Place-based policies

(De)coding a technopolity: Tethering the civic blockchain to political transformation – PhD-thesis by Syed Omer Husain

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May 14 2020, at 11.00 am (CET) Syed Omer Husain will defend his PhD-thesis ‘(De)coding a technopolity: Tethering the civic blockchain to political transformation‘. See the Abstract below. The full thesis can be downloaded (click title) from WUR Library after the defence ceremony. The ceremony will be live-streamed by Weblectures.wur.nl but is recorded and can … Read more

New publication: The political imaginaries of blockchain projects by Omer Husain et al.

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Omer Husain is PhD-candidate at the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He was appointed at the research project Place-based Policies of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE from April 1, 2016, till December 31, 2020. ‘The political imaginaries of blockchain projects: discerning the expressions of an emerging ecosystem’ by Syed Omer Husain, Alex Franklin and … Read more

New @SUSPLACE publication: Prefigurative Post-Politics as Strategy: The Case of Government-Led Blockchain Projects by Husain et al.

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Omer Husain is PhD-candidate at the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. From April 1, 2016, until March 31, 2019, he was appointed at the research project Place-based Policies of the MSCA ITN programme SUSPLACE. ‘Prefigurative Post-Politics as Strategy: The Case of Government-Led Blockchain Projects‘ by Syed Omer Husain, Dirk Roep and Alex Franklin was … Read more

The WasteLab: semi-finalist of the European Social Innovation Competition!

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The ideas, people and projects we get to know through SUSPLACE encourage us to embark on other bold adventures!   You can think of The WasteLab as such an offshoot – one that has been ignited by the European Social Innovation Competition. This year’s call is entitled ‘Re:think local’ and seeks to find the most innovative projects that empower young people to participate … Read more

OuiShare Fest Paris 2017 – A festival of ideas and an ode to collaboration

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OuiShare Fest, ‘not your typical conference’. Never has a conference’s tagline so aptly described the experience an attendee is in for. There were no stuffy boardrooms, no saran wrapped sandwiches, no dry monologues from experts — none of that. It was really a festival. A festival of ideas and an ode to collaboration. As OuiShare … Read more