Claiming The City And Contesting The State

Author : Inbal Ofer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315299181

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Claiming the City and Contesting the State by Inbal Ofer Pdf

The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of urban space as one form of political and social repression under the dictatorship, and the threat posed to the official urban planning regimes by the phenomenon of mass squatting (chabolismo). The growing body of recent literature that analyzes the role of neighborhood associations within Spain's transition to democracy, points to the importance and radicalism of associations that formed within squatters' settlements such as Orcasitas in Madrid, Otxarkoaga in Bilbao or Somorrostro and el Camp de la Bota in Barcelona. However, relatively little is known about the formation of community life in these neighborhoods during the 1950s, and about the ways in which the struggle to control and fashion urban space prior to Spain's transition to democracy generated specific notions of democratic citizenship amongst populations lacking in prior coherent ideological commitment.

Author : Sanjeev Routray
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503632141

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The Right to Be Counted by Sanjeev Routray Pdf

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves.

Author : Julian Walker ,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787356382

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City by Julian Walker ,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu Pdf

Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that they engage, on a daily basis, with issues related to housing and spatial rights, and identity struggles around race, gender, disability, sexuality, citizenship and class. Reivindicações Urbanas e o Direito à Cidade investiga como os processos de desenvolvimento urbano em disputa e os direitos de moradores das cidades são compreendidos e interpretados por mulheres e homens que trabalham, de maneiras diferentes, nas bases populares de Salvador da Bahia, no Brasil, e de Londres, no Reino Unido. Ao fazê-lo, o livro representa vozes situadas de autores cujos trabalhos e vidas estão cotidianamente engajados em questões relacionadas aos direitos à moradia e ao espaço, e em lutas pautadas por identidades de raça, gênero, deficiência, sexualidade, cidadania e classe social.

Author : Christina M. Jimenez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986591

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Making an Urban Public by Christina M. Jimenez Pdf

Winner, 2019 CHOICE Awards Outstanding Academic Title Written as a social history of urbanization and popular politics, this book reinserts “the public” and “the city” into current debates about citizenship, urban development, state regulation, and modernity in the turn of the century Mexico. Rooted in thousands of pages of written correspondence between city residents and local authorities, mostly with the city council of Morelia, the rhetoric and arguments of resident and city council dialogues often highlighted a person’s or group’s contributions to the public good, effectively positioning petitioners as deserving and contributing members of the urban public. Making an Urban Publictells the story of how Morelia’s residents—particular those from popular groups and poor circumstances—claimed (and often gained) Making basic rights to the city, including the right to both participate in and benefit from the city’s public spaces; its consumer and popular cultures; its modernized infrastructure and services; its rhetorical promises around good government and effective policing; its dense networks of community; and its countless opportunities for negotiating to forward one’s agenda, and its urban promise for a better life.

Author : Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295749297

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The $16 Taco by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli Pdf

Having “discovered” the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of “authentic” eateries run by—and for—immigrants and people of color. This interest in “ethnic” food and places, fueled by media attention and capitalized on by developers, contributes to gentrification, and the very people who produced these vibrant foodscapes are increasingly excluded from them. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, geographer Pascale Joassart-Marcelli traces the transformation of three urban San Diego neighborhoods whose foodscapes are shifting from serving the needs of longtime minoritized residents who face limited food access to pleasing the tastes of wealthier and whiter newcomers. The $16 Taco illustrates how food can both emplace and displace immigrants, shedding light on the larger process of gentrification and the emotional, cultural, economic, and physical displacement it produces. It also highlights the contested food geographies of immigrants and people of color by documenting their contributions to the cultural food economy and everyday struggles to reclaim ethnic foodscapes and lead flourishing and hunger-free lives. Joassart-Marcelli offers valuable lessons for cities where food-related development projects transform neighborhoods at the expense of the communities they claim to celebrate.

Author : Shelton Stromquist
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839767784

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Claiming the City by Shelton Stromquist Pdf

For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn propertied elites challenged their right to govern. Prominent US labor historian, Shelton Stromquist, offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics. He explains how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism. Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill, Christchurch, Malm, Bradford, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Hamilton, OH, the book shows how this new urban politics arose. Long governed by propertied elites, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric. Amidst massive strikes and faced with epidemic disease, fouled streets, unsafe water, decrepit housing, and with little economic security and few public amenities, urban workers invented a local politics that promised to democratize cities they might themselves govern and reclaim the wealth they created. This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. Municipal socialist ideas have continued to inspire activists in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves.

Author : Jonathan Rokem,Camillo Boano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317333555

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Urban Geopolitics by Jonathan Rokem,Camillo Boano Pdf

In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too often focus on the abstract city level with marginal attention given to particular local contexts. Moving away from loosely defined urban theories and contexts, this book argues it is time to start learning from and compare across different ‘contested cities’. It questions the long-standing Euro-centric academic knowledge production that is prevalent in urban studies and planning research. This book brings together a diverse range of international case studies from Latin America, South and South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to offer an in-depth understanding of the worldwide contested nature of cities in a wide range of local contexts. It suggests an urban ontology that moves beyond the urban ‘West’ and ‘North’ as well as adding a comparative-relational understanding of the contested nature that ‘Southern’ cities are developing. This timely contribution is essential reading for those working in the fields of human geography, urban studies, planning, politics, area studies and sociology.

Author : United States. Tax Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1686 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1944-09
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015035811200

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Reports of the Tax Court of the United States by United States. Tax Court Pdf

Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : PURD:32754073495545

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Decisions of the United States Department of the Interior by United States. Department of the Interior Pdf

Author : Jerome Fenelon Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Alabama claims
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4Y1S

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Epitome of the Geneva Award Contest in the Congress of the United States by Jerome Fenelon Manning Pdf

Author : United States. Court of Claims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063915909

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Reports from the Court of Claims Submitted to the House of Representatives by United States. Court of Claims Pdf

Author : United States. Court of Claims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : PSU:000068057268

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Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States by United States. Court of Claims Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B4428715

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The Pacific Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117328836

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Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States and Others by United States. Supreme Court Pdf

Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015021714632

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands Pdf