Urban Resettlements in the Global South: Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation

ISBN-13: 9780367644437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Raffael Beier; Amandine Spire; Marie Bridonneau

Opis

By offering a frame for analysing and rethinking resettlement within urban studies, this book will support any scholar or expert dealing with resettlement, displacement, and housing in an urban context, seeking to improve housing and planning policies in and for the city.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Positioning ‘Urban Resettlement’ in the Global Urban South  Raffael Beier, Amandine Spire, Marie Bridonneau, and Corentin Chanet  PART 1: Neoliberal Governance and Spatial Reordering  2. Slum redevelopment, differentiated resettlement and transit camp. The Kathputli Colony rehabilitation project in Delhi Véronique Dupont and M.M. Shankare Gowda  3. The politics of urban resettlement: spatial governmentality, soft constraints and everyday life in Lomé, Togo Amandine Spire and Francesca Pilo  4. Transforming political subjectivities through resettlement in Córdoba, Argentina: from poor citizens to poor consumers Juliana Hernández Bertone, Candela de la Vega, and María Alejandra Ciuffolini  PART 2: Experiencing Change Through Notions of Home and Shelter  5. Narratives of Home and Neighbourhood: Rethinking risk in informal and state-delivered settlements in Durban Sogen Moodley and Kira Erwin  6. "The house is nice, but …" Looking beyond shelter in shantytown resettlement in Casablanca, Morocco. Raffael Beier  7. Resettlement and the everyday production of lived space: urban informality as a way of life in Tehran, Iran Toktam Ashnaiy and Erhard Berner  PART 3: Long-term Perspectives  8. The production of (re)settlements in Maputo, Mozambique: hovering between habitats and inhabited spaces Sílvia Jorge and Vanessa Melo  9. Experiencing the politics of resettlement in Lalibela (Ethiopia) through time: from displacement to the impossible rebuilding of ordinary lives Marie Bridonneau  OUTLOOK  10. Rethinking urban resettlement and displacement from the perspective of ‘home’ in the interruption and uncertainty brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic Marie Huchzermeyer  Index