Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality

Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbourhoods are often stigmatized by dominant social forces to justify their demolition. The urban poor have however negotiated and resisted these developments in a range of ways. This text explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested. It seeks to understand how things might be otherwise, how the city might be geared towards more inclusive forms of belonging and citizenship.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-25
Mått159 x 232 x 24 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransforming Capitalism
Antal sidor246
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786606402

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Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality, Tom Slater Part 1: Conceptual Terrains2. An Explanatory or Mystifying Concept? The Use Value of Gentrification Theory, Edwar Calderon, Neil Gray, Hamish Kallin, and Ebru Soytemel3. Oscillations in Housing Policy: Comparative Urbanism Across Delhi and Rio de Janeiro, Héctor Becerril Miranda and Kavita Ramakrishnan4. The Calais Jungle: A City In-between Urban Worlds, Oli MouldPart 2: Everyday Marginalities5. Contrasting ‘Ghetto’ Pride: A Comparison of the Sense of Belonging for People who Live Outside of their Local Neighbourhoods: London and Mexico City, César Rebolledo and Joy White6. Music Neotribes: Moving from the Margins, Catherine Wilkinson and Joseline Vega7. Popular Religiosity and Struggles for Urban Justice in Mexico: A Decolonial Analysis of Santa Muerte, Julie Cupples and Kevin GlynnPart 3: Marginality by Design and Designing out Marginality8. Cultural Marginality and Urban Place

Critical, wide-ranging and committed to theoretical and epistemic openness and plurality, this insightful book is more than a collection of essays about urban marginality. It offers a refreshing contribution to the North-South debate in urban theory, and exemplifies precisely the kind of approaches we need to develop theoretically-open, critically-informed and politically-engaged scholarship. This book should be read by anyone interested in and concerned about the present and future of urban lives.