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EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) 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 3.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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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HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place-Making in Urban South Sudan International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) 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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THE (CULTURAL) WAR OF THE WORLDS: Framing Urban Redevelopment as ‘Terraforming’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) 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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‘BEST FOR FOODIES’: Food, Digital Media and Planetary Gentrification International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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 3.732) 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
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ANTI-PUBLIC FINANCE? The Democratic Effects of Municipal Bond Markets International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 James Christopher Mizes
Municipal bonds are a financial instrument once largely limited to North America. Today, they are appearing in international development reports as a novel best-practice for closing the world's infrastructure funding gap and for promoting democracy. Critics of financialization have argued that municipal bonds have had the opposite effect: they have deepened austerity, ceded control of democratic municipalities
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URBAN REGENERATION IN SEOUL: Alternative Urbanism or the Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Seowoo Nam, Seung-Ook Lee
Park Won-soon, the former mayor of Seoul, put forward a new vision of Seoul as a progressive city, and one of his signatures was the promotion of a new urban regeneration policy called the Seoul-type Urban Regeneration Model (SUR). It was first presented as a solution to compressed and profit-oriented urban redevelopment but evolved into an alternative model which conveyed the worlding desire of the
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BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Leon Rosa Reichle
In this article, which is based on an empirical analysis of neoliberal restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany, I describe how the study of affective atmospheres adds to our understanding of urban restructuring, showing how collective moods affect (de)mobilization, contestation and the regulation of urban political economy to shed light on the relation between institutional, political and social processes
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LIVING ON THE MARGINS: The Socio-spatial Representation of Urban Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Dereje Regasa, Ameyu Godesso, Ine Lietaert
In cities in the global South, internally displaced persons (IDPs) often end up in marginalized places created by uneven processes of urbanization. While IDPs experience similar disadvantages to the urban poor living in these places, they face additional vulnerabilities related to their displacement. Building on insights from urban studies and forced migration studies, we argue in this article that
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AGAINST THE COLONIZATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT: The Top-dong Right to the City Movement in Jeju, South Korea International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Youjeong Oh
The Top-dong Movement was an extensive residents’ resistance mobilization against the Top-dong Public Water Reclamation project in the late 1980s in Jeju, South Korea. Starting as a local female divers’ struggle for subsistence, the Top-dong Movement grew into a collective action to reveal the illegalities of the project, demand that profits should be fairly shared and assert self-determination. State-led
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RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION IN GENTRIFYING URBAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS: The Experience of Cultural Manufacturers in San Francisco and Melbourne International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Declan Martin, Carl Grodach
Recent urban scholarship shows how zoning and real estate dynamics shape ongoing processes of gentrification and deindustrialization. While studies demonstrate the impact of planning and property market pressures on the arts, less research has examined their effect on urban manufacturers in gentrifying industrial districts. Given the differential impact of zoning and real estate pressures, our research
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BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Nick Vlahos
What is the relationship between top-down governance reform and place-based participatory and deliberative spaces? In this article I argue that in Toronto, an urban system of public participation and deliberation is intimately interwoven into partisan scalar restructuring processes, as well as enduring tensions over the ways and means by which the public can have authoritative input on solving local
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SOUTH ASIAN URBAN CLIMATES: Towards Pluralistic Narratives and Expanded Lexicons International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Nida Rehman, Aparna Parikh, Zachary Lamb, Shruti Syal, D. Asher Ghertner, SiddhaRth Menon, Nausheen Anwar, Hira Nabi, Waqas Butt, Malini Ranganathan, Krithika Srinivasan, Harshavardhan Bhat, Anthony Powis, Nikhil Anand
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. We look analytically and linguistically from this region to engage the terms ‘mahaul’, ‘mausam’ and ‘aab-o-hawa’ as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historic, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory and embodied registers. Gathered together, the stories scaffold a
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UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Clara Siagian, Ariane Utomo, Muhammad Insan Kamil, Brian Cook
This article explores the contours of modernization in the unmaking and remaking of homes among evicted and resettled families in highrise housing. We examine the trajectories of forced eviction by drawing upon interviews with 17 individuals from nine evicted families who have transitioned from living in informal settlements to highrise social housing (rusunawa) in Jakarta. Drawing on two strands of
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MIGRANT URBANISM: Cape Verdean Djunta-mon and its Impact on the Built Environment of Cova da Moura (Lisbon) International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Francisco J. Cuberos-Gallardo
International migrations are transforming the urban landscape in cities all around the world. In this article I address the effect of Cape Verdean migration on the built environment of Lisbon's periphery. Specifically, I analyse a traditional practice of mutual aid originating in rural Cape Verde, the djunta-mon system, as a device of migrant urbanism projected onto the urban landscape of the Cova
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GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Rene Kreichauf
Based on qualitative long-term fieldwork conducted in a peripherally located small town in East Germany, this article compares the dispersal of repatriates from the former Soviet Union with that of recent refugee arrivals. It shows that in this small town the dispersal and local governance of refugees builds on previous approaches to dealing with repatriates. Such approaches repeatedly result in cycles
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THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Jordi G. Guzmán
The 2008 global financial crisis prompted a tectonic shift in the Spanish model, which was based on a debt-driven homeownership society. In the aftermath of the financial crash, the restructuring of the real estate and financial market through intervention of the Spanish government has been a privileged object of urban analysis, with scholars researching the role of the Management Company for Assets
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PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Noussayba Rahmouni, Izuru Saizen
This study is concerned with the way colonial land use planning practices have persisted within local institutional structures in the former French colony of Morocco. We use a historical institutionalist approach to reevaluate Morocco's land use planning history and identify key feedback mechanisms that support the continuity of colonial practices within the Moroccan planning institutional structure
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VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Ana Aceska
The vertical turn in urban scholarship is a critique of the overly horizontal perspectives used in studying cities in academic research. This article broadens this scholarship by engaging with the ways that horizontal perspectives on urban conditions dominate not only scholarly perspectives but also professional responses to urban change. By drawing on research in the divided city of Mostar in Bosnia
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MOVEMENT 3. NAVIGATING URBAN ARRANGEMENTS International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo', Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas, Adeem Suhail
The third movement explores how (re)arrangements are made and re-worked as people navigate fractured, ever-shifting landscapes of urban opportunity, conflict and uncertainty. Drawing on fieldwork in Paris, Mogadishu and Abidjan, we point to the fragile, collective and anticipatory knowledges accumulated during navigations, and to how these knowledges become contained within and (re)constitute embodied
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MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re-signification and the Making of Governable Spaces International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo’, Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas, Adeem Suhail
The second movement considers (re)arrangements as projects of formalization that seek to impose and even fix a form to spaces historically constructed as marginal. This impositional arrangement operates as a governmental desire to fix a form by re-signifying both subjects and spaces.
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MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo', Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas, Adeem Suhail
This final movement explores whether thinking with re-arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between
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MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re-arrangements International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo', Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas, Adeem Suhail
The fourth movement explores the temporal relationship between arrangements and re-arrangements, addressing the question of how an obdurate and ‘sticky’ temporal order may give way to palpable re-arrangement of the ways in which subjects experience time. Eschewing a concern with linear homogenous time, it addresses the processes of re-arrangement by understanding the dynamics of grave events, hauntings
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ON URBAN RE-ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Fabien Cante, Ajmal Hussain, Timo Makori, Surer Qassim Mohamed, Alana Osbourne, Francesca Pilo’, Kavita Ramakrishnan, AbdouMaliq Simone, Rike Sitas, Adeem Suhail
This movement introduces the ethos of the collective project: its conceptual and practical preoccupations. It focuses on our concern with urban processes on the cusp of change, in the midst of being re-arranged, and thus homes in on the various polyrhythms of intersections, how things come together and diverge, how possibilities open and close in urban contexts of continuously shifting horizons.
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CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post-political Urban Governance International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Noga Keidar
While consultants have crept into various aspects of municipal governance, a selected few have transcended the others reaching the status of urban gurus. Although consultants are often perceived as depoliticizing urban affairs, research shows that the urban guru often instigates politicization. Research on urban gurus does thus highlight distinctions between gurus and ‘lay’ consultants, but it has
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‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Gunvor Jónsson, Maria Lindmäe, Joanna Menet, Emil Van Eck
Studies of marketplaces in the global North have often conceptualized markets as important public spaces of social encounter and conviviality where visitors, regardless of race, age, class or gender, feel they have an equal right to be. Yet comparatively little has been written about how inclusive European marketplaces are for the traders who (want to) work there. In this article we argue that the
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‘ARE WE JUST KILLING PEOPLE?’: Centering Racial Capitalism in the Green Gentrification of the Atlanta BeltLine International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Jessica (Jess) Martínez
In this article I argue that any analyses of the manifestations of urban natures within urban political ecology must center racial capitalism as a theoretical framework and account for how these manifestations, which rely upon the co-constitutive workings of race and nature, reproduce anti-Blackness and unequal productions of space. I engage urban frontier imaginative geographies as a lens through
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IN THE SHADOW OF ‘THE CITY’ YET TO COME: Auroville, Developmentalism and the Social Effects of Cityness International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Tariq Jazeel
This article focuses on the planned community of Auroville in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1968. Building on critical readings of the settlement that have drawn attention to the power imbalance in its relationships with surrounding villages, the article delineates the ways that a geographical imagination of cityness has been a key component of the settlement's development and the forms of neo-coloniality
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FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE-BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Ian Dunham, Alec Foster
Access to safe and affordable financial services is essential to the economic well-being of individual households and entire urban neighborhoods. However, prior research raises concerns about spatial inequities in the distribution of brick-and-mortar financial services offerings—either mainstream financial institutions or alternative ‘fringe’ financial service providers—and the resulting implications
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COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Martine El Ouardi, Françoise Montambeault
In recent years, a growing number of citizen-led gardens have appeared in the urban public spaces of large cities across the world. While many of these projects are initially launched informally without any support from the state, they gradually become integrated into the social fabric of the city. To understand the evolution of the formal–informal boundaries of the practice, we argue that we should
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THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post-colonial City International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Robbie Peters
Since the 1940s, the people of the neighbourhoods (kampungs) around Surabaya's derelict Ngagel industrial estate have made a living by repurposing the remains of what was once one of Asia's most modern road, rail and industry networks. The remains—in the form of leftover fuel, labour and factory parts—are used to rebuild and repair improvised transport vehicles like bicycle-taxis (becak), minibuses
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PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Kyle Galindez
Through this article I contribute to debates about planetary urbanization by specifying how imperialism, defined as states restricting the self-determination of other states or peoples, intersects with urbanization. While recent urban theory has explored how urbanization unfolds at scales beyond the city and in relation to global capital accumulation, it has not fully extended these insights to incorporate
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RISK AND RETURNS: Large-scale Funding for Urban Research International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Michael Keith, Susan Parnell
The nature of research funding shapes knowledge outcomes, especially for urban research that is conducted in multiple sites and over multiple years. Recent unplanned cuts in the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grants, alongside the rupture caused by Covid-19, created ethical and procedural issues for completing the PEAK Urban programme. Building on durable partnerships, setting principles for
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THE PARADOX: Economic Growth that Endangers the Future of Research in Colombia International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Juan C. Duque
In this paper I analyse how the gradual reduction of research funds in Colombia can interrupt a key process in the generation of solutions to global urban problems. I draw on a bibliometric analysis to show that research funding flowing from North to South has created collaborations between researchers from North and South that have led to a better and more comprehensive understanding of the challenges
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THE BENEFITS OF LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IF 3.732) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Andrew Tucker
There are a number of benefits to large-scale, multi-site, internationally funded urban research projects if they are operationalized in ways that acknowledge forms of knowledge incommensurability and allow for space to explore the commensurability of different forms of knowledge across different geographies. Such projects are especially important in the context of the precarity of research funding