Author: Charles Abrams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Squatters
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Squatter Settlements
Author: Charles Abrams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Squatters
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Squatters
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Squatter Settlements and Housing Policy
Author: Edward Popko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Illegal City
Author: Ayona Datta
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317027949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317027949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.
A House of My Own
Author: Susan Lobo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816507610
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"A fairly comprehensive monograph, highly suitable for classroom use, that offers a wide range of information fit into traditional anthropological categories. . . . an interesting study of cultural integrity and pattern in a setting of what appears to be complex sociopolitical chaos." —American Anthropologist "Whether or not one accepts Susan Lobo's optimistic analysis, her ability to translate the apparent chaos of shanty-town lives into such neat patterns and to help outsiders view life as the inhabitants do are important contributions." —Inter-American Review of Bibliography "An extremely competent ethnography, simple and straightforward." —Anthropos "A pleasure to read, a mine of information which will be useful in teaching students to formulate their own hypotheses." —International Journal of Urban & Regional Research "Very well written and provides a great wealth of the liveliest sort of ethnographic detail." —Latin American Research Review "Lobo's study of two squatter settlements in Lima provides a solid, well-written, detailed, traditional ethnography of poor families in a Third World urban setting." —Hispanic American Historical Review "This well-written account . . . has a lot of heart and feeling for the human face of the urban poor." —International Migration Review
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816507610
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"A fairly comprehensive monograph, highly suitable for classroom use, that offers a wide range of information fit into traditional anthropological categories. . . . an interesting study of cultural integrity and pattern in a setting of what appears to be complex sociopolitical chaos." —American Anthropologist "Whether or not one accepts Susan Lobo's optimistic analysis, her ability to translate the apparent chaos of shanty-town lives into such neat patterns and to help outsiders view life as the inhabitants do are important contributions." —Inter-American Review of Bibliography "An extremely competent ethnography, simple and straightforward." —Anthropos "A pleasure to read, a mine of information which will be useful in teaching students to formulate their own hypotheses." —International Journal of Urban & Regional Research "Very well written and provides a great wealth of the liveliest sort of ethnographic detail." —Latin American Research Review "Lobo's study of two squatter settlements in Lima provides a solid, well-written, detailed, traditional ethnography of poor families in a Third World urban setting." —Hispanic American Historical Review "This well-written account . . . has a lot of heart and feeling for the human face of the urban poor." —International Migration Review
Urban Squatter Housing in Third World
Author: Ashok Ranjan Basu
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170990475
Category : Delhi (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Study with special reference to Delhi.
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170990475
Category : Delhi (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Study with special reference to Delhi.
Survey of Slum and Squatter Settlements
Author: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher: Tycooly Publishing U. S. A.
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Tycooly Publishing U. S. A.
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Squatter Citizen
Author: Jorge E. Hardoy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134157452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very readable book, containing a lot of well documented information The book is especially relevant for interested lay people but many professionals will benefit from having a copy on the bookshelf' Third World Planning Review The true planners and builders of Third World cities are the poor. They organize, plan and build with no help from professionals. Drawing on their own skills, making the best use of limited resources and forming their own community organizations, they account for most new city housing. But the city, which thrives on their cheap labour, rejects them. Their houses are deemed illegal, because they do not conform to regulations and they are called 'squatters', because they cannot afford to buy sites legally. Their right to water, education and health care, even to vote, are often denied. This book challenges many common assumptions about the urban Third World - for example that urban citizens live in very large cities and that cities are growing rapidly, or that city dwellers benefit from 'urban bias' in government and aid policies. It is about the lives of the 'squatter citizens' and the problems they face in their struggle for survival.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134157452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very readable book, containing a lot of well documented information The book is especially relevant for interested lay people but many professionals will benefit from having a copy on the bookshelf' Third World Planning Review The true planners and builders of Third World cities are the poor. They organize, plan and build with no help from professionals. Drawing on their own skills, making the best use of limited resources and forming their own community organizations, they account for most new city housing. But the city, which thrives on their cheap labour, rejects them. Their houses are deemed illegal, because they do not conform to regulations and they are called 'squatters', because they cannot afford to buy sites legally. Their right to water, education and health care, even to vote, are often denied. This book challenges many common assumptions about the urban Third World - for example that urban citizens live in very large cities and that cities are growing rapidly, or that city dwellers benefit from 'urban bias' in government and aid policies. It is about the lives of the 'squatter citizens' and the problems they face in their struggle for survival.
Squatter Settlements and State Responses in Puerto Rico
Author: Eduardo Bonilla
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Urban Geography
Author: Michael Pacione
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415462010
Category : Urban geography
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415462010
Category : Urban geography
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.
Sustainable Solid Waste Management
Author: Urvashi Dhamija
Publisher: Academic Foundation
ISBN: 9788171884285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With reference to Delhi, India.
Publisher: Academic Foundation
ISBN: 9788171884285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With reference to Delhi, India.