Squatting In Rio De Janeiro

Author : Bea Wittger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839435472

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Squatting in Rio de Janeiro by Bea Wittger Pdf

The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social movements occupy empty buildings in the cities to challenge historically-rooted and excluding urban politics. Exploring the occupants' agency, Bea Wittger draws attention to the important role of female actors within the buildings. Through oral histories of participants of two squats in Rio de Janeiro, the book delivers a deep insight "from below" into their own perspectives on citizenship and gender.

Author : Julio Pino
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022780634

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Family and Favela by Julio Pino Pdf

As a history of family life in the squatter settlements of Rio de Janeiro from the 1940s to the 1960s, this study shatters the myth of household disorganization said to be the norm among the urban poor. Using quantitative evidence, field reports by social workers, newspaper accounts, and the recollections of the squatters themselves, the study dissects household structure, economic activity, living standards, and political participation among the one million favelados (squatters) living in Rio by 1960, singling out three favelas for comparative analysis. Favelados prized family life, and most succeeded in holding their households together against daunting odds. Shantytowns provided residence close to the workplace, and some were erected literally in the shadow of the construction projects where the squatters worked. Indeed, the location and economic activity of the surrounding neighborhood largely determined the ability of the favela to survive. As squatters became an important part of the city work force, they mobilized to put pressure on the authorities to provide collective services like water and electricity.

Author : Lorna Fox O'Mahony,Marc L. Roark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487740

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Squatting and the State by Lorna Fox O'Mahony,Marc L. Roark Pdf

This book offers a fresh theoretical approach and methodology for tackling the most pressing property problems of our time.

Author : Ashok Ranjan Basu
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN : 8170990475

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Urban Squatter Housing in Third World by Ashok Ranjan Basu Pdf

Study with special reference to Delhi.

Author : André C. Drainville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134364732

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Contesting Globalization by André C. Drainville Pdf

Contesting Globalization makes an innovative and original addition to the literature on globalization examining the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society. This new study closely traces the history and development of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc.) as well as the emergence of the anti-globalization movement. The author argues that we are at a unique moment where social forces have moved from national and international struggles to a global struggle and intervention in the world economy. A series of case studies examine the ways in which cities have become contested sites for global struggles from the London dockworkers strikes of the nineteenth century to the recent demonstrations against the international financial institutions in Genoa, Seattle and Washington.

Author : Venturini Federico Venturini
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781551646855

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Social Ecology and the Right to the City by Venturini Federico Venturini Pdf

Cities today are increasingly at the forefront of the environmental and social crisis-they are simultaneously a major cause and a potential solution. Across the world, a new wave of urban social movements is rising to fight against corporate control, social exclusion, hostile immigration policies, gender oppression, and ecological devastation. These movements are building economic, social, and political alternatives based on solidarity, equality, and participation. This anthology develops the debates that began at the recent Transnational Institute of Social Ecology's (TRISE) conference about the dire need to rebuild the social and political realities of our world's cities. It discusses the prospects of radical urban movements; examines the revolutionary potential of the concept of "e;the Right to the City,"e; and looks at how activists, scholars, and community movements can work together towards an ecological and democratic future. A fruitful conversation between theory and practice, this book opens new ground for rethinking systemic urban change in a way that challenges oppression and transforms how people work, create, and live together.

Author : Miguel A. Martínez López
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349953141

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The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements by Miguel A. Martínez López Pdf

This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course. It reveals how and why squatting practices have shifted and to what extent they engender urban movements. The book measures the volume and changes in squatting over various decades, mostly by focusing on Squatted Social Centres but also including squatted housing. In addition, it systematically compares the cycles, socio-spatial structures and the political implications of squatting in selected cities. This collection highlights how squatters’ movements have persisted over more than four decades through different trajectories and circumstances, especially in relation to broader protest cycles and reveals how political opportunities and constraints influence the conflicts around the legalisation of squats. p>

Author : Afe Adogame,Raimundo C. Barreto,Wanderley Pereira da Rosa
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506433707

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Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity by Afe Adogame,Raimundo C. Barreto,Wanderley Pereira da Rosa Pdf

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach. Understanding migration and migrants has become increasingly relevant for world Christianity. This volume identifies and addresses several key topics in the discourse of world Christianity and migration. Senior and emerging scholars and researchers of migration from all regions of the world contribute chapters on central issues, including the feminization of international migration, the theology of migration, south-south migration networks, the connection between world Christianity, migration, and civic responsibility, and the complicated relationship between migration, identity and citizenship. It seeks to give voice particularly to migrant narratives as important sources for public reasoning and theology in the 21st century.

Author : Anders Corr
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0896085953

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No Trespassing! by Anders Corr Pdf

'A squatter's manifesto is at hand!" Charles Geisler, Cornell University

Author : Rowland Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317907213

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Shades of Deviance by Rowland Atkinson Pdf

Written in a unique format, Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance, offering 56 politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This book will be essential reading for undergraduate students in the fields of criminology and sociology and those preparing to embark on degree courses in these fields, as well as general readers. Written by field-leading experts from across the globe and designed for those who want a clear and exciting introduction to the complex areas of crime and deviance, this book provides a large number of short overviews of a wide range of social problems, harms and criminal acts. Offering a series of cutting-edge and critical treatments of issues such as war and murder, paedophilia, ecocide, human experimentation, stalking and sexting, this book also gives a guide to further readings and suggestions for other media to develop the reader’s understanding of these issues. Shades of Deviance requires readers to critically reconsider their ideas about what is right and wrong, about what is socially harmful and which problems we should focus our attention on. It also provides careful analysis and reasoned explanation of complex issues in a world in which sensationalist headlines, anxiety and fear about crime permeate our lives - read it to be prepared!

Author : Alan Smart,Fung Chi Keung Charles
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888805648

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Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing by Alan Smart,Fung Chi Keung Charles Pdf

In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The authors reconstruct the government policy on squatting through both ethnographic and archival research. The book sheds new light on the consequences of various attempts to control encroachment on scarce urban space. It argues that intersecting policy agendas resulted in decisions that were often not desired, but which emerged as practical solutions from prior failures. The authors address the challenges of explaining confidential policy decisions and offer new approaches applicable in other contexts. Overall, Smart and Fung make an important contribution to the understanding of how public housing and squatting interacted in influential ways that have been poorly understood and offer new perspectives on the challenges of urban governance and housing problems. “The definitive history of how resettlement policies evolved as the squatter population swelled and as London and Beijing moved closer to signing the 1984 Sino-British Declaration. A masterful combination of theorizing and documentary sleuthing, a landmark in contemporary debates over the optimal responses to the formalization of informal property.” —Deborah Davis, Yale University “Smart and Fung offer a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of the changing state-society relations in the postwar decades by unravelling the complexities of Hong Kong’s urban landscape through their critical analysis of the question of informality and the issue of squatting.” —Lui Tai-Lok, Education University of Hong Kong “Employing ethnography and combing through archives, Smart and Fung uncover how the British formalized squatter housing. Highlighting questions of sociopolitical and historical change by analyzing bureaucratic and geopolitical forces—a fascinating project delving into the nature of colonial rule, immigrant resilience, and political economic structures. A major contribution to evidence-based settler colonial studies.” —Setha Low, City University of New York

Author : David G. Epstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520022033

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Brasília, Plan and Reality by David G. Epstein Pdf

A masterful account of Brasilia, the city of the future, where Brazil's continental destiny was to be fulfilled, where government would be efficient and functional, without the interference of radical students and labor leaders. The building of the city was a gigantic public-works program, reflecting the various ties that existed between the planners on one hand and the contractors and suppliers on the other. Epstein gives a detailed account of the pilot plan and the rise of satellite towns between 1957 and 1967. The planners dreamed of a city that would transcend the frustrations of urban life in the underdeveloped world, but they failed to provide a sector where the actual builders of the dream city would live. Shacktowns soon developed, and have expanded to accommodate migrants--often displaced, landless cultivators--who continue to be attracted to the city. The conclusion Epstein comes to is that urban squatting will remain a prominent feature of Brasilia, a part of a system deeply rooted in local, national, and global structure and ideology. Until there are revolutionary changes in society, squatting and shantytowns will be a fact of life in the underdeveloped world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Really Free Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319545349

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Squatters and the Politics of Marginality in Uruguay by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla Pdf

This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay. It focuses on the effects of democratization on the mobilization of the poorest as well as on the role played by different types of brokers, from radical Catholic priests to local leaders embedded in political networks. Through a multi-method endeavour that combines ethnography, historical sources, and quantitative time series, the author reconstructs the history of the informal city since the late 1940s to the present. From a social movements/contentious politics perspective, the book challenges the assumption that socioeconomic factors such as poverty were the only causes triggering land squatting.

Author : Udo Grashoff
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787355217

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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe by Udo Grashoff Pdf

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.