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Journal articles on the topic "Urban dispossession"
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Masuda, Jeffrey R., Aaron Franks, Audrey Kobayashi, and Trevor Wideman. "After dispossession: An urban rights praxis of remaining in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 2 (July 15, 2019): 229–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775819860850.
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Drawing from a multi-year research presence in Vancouver, Canada’s Downtown Eastside, we generate insights into the praxis of the historically dispossessed within contemporary processes of subaltern urbanisms. Interviews with past and present Downtown Eastside residents reveal parallel narratives of dispossession and remaining between Japanese Canadians who were expelled during the Second World War and communities in the present-day neighborhood. A common frame of reference, a form of dispossessive collectivism, takes shape in a tenuous Right to Remain premised on material, cultural, existential, and political struggles that have inflected life in the Downtown Eastside for over a century of colonial urbanization. The Right to Remain can provide a situated and integrative vocabulary for consolidating grassroots praxis across diverse social groupings and settings to address urban spatial claims (symbolically and materially) and to confront forces of gentrification driving dispossession processes in Vancouver and beyond.
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Hof, Dennis. "Home Dispossession and Commercial Real Estate Dispossession in Tourist Conurbations. Analyzing the Reconfiguration of Displacement Dynamics in Los Cristianos/Las Américas (Tenerife)." Urban Science 5, no. 1 (March 9, 2021): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5010030.
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Since the onset of the global financial crisis, urban dwellers face an increasing number of obstacles in establishing themselves on the housing market. Against this backdrop, this paper addresses the variegated dynamics of real estate dispossession in the tourist conurbation Los Cristianos/Las Américas on an intra-urban scale. First, I will present the spatio-temporal patterns of dispossession for the period 2001–2015 using the ATLANTE database (CGPJ). Specifically, I analyze mortgage foreclosures and tenant evictions, both for residential and commercial spaces. Second, I delve deeper into local experiences of dispossession of the resident population and their housing and income conditions by means of questionnaires that I conducted in 2018. The data shows that mortgage foreclosures and dispossessions of residential spaces predominate the initial years after the crisis, albeit with varied spatial incidence. However, the increase in tenant evictions from 2014 onwards points to a reconfiguration of displacement dynamics. Indeed, as stated by the interviewees, staggeringly high rent burdens have become the main driver for displacement from both living and working spaces in recent years. Given the ongoing global pandemic, further and more nuanced research is necessary to grasp how these prevailing housing insecurities are shaped during and beyond the coronavirus crisis.
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Morell, Marc. "Urban tourism via dispossession of oeuvres." Focaal 2018, no. 82 (December 1, 2018): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2018.820103.
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Most of the anthropology of tourism has focused either on authenticity or on the commoditization of culture. Furthermore, tourism has been looked at as a service sector and, at most, as an urban strategy. Few authors have investigated the organization of (in)formal labor in the tourism industry outside the wage form. I address this gap by looking at the living and dead labor that the production of cultural heritage is about. I argue that the tourism industry transforms long-labored spaces and existing collective use values into commodities. After illustrating this argument with sketches from the Ciutat de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), I conclude that the relation between the dead labor and the living labor that produce heritage determines people’s differential access to its commoditized outcome.
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Yang, Daniel You-Ren, and Jung-Che Chang. "Financialising space through transferable development rights: Urban renewal, Taipei style." Urban Studies 55, no. 9 (June 13, 2017): 1943–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017710124.
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This research investigated the uneven geography of gentrification and the derived community-based conflicts in Taipei’s urban renewal after 2006, which has chiefly been boosted by transferable development rights (TDR). In this context, we argue that TDR has developed a monetary function, and we introduce the notion of strategic monopoly rent to reconceptualise TDR. Accordingly, we propose an institutionalised rent gap model from the perspective of investigating the institutional increase and social dispossession of the rent gap, which have been boosted by the financialised TDR and strategically structured by the state and developers under the regulation of property rights exchange. This system appreciates the potential ground rent and depreciates the building value institutionally – a practice not related to the actual occurrence of its physical deterioration. Landowners are either encouraged or coerced to participate in the distribution of the enlarged rent gap. Two forms of the social dispossession of ground rent have occurred, including the dispossession of the landowners as a whole by the developer and the dispossession of one landowner by another. We argue that the gentrification system has produced the mal-effects of surging housing prices, enclosure, dispossession, displacement and social antagonism.
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Yakashiro, Nicole. "“Powell Street is dead”: Nikkei Loss, Commemoration, and Representations of Place in the Settler Colonial City." Urban History Review 48, no. 2 (April 2021): 32–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/uhr.48.2.03.
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This article highlights the stakes of commemorating and representing loss in the settler colonial city. Focusing on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians living in Vancouver’s Powell Street neighbourhood before 1942, it contributes to existing scholarship on the internment and dispossession periods by critically examining Japanese Canadian reflections on the loss of place in the midst of as well as after their forced removal. Drawing primarily on the New Canadian newspaper in the 1940s and 1950s, this article demonstrates how Japanese Canadian writers mourned Powell Street’s “death” by describing the neighbourhood as ghostly and in ruins after their departure. Using discourses of urban settler colonialism from the mid-twentieth century, writers conveyed the injustice of the Nikkei community’s erasure within the newspaper and asserted a Japanese Canadian claim to the neighbourhood despite state efforts to deny such a claim. At the same time, this article argues that the New Canadian’s representations of Powell Street reflected participation in what Ann Stoler calls “ruination”, whereby Japanese Canadian commemorations became imbricated in the settler colonial logics and processes that pathologize the Downtown Eastside and its residents. Taking seriously the political work of commemoration, the article concludes that urban dispossessions and their representations must be viewed as overlapping, intersecting, and at times, compounding processes.
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Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck. "Infrastructures of progress and dispossession." Focaal 2016, no. 74 (March 1, 2016): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2016.740103.
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This article examines what economic growth and state versions of progress have done to small and medium-scale farmers in an urban setting, in Arequipa in southern Peru. The general reorganization of production, resources, and labor in the Peruvian economy has generated a discursive move to reposition small and medium-scale farmers as backward. This article analyzes how farmers struggle to find their place within a neoliberal urban ecology where different conceptions of what constitutes progress in contemporary Peru influence the landscape. Using an analytical lens that takes material and organizational infrastructures and practices into account, and situates these in specific historical processes, the article argues that farmers within the urban landscape of Arequipa struggle to reclaim land and water, and reassert a status that they experience to be losing. Such a historical focus on material and organizational infrastructural arrangements, it is argued, can open up for understanding how local and beyond-local processes tangle in complex ways and are productive of new subjectivities; how relations are reconfigured in neoliberal landscapes of progress and dispossession. Such an approach makes evident how state and nonstate actors invest affects, interests, and desires differently within a given landscape.
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Gillespie, Tom. "Accumulation by urban dispossession: struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41, no. 1 (October 7, 2015): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12105.
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Kan, Karita. "The social politics of dispossession: Informal institutions and land expropriation in China." Urban Studies 57, no. 16 (February 13, 2020): 3331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019897880.
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Extant studies on land dispossession often focus on its economic and extra-economic aspects, with respective emphasis on the operation of market mechanisms and the deployment of state-led coercion in bringing about the separation of households from their land. This article draws attention to the under-examined role of informal institutions in the politics of dispossession. Social organisations such as lineages and clans pervade grassroots societies and are central to land control and configurations of property rights. In China, the reconsolidation of lineages as shareholding corporations that develop real estate and operate land transfers has rendered them prominent actors in the politics of land and urbanisation. Drawing on an empirical case study, this article argues that informal institutions play a crucial role in mediating both the economic and extra-economic processes of dispossession. It further shows how, by providing the networks necessary for collective mobilisation and supplying the normative framework through which rightful shares in land are claimed, social organisations are at the same time instrumental in the organisation of anti-dispossession struggles. By unravelling the social dynamics that underlie land expropriation, this article offers a nuanced perspective to the politics of dispossession that goes beyond narratives of state-led coercion and market compulsion.
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Madden, David J. "The names of urban dispossession: a concluding commentary." Urban Geography 40, no. 6 (June 14, 2019): 888–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1624114.
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Mondal, Lipon. "The Logic of Dispossession." Journal of World-Systems Research 27, no. 2 (August 14, 2021): 522–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2021.1050.
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One particular focus of world-systems analysis is to examine the historical trajectory of capitalist transformation in peripheral regions. This paper investigates the capitalist transformation in a specific peripheral area—the country of Bangladesh. In particular, it examines the role of dispossession in transforming an agricultural society into a neoliberal capitalist society by looking at the transformation of Panthapath Street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since 1947. Building on the existing literature of dispossession, this article proposes an approach that explains the contribution of dispossession in capitalist accumulation. The proposed theory consists of four logics of dispossession: transformative, exploitative, redistributive, and hegemonic. These four logics of dispossession, both individually and dialectically reinforcing one another, work to privatize the commons, proletarianize subsistence laborers, create antagonistic class relations, redistribute wealth upward, and commodify sociopolitical and cultural aspects of urban life. This paper’s central argument is that dispossession not only converted an agricultural society into a capitalist society in Bangladesh, but that dispossession continues to reproduce the country’s existing capitalist system. This research draws on a wide range of empirical and historical evidence collected from Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2017 and 2018.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban dispossession"
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Gillespie, Thomas Anthony. "Accumulation by urban dispossession : struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5875/.
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Despite the growing recognition of the utility of Marxist theories of primitive accumulation for understanding the current ‘neoliberal’ phase of capitalist development, there is a lack of in-‐depth research on the particular dynamics that ‘accumulation by dispossession’ assumes at the urban scale. This is a problem compounded by the lack of dialogue between Marxist theorists of primitive accumulation and critical urban geographers researching neoliberalism at the urban scale, particularly in the context of the Global South. This thesis addresses these shortcomings through an in-‐depth empirical case study of struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana. Situated within a critical urban theory approach, it draws on a range of qualitative data gathered during fieldwork to explore the actors, motives, mechanisms and struggles that lie behind accumulation by dispossession at the urban scale – or accumulation by urban dispossession -‐ in Accra. This thesis argues that neoliberal structural adjustment has created a large ‘informal proletariat’ in Accra. This dispossessed surplus population has been expelled from the formal capitalist economy and therefore has to create ‘urban commons’ in order to reproduce itself outside of the capital relation. Since these commons place limits to capital’s ability to valorise the urban fabric, state-‐led accumulation by urban dispossession is a strategic response that employs a range of physical-‐legal and discursive mechanisms to overcome these limits through the gentrification of the urban environment, the enclosure of the urban commons, and the expulsion of the informal poor. The thesis also demonstrates how non-‐state actors in Accra enact accumulation by urban dispossession through governmental technologies that reshape the subjectivities of informal settlement dwellers so as to enclose them within a market logic. Rather than being passive victims, however, this thesis argues that Accra’s informal proletariat actively contests accumulation by urban dispossession by creating and defending urban commons through a combination of everyday acts of ‘quiet encroachment’ and organised collective action.
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Crowdus, Miranda. "Hip hop in South Tel Aviv : third space, convergent dispossession(s), and intercultural communication in urban borderlands." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15958/.
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This thesis critically examines the transformative function and the limitations of crosscultural elements in current musical practices in Israel, specifically, in Hip Hop practices in the urban context of the diverse neighbourhoods of South Tel Aviv. This study explores locales on border-areas of the urban space, investigating precisely how Hip Hop practitioners and their audiences negotiate identity, politics, and cross-cultural communication in an urban zone, which, even while it enables unprecedented intercultural encounters, is characterized by an overarching international conflict. Specific examples have been explored to illustrate how the diverse performers and audience members consciously embody the paradox of political disparity and co-existence through their eclectic musical idiom and through the social aspects of the music-making process and public performance. My investigation shows how intercultural elements are negotiated in Hip Hop performances in contemporary Israeli urban space. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I propose and apply several theoretical frames of analysis. This multi-faceted framework allows the illustration of the complexity of the way in which the musical experience negotiates boundaries of identity and belonging. Amongst the theoretical frameworks are Homi Bhabha’s concept of thirdspace (1990) and Maurice Halbwach’s notion of local ‘collective memory’ (1941). My research locates the scope of investigation in a broad, abstract, transnational arena, and also in an analysis of the specific range of identities affected and potentially transformed by musical collaboration in a concrete and specific urban setting. The broad focus highlights how the Hip Hop groups under investigation operate and are regarded globally; the narrow scope enables an analysis of how, in the context of ethnic conflict and co-existence in contemporary Israel, identity construction and negotiation is experienced in different ways by the individuals physically co-existing in shared urban space.
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Iacovini, Victor. "Economia política das remoções forçadas urbanas: expropriação, espoliação e exploração na produção do espaço urbano (o caso da Comunidade Aldaci Barbosa, Fortaleza/CE)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16139/tde-13062017-130017/.
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Num contexto onde a produção do espaço urbano tem cada vez maior relevância, seja pela provisão de infraestrutura, seja pela produção imobiliária, ou por sua articulação; muitas famílias residentes em assentamentos autoconstruídos são ameaçadas de desapropriação e remoção forçada com baixas indenizações em função de projetos urbanos. Tal situação suscita diversos conflitos políticos entre as comunidades ameaçadas de desapropriação, os órgãos públicos e interesses privados envolvidos. No centro do conflito estão pautas como a permanência no local, os procedimentos (cadastramento, avaliações, indenizações), a alternativa habitacional, etc. O Objetivo Geral do trabalho é compreender o papel dos processos de remoção e reassentamentos forçados na atual produção do espaço urbano em suas dimensões política (hegemonia, dominação e luta de classes) e econômica (espoliação, exploração, acumulação e reprodução ampliada do capital) e o seu entrelaçamento na reprodução ampliada e acumulação de capital. A hipótese é de que, no contexto atual, onde a produção do espaço urbano é cada vez mais relevante à acumulação e à reprodução do capital, os processos de remoção e reassentamentos forçados urbanos - enquanto mecanismos geográficos de adequação do espaço às necessidades de reprodução do capital - ensejam não somente uma acumulação por \"espoliação\", mas também por \"exploração\" dos bens patrimoniais (terra e/ou edificações) de comunidades pela expropriação; complementada pelo \'novo\' espaço (infraestruturas, moradias, etc.); assim como ensejam e expressam, dialeticamente, a (crise de) hegemonia, a dominação e a luta de classes. O método adotado consiste na conjunção entre pesquisa bibliográfica, documental, entrevistas semiestruturadas e no estudo de caso da Comunidade Aldaci Barbosa, em Fortaleza, Ceará. Os processos de remoção e reassentamentos forçados urbanos tem crescente centralidade na produção do espaço urbano, enquanto mecanismos geográficos de operação do poder e de ampliação da hegemonia e da dominação das relações de propriedade privada e do modo de produção capitalista, entrelaçados por uma \"conexão orgânica\" entre a exploração e a espoliação que impulsionam a reprodução ampliada e a acumulação capitalista pela produção do espaço urbano.In a context where the production of urban space is increasingly important, whether by the provision of infrastructure, by the production of real estate, or by its articulation; Many families living in self-built settlements are threatened with forced eviction and forced removal with low compensation for urban projects. This situation raises a number of political conflicts between communities threatened with expropriation, public agencies and private interests involved. At the center of the conflict are guidelines such as the permanence in the place, the procedures (registration, evaluations, indemnifications), the alternative housing, etc. The General Objective of the work is to understand the role of forced removal and resettlement processes in the current production of urban space in its political (hegemony, domination and class struggle) and economic dimensions (espoliation, exploitation, accumulation and amplified reproduction of capital) and their interweaving in expanded reproduction and capital accumulation. The hypothesis is that, in the current context, where the production of urban space is increasingly relevant to the accumulation and reproduction of capital, urban forced relocation and resettlement processes - as geographic mechanisms of space adequacy to the reproduction needs of the Capital provide not only an accumulation by \"dispossession\", but also by \"exploitation\" of the patrimonial assets (land and / or buildings) of communities by expropriation; Complemented by the \'new\' space (infrastructures, housing, etc.); Just as they dialect and express, dialectically, the (crisis of) hegemony, domination and class struggle. The method adopted consists of the combination of bibliographic and documentary research, semistructured interviews and the case study of the Aldaci Barbosa Community, in Fortaleza, Ceará. The processes of urban forced eviction and resettlement have a growing centrality in the production of urban space as geographic mechanisms for the operation of power and expansion of hegemony and domination of private property relations and capitalist mode of production intertwined by an \"organic connection\" between the exploitation and the dispossession that impel the amplified reproduction and the capitalist accumulation by the production of the urban space.
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Olofsson, Kristoffer, and Fernández Vítor Peiteado. "Accumulation by Dispossession through Sports Mega-Events: The case of Vila Autódromo and the creation of the Rio 2016 Olympic Park." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23226.
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The theoretical framework of accumulation by dispossession allows for a critical examination of urban development projects within neoliberalism (Harvey, 2009; Swyngedouw, Moulaert & Rodriguez, 2002). Within the same neoliberal paradigm, sports mega-events have come to play a significant role for urban regeneration and policy-making (Hall, 2006). Meanwhile attending to the well-documented cases of mass-evictions and reduction of standard housing rights as a recurrent consequence of cities hosting such events (Blunden, 2012), we believe that such a critical examination is arguably important in order to do justice to these kinds of urban regeneration projects. In this paper we analyse, by a case study approach, how mega-events amplify and accelerate the process of accumulation by dispossession. We attend to the development of the Olympic Park and Olympic Village, Barra da Tijuca, in preparation for the Rio 2016 Games, as well as the neighbouring community of Vila Autódromo. By analysing different types of source material, we discuss how the mechanisms of privatisation and entrepreneurialism are reflected in our case; understood as two important mechanisms that facilitate the process of accumulation by dispossession (Harvey, 2009).
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Carvalho, Mauricio Costa de. "A Copa do Mundo de 2014: Brasil entre cidades de exceção e cidades rebeldes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-19012017-132254/.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a realização da Copa do Mundo de Futebol de 2014 no Brasil, levando em consideração não apenas seus legados e impactos mais evidentes, mas principalmente compreendendo-a como parte substantiva da dinâmica mais geral do modo de produção capitalista em sua relação com as cidades-sede, os lugares. Como maiores eventos do planeta, as Copas apresentam-se como veículos passageiros e particulares do processo de totalização do capitalismo, sendo simultaneamente matrizes parciais do tempo e do espaço desse período histórico marcado pela crise econômica internacional. Nesse movimento, tendo os lugares como espaços finais de sua realização, esses megaeventos deixam marcas profundas; promovem a qualificação de uma determinada fração do tempo no qual ocorrem, determinados pelas necessidades do capital de se reproduzir lucrativamente, algo complexo nesse momento crítico. A totalidade, essa trama de eventos emaranhada entre as necessidades e possibilidades concretas dos lugares, ganha novos desenhos nas cidades a partir do contato com a agenda estabelecida pelo megaevento. Desde 2007, quando o Brasil foi escolhido como sede do Mundial e a crise econômica já aparecia no horizonte dos Estados Unidos e da Europa, as cidades brasileiras vivem a realidade desta agenda crítica pautada pela Federação Internacional de Futebol (FIFA). Tendo como pano de fundo as estratégias rígidas das corporações patrocinadoras e interessadas no evento, promove-se um verdadeiro estado de emergência para o atendimento das normas e padrões FIFA. Tomadas por uma avalanche de obras e negócios imobiliários desvinculados de planos estratégicos associados às necessidades mais sentidas da população, as cidades-sede tornam-se experimentos de novas formas de privatização e espoliação, sob o regime de leis de exceção e violações de direitos. Tal dinâmica imposta às cidades da Copa como um todo é manifesta de forma evidente na elaboração de uma nova centralidade na Região Metropolitana de Recife por meio da construção do grande empreendimento imobiliário Cidade da Copa, a partir do novo estádio construído para o evento. Trata-se pois, da eclosão no Brasil de uma crise fundamentalmente urbana que, se por um lado estrutura verdadeiras cidades de exceção, no outro vértice promove também a força criativa das resistências. Como demonstraram as manifestações urbanas multitudinárias de junho de 2013 e os protestos ininterruptos que se seguiram a elas, a revanche dos lugares à agenda da Copa pode estruturar também cidades rebeldes como legados.This dissertation aims to examine the implementation of the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, taking into consideration not only its legacy and most obvious impacts, but mostly understanding it as a substantive part of the wider dynamics of the capitalist way of production in its relationship with the host cities, the places. As some of the biggest events on the planet, the World Cups are presented as individual and transitory vehicles of the aggregation process of capitalism, while being simultaneous matrices of time and space during this historical period marked by global economic crisis. In this movement, having spaces as the places of their full realization, these mega events leave deep marks; they promote the qualification of a certain fraction of the time in which they occur, determined by the needs of capital to play profitably, something complex during this critical moment. The totality, this \"web of events\" tangled between the concrete needs and possibilities of places, gains new designs in cities from contact with the agenda set by the mega event. Since 2007, when Brazil was chosen to host this event and the economic crisis had already appeared on the North American and European horizon, Brazilian cities are living the reality of a critical agenda guided by the International Football Federation (FIFA). In the background of the rigid strategies of the sponsors and corporations interested in the event, a true state of emergency is promoted to meet norms and \"FIFA standards\". Taken by an avalanche of construction sites and real state negotiations unrelated to strategic plans that take into account the needs of the population, the host cities become experiments in new forms of privatization and dispossession, under the regime of emergency laws and rights violations. Such dynamics - imposed on the World Cup cities as a whole - is clearly manifested in the drafting of a new central location in the metropolitan area of Recife through the construction of large real estate project called \"Cidade da Copa\", around the stadium built for the event. This is the outbreak in Brazil of a fundamentally urban crisis, where on the one hand \"cities of exception\" are structured, and in another vertex a creative power of resistance is also promoted. As demonstrated in the multitudinous urban protests of June 2013 and the uninterrupted protests that followed them, the requital that took places in host cities can also structure \"rebellious cities\" as legacies.
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El, Kahlaoui Soraya. "Posséder. Construction de l'Etat et résistances aux mécanismes de dépossession dans le Maroc post-2011." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH202.
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En partant de deux enquêtes ethnographiques, l’une portant sur un quartier d’habitations informelles en cours de construction (2012-2013), et l’autre sur la résistance des membres de la tribu Guich Oudaya expulsés de leurs terres situées en plein Rabat (2014-2016), cette thèse vient interroger la manière dont les groupes sociaux marginalisés parviennent à revendiquer leurs droits dans le Maroc post-2011. Plus spécifiquement, ce travail vise à éclairer un aspect des reconfigurations politiques qui ont suivies les différentes protestations du mouvement du 20 février 2011, en mettant en lumière la dynamique des conflits et des rapports de force qui s’instituent dans l’affrontement entre un Etat régissant l’ordre urbain et des populations vivant dans le monde de l’informel en lutte pour leur droit au logement. Ces luttes du « peuple de l’informel » s’inscrivent dans un long processus historique engendré par le colonialisme. En urbanisant le Maroc, l’arrivée du pouvoir colonial a en effet profondément déstructuré les modes de gestion du territoire. Cette urbanisation, rendue possible grâce à l’instauration de mécanismes de dépossession, a provoqué une ségrégation spatiale fondée sur une séparation entre espace moderne et espace informel. En effet, avec l’avènement des villes coloniales/modernes, le manque de travail et de logement a abouti à la création de bidonvilles en périphérie des centres urbains et à l’émergence d’une économie informelle. Dans ces zones de marginalité urbaine, les populations se retrouvent dans la situation de contester l’Etat à partir d’une position de semi-légalité. Si cette situation structure leurs luttes et modèle leurs formes d’organisation, elle vient également les placer en opposition directe avec l’une des principales prérogatives de l’Etat moderne : celle de définir les contours du droit de propriétéThrough two ethnographic studies - one about an informal housing neighbourhood under construction (2012-2013), the other one about the resistance of the Guich Oudaya tribe, expelled from their land at the heart of Rabat (2014-2016), this thesis aims at questioning the practices that marginalized social groups use to claim their right in post-2011 Morocco. Particularly, this study aims at revealing an aspect of the political reconfigurations which followed the various protests of the 20 February movement in 2011 by shedding lights on the dynamics of the conflicts and the power balance established in the confrontation between the State as administrator of the urban order and a population living in the informal world and struggling for their right to housing. The struggles of this « informal people » are rooted in a long historical process engendered by colonialism. The colonial power extensively destroyed the modes of territorial management through the urbanisation of Morocco. This urbanisation process, based on mechanisms of dispossession, caused a spatial segregation built on the separation between the modern and the informal spaces. Indeed, with the establishment of the colonial/modern cities, the lack of work and of state housing has led to the development of « shanty towns » in the periphery of urban areas and the creation of an informal economy. In these zones of urban marginality and always from a situation of semi-legality, these populations were obliged to contest the state. If this situation of semi-legality structures their fights and shapes their forms of organization, it also places these populations in direct confrontation with one of the main privileges of the modern State: that to define the outlines of the property right
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Chong, Lugon Daniela. "Dispossessing the public : privatization of open public spaces in Lima, Peru." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129022.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-78).
The Metropolitan Area of Lima has on average 3.6m² of green area per person, for a total of 10 million inhabitants. Although this is not the most accurate metric, it is the most available proxy to measure and understand the magnitude of open public space in the city. In addition, it is not equitably distributed: districts with higher socioeconomic levels and larger municipal budgets have greater area and higher quality public spaces. In a context of inequitable distribution on quantity and quality, one of the biggest threats that public spaces face is their privatization, a process in which a space is dispossessed from the public and transformed for a private or restricted use.
From sidewalks, streets, parks, and plazas, to natural spaces such as beaches and the coastal lomas natural ecosystems, in recent years, these unprotected areas have become shopping centers, supermarkets, parking lots, private clubs, formal and informal housing, amusement parks, synthetic grass courts, and other infrastructure that has altered at some degree its openness, ownership, accessibility, and function. This shift from public to private spaces ultimately reduces the opportunity of all citizens to have available open public spaces, increases social fragmentation, and ultimately deepens issues of social injustice and spatial inequalities. In such a scenario, this thesis examines the conditions under which open public spaces are privatized and identifies the mechanisms.
Through different case studies and interviews, I create three types that attempt to explain the different forms in which privatization develops to expose the motivations behind it, the processes of how it happens, the actors who are involved, and the manifestations it has in the built environment. The first type is Concession for Development, and takes place when public space is rented to private entities in the form of concessions with the excuse of bringing development and improvement. The second is Appropriation for Livelihood, and occurs when public space is informally appropriated to fulfill a basic need such as housing or a productive activity. The third is Enclosure for Control, and results when public space is enclosed and its access is restricted in order to provide safety or facilitate its management. I analyze and expose the structural governance conditions and flaws in current planning processes -- formal and informal, top-down and bottom-up --
that lead to privatization in order to help create awareness about how and why this invisible phenomenon takes place and who is most affected by it. Finally, this thesis proposes recommendations that can help Lima and other Peruvian cities promote the protection and preservation of public spaces and also encourage a more equitable distribution.
by Daniela Chong Lugon.
M.C.P.
M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Cruz, Carlos Andr? Lucena da. "O reassentamento dos refugiados colombianos e palestino no estado do Rio Grande do Norte." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/18871.
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Since the second semester of 2004, the first refugees guided by ACNUR arrived at Potiguar s territory. Then we follow closely, with other local actors, the implementation and development of this innovative action, namely the resettlement of those refugees in Rio Grande do Norte. To accomplish this, we consider the concepts of territory, dispossession, repossession and international migration. The state of Rio Grande do Norte is a pioneer in the Northeast, in this type of action, since, before this experience, just Rio Grande do Sul and S?o Paulo were engaged in this kind of action. Therefore, this paper analyzes the process of resettlement of refugees, fulfilled in Rio Grande do Norte, between 2004 and 2005. The research broaches the regards that resulted in departure of these refugees from their respective territories (Colombia and Palestine) as well as the characteristics and prospects of the areas that hosted the refugees (Natal, Lajes e Po?o Branco). Finally, the work deals with the results achieved afield, through interviews and photographic record, near by refugees
A partir do segundo semestre de 2004, chegaram os primeiros refugiados em territ?rio Potiguar, encaminhados pelo ACNUR, e acompanhamos, com outros agentes locais, a implementa??o e desenvolvimento desta a??o conjunta e inovadora, ou seja, o reassentamento dos referidos refugiados, em territ?rio potiguar. Para tanto, foram abordados os conceitos de territ?rio, desterritorializa??o, reterritorializa??o e migra??es internacionais. O Estado do Rio Grande do Norte ? pioneiro, na Regi?o Nordeste, neste tipo de a??o, uma vez que, antes desta experi?ncia, apenas outros Estados tais como Rio Grande do Sul e S?o Paulo, estavam engajados no que tange ? essa a??o. Sendo assim, o presente trabalho analisa o processo de reassentamento de refugiados, realizado no Rio Grande do Norte, entre 2004 e 2005. A pesquisa aborda os aspectos que resultaram na partida desses refugiados dos seus respectivos territ?rios de expuls?o (Col?mbia e Palestina), bem como as caracter?sticas e perspectivas das ?reas que acolheram os refugiados (Natal, Lajes e Po?o Branco). Por ?ltimo, o trabalho trata dos resultados logrados em campo, atrav?s de entrevistas e registro fotogr?fico, junto aos refugiados.
Books on the topic "Urban dispossession"
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South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy, ed. The urban poor in globalising India: Dispossession and marginalisation. Delhi: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Publications, 2007.
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Swapna, Banerjee, ed. Accumulation by dispossession: Transformative cities in the new global order. New Delhi: SAGE, 2010.
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Banerjee, Swapna. Accumulation by dispossession: Transformative cities in the new global order. New Delhi: SAGE, 2010.
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Markets of dispossession: NGOs, economic development, and the state in Cairo. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
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South Asia Regional Programme (New Delhi, India). Planned dispossession: Forced evictions and the 2010 Commonwealth Games : report of a fact-finding mission. New Delhi: Housing and Land Rights Network, South Asia Regional Programme, 2011.
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Levenson, Zachary. Delivery as Dispossession. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197629246.001.0001.
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Abstract This book explains why nearly thirty years after the transition to democracy, the South African government continues to evict squatters from urban land. It argues that housing officials view occupiers as threats to the government’s housing delivery program, which, they insist, requires order and state control. New occupations are therefore stigmatized as “disorderly” threats, and government actors represent their removal as a precondition for access to housing. Drawing on a decade of sustained ethnographic fieldwork in two such occupations in Cape Town, this study explains why one was evicted, whereas the other was ultimately tolerated, answering a central question in urban studies: how do governments decide when to evict, and conversely, when to tolerate? These decisions are not made in a vacuum but instead require an analysis that expands what we typically call “the state.” This book argues that the state does not simply “see” occupations, as if they were a feature of the natural landscape. Rather, occupiers collectively project themselves to government actors, affecting how they are seen. But residents are not only seen; they also see, which shapes how they organize themselves. When residents see the state as an antagonist, they tend to unify under a single leadership; but when they see it as a potential ally, they often remain atomized as if they were individual customers. The unity in the former case projects an orderly population, less likely to be evicted; but the fragmentation in the latter case projects a disorderly mass, serving to legitimate eviction rulings.
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Migrants and City-Making Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. Duke University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book.65104.
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The urban poor in globalising India: Dispossession and marginalisation. Delhi: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Publications, 2007.
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Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. Duke University Press Books, 2018.
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Kapoor, Dip, and Steven Jordan. Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession: Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia. Zed Books, Limited, 2019.
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Zhang, Yunpeng. "Densification, dispossession and disposable lives." In Compulsory Property Acquisition for Urban Densification, 94–108. Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge complex real property rights series: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315144085-8.
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Çaylı, Eray. "The architecture of dispossession, disaster, and emergency in urban Turkey*." In The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey, 360–72. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429264030-29.
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Jiang, Yanpeng. "Discussion and Conclusion: Accumulation by Dispossession by Land-Based Urban Growth Coalitions in the Context of a Fiercely Competitive Urban Environment." In The Urban Book Series, 225–36. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6933-1_8.
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Jou, Sue-Ching, Anders Lund Hansen, and Hsin-Ling Wu. "Accumulation by Dispossession and Neoliberal Urban Planning: ‘Landing’ the Mega-Projects in Taipei." In GeoJournal Library, 151–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8924-3_9.
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Wehrhahn, Rainer. "Contentious urban housing politics in European metropolises between financialisation, dispossession and re-possession." In Housing and Housing Politics in European Metropolises, 3–20. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22345-8_1.
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Abramowicz Santos, R. "Threats and evictions: Dispossession and displacement in the center of São Paulo, Brazil." In Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories, 96–102. London: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003220855-13.
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"1 Before Housing Reform: The Gendering Of Urban Property." In Indigenous Dispossession, 26–40. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503614352-004.
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Roy, Ananya. "Grammars of Dispossession." In Grammars of the Urban Ground, 41–57. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022954-003.
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ROY, ANANYA. "GRAMMARS OF DISPOSSESSION:." In Grammars of the Urban Ground, 41–57. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x1npkj.6.
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"8 Imagining Urban Futures in the Age of Uncertainty." In Dispossession and Dissent, 193–98. Stanford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503627727-011.
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Unsal, B. Oktem. "Impacts of the Tarlabaşı urban renewal project: (forced) eviction, dispossession and deepening poverty." In SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING 2015. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sdp150041.
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Tillis, Gina. "Reciprocity and Resilience: An Urban Historically Black College/University's Response to Anti-Black Community Dispossession and Displacement." In 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1892035.
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Kundu, Ratoola. "The informal syndicate Raj: Emerging urban governance challenges in newly incorporated." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/nnxq9422.
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Peri-urban spaces in the Global South are regarded as sites of radical and often violent of transformation of social and spatial structures, of brutal dispossessions of lives and livelihoods to make way for speculative real estate development and the accumulation of capital through the expropriation and commodification of land. What kinds of politics and governance configurations emerge in the peri-urban areas of mega-cities? A host of state and non-state actors such as developers, aspiring middle-class urban dwellers are reimagining these sites. This paper investigates the complex governance and livelihood transformations following the upgradation of Bidhan Municipality to a Corporation in 2015 through the state driven merger of the existing planned satellite township of Salt Lake with the surrounding unplanned rural and urban areas. The paper argues that a new politics of unsteady alliances characterises the messy, unsettled and restless territories of the newly formed Municipal Corporation. A highly contingent, informalised and powerful configuration of non-state actors – locally known as Syndicates control the development dynamics and political fortunes of the periphery