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CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Maansi Parpiani
Across Indian cities, daily wagers gather every morning at large intersections or crossroads (nakas) where they seek work for the day from small construction contractors. In the satellite city of Navi Mumbai (New Mumbai), some of these daily wagers are reconstituting themselves into a class of ‘disadvantaged, crossroad workers’. This article provides an ethnographic narration of how class is experienced
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THE POLITICS OF VIOLENT CONCATENATIONS International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Javier Auyero, Sofía Servián
Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines face‐to‐face violent interactions in a high‐poverty squatter settlement in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Delving into the situational interactions and biographies of those who simultaneously exercise and suffer violence—victims and perpetrators—we illustrate in fine‐grained detail the concatenations of violence and their political dimensions
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‘SANCTUARY FOR ALL’ OR ‘SANCTUARY FOR THE DESERVING’: How Municipal Bureaucracies Mediate and Decide Contentious Struggles over Urban Citizenship International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Walter Nicholls
During the late 2010s, pro‐immigrant activists in the politically progressive municipality of Mayville, California (pseudonym) mounted a campaign to enact a radically egalitarian sanctuary city policy (“sanctuary for all”) that would have changed the boundaries of urban citizenship. The campaign crafted compelling and resonant mobilization frames, constructed a broad and diverse coalition, won the
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THE DARK SIDE OF PLANETARY URBANIZATION: Operational Landscapes, Crisis and the ‘Peripheral Condition’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Thiago Canettieri
In this article I present the concept of the ‘peripheral condition’ in the context of theoretical discussion on planetary urbanization. Inspired by Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's interpretation of urbanization, which draws from Lefebvre's oeuvre, I suggest taking into consideration Robert Kurz's key insights about the internal contradiction of capital. In this study I seek to integrate the ‘critique
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STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Nicolás Palacios Crisóstomo, David Kaufmann
Amid the Covid‐19 pandemic, the food and grocery delivery sector became a multibillion‐dollar industry, making riders with squared backpacks visible in our urban landscapes. We explore the role of quick delivery platforms in spatial production—and especially the strategies platforms employed and the tactics of platform workers in relation to this production. By adopting a Lefebvrian perspective, we
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ZONING AND THE ‘RIGHT’ CITY: The Challenges of Zoning in the Global South and Possibilities for Unzoning Informality International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Herman Geyer
This article presents a poststructuralist analysis of zoning practices and their implementation in the global South, critically analysing the development of two parallel housing processes arising as a consequence of zoning: informality and customary land use management systems in peri‐urban settlements. Using a Bourdieusian analysis, the article evaluates the tension between zoning and informality
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PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 James DeFilippis, Elana R. Simon
Queens is the most diverse county in the country and much of its diversity comes from relatively recent immigration. It is therefore exactly the kind of place that a variety of theorists have argued cannot have ‘a public’ through which questions of politics, plans and policies can be discussed and debated. In this article we explore the potential for a public in such spaces of hyper‐diversity and do
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ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Maren Larsen, Alke Jenss, Benjamin Schuetze, Kenny Cupers
Pipelines and refineries, hydropower dams, and solar and wind power projects feeding into emerging transnational energy networks make up the thrust of a new push for infrastructural expansion in the global South. This article argues that understanding the effects of this expansion requires attending to the multiple elsewheres of transnational energy projects in various states of realization. By this
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THE PERSISTENCE OF PEENYA: Examining Industrial Space in Global Bangalore International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Aman Banerji
Since 1991, Bangalore has seen spectacular redevelopment through the political hegemony of real estate, IT and parastatals in local urban governance. The global city literature has demonstrated how gentrification and real estate redevelopment have been at the heart of such neoliberal urban transformation. Yet, the literature's roots in notions of ‘post‐industrial’ cities obscure a view of how industry
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Issue Information International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31
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HOW LOCAL PRACTICES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL INNOVATION DEVELOP: And Why This Matters for Urban Transformations International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Merlijn Van Hulst, Catherine Durose, Annika Agger
This article addresses a critical gap in extant theorizing of urban transformations by focusing on the political and temporal dimensions of how innovations emerge, develop and become institutionalized into alternative systems of the everyday such as social centres, community gardens or urban commons. Going beyond current approaches, we offer a new understanding of innovations as sociopolitical practices:
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DID INDIA EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE CITY MOVEMENT? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Sushmita Pati
In this article I look into the weakening state of housing justice in India, especially in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic and increased state violence. I ask how and why housing rights in India have mostly remained limited in their approach without being able to demand broader access to the city through right to the city discourse. In trying to find answers to this question, I examine housing
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INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Hayden Shelby
This article examines the role of insurgency in scaling up the co‐production of housing. Co‐production has gained in popularity in the past 15 years as both a set of practices and an intellectual framing for analyzing urbanization in the global South. Discussions of co‐production have largely emphasized the cooperative nature of the approach, asserting that a mostly non‐confrontational politics has
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LOCAL INITIATIVES IN SHRINKING CITIES: On Normative Framings and Hidden Aspirations in Scholarly Work International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Leona Sandmann, Maria Gunko, Irina Shirobokova, Ria‐Maria Adams, Johanna Lilius, Katrin Grossmann
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their
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THE POWER OF UNCERTIFIED URBAN LAND International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Franklin Obeng‐Odoom, Anne Haila
Uncertified land abounds. The critical question is whether such land can provide security of tenure, access to finance, effective urban planning, and highest and best use. While much research contests the prospects and problems of conventional land title registration, the power of uncertified land is an issue rarely raised and, if done, hardly resolved holistically. Fundamentally still, economists
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GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Efadul Huq
Ecological infrastructure and urban agriculture are enacting a green resurgence in cities. In the global South, however, ecological infrastructure is often premised on erasing already existing informal agricultural practices (green informalities) and leads to the displacement of marginalized urban dwellers. How, then, can ecological infrastructure be calibrated with the specific realities of the global
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AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Naimah Lutfi Abdullah Talib
The rise of the global supply chain has intensified the circulation of goods and capital across the world. While the body of literature on the politics and political‐economy aspects of logistical expansion has grown, little attention has been given to understanding how coastal fishers’ communities interact with the ongoing development of mega infrastructure. I argue that it is essential to place spatial
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CLIMATE‐JUST HOUSING: A Socio‐spatial Perspective on Climate Policy and Housing International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Sören Weißermel, Rainer Wehrhahn
Focusing on the nexus of climate and housing policy, this article analyzes the socio‐spatial consequences of urban climate mitigation policies and the resultant need to broaden the concept of climate justice. By using the example of energy retrofitting in a low‐income district in Kiel, Germany, the article examines cities’ dependence on real estate companies to reach low‐carbon goals in a privatized
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UNRAVELLING THE ROLES OF ACTIVE RESIDENTS IN A POLITICALLY CHALLENGING CONTEXT: An Exploration in Cairo International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Aya Elwageeh, Maarten Van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans
Capital cities struggle with population growth that challenges existing infrastructure and affects the quality of urban life. The failure of local governments to manage urban deterioration motivates active resident groups to improve their neighborhoods, but they struggle to play a role in neighborhood governance in contexts where citizens’ engagement in public affairs is restricted. In this article
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PREFIGURING PRAGMATICALLY? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Amanda Tattersall, Kurt Iveson
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about the practice of prefigurative politics by urban social movements, and the relationship between prefiguration and other political practices. We argue that urban social movements can deploy prefigurative power in combination with other political strategies with which it is often contrasted and opposed. To demonstrate, we explore Cape Town's Reclaim
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REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Casper Bruun Jensen, Jakkrit Sangkhamanee
Bangkok is a tropical metropolis subject to many human and nonhuman transformations. While Covid‐19 raged, the city's mix of precarity and oppression gave rise to a youth protest movement that opposed the junta government and sought to intervene in Thai politics‐as‐usual. At the same time, a rewilding experiment aimed at undoing environmental damage quietly was unfolding in Benjakitti Urban Forest
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NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Gareth Millington, David Garbin, Simon Coleman
This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo‐Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo‐Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water, healthcare, plus banking and educational facilities as
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SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Smriti Singh
In this article I examine the simultaneous expansion of urban sprawl and influx of middle‐class migrants in the context of Gurugram, India, to highlight how physical and social space plays an integral role in shaping class distinction among the migrant middle classes. I make a case for social class, generally, and migrant middle classes in neo‐urban contexts, specifically, to be understood as a sociospatial
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RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Emilia Lewartowska, Isabelle Anguelovski, Emilia Oscilowicz, Margarita Triguero‐Mas, Helen Cole, Galia Shokry, Carmen Pérez‐del‐Pulgar, James JT Connolly
This article explores the role that green gentrification plays in exacerbating racial tensions within historically marginalized urban communities benefiting from new environmental amenities such as parks, gardens, waterfront restoration and greenways. Building on extensive qualitative data from three cities in Europe (Amsterdam, Vienna, Lyon) and four cities in the United States (Washington, Austin
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MOVEMENT TO COASTAL TOWNS IN TURKEY: Urban Rescaling, Local Deregulation and New Prospects for the Predatory Construction Sector International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Neslihan Demirtaş‐Milz, Dilek Memişoğlu‐Gökbinar, Derya Aktaş, Pinar Ebe‐Güzgü
In Turkey, as in many Mediterranean countries, the Covid‐19 pandemic enhanced the mobility of the country's affluent classes to coastal towns. Many decided to settle there permanently, either by making their second homes their main residences, or by purchasing or renting new property. This has created severe social, infrastructural and environmental problems in these towns because of transformed demographics
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GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Tak‐Wing Ngo, Eva P.W. Hung
Shadow trading is a common activity along state borders. Its omnipresence is puzzling because border checkpoints are highly regulated spaces that are heavily gated and securitized. Most studies attribute such a paradox to ineffective border control and corruption. However, this line of argument overlooks the peculiar nature of border and checkpoint governance. We explore this phenomenon with a case
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‘ONE WITH THE EARTH’: Mapping Solidarities for the (Un)Queering of Space in the Black Lesbian Journal Aché, 1989–1993 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Alesia Montgomery
This study traces how Black lesbians in the San Francisco Bay Area made a place for themselves in the world at the end of the twentieth century, after the decline of the Black Power Movement and before the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Geocoding and analyzing the content of a Black lesbian journal in the San Francisco Bay Area that had global distribution, the author examines how the placemaking
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EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Anne-Marie Veillette
In this article, I examine the definition of resistance given by a favela woman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—Lucia Cabral—and its epistemological potential for urban theory. From a feminist, postcolonial and decolonial point of view, I argue that Lucia's definition of resistance entails an insightful framework to understand urban transformations, because she shifts the question of ‘what they are’ to
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CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low-Income Cape Town post Covid-19 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira
It is well established that urban community gardens (UCGs) can either challenge or reinforce neoliberal urbanism. This duality is especially evident among UCGs that sell garden harvests for income generation. In this article I therefore examine UCGs in low-income areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to understand how they might sell their harvests while countering the neoliberal food system in cities
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TOXIC FORMATIONS: Race, Place and the Politics of Pollution on the Banks of the Ganga International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Amani Ponnaganti
Pollution in the environment emerges as a legal and technical object on the one hand, and as a repository of social and cultural beliefs on the other. What happens when we trouble the idea that these belong to different domains and think about seemingly divergent meanings of pollution together? In this article, I draw from anti-caste and anti-racist work to explore this question. Extending critical
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TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Richard Goulding
This article explores the governance of risk in financialization through the entry of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and other investment funds into specialized supported housing in England. Supported housing is a form of care accommodation intended to enable vulnerable groups such as people with learning disabilities to live more independently. Since 2014, investors have targeted the sector
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HOUSING BEYOND THE METROPOLIS: Inhabiting Extractivism and Extensions in Urban Amazonia International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Rodrigo Castriota
This article contributes to debates on the decentering of urban research by critically examining emergent forms of housing in the mining municipality of Canaã dos Carajás, Brazil, beyond the dominant lexicons that have emerged from the country's metropolises. The notion of ‘beyond the metropolis’ is offered here as a geographically situated, conceptual placeholder that empirically grounds calls for
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BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High-Income Context International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jakub Galuszka
In this article I aim to shed light on boat dwelling as an increasingly popular housing practice in the UK. I investigate the changing nature of this practice in times of housing crisis and of the connection between formal and informal approaches, and discuss how decentralized urban actors influence and safeguard their visions of housing. My investigation concentrates on three intertwined strategies
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INHABITING LIMINALITY: The Temporal, Spatial and Experiential Assemblage of Emancipatory Practices in the Lives of Housing Squatters in Rome, Italy International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Chiara Cacciotti
In this article I question notions of urban liminality by foregrounding the temporal, spatial and experiential dimensions underpinning their formations. I focus on liminal practices of inhabitation in the context of a housing squat in Rome, Italy, by investigating how a permanent housing deprivation condition, once politically organized in a squatted building, can anchor processes of empowerment and
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THE MULTIPLE ENACTMENTS OF CONTAMINATION: Rethinking the Remediation and Redevelopment of Military-Industrial Brownfields in the Tel Aviv Region International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Uri Ansenberg, Nathan Marom
The remediation and redevelopment of industrially contaminated land are complex challenges for urban regions worldwide. Yet the literature on urban brownfields mostly addresses this as a technical problem through dichotomic and anthropocentric terms, contrasting the passive and negative role of the contamination as a toxic entity in the ground with the active and positive roles assigned to human actors
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JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ignacio Rullansky
This article assesses how the agency of international advisors can provide policy recommendations that, instead of introducing urban policy initiatives for multicultural encounters, sharpen political and spatial segregation within the context of ethnic conflict. The article explores the variegated nature of neoliberalization and argues that the adoption of strategic planning and creativity discourses
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BETWEEN DREAMS AND SURVIVAL: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Neoliberalism among Entrepreneurial Workers from São Paulo's Peripheries International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Leonardo Fontes
Over the past few decades, the desire of residents on urban peripheries in Brazil to have their own businesses has grown. Consequently, several authors have critically pointed out the advance of neoliberal ideas among the urban popular classes. In this article I discuss the origins of this ‘entrepreneurial disposition’ and its relationship with neoliberal discourse that seeks to encourage ‘entrepreneurialism
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BODIES AGAINST MODERNITY: Politics of Slum Rehabilitations in India International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Harshavardhan Jatkar
India continues to modernize, and the legacy of political modernity rooted in the European Enlightenment continues to reify itself in India through the performative practices of the body politic. The body politic is a totalized conceptualization of a society imagined in the form of a body, with real exclusionary effects on those without citizenship rights. This body politic is made real through performances
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THE (CULTURAL) WAR OF THE WORLDS: Framing Urban Redevelopment as ‘Terraforming’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Jennifer L. Garfield-Abrams, Thomas Corcoran, Jonathan R. Wynn
External forces always shape the social construction of ‘the local’. In this article we offer a framework for understanding how external players and strategies reconfigure the social and symbolic character of local culture for new investments and new populations. We aim not only to propose a theory of urban cultural processing by nonlocals—what we call ‘urban cultural terraforming’—but to identify
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HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place-Making in Urban South Sudan International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Christian J. Doll
Following South Sudan's independence in 2011, a myriad of local, regional and global actors have flocked to its capital city, Juba, to influence and benefit from the ongoing state-making process. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Juba between 2012 and 2015, this article demonstrates how urban ‘space’ in Juba is rendered into ‘place’ through everyday practices of naming that articulate urbanites’
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‘BEST FOR FOODIES’: Food, Digital Media and Planetary Gentrification International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Fernando J. Bosco
Leisure activities, including place-based food experiences, have become central to defining urban identities and branding places. Mobile and affluent urbanites’ search for authentic and cosmopolitan experiences is increasingly guided by corporate digital media such as apps and websites that direct them to previously ignored working-class, ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods, which are being discursively
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RE-SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium-Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Solène Le Borgne
Loïc Wacquant's work on the production and reproduction of socio-spatial inequalities in Chicago and La Courneuve has inspired a literature on how imaginaries of low-income, often racialized neighborhoods are spread through discourse and policy, and how residents respond to the stigmatization of their neighborhoods through internalization, deflection or resistance. While this body of scholarship has
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FROM BUDAPEST TO BRUSSELS: Discursive and Material Failure in Mobile Policy International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Cristina Temenos
This article introduces an analytic of discursive and material failure, developing a spatial grammar for analysing both the discursive framing of policies as failed and the actually existing processes and effects of failed policy. Using the case of harm reduction drug policy in Budapest, I demonstrate how a successful policy was made to fail at the local and national scales, and how that failure in
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UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post-Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Jenny Preece, John Flint
In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable
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URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco-Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Jenny Pickerill, Tendai Chitewere, Natasha Cornea, Joshua Lockyer, Rachel Macrorie, Jan Malý Blažek, Anitra Nelson
Cities are critical sites for understanding, and potentially ameliorating, the effects of global ecological change, the climate emergency and natural resource depletion. Contemporary cities are sociomaterially connected through global markets, trade and transportation, placing ever-increasing demands on the natural environment and generating dangerous pollutants and emissions. Current approaches to
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PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Marius Pieterse, Thomas Coggin
Property as a legal assemblage works to produce and imagine space according to a dominant set of norms and principles, thereby casting an imagined projection into multiple worlds. This unduly narrows the lens through which governance actors perceive and mediate competing claims to urban space. In this article we engage this feature of property in the context of contestation over urban land in Durban
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CITY OF NON-EQUIVALENTS: Making, Maintaining and Disrupting Customary Attachments to Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Jennifer Day
In this article I describe how a permanent underclass is being inadvertently created in a South Pacific city. I use Descola's idea of equivalence in human relations to explain urban tenure and evictions in the postcolonial South Pacific city of Port Vila. Vanuatu is a nation of 82 islands. Its archipelagic geography segregates most people's autochthonous lands, preventing ready access to the national
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BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Ricardo Cardoso, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson
In this article we portray and unpack the fabric of urban expansion in contemporary Luanda. In doing so, we examine interdependencies and complementarities between the organization of oil extraction off the coast of Angola, the emergence of particular modalities of modernist city planning for the expansion of its capital city, and the proliferation of cement blocks in the making of new urban forms
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GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Sneha Sharma
A rich seam of waste scholarship already addresses the exclusion faced by informal waste workers as cities in the global South undergo spatial transformations to become ‘world class’. However, less attention has been paid to how state practices have reproduced inequalities within and across waste picker communities. Drawing upon eleven months of ethnographic research at Mumbai's Deonar dump site, this
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THE INFLUENCE OF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS ON CITY GOVERNMENT INNOVATION International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Ruth Puttick
In this study I examine the role of philanthropic foundations in stimulating city government innovation. Reduced budgets and rising consumer demands are challenging organizational capacity in government, prompting government officials to recognize the need for innovation to improve policies, programmes and practices. This empirical study draws upon qualitative interviews and policy reports to generate
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THE POLITICS OF URBAN ECOLOGY: Paul Duvigneaud and the Rise of Ecological Urbanism in Brussels during the 1970s International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Koenraad Danneels
Today, design disciplines such as ecological urbanism aim at fusing natural and social sciences to restore the equilibrium between social and natural systems, and in extenso the urban and natural environment. But recent literature in urban political ecology and urban history has shown how this socioecological approach is generally stripped down to a merely ecological perspective, ignoring the sociopolitical
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PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Veikko Eranti, Taina Meriluoto
In this article we introduce a pragmatist interpretation of agonistic pluralism and develop this into an analytical framework that is applied to the analysis of urban conflicts. In the article, we take stock of contemporary critical and radical urban scholarship, our aim being twofold. First, we substantiate Chantal Mouffe's notion of agonistic pluralism with tools from French pragmatic sociology.
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ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Andrea Pollio, Liza Rose Cirolia, Jack Ong'iro Odeo
The ‘last mile' is not only a powerful metaphor of contemporary life, but also the tangible site of a challenge, whether for governments wanting to reach their citizens or companies wanting to reach their customers. In urban Africa this challenge is compounded by the fragmented material condition of cities. As a result, a growing number of tech companies have been compelled by the possibility of creating
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PROPERTY-LED INFORMALITY: Shifting Informal Land Development from Popular Housing to Middle-Class and Elite Speculation in Belo Horizonte International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 João Tonucci
Recent decades have seen a rising interest in the peripheral nature of urbanization processes. While research has put the spotlight on large-scale, transnational and financialized real estate actors, less attention has been paid to informal land developers. Addressing that knowledge gap, this article underscores the key role of land developers in informal urbanization through a case study of Belo Horizonte
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UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Ismael Yrigoy
Harvey's (1978) switching theory has been widely used to theorize investments in the built environment. Crucially, in switching theory no distinction has been made between investments in the construction of the newly built environment and investments into the existing built environment. The distinction between these two types of switching is key to unveiling the relations between how value is produced
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IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Ipek Demirsu
Verona is known as the touristic city of Romeo and Juliet, but its position as a strategic node in the rising identitarian movement goes unnoticed to the thousands of tourists visiting the city every day. This article articulates the historical centre of Verona as a public space in which far-right and populist right groups seek to construct an exclusionary territorial identity that draws on white supremacy
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Matt Johnston, Dan Darkey, Hilde Ibsen
Environmental justice principles are widespread at national and global levels of transition discourse, but this is sometimes irrelevant to marginalized communities. To address this issue, we apply environmental justice theory to a participatory postcolonial urban case study where poverty, unemployment and inequality continue to incentivize unregulated exploitation of vulnerable environments and people