of six European cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Lyon,...
Surplus food sharing initiatives, such as food waste cafes, aim to raise awareness about the amount of food that is thrown away and educate people on how to prevent food waste. Shifting disgraced, but edible foods from the industrial supply chain to the not-for-profit sector, surplus food sharing incubates a particular type of practices that aim to...
This article explores community food initiatives, through the conceptual lens of community self-organisation, to provide a more detailed understanding of how community initiatives see broader and transformational shifts in food systems. Drawing on a multi-method research design, this research follows the creation and creative dissolution of the Fre...
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The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action reminds us that understanding food activism in the world of alternative facts and post-truth politics requires breaking off with commonly established norms, criticisms, and controversies. With an awareness that there are connotations associated with “food jus...
This paper is discussing community self-organizing in Dutch food groups by drawing on literature related to local collective action and food systems. In the context of opposition, cooperation and collective action in food activism, this article explores how community self-organisation pushes toward deeper and more complex understandings of communit...
Final content report of the NWO-JPI Climate project SelfCity
With the increasing popularity of food sharing or food saving initiatives in the last years, underpinning different vision of alternative food movement, the question arises what does make all those initiatives distinct, what can explain the different trajectories of such initiatives and how do such paths accommodate issue of food and power while en...
Without a doubt, civil society has a significant role in reimagining sustainable energy futures. While previous research has prioritised mainstream market-led and state-led initiatives, recent research suggests that one should not underestimate the power invested in local collective activism. Drawing on a Q Methodology study involving participants...
Where there is food, there is also waste. The problem is not the availability of food but the surplus of food that hardly makes it to our tables. Often, edible food gets discarded or is left uneaten. The increase of community food projects, such as food saving and sharing initiatives bring new opportunities for local governments, which need to reac...
Self-organization fires the imagination in planning, policy and decision-making
circles these days. In the Dutch context the concept has been linked to terms like “burgerkracht” (citizen power) and “participatie” (participation) among others. Academic enquiries into the concept in (urban) planning also tend to focus on the Dutch context and as a c...
This article investigates the role of self-organization within local community initiatives that focus on an urban sustainability agenda. Recent academic debates have associated self-organizing processes with pragmatic and innovative societal approaches at a community level. Increasingly, such approaches are also undertaken by societal parties for a...
In recent years, there have been some major changes in the approach to managing planning projects and infrastructure development such as roads, rail and waterways in particular. The emphasis is increasingly on local and regional integration of these projects. Besides the linkages between projects, their value and interactions with other related pla...
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Question (1)
It is sort of funny how the world turns around. Four years ago when I started my PhD, I was asking 'environmentally active citizens', who take part in community energy and food sharing projects about, how do they think their initiatives relate to Climate Change. Most of the people could not directly connect to Climate Action. Often, it rarely made top 3 of the priorities of their initiatives
Now, four years later, everyone seems to be obsessed climate marches, climate strikes and other forms of peaceful protest.
It just leaves me with the questions of which type of action is more effective, taking small steps in improving your livelihood or marching in massive swarms? Surely, marches and mass protest are easier to be picked up by news and political agendas than small community projects but where is the silver lining?
