All Stories

  1. Circular economy and gendered antagonism in the Global South: The Kambuta fish market in Kisumu, Kenya

    Article • World Development Perspectives, March 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  2. Mobilizing policy capacity amid rapid green industrialization: peripheral local government in the Northvolt boom-and-bust

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  3. Alternate infrastructures of care: Restoring people's abilities to care in a city of thresholds

    Article • Cities, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  4. Call for Papers: The New Landscape of Public Administration - Trends, Challenges, and Future Pathways

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, March 2025, University of Gothenburg

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  5. Waste Commoning as Critical Answer to the Property Question

    Article • March 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  6. Alternate Infrastructures of Care: Restoring People's Abilities to Care in a City of Thresholds

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  7. Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience

    Article • AMBIO, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane, Professor Patrik Zapata

  8. The Territorial Embeddedness of Novel Labour Integration Policy: Something Old, Something New and Something Borrowed

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, June 2023, University of Gothenburg

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  9. Activation of unemployed through social procurement: from policy to practice

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  10. Procuring for Labour Market Integration

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  11. Grassroots innovations in ‘extreme’ urban environments. The inclusive recycling movement

    Article • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, October 2022, SAGE Publications

    Goodluck Charles , Professor Patrik Zapata

  12. Characteristics, challenges and innovations of waste picker organizations: A comparative perspective between Latin American and East African countries

    Article • PLOS One, July 2022, PLOS

    Goodluck Charles , Professor Patrik Zapata

  13. (Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance

    Article • Urban Geography, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  14. Residents' collective strategies of resistance in Global South cities' informal settlements: Space, scale and knowledge

    Article • Cities, June 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  15. Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness

    Article • Urban Studies, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  16. Waste Pickers also strive to improve the environment

    Article • The Journal of Environment & Development, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Jutta Gutberlet, Professor Patrik Zapata

  17. Urban qualities and residents’ strategies in compact global south cities: the case of Havana

    Article • Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  18. What Makes a Compact City? Differences Between Urban Research in the Global North and the Global South

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, December 2020, University of Gothenburg

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  19. Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below

    Article • Environment and Urbanization, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  20. Urban commoning practices in the repair movement: Frontstaging the backstage

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  21. Cities, institutional entrepreneurship and the emergence of new environmental policies: The organizing of waste prevention in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden

    Article • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  22. Infiltrating citizen-driven initiatives for sustainability

    Article • Environmental Politics, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  23. Translating Policies into Informal Settlements' Critical Services: Reframing, Anchoring and Muddling Through

    Article • Public Administration and Development, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  24. Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements

    Article • The Journal of Environment & Development, October 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  25. Acting on distances: A topology of accounting inscriptions

    Article • Accounting Organizations and Society, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Hervé Corvellec, Professor Patrik Zapata

  26. Networked Social Movements and the Politics of Mortgage: From the Right to Housing to the Assault on Institutions

    Article • March 2016, Emerald

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  27. Socio-environmental entrepreneurship and the provision of critical services in informal settlements

    Article • Environment and Urbanization, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Oloko Michael Odero, Professor Patrik Zapata, Dr. Jutta Gutberlet

  28. Unexpected translations in urban policy mobility. The case of the Acahualinca development programme in Managua, Nicaragua

    Article • Habitat International, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  29. Stop the evictions! The diffusion of networked social movements and the emergence of a hybrid space: The case of the Spanish Mortgage Victims Group

    Article • Habitat International, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  30. The travel of global ideas of waste management. The case of Managua and its informal settlements

    Article • Habitat International, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  31. Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development: the case of waste incineration in the Göteborg Metropolitan Area

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Hervé Corvellec, Professor Patrik Zapata

  32. Waste in Translation: Global Ideas of Urban Waste Management in Local Practice

    Article • May 2013, Policy Press

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  33. Switching Managua on! Connecting informal settlements to the formal city through household waste collection

    Article • Environment and Urbanization, February 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  34. Infrastructures, Lock-In, and Sustainable Urban Development – The Case of Waste Incineration in the Göteborg Metropolitan Area

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  35. Changing La Chureca: Organizing City Resilience Through Action Nets

    Article • Journal of Change Management, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Patrik Zapata

  36. TRANSLATING DEVELOPMENT AID INTO CITY MANAGEMENT: THE BARRIO ACAHUALINCA INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

    Article • Public Administration and Development, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Patrik Zapata