Everything I had wished to know about Walter Stöhr but I missed out

Series: SRE - Discussion Paper

Agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) in urban and regional development

This paper presents the relations among agency (A), structure (S), institutions (I), and discourse (D) and their analytical relevance for socio-economic development. It argues that an adequate account of these relations must recognize their inherent spatio-temporality and, hence, their space–time dynamics. This is not an optional extra but a definite descriptive and explanatory requirement. Moreover, while structure is recognized as a product of path-dependent institutionalization and path-shaping (collective) agency, agency is seen in turn as discursively and materially reproduced and transformed. This approach treats structure in terms of a differential spatio-temporal configuration of constraints and opportunities, reference to which informs the empirical analysis of strategic agency within the overall agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) heuristic. The paper concludes with an eightfold typology of particular combinations of ASID features to guide analyses of socio-economic development in all its (dis-)junctural complexity

La politique Vieillir et vivre ensemble. Chez soi, dans sa communauté, au Québec. Une analyse critique d’un point de vue extérieur au Québec

En tant que chercheur belge, c’est avec un double intérêt que nous avons répondu à la sollicitation de la Revue canadienne des politiques sociales d’évaluer la récente politique Vieillir et vivre ensemble. Chez soi, dans sa communauté, au Québec rendue publique en avril 2012 (La Politique, dans la suite du texte)